Right Up Your Street

Right Up Your Street

The Enchanted Era Emporium is open! The floor is swept, the windows are washed, but there’s definitely something funny going on with those mannequins!

It all starts with an enchanted jukebox. Choose a song and watch the spell take over the shop. Whoosh back and forward in time, exploring the city’s history through dance. Keep the jukebox playing to help the magic stay alive, but watch out for the shopkeeper!

Featuring a soundtrack of popular music from the last one hundred years, Right Up Your Street is an interactive celebration of the people of Aberdeen and their love for dance, past and present. Join Shaper/Caper in the Bon Accord Centre to hear and read community stories about the joy of dancing. You’ll even have the chance to share your own memories with us – from primary school ceilidh practice, to slow dancing at the Beach Ballroom, to having a whirl around the kitchen on a Tuesday night – and everything in between.

Each Right Up Your Street performance is different depending on the songs the audience chooses, so you can come back and visit again and again. See you there soon!

Award-winning choreographer, Thomas Small, creates fun, interactive environments for everyone to experience the magic of live professional theatre. Thomas is Artistic Director of Shaper/Caper, a project funded company based in Dundee. He is the first BBC Radio 2 Artist in Residence. Thomas won the Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award, received a Robin Howard Foundation Commission and was shortlisted for the Peter Darrell award 2003 and The Place Prize in 2006 & 2008. Thomas’ critically acclaimed work Within This Dust was selected for the 2012 Made in Scotland Showcase and went on to enjoy a sell-out run at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Within This Dust has been presented in Berlin, Sao Paulo and sold-out audiences at 9/11 Memorial Museum at World Trade Centre in New York City. Thomas has created works for the screen, shown via the BBC, and created various site-specific productions for high profile venues including London’s St Pauls’ Cathedral and Hampton Court Palace. He choreographed the opening of V&A Dundee working with 500 young people, 11 professional dancers including 3 Scottish Ballet dancers.