Debs Newbold, Laurel Swift

An epic tale, a modern twist, two voices, four feet and eight strings.

Debs Newbold and Laurel Swift, EFDSS Associate Artists, bring their rich and innovative collision of forms to their first full-length collaboration Under Her Skin. Combining dynamic performance storytelling with the effusive energy of traditional dance and music, the show will sweep its audience off into a rich imaginative landscape.

Under Her Skin is a genuine cross arts piece that fuses performance storytelling with traditional English dance, live music and song, and gives a very old British folk tale a strongly contemporary retelling. Debs and Laurel have been developing the show with the director John Wright (Trestle, Told by an Idiot), with musical guidance from Frankie Armstrong and have been supported with public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and by the English Folk Dance & Song Society.

It will be a dynamic, irreverent night of music, poetry, humour, dance and one fantastic story. As an audience member at Under Her Skin's Research & Development sharing said: