WHAT do you get if you cross Bizet's Carmen with contemporary and African dance?

The answer is an evocative new production called Africarmen, a sumptuous dance production loosely based on Georges Bizet’s popular opera.

Bawren Tavaziva’s powerful choreography is performed by a cast of outstanding dancers. Played out through the entanglement of desire, deceit and corruption in a township of oil-laden Equatorial Guinea, lingering ancestral voices are at work here amongst the dreams of a better life.

With a new score composed and arranged by Fayyaz Virji of the acclaimed Warriors International, Africarmen is Bawren Tavaziva’s most ambitious work to date.

Set up in 2004, Tavaziva Dance is a national touring company that presents cutting-edge new work representing the diversity of Black British Dance. The company specialises in fusing African and contemporary dance, creating a unique dance style that is both contemporary and rooted in African cultures.

Since its inception, the company has established itself as a significant presence in the UK dance landscape, bringing Bawren’s unique artistic vision and inspiration to a growing and national audience through high quality and innovative artistic product, touring performances, commissions, residencies and education workshops.

Tacchi-Morris.Wednesday September 30 at 7.30pm. £12 / £10 Concessions / £8 Students. Box: 01823 414141.