In partnership with the International Agatha Christie Festival Dance in Devon host a family friendly tea-dance style event with live music and dancing as part of the bi-annual festival in Torbay.
Debuting in 2017 ‘Come, Dance With Me’ is back for 2019.

Come, Dance With Me 2019… a family-friendly community dance and music event building on the success of Come, Dance With Me 2017.

Come and join Dance in Devon for performances, live music and dancing at this celebratory event in the beautiful surroundings of the Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey. We will be joined by critically acclaimed, Impermanence Dance Theatre and local performers aged 9-90 who will entertain us with episodes of a specially created performance. Expect moments of tension and suspension, hints of crime thriller and cyanide….all wrapped up in family friendly social event.

Impermanence will work with a diverse community cast aged from 9-90 over 2 weekends leading up to the event and create a number of performance interventions to share at Come, Dance with Me 2019. We did a Q&A with Impermanence so you can find out more about the company and why they are joining us on this project

We are also delighted to once again be entertained by the fabulous Drat Pack who will provide funky tunes for us all to dance away to. Plenty of opportunities to do your own thing!

Read more about the event and book your tickets here: Come, Dance with Me… | Agatha Christie Festival

Commissioned by International Agatha Christie Festival and supported by Arts Council England.

To celebrate the International Agatha Christie Festival 2017 Dance in Devon was commissioned to make a contemporary performance, inviting young and old to come together in Torbay to create a new dance piece for the festival. With choreographer Richard Chappell, the new company known as The Agatha’s, each with a story to share, created a new performance. The dancers from Torbay, aged between 12 – 94 years old were inspired by Agatha Christie’s book ‘Come, tell me how you live now’, and Agatha’s strong love of dance and music.
The Agatha’s shared their moving performance as part of Dance in Devon’s Tea Dance at Torre Abbey on the 17th September 2017 at Spanish Barn to close the bi annual festival. The tea dance saw big band The Drat Pack set the scene for traditional social dances and Sue Smith led young and old through different dance styles.

17 dancers participated in the project and we saw 120 people attend the tea Dance.

The Agatha’s reunited to share their performance at Dance in Time in November 2017.

Artists: Richard Chappell, Tamsin Bone, Sue Smith, Rosie Perdikeas, Anne George, Cally Warman, The Drat Pack
Supported by The International Agatha Christie Festival, Torre Abbey and South Devon College.

Photographs by Sally Wawman / My Little Eye Photography 2017