Video Installation
Wednesday 24 - Friday 26 October
FREE (Gallery open 12 - 6pm)

Performance by
Night Bus Choir and Bodies in Flight
Saturday 27 October, 3pm
To book your FREE tickets for the performance call Dance4 on 0115 941 0773

Gymnast is a video installation, theatre and choir performance that explores the 'athlete' as the interface between human and superhuman, mortal and devine.
Delving into our fascination with the athlete's drive to physical excellence and their supreme attention to bodily task, Gymnast reaches to the high point on the parallel bars and the thousands of minute adjustments needed to hold that still.
In collaboration with video-artist Tony Judge, composer Jen Bell and also Night Bus Choir, critically aclaimed theatre company Bodies in Flight uses the training session as source and structure, a transition from novice to expert, towards the Olympian ideal.
As part of the Big Draw celebrations, local artists are invited to take part and respond to Gymnast at Surface Gallery. Find out more about Gymnast and Bodies in Flight by clicking here.

Gymnast has been co-commissioned by Dance4 and Ferment, and supported by Arts Council England through grants for the arts and a Creative Innovation Research and Development grant supported by the Legacy Trust UK and the European Development Fund.