dance/hyena/skeleton
Directors Elinor Lower & Krista Matthews
Producer Laura Knight
Stage Manager Kay Hudson
Lighting Technican & Sound Operator Merlyn Salter-Ling
Bath Theatre Academy, The Egg Theatre
Using a selection of Leonora Carrington’s short stories as inspiration for new devised pieces, Bath Theatre Academy’s first year students bring their work to a live audience. Join them for a showcase of bold new work unlike anything you’ve seen before; an eclectic evening of the strange and the spooky, the joyous and the kooky…
Photography by Chelsey Cliff
![A young person in a hyena mask crouches onstage holding a large sketchbook on which is written "WHAT IS HAPPENING?"](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7579d5d6140f6b5bc099ff8d0a8b9e96b4237f4d00cffa51a52e5c8b520e7ea3/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff.jpeg)
![A large group of young people sit in the audience of a theatre, smiling at the camera.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9bb7d0c9d135a66ffa4ba5a44670e6236ae3cb570fb6e327244cd51ad1437a90/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-1.jpeg)
![Performers on stage. A group of young people in white shirts advance on a young man wearing a suit and holding a microphone.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd4471643a819287fc6ba688fb1a188ee9305cef28a4c463b0401481e1723ce5/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-2.jpeg)
![A young black man stands onstage, looking pensively into the distance.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df19465823bc64d3125e8bcdbc0dab9b4de78a2e613be9d6736e492c8125d83b/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-3.jpeg)
![Performers on stage. A group of young people attack a young man in a suit. He cries out.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29a510b33d7278671fee002f76c8f2d314c4d5ea08a6c09b8a8e6d625e0d81e2/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-4.jpeg)
![Performers on stage. A group of young people throw red confetti into the air.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/faef66f74e01f2df8572e14ad00aef7a6a6676223c323fea16b2d3c5f92c0256/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-5.jpeg)
![A young person wearing a mask adorned with beads and peacock feathers raps into a microphone onstage.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ce65184df4a5574558b64be9ab0e4f9853917ce04e7615d8686e6a54a804231/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-10.jpeg)
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![A young person in a hyena mask faces off against another performer in a mask adorned with peacock feathers holding a red cloth (as if tempting a bull)](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e065c4cfa8f23943e8913905b8d3d681f04e43ffbfa4706b6e55d00d177d8ad0/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-8.jpeg)
![A young person in a hyena mask holds up a sketchbook on which is written HA HA HA](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13d35db8e0a18a75d5681daa551f69f4df78647d3fc45556b85f86ffe289b9b8/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-9.jpeg)
![Two performers drag a third offstage. The third wears a panicked expression and holds up a sketchbook on which is written "NOOO"](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efe51dc9270c12139d940b7196c9e5f4c064c8005b0ac6ea00b09fafadff6ec5/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-6.jpeg)
![A group of young women/femmes dance onstage. In front of them, another yells triumphantly into a microphone, her arm in the air.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ca90a5c393b92496add05b27a01940d663eeca8c3774e22b963766d24e32c94/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-11.jpeg)
![A young woman in dark clothing pours salt in a line across the front of the stage.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee1a9988fa397737d5ee55df57d15152a68892eeb672f17939cf34e625ff88fb/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-17.jpeg)
![A group of young people huddle at the back of the stage. At the front of the stage, a young man stands behind a line of salt.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3a92585dfde4fc792f07e152e110df9ebf707523ce7a5ab22f594662b253d38/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-18.jpeg)
![Two young men stand under dramatic lighting. One young man scrolls on his phone.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe6c047105bb1a2a629164ff41d4040b6d0b233d0705d53ef3d2fa3100284ca1/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-14.jpeg)
![Two young men in hoodies hold hands.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/993047f7248acde8f55c247e1389da11a97d061ca2250ff64fdfded3b07082ad/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-16.jpeg)
![Two young men sit on the knees of two others (as if on chairs). One of the young man has his arm around the other (as if on a date).](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2860c545e67e41da6626e3dc972df35495b653aabe0eeb4fb989afbda2b7c366/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-15.jpeg)
![A young man in a vibrant tie dye jumper sits moddily on the front of the stage while a group of others dance enthusiastically behind him.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ecf5b5c9fb30df669b098a33848b83ad3a9e7068bf9b45db1c7af1a40fbc1d7d/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-23.jpeg)
![Two young women laugh under bright pink lights.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a55b33722806ecdb3b5ad345f43a4519e78ac134f2739e4fd1443de1a8703f2/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-21.jpeg)
![A young man performs a handstand split mid-way through a dance routine.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2fc67184340d61e0b933eca05bda0576f76ee1fd924a4c61188307c5de923794/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-22.jpeg)
![Two young people dance balletically in sync, an arm and leg extended each.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a949f8c759afda3f5e3850d78fff26bd0a4d17c73b0b753cedfd71a63f8e7861/DanceHyenaSkeleton-c.-Chelsey-Cliff-20.jpeg)