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The UPG is the world’s first & only publicly-funded purpose-built & tourable structure for the practice & performance of Parkour-inspired physical theatre & dance.
In 2005 The Brighton & Hove Arts Commission selected the UPG as one of 5 winning entries to their “Making a Difference” funding competition. Following 18 months of work Prodigal Theatre presented a week long series of performances & workshops around Brighton & Hove & involving dozens of artists and participants. Performances were watched by over two and a half thousand spectators.
Since then the UPG Team has continued to perform and teach across the UK and Ireland, and since March 2007 has worked in collaboration with Gravity Style.
In late 2007 the UPG was selected as part of the 2008 Caravan Assembly and in early 2008 gained support from Without Walls - the consortium of the major outdoor performance festival in the UK.
The British Council is also supporting the UPG to
travel with Gravity Style to New Caledonia in late
2008 to make a cultural exchange there. |