Shrewsbury-based Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company, recognised as pioneers of inclusive aerial dance, is bringing its most daring and exhilarating show to Croydon Clocktower.

Since the company's inception in 1994, artistic director and founder Rachel Freeman has pushed boundaries and raised the proverbial physical theatre bar by creating innovative dance choreography for disabled and non-disabled dances of all ages.

By taking the dancers off the ground and into the air, the performers are able to explore new ways of moving illustrating the virtuosity in both fragility and strength.

Working with leading innovators in the field of circus and physical theatre, they have changed the very face of dance and now they are bringing their unconventional style to the borough with their brand new tour Don't Push Me.

Their latest production is a triple bill of dance and aerial work choreographed by groundbreaking American choreographer Jess Curtis, and Liam Steel director, performer and choreographer of Stan Won't Dance - described by the New York Times as British physical theatre at its finest'.

The cast includes Glaswegian Claire Cunningham who has studied a unique technique around the use of crutches from US performance artist Bill Shannon.

She is joined by Los Angeles artist C Derrick Jones, a master teacher known throughout the US, founder of Mobius Dance Kate Mason, Victoria Malin who trained with CandoCo Dance and Tanya Scully who has worked on diverse projects such as Friedrichstadt Palast in Berlin to a specially commissioned aerial dance film for Channel 4.

Working with composer and film maker Derek Nisbet, whose esoteric scores are critically acclaimed and rigger Will Cleary, who specialises in developing narrative for aerial theatre circus and street theatre.

Rachel Freeman has brought together a cutting edge team of dance innovators and it is a show not to be missed.

  • Don't Push Me; Croydon Clocktower, Friday, April 27; 7.30pm; £8-£12.