High Tea (with a twist)
“ beautifully bijou spectacle”
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High Tea (with a twist) is available to book for all your events, festivals and parties.
TOURING 2024
1st & 2nd June Stoppested Verden – International festival for children & youth , Norway
8th June Spin Out Summer Season launch, Worthing Festival, Worthing
29th June Vintage on Sea, Sutton Sea, Lincolnshire
1st September Kite Festival, Maidenhead
HIGH TEA (WITH A TWIST) is an immersive tea dance. Dressed to impress with matching headgear and costumes our delightful pair perform dance and acrobatics above a tastefully laid tea table and mingle with the crowd for selfies and a cuppa. Expect glittery cakes, outrageous costumes and theatrical high jinx in an explosion of bright colour and silliness.
As an optional extra to booking the show, Levantes offers the opportunity for 6 local people to appear alongside the two performers in HIGH TEA (WITH A TWIST). Suitable for people identifying as women from the age of 18 and above, this is a chance to gain performance experience or just try something new through a discreet three hour online and in-person engagement package (excluding shows). All costumes, headgear and make up provided. For more information please contact sarah@stdma.com
DID YOU KNOW?
3 different themes (Summer & Spring, Xmas, Valentines themed)
Unique
Interactive
Visual for photographs
Indoors or outdoors
No power needed
BOOKING
For booking High Tea (with a twist) at your venue, party, pub, wedding, festival or any kind of event please contact: sarah@stdma.com
For technical enquiries please contact: info@levantesdancetheatre.org
TEAM
Concept, Direction, Choreography: Eleni Edipidi
Performers: Eleni Edipidi & Ruby Gaskell (and Jennifer Essex as a cover)
Associate Director: Nathan Johnston
Costume Making: Abby Grewcock
Associate Artist: Gopan Iyadurai
Tour Booker: Sarah Trist
Delivered in partnership with Battersea Arts Centre - BAC and Found in Music
Previously Performed
April 2023
Preston Egg Rolling, Preston
Taste: BD in Bradford, Bradford
May 2023
Merchant Square, Paddington, London
Kings Road, Chelsea, London
Trafford Festival Pride, Trafford
July 2023
Kensigton & Chelsea Festival, London
Summer Streets, Sunderland
The Garden Party, Didcot
October 2022
Dance Live, Aberdeen, UK
June 2022
Shrewsbury Flower Show, Shrewsbury, UK
Eastleigh Unwrapped, Eastleigh, UK
Orange Pip Market, Middlesbrough, UK
Oldham Jubilee Outdoor event, Oldham, UK
Basingstoke Festival, Basingstoke, UK
May 2022
Mais Imaginarius, Festival of Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
April 2022
Streets of Battle, Rother, UK
Trafalgar Square, St George's Day event, London, UK
March 2022
artsdepot, London, UK
February 2022
Pop Up London Roof Gardens, Crossrail Place, Canary Wharf, London, UK
October 2021
Pop Up London Elephant Park, London, UK
Pop Up London Trafalgar Square, London, UK
Pop Up London King’s Cross Station (main Concourse), London, UK
HiGH TEA (with a twist) TRAILER
Reviews
“High Tea (with a twist), an excellent addition to our festival. Fabulously eccentric audiences loved it.”
Emily Spencer, Events Manager, City of Bradford
“High Tea (with a twist) at Eastleigh Unwrapped 2022, a thoroughly charming, skilful, beautiful show, a treat for the eyes and ears.”
Liz Wolton, Theatre and Festivals Programmer, The Point and The Berry Theatre
“High Tea (with a twist) is such a surprising fantastically joyful spectacle, performed by very talented women, an asset to any festival! I loved how they engaged community dancers too in the performance, whose joy was infectious.”
Elinor Randle, Artistic Director Tmesis Theatre
“Wonderfully original, Wonderfully whismical, Amazing show”.
audience member at Trafalgar Square
“As the lead artist in Levantes Dance Theatre, Eleni has created some beautifully bijou spectacles for Duckie’s various clubnights and cabaret events. Like her, they are small but perfectly formed - and they pack a petit punch. She is a visual virtuoso creating dance theatre eye candy that is great for a cabaret setting. With her Mediterranean roots on show, she has a knack for creating seasonal work that brilliantly celebrates calendar events - Xmas, Easter, Pride. Having a bar mitzvah? Book Levantes.”
Simon Casson, Producer, Duckie
“Levantes Dance Theatre are my favourite act that we have ever booked.”
Annie Bowden, Founder & Manager, The Posh Club
“I would just like to congratulate your dancers who performed for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in Oldham yesterday. Absolutely wonderful thank you for the entertainment.”
audience member at Oldham Festival
ARTICLES
Prestons Egg Rolling event will return this Easter by Isabelle Goodhand
AUDIENCE COMMENTS
“Thank you for letting us enjoy such a wonderful dance today and for the fun you brought to the table!”
Egg Rolling event, Preston 2023
“What an act you put on!”
Preston Mayor, Egg Rolling event, Preston 2023