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Open Space: The Butterfly Ball

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on BBC Two England

'Are you in the mood for looking at some pictures in a book?'

The book is The Butterfly Ball and Grasshoppers' Feast by Alan Aldridge and William Plomer, a children's story about woodland creatures going to a ball. The question is being asked of the Upham Road Dancers, a group of mentally handicapped young people preparing their own unique version of the story.

Follow their progress through work-shops and rehearsals as they develop their characters in a quite remarkable way and then... the day of the ball arrives. As night falls the procession crosses the stream to enter a fairy grotto where the ball begins...

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Contributors

Author (The Butterfly Ball and Grasshoppers' Feast):
Alan Aldridge
Author (The Butterfly Ball and Grasshoppers' Feast):
William Plomer
Choreographer:
Jacky Bardwell
Music:
Elizabeth Quin
Producer:
Mary Dickinson
Dormouse:
Jonathan Garrett
Dragonfly:
Debbie Abrams
Dragonfly:
Lorraine Spicer
Spider:
John Kilminster
Frog:
Andrew Greenshields
Mouse:
James Barry
Caterpillar:
Wendy Murdock
Caterpillar:
Colin Ludlow
Butterfly:
Rosemary Stephens
Snake:
Kevin Smith
Bat:
Paul Godding
Swan:
Elaine Ross
Source: Radio Times

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