Fallen Angels Dance Theatre, Traces Through Time, Linbury Theatre

Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) is a unique company: all its members know first-hand the meaning of addiction and the path to recovery. Set up in 2011 by professional dancers Claire Morris and Paul Bayes Kitcher, who is also its current artistic director, Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) is based in Chester and its mission is to advocate for the power of the arts and creativity in aiding and enhancing recovery.

Paul Bayes Kitcher, a former soloist with Birmingham Royal Ballet, has personal experience of addiction and recovery, and through his involvement with the company's extensive outreach work is well versed in the many attendant issues including mental health problems, disability and neurodiversity.

Traces Through Time, the piece FADT is bringing to the Linbury Theatre for a one-off performance, marks another first: it's a collaboration with the Brighton-based 18-strong New Note Orchestra, the world's first orchestra designed to support people in recovery from addiction.

Traces Through Time was choreographed by Paul Bayes Kitcher in collaboration with New Note Orchestra’s music director Conall Gleeson and writer Louise Wallwein, and fuses music, dance and the spoken world to explore the complex journeys through recovery.

To provide further insight into this unique collaboration, members of Fallen Angels Dance Theatre and New Note Orchestra will take part in an Insights event at the Linbury Theatre at 12.30pm on Sunday 5 November.