Nottdance: The Show for Young Men by GuestHouse Projects
There will be two showings of this performance, book your tickets below via FABRIC:
10:30am - 11.20am
1:30pm - 2.20pm
GuestHouse Projects brings their work, The Show for Young Men to nottdance 2025.
A funny and tender new contemporary dance performance that uses humour, risky physical duets and heartfelt choreography to poetically consider the complexities of modern-day masculinity as it affects both boys and men.
Directed by Eoin McKenzie and co-created in collaboration with Robbie Synge and young performer Alfie, The Show for Young Men is a bold attempt to challenge outdated traditions of manhood, championing boys' and men's capacities for care, friendship, and vulnerability.
The Show for Young Men premiered at Dance Base as part of the Made in Scotland Showcase (2024), Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and has since been performed at Edinburgh International Children’s Festival (2025) and in co-production with Aaben Dans in Roskilde, Denmark, with a Danish cast (2025).
Creative team
Rachel O’Neill - Scenographer
Greg Sinclair - Sound Designer
Katharine Williams - Lighting Designer
Aya Kobayashi - Movement Consultant
Access
Find information about getting here and our building access and facilities here.
This event will be held in The Space.
This event is wheelchair accessible.
If you have any questions around access or have specific access requirements we can accommodate, please get in touch with us by emailing info@nottinghamcontemporary.org or phoning 0115 948 9750.
nottdance is a festival of extraordinary dance, presenting choreographic ideas and works from across the city of Nottingham and around the world, asking ‘what can dance be?’ The festival has always embraced experimentation, inviting radical perspectives, listening to artists working in ways that don’t fit the traditional, choreographic mould. Now, for the 2025 edition, which takes place from Wednesday 8 October to Saturday 1 November, nottdance asks: How do we each perceive time? What does it feel like to belong? And whose stories are being told? Inhabiting the city’s theatres, galleries, shopping centres and outdoor spaces, the works reflect and celebrate our city and the world in which we live, with and for our communities near and far. Established in the 80s, nottdance has been at the forefront of creating and presenting new artistic perspectives.
GuestHouseProjects is a performance company led by Eoin McKenzie and supported by associate producer, Isabel Sharman. They seek to create live artworks bound to a strong social and civic duty; working with diverse constellations of people in the creation of artistic projects which interrogate the complexity of their shared contemporary existence. They are interested in work that is: bold, tender, questioning, experimental, collaborative, and artistically rigorous. GuestHouse Projects understands its artworks and processes as propositional; that what they create is a step towards a more compassionate and generous world by means of staging new possibilities for how we might exist together. GuestHouse Projects operates from an ethos that understands the theatrical stage as a civic site, and therefore their processes must be in direct conversation with the realities they occupy and create work within. There, the communal becomes political.