The interactive cinematic journey that’s like no other, where you get to decide how the story unfolds.
Be transported to the epic clifftops of Ynys Môn in north Wales, where four young souls, each with a tale to tell, meet in the desolate but breath-taking ruins of Porth Wen Brickworks.
- Mack just wants to be himself. Scared by previous experiences of him revealing his true self, he feels confined by society and the people around him.
- Indy calls herself a bad feminist, but it’s not her that makes her that way. The relentless gaze and attention makes her question everything she does.
- Ez is confused about how to be a young man in a society that forces him to behave in a particular way. He longs to be liked but finds himself making mistakes.
- Ieua suffers from crippling anxiety and worries that she turns people away. She can be obsessive but she just can’t help it.
Whose story is revealed and what happens next is up to you.
An epic mix of dance, story, Welsh, English and British Sign Language
Y Dewis is an intimate but cinematic experience that weaves together English, Welsh and British Sign Language, in a heady mix of dance and story. With a searing and epic score by Sion Trefor and sound design by Nick Davies audiences are transported into an immersive film world where they decide what happens.
All set against an exquisite natural backdrop that is engulfing an industrial past, it is a celebration of Wales, Welsh dance and the hopes of young people.
Y Dewis is inspired by the lives and experiences of the young people we have met over the last five years in researching and making Y Dewis. They have shared stories about what it means to be young in Wales and working out who they are in the world.
Join the on-screen narrator and live host who will guide you to make your decisions about what happens next…
It’s not just a film
As part of the experience, audiences are invited to stay and talk about what they have just seen and reflect on their experience of choosing as part of a post show talk.
Before the shows, we can also offer a half hour taste-it workshop for tickets holders to experience some of the (gentler) choreography that they will see in the film.
Longer workshops are also available on request.
Running times:
Optional Taste-it workshop - 30 mins (1 hour before show)
Y Dewis film - approximately 1hour 20 mins
Interval - 10/5 mins (with optional screening of short film by our young company)
Post show talk - 20 mins
*Permission to film at Porth Wen Brickworks was kindly given by its owners. There is no public access. We kindly ask on behalf of the owners that you do not visit. We think you will enjoy its decaying beauty just as much by experiencing the film.
Y Dewis is a Jones the Dance Production made in collaboration with Sekai Media
Images by Full Mongrel