A DANCE performance took an audience on a 'journey' along Hadrian's Wall.

Live Well and Dance with Parkinson's Performance Collective performed Vallum Hadriani at the Sill as part of the wall's 1,900th birthday celebrations.

People with Parkinson's and other neurological conditions performed the Pelican Theatre choreographed dance to conclude a project spanning 12 weeks. 

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The project was supported by specialist dance practitioner Molly Grey, of Molly Freelance Dance, and Olivia Paddison.

"We were focusing on the stability and fragility of the wall, so we were moving through strong movements, windy, graceful movements and then broken movements", said Molly, who led a movement for the mind session with seated-to-standing movements and props to warm up the crowd.

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"Although we weren't actually dancing on the wall, it felt like we were because we were up a height and we could see the wall in the distance. There was a buzz - not only the fact we had finished a project, but also that it was a Hadrian's Wall celebration birthday event also.

"People were quite taken aback at what was produced; people were surprised how much you can do seated, it's changing that thought process that dance is always a certain way when actually it can be in every form and everyone can do it. 

"It was really nice to see it come together on the performance day. It was so raw and real, you could really feel what the dancers were feeling."

Molly explained the audience followed the dancers as they made use of the promenade in small groups, with the first group representing the wind against the wall.

Dancers then showed the wall break and rebuild and to round off the performance, the whole group used scarves against a backdrop of hills.