A site specific piece made in honour of:
1) The Ballet Jooss, who fled Germany to Devon before World War II, and then had to leave once again at the request of the British government, finally finding refuge at 9 Adams Road. While here, Kurt Jooss choreographed Pandora to explore his horror at the political and psychic state of the world. Pandora was composed by Roberto Gerhard, who also lived in the house after fleeing Franco’s Spain.
2)The radical idea of companionship
(com+pan= together with bread)
--as reflected over 80 years ago with Alice Roughton's first psychiatric patients arriving at the house; as well as in the recent present.

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