Following a sell out run in 2016, Eliot Smith's most popular work, PITMAN returns.

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To mark the 90th anniversary of the Ashington Group and 40 years since the year-long miners’ strike began, when many women rallied behind family members to save the mines, jobs and communities, Eliot Smith Dance proudly presents Eliot Smith’s PITMAN.

 

PITMAN tells the simple but inspiring real life story of a group of miners who with no formal artistic training, depicted their daily lives in a series of paintings which have become celebrated and revered in the art world, as well as providing an important visual commentary for social historians.

 

With intimate solos, duets and dramatic ensemble dancing the work explores the hopes, dreams and determination of the Ashington Group also known famously as the Pitmen Painters.​​