The Company 2012: 'Red Riding Hood'

The 2012 show of The Company Performance Ensemble will tell a story that has been around since the 17th century. Retold and performed in their own way, The Company intends to bring an age old fairytale to the drum corps field. 'Red Riding Hood' will allow the corps to explore the tale's highs and lows in a way they believe will put their own twist on the classic fable.

***image1*** The 2012 show of The Company Performance Ensemble will tell a story that has been around since the 17th century. Retold and performed in their own way, The Company intends to bring an age old fairytale to the drum corps field. 'Red Riding Hood' will allow the corps to explore the tale's highs and lows in a way they believe will put their own twist on the classic fable.

Craig Sherratt adds: "Entertainment and challenge are the first things we need to address when picking a program and once again I believe we have this. The show will give us a classic famous story which will sell itself, a great soundtrack to back this provided by Andrew Markworth, some very strong visual images provided by our own in-house creative visual partnership of Ian Butt and myself, plus the chance to add our own adaptation to this tale. I hope all ages will enjoy our take on Red Riding Hood, it will be a show aimed at entertaining my children, an audience and the adjudicators alike."

The corps will perform throughout England and Europe in the summer of 2012. Director Mark Nicholson commented: "It goes without saying how excited we are for the coming year. We have the winter to look forward to, with participation within the indoor drum line circuit at IPE, plus the opportunity to compete at both DCUK and DCE as the current European Champions, and to compete within BYBA after a gap of twelve months. I am extremely proud of how far we have come in such a short time, but know we still have plenty of places still to explore."

The programme team, lead by Mark Pickles, includes:
Brass: Andy Cartwright (caption head), Mark Bolton & Robin Barraclough
Percussion: Mark Pickles (caption head), Justine Lloyd & Steven Ansell
Colour Guard: Ian Butt (caption head), Ian Holling & Julie Barraclough
Visual: Craig Sherratt (caption head), Wayne Hemming, Christian Bradbury, Glen Kilshaw & Michelle Chainey

A video promo can be watched on YouTube.