Llandovery is delighted to welcome artists Jo Fong and George Orange this October.

Jo and George present ‘The Rest of Our Lives’ at Rhys Pritchard Memorial Hall on Saturday, October 19.

“The Rest of Our Lives” is a cabaret of life and near death. A joyful dose of dance, circus and games. Two middle-aged lives come together in an eclectic, spontaneous, predictable and random decline.

Jo is an old dancer, George an old clown. They are international artists with 100 years of life experience between them, armed with a soundtrack of floor-fillers and a sprinkling of eco-friendly optimism. It’s the beginning of the end, but they’re still here.

Jo and George have long histories of performing, Jo as a dancer and George as a street/circus artist - how could this possibly work? Together they have presented “The Rest of Our Lives” at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Ageless Festival. Yorkshire Dance, Machynlleth Comedy Festival, The Place Theatre, London, Dance House, Cardiff, Chapter Arts Centre, and seven village halls across England.

Jo and George playfully shift the performance to a wider focus and ask the question - how are we all thinking about The Rest Of Our Lives?

Talking about the show’s inspiration, Jo said: “The show was commissioned by Rural Touring Dance Initiative. Certainly both me and George were curious about how a collaboration would go.

“We work in different fields yet there’s a commonality in how we work or rather play in spontaneity, liveness and in relation to audiences. In fact the show was created in grief, way before the global grief we now have upon us, and death certainly puts a few things into perspective.

“There’s been loss but I think both me and George were exploring how we hoped to live. I’ve been totally overwhelmed by the responses to this performance. It seems to be tapping into our mutual navigation of this ‘post COVID’ era.”

The Rest of Our Lives is supported by Arts Council of Wales, Noson Allan - Night Out, Wales Arts International, the Rural Touring Dance Initiative, Fieldwork, Dance House Cardiff, China Plate, Yorkshire Dance, Wales Millennium Centre, Place Theatre, and Chapter.