Jawdance

You can’t ignore the jaw,
come and explore the jaw -
don’t want to hear no can’ts or won’ts or shan’ts.
Talk your way through the door -
it’s what your jawbone’s for:
Jawdance Jawdance Jawdance – JAAAWDAAANCE!

Presented by Apples & Snakes

Hosted by Kat Francois, and featuring Isabel White, Stephanie Chan, Archie MacJoyce and Emeka Ene

Yes - poetry; a stage; a microphone; you. Put it all together and you’ve got Jawdance, the spoken-word show that’s hipper than a thousand Shoreditch hipsters wearing hipsters. And let’s not neglect to mention the special guests, the poetry films, the competitions and the genial host. As much brilliance, in fact, as two and a half hours can possibly contain.

And, since this is poetry, we’ll end with a metaphor: the early bird gets the worm. (Worm = open-mic slot; early bird = poet, arriving before the show starts.) I think we understand each other.

Apples & Snakes is England’s leading organisation for performance poetry www.applesandsnakes.org.