A NEW international dance theatre work, Where Is Home? comes to Poole next week as part of a UK tour by State of Emergency.

The production presents a new twist on a 1000 year old fable, featuring music and dance from South Africa mixed with urban culture from London and Los Angeles.

Soweto, late 1980s. A young man struggles against the security forces, confronts tribal tensions and deals with the death of his own mother.

He falls in love with a girl from the wrong neighbourhood and together they decide to run away from home and everything they have ever known.

It is a universal tale, investigating themes of global human migration and displacement.

In this quest for adventure, freedom and love, the characters seek their fortunes, experience war and oppression, fall in love, discover the price of fame, and travel to distant lands only to find that what they seek was right under their noses all along.

An international collaboration between artists and organisations from the UK, South Africa and the USA, Where Is Home? combines new music, song and dance, film and spoken word.

State of Emergency was founded in 1986 presenting original choreography and music, and has worked with some of the leading names in the contemporary arts scene. as well as providing opportunities for hundreds of emerging artists .

Where is Home? is presented by Pavilion Dance South West is at Lighthouse on Friday, May 12 at 7.45pm.

Tickets are £16. To book, visit lighthousepoole.co.uk or call 01202 280000.