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Eddie Ladd is an astonishingly expressive performer who uses a startling combination of dance, image and sound, making for original and often gravity-defying dance... Bobby Sands died in 1981 on hunger strike in Long Kesh prison in Belfast. His aim was to win back political status for its republican prisoners. It’s less well known that he was a member of a running club in Belfast as a young teenager and was, if not a champion racer, a useful one. He wrote about running during his time in prison and his short essay, ‘The Loneliness of a Long distance Cripple’, is the starting point for this dance piece by Eddie Ladd. The choreography is based on running and this performance, on a large-scale running machine, follows the 66 days of his hunger strike. The piece is performed to a specially commissioned electroacoustic score by Welsh composer Guto Puw.