Bookstore and art gallery shenanigans

Bookstores, libraries and art galleries are generally perceived as places where noise and disturbance are the greatest taboos – even the gentlest footfall or whisper is often amplified and can draw exasperated ‘Ssssshhhhs’ from visitors immersed in a novel or artwork. However, in Rachel Wesson’s experience, serious bookworms and gallery-goers are more often than not delighted, rather than annoyed, when her Ascendance Dance Company performers spring from behind the bookshelves and across the tables at bookstores; or move fluidly among the artworks at galleries, like sculptures in motion.