Foot and Mouth voice-theatre are delighted to announce the premiere of their second show under a single sky at The Belgrade B2 Studio, Coventry on Saturday 15 May at 8pm. Tickets £5.50 (£3.50). Box office: (024) 7655 3055.

We claim our piece of land and we build our home. We mark out our territory using barriers of language, culture, beliefs and customs. The way we dress, the songs we sing, the food we eat is who we are. If you are not one of us, you are against us. This is the way it has always been.

But the land does not belong to us. We are all children of nature living under a single sky. We do not own the trees, the birds, or the rocks. We cannot sell and buy the warmth of the land or the freshness of the air.

Foot and Mouth uses the richness and versatility of the human voice in song, text and vocal improvisation to present a haunting and poetic piece of theatre. Under a single sky is an exploration of human conflict and connection, communication and language, land and location, borders and boundaries.

In February, Foot and Mouth voice-theatre presented their first show all rock and the sandy road to a sell-out audience at The Herbert, Coventry.

Formed by Chris Rowbury in January 2008, Foot and Mouth voice-theatre is a project to experiment with a new form of theatre which places voice and song at its heart.

Meeting weekly in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, 12 performers came together to begin voice, movement and rhythm training. We then began to work on material which was used to make a two short performance pieces about half an hour long each. These were performed to an invited audience in July 2008 and July 2009.

The first of these two pieces was developed into a longer show called all rock and the sandy road. The second piece has been re-worked into under a single sky which will be premiered at The Belgrade Studio, Coventry.

Drawing on Chris's 25 years' experience as a theatre performer, director and teacher, Foot and Mouth explores what he is calling voice theatre. That is, theatre with voice at its heart: singing, speaking, chanting, shouting, moving, whispering, rhythm, body percussion, etc. This is an exciting new departure into a form that doesn't really exist at present. Rather than going to a concert and seeing a static group of people singing, Chris wants to use vocal and theatre techniques to create a new kind of performance. It is non-narrative, poetic and ambiguous, and definitely not musical theatre!

To get a taste of what Foot and Mouth is about, you could always book Chris to run his Mouth Dances and Body Songs workshop.