EVERYONE has at least once had a passing thought of what it would like to be famous, and everyone has had that experience of being blinded by love.

Put these two elements together and you have the formula for Levantes Dance Theatre’s latest show The Band.

The visual performance follows the story of Sandy and Bruno who met in the 1970s and formed a band.

She was fame-hungry, he was doomed to follow her, but like so many one-hit wonders, through time they’ve been cruelly forgotten and now they are dusting off their instruments for one last shot at fame.

The show, which comes to The Proteus Creation Space on Friday, 6 July, is the brain child of Levantes Dance Theatre’s artistic director Eleni Edipidi.

She told the Gazette: “As a company we had always worked as a female duet. But things changed. So, I thought let’s make a show with a male and female as the main characters.

“When I started working with Nathan (Johnston), he was very different visually and we started performing together and improvising in the studio together and slowly we built these characters, and everything came together organically.

“It has been two years of work on and off.”

In true Levantes style, The Band is full of visual elements which will captivate an audience as well as chucking in a bit of humour to set the tone of the show.

Throughout the show there is a mix of physical comedy and acrobatic movement with stunning visuals on display.

Comedy has become a bit of a trademark for Lavantes, but not by design.

Edipidi added: “We didn’t necessarily set out to make a funny piece, as that is a hard thing to do to make people laugh.

“But we do work on our comedy timing and the props that we use are very usual and everyday, but we use very usual props in an unusual way which makes for very funny situations.

“It is just human to want to laugh at things, so we wanted to keep that human element to our performances and that makes what we do relatable and approachable.”

With striking aesthetics and a rousing soundtrack, The Band is a quirky, humorous display of desperate ambition and blind affection told through awe-inspiring dance, theatre and circus.

The show forms part of the Proteus Creation Space’s summer of love and is part of this year’s Basingstoke Festival.

For more information and tickets, go to proteustheatre.com/whats-on.