Bloom
National Festival of Dance
of the African Diaspora 20 June – 26 August 2015 London, Bristol, Liverpool, Leeds, Gateshead www.adad.org.uk
Bloom
National Festival of Dance of the African Diaspora The ADAD Bloom Festival explores and celebrates dance from Africa and its diaspora through performances, workshops and discussions. This year, Bloom chapters will unfold across the country with tailored events in Liverpool, London, Bristol, Gateshead and Leeds.
Saturday 20th June
Friday 31st July, 11-5pm
Bloom at Africa Oyé 2015
Workshops with Namron OBE and Nathan Geering
Working with regional partners, Bloom Festival 2015 includes a series of performances and workshops at Africa Oyé, Horniman Museum, Dance Village at Bristol Harbour Festival and with Yorkshire Dance.
Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th July
The artist line-up showcases the exciting diversity that exists in dance of Black origin and includes the legendary Namron, Freddie Opoku-Addaie, Canada’s Ghislaine Doté, Boy Blue Entertainment, Irie! Dance Theatre and Funmi Adewole. More events to be announced throughout the summer.
Sefton Park, Liverpool Sunday 5th July
Africa Dance! The Horniman Museum and Gardens, London
Bloom at Dance Village Lloyds Amphitheatre and Millennium Square, Bristol Saturday 25th July, 11am-5pm
Workshops and Performances with Namron, Ladies of Midnight Blue and Keisha Grant
+ Lucie Lee Dance Company sharing Yorkshire Dance, Leeds Saturday 1st August, 3-5pm
Afrofusion Workshop with Angelina Abel Dance Studio Leeds, Leeds Wednesday 12th August
ABIEIÉ Afrosambas Dance Workshop by Irineu Nogueira The Horniman Museum, London Wednesday 19th August
Caedmon Hall, Gateshead
Interactive Story-telling and Dance with Funmi Adewole
Wednesday 29th July
The Horniman Museum, London
Charleston to Hip Hop workshop with Jreena Green
Wednesday 26th August
The Horniman Museum and Gardens, London
A West African Dance Mix Workshop by Yay Dib Sabar The Horniman Museum, London
Bloom North Bloom at Africa Oyé 2015 Saturday 20th June Sefton Park, Liverpool Free In partnership with Movema’s Active Zone for Africa Oyé 2015, we are excited to be on the panel for Unlock The Box Youth Dance Battle where young dancers will showcase their talents and win prizes, get support and opportunities for their future career development. ADAD will also be there sharing information about our work supporting artists and raising the profile and visibility of dance of the African diaspora. Come along and be part of this wonderful day! Africa Oyé takes place in Sefton Park, Liverpool and is the UK’s biggest live festival of African music and culture.
Workshops and Performances with Namron OBE, Ladies of Midnight Blue and Keisha Grant Saturday 25th July, 11am-5pm Caedmon Hall, Gateshead Workshops: £5 each or £9 for two. Performances: £5 Register through Eventbrite In partnership with Gateway Studio Project, we are excited to present a fantastic mix of dance and audience participatory workshops, celebrating the creative and innovative vocabulary of dance of the African diaspora. Renowned London Contemporary Dance Theatre performer and teacher Namron OBE, will be teaching a contemporary dance workshop based on an excerpt of Robert North’s Troy Game. Traditionally a male choreographed piece, the workshop is open to any dancer, male or female, eager to experience this iconic and challenging work. Keisha Grant will show her dance film Head vs Heart before teaching an excerpt as part of her contemporary African workshop. Ladies of Midnight Blue will present an exciting music and dance audience participatory workshop with powerful and upbeat music including percussion, vocal chants and mbira arrangements.
Workshops with Namron OBE and Nathan Geering + Collaborative sharing with Lucie Lee Dance Company
Afrofusion Workshop
Friday 31st July, 11-5pm Yorkshire Dance, Leeds
Saturday 1st August, 3-5pm Dance Studio Leeds, Leeds
Workshops: £5/£4 conc each Performance sharing: £3/£2 conc Early Bird until 10th July: £10 for both days Register through Yorkshire Dance
Workshops: £5/£4 conc each
We are delighted to present the first of two days of workshops run in partnership with Yorkshire Dance and Dance Studio Leeds, highlighting the innovation and creative richness of dance of the African diaspora. Renowned London Contemporary Dance Theatre performer and teacher Namron OBE, will be teaching a contemporary dance workshop based on an excerpt of Robert North’s Troy Game. Traditionally a male choreographed piece, the workshop is open to any dancer, male or female, eager to experience this iconic and challenging work. Nathan Geering will deliver an innovative workshop for practitioners to experience and learn creative technique of hip hop through a visual impairment perspective, as a resource within their own artistic practice. Lucie Lee Dance Company present Pathology of Innerself, a research progress performance followed by a discussion with the collaborative of interdisciplinary artists involved in the work. This afternoon of taster artistic practice promises to be an engaging and fun experience - we look forward to seeing many of you there!
with Angelina Abel
Register through Eventbrite We are delighted to present the second of two days of workshops run in partnership with Yorkshire Dance and Dance Studio Leeds, in which Angelina Abel will teach an Afro dance fusion workshop with live music. This open workshop is suitable for anyone who is interested in extending their African dance vocabulary or would like to experience this wonderful fusion of African traditional and Contemporary dance forms.
Bloom South West Bloom at Dance Village Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th July Lloyds Amphitheatre and Millennium Square, Bristol Free Bloom presents two days of free performances by local and visiting performers in Bristol City Centre as part of the Bristol Harbour Festival. Featured artists include: Ballet Black, Upswing, Laila Diallo, Funkamental, StopGap, Folk Dance Remixed, Trash Dollys, Mundi Dance, Noir Dance Company, Jade & Shango, Boy Blue, Irie! Dance Theatre with Red, an excerpt of their Four Stages quartet with an open workshop, and performances and workshops from Afi Dance’s Mama Africa project. For a full line-up of programming, please visit www.dancevillagebristol.com
Bloom London
ADAD is teaming up with the Horniman Museum and Gardens in a joint celebration of ADAD’s Bloom festival and the Horniman’s African Summer festival.
Africa Dance! Sunday 5th July The Horniman Museum and Gardens, London Free Join us for a day of music and dance performances celebrating the diversity of styles rooted from the African diaspora. From traditional African and Caribbean dance and drumming to specially-commissioned contemporary fusions, professional and community artists will have something for every age group to learn a dance step, a drum beat or to just sit back and enjoy the performances in the Horniman Gardens. There will be live performances from Ella Mesma, Freddie Opoku-Addaie, Denise Rowe, Ghislaine Doté, Tavaziva, Ballet Nimba, Andrea Queens, Alesandra Seutin, Sean Graham, Trinity Laban and Miishejeloi Dance Theatre. This is set to be an exciting event to mark the beginning of Bloom in London!
Charleston to Hip Hop Workshop with Jreena Green Wednesday 29th July The Horniman Museum and Gardens, London Free Jreena Green and Shango Edunjobi delivery a dynamic and exciting authentic jazz dance workshop and performance. The workshop consists of movements taken from historic African-American diaspora dance styles such as Charleston, Cakewalk, Black Bottom and Lindy Hop, and combine them with contemporary Hip Hop dance moves. The sessions will be fun-packed and everyone is welcome - from young to old and beginner to advanced, to people with physical or learning disabilities - this is for all to enjoy!
ABIEIÉ Afrosambas Dance Workshop with Irineu Nogueira
A West African Dance Mix Workshop
Wednesday 12th August The Horniman Museum, London Free
by Yaye Dib Sabar
ABIEIÉ Afrosambas Dance is a fun, motivating, aerobic dance class that through the fusion of Brazilian and African rhythms and a large variety of movements created and adapted by Irineu Nogueira, develops strength, coordination, muscle tone, stamina, flexibility and an understanding and sense of rhythm.
Interactive Story-telling Performance and Dance Workshop with Funmi Adewole Wednesday 19th August The Horniman Museum, London Free Funmi Adewole presents this interactive workshop where she tells the story of a boy who uses his love of drumming and dancing to escape a threatening animal he meets in the forest. After the story has been told, Funmi will lead a short dance workshop where people will learn to dance like the boy in the story.
Wednesday 26th August The Horniman Museum, London Free Diene Sagna from Yaye Dib Sabar company will bring Senegal to London in this fun and stimulating West African dance workshop with live drumming. Experience the power and energy of West African dance. Feel rhythm and sounds of the pulsating beat of the drum and be inspired by this engaging style, celebrating life and selfexpression. Open to all levels, ages and backgrounds, so come and try something new in a friendly and motivating environment - you won’t be disappointed!
Bloom location details North
South West
Sefton Park
Lloyds Amphitheatre
Liverpool Merseyside L17 1AF
Gas Ferry Road Bristol BS1 6UN
Caedmon Hall
London
Prince Consort Road Gateshead Tyne and Wear NE8 4LN
Yorkshire Dance 3 St Peter’s Square Leeds LS9 8AH
Dance Studio Leeds Mabgate Mills Macaulay Street Leeds LS9 7DZ
The Horniman Museum and Gardens 100 London Road London SE23 3PQ
ADAD is a national organisation that supports the practice and appreciation of dance of the African Diaspora. We want dance of the African Diaspora to be visible and valued as part of the British cultural experience. ADAD has a unique role, working on behalf of talented dance artists who are part of the African Diaspora, to support their development and raise the profile of their work.
As of 2016, ADAD will merge with its three partner organisations to become one single body for dance in the UK.