5 January – 28 March 2015
PROFESSIONAL DANCE
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WELCOME Spring term 2015 The new year and the freshness of the first term is always exciting but this one is especially glorious: it heralds a new beginning for older dancers with the launch of Prime and a welcome back to Gary Clarke, a force of nature! The showcase this term on the 14 February, will be fuelled by that Clarke energy, and is called Senses (page 10). More firsts, in the shape of globally-impressive wanderings: as part of our ongoing motivation to keep the doors to and from Scotland open between artists, we are teaming up with the Nordic lands and India for exchanges and residencies. See Ian Spink heading for Copenhagen’s Danserhallerne (page 6) and Charlotte Jarvis absorbing the atmosphere and culture of the Attakkalari Centre in Bangalore (page 19). These journeys can be so inspiring, to explore inside and out what 'environment' can be and what it can do. Stay tuned to the professional newsletter to find out more. At home, let’s enjoy Alan Greig getting to know some Goddesses (page 14) and, we hope, taking them to this year’s Mela. Much-loved artists Igor and Moreno come out to play in Scotland for the first time (page 16) – we look forward to getting to know them, and Jasper Džuki (introduced to us by Cultured Mongrel and on page 12). Joan Clevillé and Frank Koenen, who you may recognise from Scottish Dance Theatre, are also in residence this term (pages 16 & 18), and Claire Pençak is the lucky recipient of some beautiful Dream Time in the Scottish Borders (page 18). Almost every single one of these excellent artists have studio showings so please do check out the listings; come along to see what they have been getting up to and share your thoughts and responses to the work.
Morag Deyes MBE, Artistic Director morag@dancebase.co.uk
Cover photography: Gary Platt Cover image: Courtesy of Ellen Bartel
BOARD Chairman Ed Crozier Members Elizabeth Mitchell, Christopher Hampson, Annie Griffin, Simon Guest, Alix Meekison, Fiona Hendry, Paul Blair, Cllr Catherine Fullerton
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PROSERVICES The who, what and where for professional dancers Resources/Notice Board
Working Together
An extensive library of books, magazines, publications, videos and DVDs is available to view or borrow. Reception staff will be happy to retrieve items from the archive. Details of classes, residencies, audition notices, jobs and calls for submissions/collaboration are on the notice board outside the green room.
The professional team is committed to providing you with as wide a range of services as possible, and we welcome the help of the professional community on this. If you would like to find out how you can contribute, email. helen@dancebase.co.uk
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Dance Base Reception The well-informed and friendly reception staff are your first port of call for any enquiries. 0131 225 5525 / dance@dancebase.co.uk
PRO Studio Hire Studio space is available to hire out with the regular professional programme at £9 per hour. matt@dancebase.co.uk for availability and prices.
Funding The Creative Scotland Professional Development Fund offers assistance for individual artists working at a professional level in Scotland. 0845 603 6000 / creativescotland.com
Advice Dance Base staff are here to offer support, advice and advocacy to the professional community. Morag Deyes, Artistic Director, curates the residency, festival and showcase programme, and can advise on many areas of professional development and training. Morag is also happy to give feedback during the studio process if requested. Every term we programme an intensive choreographic/creative residency that culminates in an informal open call showcase for works in progress. See page 6. morag@dancebase.co.uk
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Treatments are undertaken by highly qualified practitioners, offered at a reduced rate. To book contact the therapist directly. Details available from reception and below. dance@dancebase.co.uk
Valeska Andrews Massage Therapy NO HANDS massage. On-Site Chair Deep powerful, gentle touch for all. valeska.andrews@blueyonder.co.uk
Feldenkrais with Merav Israel Performer, movement/dance teacher, choreographer, Feldenkrais Method practitioner. 07821 335757 / mirabailos@yahoo.co.uk
FASIC Fitness Assessment and Sports Injuries Centre@Centre for Sport & Exercise, The University of Edinburgh Offers discounts of up to 25% when quoting Dance Base Professional Offer. 0131 650 2578 / sport.ed.ac.uk
Bill Taylor Sports Injuries Clinic Welcomes dancers and offers a £5 discount on consultations when quoting Dance Base Professional Offer. 0131 332 8698
Health for Life Chiropractic Can help with spine/joint injury treatment and preventative spinal care. Dancers receive 50% off a consultations – quote Dance Base Professional Offer. 0131 477 1728 / healthforlifechiro.co.uk
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CLASSES “As a mature dancer, researcher and educator who has travelled nationally and internationally I have never experienced anywhere that does professional dance classes as well or as consistently as Dance Base.” Debbie Watson, dance artist and class participant
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
5 Jan – 23 Mar
6 Jan – 24 Mar
7 Jan – 25 Mar
Start the Week
Company Class
Classical Ballet
9.30 – 11.00 I £4.50
10.00 – 11.30
Monday morning class is back by popular demand. We are delighted to be programming teachers who you have championed in person, by email and social media. So here are your Monday kick-starters, to jettison you into the week.
With Resident Companies Further details of style, class content and required experience can be found in the residency pages.
With Julie Mitchell I Professional Drop In I 9.30 – 11.00 I £4.50 Emphasis on musicality and artistry whilst maintaining a strong and pure technique. A class with a complete vocabulary and joy of dance!
Xena Gusthart 27 Jan & 3 Feb
Pilates
For info on teaching schedule, please see: dancebase.co.uk/professional/ classes
Ellen Bartel 17 Feb
Igor & Moreno 10 Mar
With Jeanine Byrne I Level 2 Drop In I 9.30 – 11.00 I £6.50 (£5.50) Pilates is ideal conditioning for dancers who want to improve strength, balance, control, flexibility, breathing and help prevent injury.
Rhiana Laws 17 Mar
Contemporary Adv/Pro
Steven Martin 24 Mar
With Steinvor Palsson I Adv/Pro Drop In I 18.00 – 19.30 I £4.50 Focusing on alignment, breath, clarity of movement and musicality, the class moves from standing exercises for working on technique through movement sequences and jumps that explore space, rhythm and shifting dynamics.
Gary Clarke 10 Feb
Joan Clevillé 3 Mar
Drop-in class Tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Buy tickets online, in person or over the phone from one day before the class begins. Course Book in advance for the 12 – week term Course or Drop-in Places are available as a course and as a drop-in class.
See the website for details on Company Class teachers.
Musicians William Mowat-Thomson, David Robertson and Barney Strachan
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Class Levels
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Newsletter
Classes marked Professional are suitable for professional dancers, graduate students and others who have undergone intense technical training. Other classes listed on these pages are taught at All Levels or Improvers and are also open to community dancers.
Studio space is available to hire outwith the regular professional programme for individual professional development at £9 per hour. For availability and prices, please contact matt@dancebase.co.uk
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Thursday
Friday
Saturday
8 Jan – 26 Mar
9 Jan – 27 Mar
10 Jan – 28 Mar
Company Class
Classical Ballet
Contemporary
10.00 – 11.30
With Vincent Hantam
With Steinvor Palsson
With Resident Companies
Professional
Professional
Further details of style, class content and required experience can be found in the residency pages.
Drop In I 9.30 – 11.00 I £4.50
Drop In I 11.00 – 13.00 I £5.50
This is a general morning class for professional dancers and dancers with extensive experience of classical ballet. This class will invigorate both your body and your mind and set you up for the day.
This class focuses on placement, breath, core strength and musicality. The emphasis throughout is on finding a strong centre from which to explore movement with ease, efficiency and fluidity.
Jasper Džuki 10 & 15 Jan Lucy Suggate 22 Jan Fuora Dance 29 Jan Alan Greig 5 & 12 Feb Tamsyn Russell 26 & 5 Mar Frank Koenen 26 Mar
Aerial Hire Professional Aerial Hire is available once an induction has been completed. To book an induction contact Matt on matt@dancebase.co.uk
Friday Freeview Immerse yourself in our free studio showing of the week’s professional resident companies at 16.00 and 17.00. See the calendar on the back page for dates.
Out of Class Improvisation £5 payable in cash 18 Jan 15.00 – 17.00 8 Feb 12.00 – 14.00 15 Mar 11.00 – 13.00 12 Apr 14.00 – 16.00
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NEW NORDIC CONNECTIONS Image courtesy of Ian Spink
Dance Base in Edinburgh and Danserhallerne in Copenhagen are bound by a shared mission to make space for movement to take shape, and for the pathways between Scotland and Denmark to have creative value for artists who dig deep into how the body communicates. In the first of many Nordic/Scottish exchange residencies, both houses are delighted to begin this evolving journey by introducing Ian Spink and Airfield to Denmark. Ian Spink is exploring an idea – the effects of putting three famous (and idiosyncratic) composers together in the same room. They had a profound effect on dance makers from the moment their sounds were unleashed. airfieldarts.org.uk The composers never met, but are connected by their music, vision and remarkable bloody individuality. They are: John Cage – Merce Cunningham’s lover – mushroom collector, proponent of chance structures in music, great cook. Hildegarde von Bingen – visionary 10th century Abbess, composer and healer in Germany. Moondog – blind musician, composer. Wearing horned headgear and creating his own instruments, he chose to spend his time sleeping and performing in the streets of NYC. Hilda was a great herbalist, creating manuscripts about her visions. She devised a 'secret language' for use in her convent. Some theories have her visions related to attacks of migraine. Moondog was blind and thought he should be a Viking (he probably was). He was eventually rescued and taken to Germany. Hilda gave lectures around Germany. John Cage discovered a way to subvert contemporary dance and music which would send it into orbit for 30 years, in the same way perhaps that quantum/string theory was able to mess with our sense of time and place.
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Catalyst Dance Management has been developed into a unique resource for the professional dance community in Scotland, contributing vital producing and project management skills to smaller companies and emergent artists. Catalyst lies at the core of Dance Base’s work with professional dance artists, allowing us not only to help companies create new work, but also to help make the sector stronger, more confident and artistically compelling. Catalyst seeks to champion and support the development of artists with a flexible and open approach – offering a supportive environment where the conditions are responsive to the needs of the artist. Catalyst also maintain an outlook on the sector as whole, working closely with companies, producing/presenting partners and funders to match and develop audiences for dance in Scotland, and assisting those they help to build connections locally, nationally and internationally.
Image credit: Artist: Karl Jay-Lewin photo: Brian Hartley
Nurturing choreographic talent and producing the work of independent contemporary dance artists and companies in Scotland.
Contact Vicky or Leigh: vicky@dancebase.co.uk (Director) leigh@dancebase.co.uk (Producer)
PRO Studio hire Studio space is available to hire outwith the regular professional programme for individual professional development at ÂŁ9 per hour. For availability and prices, please contact matt@dancebase.co.uk 0131 225 5525
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PRIME THE BEGINNING MONDAY 16 – FRIDAY 20 FEBRUARY
With Morag Deyes This week sees the launch of an eagerly awaited initiative – a brand new company for dancers based in Scotland, who have seen more than 60 years go by and who feel the need to create, perform and dance! Prime is a grown-up company that doesn’t have boundaries connected to notions of age, that is open to ideas and that will regularly challenge perceptions of what elder dancers can and will do. For its initial development week, Prime operates an open door policy, so please come along, but it is strongly advised that you have had some good dance training or an awareness of your physicality. Some work may be theatrical and not overly technical, but please don’t come into the studio with an injury that might be seriously exacerbated by dancing. Mon 16 & Tue 17 Feb 11.00 – 12.30 Morning class 14.00 – 16.00 Investigating ideas and themes that might inspire future work for this new company. This is also known as playtime. Wed 18 Feb 11.00 – 12.30 Gentle but firm ballet class 14.00 – 16.00 The Prime audition. See website from Fri 16 January 2015 for details of what to bring and to learn about the commitment required to be a member of Prime. Thu 19 Feb 11.00 –12.30 Professional class with a guest teacher 14.00 –17.00 Workshop and refining of material created in previous workshops Fri 20 Feb 11.00 – 12.30 Morning Class 14.00 – 17.00 Preparing for studio sharing 17.00 – 18.00 Studio Sharing and Launch of Prime PLEASE NOTE to comply with funding guidelines we may have to ask for proof of age!
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Fundamental Pilates Matwork Training Love Pilates? Enjoy working people? Ever dreamed of becoming a Pilates Teacher? Dance Base is delighted to be hosting a Fundamental Pilates Matwork Teacher Training Programme, taught by Brigid McCarthy. Brigid has certificated the majority of the best Pilates teachers who have passed through Dance Base's doors over the years. This excellent course consists of a 10-day intensive training period followed by a 3/4-month, self-monitored apprenticeship. For more information on syllabus, criteria for acceptance on the course and the process of certification, please contact Brigid on info@mccarthypilates.co.uk Funding options are available for Pilates training.
Course dates 5 – 9 Jan & 12 –16 Jan 2015 I Cost £1500
23 & 24 FEBRUARY 2015
Rhiana Laws, Far Flung Dance Free 2 Day Workshop: Dance & Challenging Behaviours A two-day workshop for dance artists interested in focussing on behaviour-related challenges and how to approach managing and avoiding these situations. With eight years of specialised dance-in-criminal-justice experience, Rhiana Laws will facilitate an exploration of how the 'bigger picture' fuels behaviours and look at ways in which artists can pro-actively approach working with hard-to-reach groups and individuals. Choreography for the novice dancer with behavioural issues, ways to avoid or resolve confrontation, and the individual versus the group will be explored. This intensive workshop will run 9.00 – 17.00 and is offered free of charge. Full availability is essential in order to participate. Please send a CV and expression of why you are interested in this area of learning/work to Rhiana at farflungdance@yahoo.com CC'ing Morag Deyes at morag@dancebase.com Deadline for applications: Thursday 29 January. Max number of places: 15.
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SPRING SHOWCASE
SENSES SHOWCASE This term's showcase could be curated by YOU! If you would like to be making the choices for the first half of the show, please email morag@dancebase.co.uk by 15 December 2014. This is a great way to gain insight into how the curation process works. You will be guided by Morag Deyes, and have the full assistance of Dance Base staff to make sure it all goes smoothly.
Saturday 14 February 20.00 I 20.00 I £5.00 I Bar opens at 19.00
Gary Clarke SENSES RESIDENCY 9 – 13 FEBRUARY Award-winning choreographer Gary Clarke launches a new and innovative choreographic performance project which uses the five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch and smell) as an exploration into choreography and how this can inform and affect the body. Using Clarke’s trademark choreographic signature, this unique and exhilarating ‘experiment’ will bring together ten experienced performance makers who will investigate a different sense each day to create a body of work which will culminate in a one-off performance of all five ‘senses’. Applying: Information about applying to be part of SENSES will be available on our website from the end of November. If you would like to register your interest and have application information emailed to you directly when it is available please email helen@dancebase.co.uk
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Workshops
BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET WORKSHOPS Sunday 8 February 15.30 –17.30 Professional Workshop £8 Ballet Training sessions offer ballet students a chance to learn some of the choreography from Birmingham Royal Ballet’s repertoire, taught by one of the Company's dancers. In Edinburgh these will be based on Birmingham Royal Ballet’s enchanting production of Coppélia, choreographed by Sir Peter Wright and set to music by Léo Delibes, which the company will be performing from Wednesday 4 February to Saturday 7 February at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre.
Ticket Offer: Workshop participants will be given a booking code for one £8.50 ticket each for the performances at the Festival Theatre
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RESIDENCIES Programmed by Artistic Director, Morag Deyes Dance Base offers residency opportunities to professional choreographers, companies and individual artists who want to develop their work. We offer two strands of residency to support your needs. EXPLORING Exploring residencies are designed to encourage exploration, research, development and experimentation. There will be the opportunity share findings to peers and Dance Base visitors and to invite and encourage feedback. ARRIVING This residency is offered to a choreographer, company or individual who wishes to take an already-developed idea to the next stage and premiere their work in a theatre or site specific space. “Residency time like this is of enormous value and has had great impact on my ability to develop artistically; it allowed me space to challenge my working methods without fear of failure & gave me time to address ways of integrating this into my daily practice.” Emma Jayne Park, Cultured Mongrel Dance Theatre HOW TO APPLY
Image Credit: Alessandro Spinuso
We are currently programming for Summer 2015 onwards. Closing date for Summer applications is 17.00 on Mon 26 January 2015. You can access information here dancebase.co.uk/professional/residencies Application for Dream Time residencies can also be made through this form.
RESIDENCY 5 – 16 JANUARY
The 100 Hands / Jasper Džuki Jelen & Mojra Vogelnik-Škerlj New Work Jasper Džuki Jelen (NL/SI) & Mojra Vogelnik-Škerlj (SI) are co-directors of The 100 Hands. Their organisation creates staged performances, site-specific works and installations for audience participation. Their work is characterised by high physicality, touch and intimacy and appeals to audiences of diverse ages. During our residency we will explore: • How people share spaces during a performance (performers with each other and performers with the audience). • How the shape and size of these shared spaces stimulate certain dynamics between people (audience and performers alike). • How these dynamics can be used to enhance the experience of the audience, as well as the dramatic potential of the performance.
Company Class Thursday 8 & 15 January I 10.00 – 11.30
We will work on grounded movement, off-balance situations and physical collaboration through touch. Come with a good spirit and bare feet.
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Lucy Suggate The Body of Discontent A research residency undertaken by artist Lucy Suggate. Throughout history the dancing body has been a vehicle to express our deepest human needs. The premise is to examine ‘dance as a radical act’ using the enduring relationship between dance and music. This research will draw upon events, such as ‘Choreomania’, the dancing phenomena of 16th century female land workers driven to dance for days to examine how music and dance are catalysts for the emancipation of body and soul and the phenomenon of Trance. I will be using the music of electronic composer Holden; his sprawling soundscapes provide me with an exploratory framework to delve into aspects of repetition, duration and their transformative qualities. Using the ‘beat’ to examine the impact this has on my moving body from hypnotic to the euphoric states and the immersive potential for those who are witnessing it.
Image Credit: The bodyfarm
RESIDENCY 19 – 23 JANUARY
Company Class Thursday 22 January I 10.00 – 11.30 Looking at what kind of poetry your name might inspire, we take a title and write our own dance poem. Bring a picture of a place that you feel says something about yourself.
FREEVIEW I Friday 23 January I 17.00 Image: Xena Gusthart
RESIDENCY 26 JANUARY – 6 FEBRUARY
Xena Gusthart Dis.Able 'Dis' – a prefix changing the meaning of a term to its negative. 'Able' – having a significant power or resource to accomplish something; having the necessary power and resources, skills, time, opportunity to do something; capable, competent, talented. Xena will take inspiration from the emotions and movement inspired by the definitions of the words 'Dis' and 'Able'. Exploring these definitions through spoken word and a blend of contemporary and hip hop movement to convey her own experience of these words.
Company Class Tuesdays 27 January & 3 February I 10.00 – 11.30 Xena will lead a class using some of the material generated from her research with a focus on hip hop movement. Funded by: Creative Scotland, Lisa Ullman FREEVIEW I Friday 6 February I 16.00 Fund, Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts
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RESIDENCY 26 – 30 JANUARY
Fuora Dance Project (Federica Esposito & Giulia Montalbano) New Work Fuora Dance Project, led by Federica Esposito and Giulia Montalbano, will develop a new creation inspired by Molly Bloom’s monologue taken from the masterpiece Ulysses by James Joyce. The monologue is a supreme example of the so-called stream of consciousness characterised by lack of punctuation and the traditional structure of the sentence. The chapter opens with a ‘Yes’ and ends in the same way. It is an affirmation of love, sensuality and life and also, but not less important, of the female creative energy. The idea is to create a piece inspired by the concepts of streams, female energy, smells, gazes, and male-female relationships.
Company Class Thursday 29 January I 10.00 – 11.30 The class will be focused on release technique dealing with the use of weight, strength, off-balance and fluidity.
FREEVIEW I Friday 30 January I 17.00
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RESIDENCY 2 – 13 FEBRUARY
Alan Greig Dance Theatre Goddess (working title) Alan Greig Dance Theatre will be in the studio to research the theme of ‘Goddess’. This women-based project will work with an intergenerational cast of six leading Scottish based female dancers. The research has the eccentric juxtaposition of being led by a gay male choreographer on the subject of goddess, myth, ritual and world culture beliefs. From this research it is hoped to develop the ideas into a new production for 2015.
Company Class Thursdays 5 & 12 February I 10.00 – 11.30 The class will incorporate elements of Cunningham and Nikolais technique and will include elements of improvisation. A thorough warm up, creative explorations and travelling sequences; the emphasis will be on warming up our minds and bodies ready to explore and research in the studio. Adv/Pro level.
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Ellen Bartel Dance Collective New Work I am Ellen Bartel from Austin, Texas, I wish to use my time at this residency to develop a practice I am calling ‘Devising non-fiction dance’; that is, inventing movement from text and memory for an alternative space (or theatre) with the purpose of telling an autobiographical story through dance. All of the elements mesh together in ways that create both a conventionally linear story and a collage, for maximum creative impact and meaning.
Image Credit: Gary Platt
RESIDENCY 16 – 20 FEBRUARY
I am seeking dancers to work with me throughout the week in exploring ‘Devising non-fiction dance’; if you are interested in being involved please get in touch: ellen.bartel@ebdc.us
Company Class Tuesday 17 February I 10.00 – 11.30 Through the use of improvisation and contact work this class for advanced dancers aims to explore the connection between covering space while still remaining grounded.
FREEVIEW I Friday 20 February I 16.00 Image Credit: Tamsyn Russell
RESIDENCY 23 FEBRUARY – 6 MARCH
Tamsyn Russell In the hearts of humans During the first week of this residency Tamsyn will research movement material and images in the studio to delve deeper into her process of making. In the second week she will research these processes with dancers expanding on movement material, images and thought. She will be researching/exploring the unique features of being human and questioning or compelling the audience to reflect on themselves. Through her work she exposes private thoughts and ideologies and reflect the complexities and idiosyncrasies that determine what it is to be human. She examine different human behaviours and challenge popular stereotypes.
Company Class Thursdays 26 February & 5 March I 10.00 – 11.30 Class will be devised to move the body in an organised and efficient way, focusing on strong floor work and clarity of movement. We will move in and out of the floor and through space using momentum and challenging ourselves with phrases.
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RESIDENCY 2 – 6 MARCH
Joan Clevillé Plan B for Utopia Why do we live how we live? Is this the best of living together, or have we lost our capacity of imagining different worlds, different ways of doing things? Why are we so stuck? Have we forgotten how to dream and how to play?' Plan B for Utopia is a new full-length dance theatre work by Dundee-based choreographer Joan Clevillé, exploring the role of hope, imagination and struggle in our personal and collective lives. Featuring two extraordinary and charismatic performers, the work is a playful and original combination of dance, theatre and storytelling.
Company Class Tuesday 3 March I 10.00 – 11.30 Company class will explore the relation between breath, voice and movement, and longer sequences of choreographic material.
FREEVIEW I Friday 6 March I 16.00 Image Credit: Alicia Clarke
RESIDENCY 9 – 13 MARCH
Igor and Moreno Spot The Difference (working title) Spot the Difference (working title) is the new work by London-based duo Igor and Moreno and The Place, London, in collaboration with Aoife McAtamney. The work deals with themes of similarity, difference, belonging and uniqueness. In Spot the Difference Moreno and Aoife, with Igor creating with them from the outside, perform alongside each other; and although they are completely different, they will look confusingly similar to reflect upon what unifies them and what differentiates them, where difference and similarity lie and how they can be revealed. This residency is part of a series of residencies around Europe echoing the concept of the project, to look at the similarities and differences of these places and let these inform the work.
Company Class Tuesday 10 March I 10.00 – 11.30 The class focuses on warming up from the inside outwards, exercising group awareness and exploring musicality with body and voice.
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RESIDENCY 16 – 20 MARCH
Rhiana Laws New Work My work focuses on taking dance into prisons, engaging with groups and preparing them to perform to a high standard in a short period of time – but what would my choreographic voice look like if I challenged myself to make a piece of work for a prison audience to watch, instead of dance themselves? What would I say, and how would I say it? Do I dance, or does somebody else? Can I find a way to frame two different dance styles and song on stage cohesively? I hope to explore these questions alongside and in collaboration with, hip hop artist Ashley Jack (we have co-delivered five prison projects to date) and Mima Thewes, an Edinburgh-based singer and musician.
Company Class Tuesday 3 March I I 10.00 – 11.30
Song, contemporary dance and hip hop – we will share some principals of our exploration and offer an insight to our prison-based movement practice. Suitable for dancers and performers with a movement background.
FREEVIEW I Friday 20 March I 16.00
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RESIDENCY 23 – 27 MARCH
KaSt Dance Company Constricted Abandon Artistic Director Steven Martin will create a series of works on the same two dancers over a four-year period to show the progression in them as people, dancers and their ever-changing relationship towards each other. The work stems from two dancers who are not only friends but have danced together for a long period of time. This create honesty in the work that audiences warmed to well. The first work, Tete a Tete was created on dancers Michaela Gebremedhin Wate and Joel Wilson between June 2013 and March 2014 and is currently being performed as part of KaSt Dance Company’s Repertoire. This residency will begin the research, exploration and initial structuring of the second work Constricted Abandon, in which the dancers will approach the same relationship from a different point in time and from a completely new emotional and physical angle. Movement vocabulary, music and colour scheme will all be approached differently , however, elements of the original will be developed, to keep the works connected.
Company Class Tuesday 24 March I 10.00 – 11.30 KaSt Company Class will be a highly physical, full-bodied approach to release technique, incorporating the company's dynamic style.
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RESIDENCY 23 – 27 MARCH
Frank Koenen Shocked fox The residency will be based around the idea of decisions. How do dancers and performers take decisions in the rehearsal process and on stage? I also want to research on the topic of instinct. What are the human natural instincts? Both in the context of daily life and from the dance perspective. These ideas will come together as we ask – what do our instincts have to do with the decisions we take? Brought back to the image of a fox! Foxes have been represented in many items of literature and myths and always have strong characteristic qualities like clever problem solving, tricking others and strong instinct. The fox and the way it moves, behaves and lives.
Company Class Thursday 26 March I 10.00 – 11.30 Elements of the class will be floor work, stretching, strengthening and released-based sequences. Participants should have intermediate dance experience.
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DANCE BASE ON THE ROAD Image Credit: Claire Pencak
DREAM TIME – STUDIO ON THE GREEN, SELKIRK RESIDENCY 23 – 27 MARCH
Tabula Rasa Humming the Hexagon In the company of dancer Tim Rubidge and artist book-maker Helen Douglas, choreographer Claire Pençak will be developing a choreographic score for Humming the Hexagon – a new mixed media performance work. The residency will draw on a collection of research materials including interviews with beekeepers, sound and film documentation, wax and objects gathered through a Leverhulme Trust Artist Residency in The Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University 2012. Humming the Hexagon is a Tabula Rasa Collaboration.
Company Class Tuesday 24 March I 10.00 – 11.30 The workshop will explore improvisation structures being developed during the residency. Some previous movement improvisation experience is preferable. Other creative practitioners are welcomes to join the session to observe, draw etc.
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INDIA – ATTAKKALARI CENTRE, BANGALORE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015
Charlotte Jarvis
We are thrilled to announce our first Indian dance exchange. Charlotte Jarvis is the Scottish dance artist at the FACETS Choreography Residency (5 January to 5 February), part of the Attakkalari India Biennial (6 – 15 Feb), organised by Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bangalore. This internationally-renowned residency offers choreographers a four-week intensive programme that will allow for collaborations with mentors from across the world along with production and financial support. The residents will also premiere their new work, developed during the residency, at a special showcase during the Biennial which follows FACETS. Organised by Attakkalari every two years since 2000, the Attakkalari India Biennial has emerged as the largest and most important festival for contemporary dance and movement arts in South Asia and sees performance works from around 20 countries each edition. Jayachandran Palazhy is the visionary Artistic Director who continues to encourage and nurture the Indian contemporary dance community. His work in India over two decades has been amazing, and he has driven contemporary forms of dance forward there with passion and sensitivity. We are thrilled to be part of this journey and to complete the circle we will invite an Indian artist to Scotland later in the year. Find out more about where Charlotte will go and who the other participants are, by visiting www.attakkalari.org
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FREEVIEWS Immerse yourself in free studio showings of the week’s professional resident companies at 16.00 and 17.00 Afterwards join the companies, meet, discuss, network and wind down into the weekend. See below for date listings.
January Thu 8
10.00 – 11.30
The 100 Hands
Company Class
Thu 15
10.00 – 11.30
The 100 Hands
Company Class
p12 p12
Fri 16
17.00
The 100 Hands
Freeview
p12
Thu 22
10.00 – 11.30
Lucy Suggate
Company Class
p13
Fri 23
17.00
Lucy Suggate
Freeview
p13
Tue 27
10.00 – 11.30
Xena Gusthart
Company Class
p13
Thu 29
10.00 – 11.30
Federica Esposito & Giulia Montalbano
Company Class
p14
Fri 30
17.00
Federica Esposito & Giulia Montalbano
Freeview
p14
Tue 3
10.00 – 11.30
Xena Gusthart
Company Class
p13
Thu 5
10.00 – 11.30
Alan Greig
Company Class
p14
February Fri 6
16.00
Xena Gusthart
Freeview
p13
Sun 8
15.30
Birmingham Royal Ballet
Workshop
p11
Tue 10
10.00 – 11.30
Gary Clarke
Company Class
p10
Thu 12
10.00 – 11.30
Alan Greig
Company Class
p14
Fri 13
17.00
Alan Greig
Freeview
p14
Sat 14
20.00
Senses
Showcase
p10
Mon 16
11.00 – 12.30
Prime
Company Class
p8
Tue 17
10.00 – 11.30
Ellen Bartel
Company Class
p15
Wed 18
11.00 – 12.30
Prime
Company Class
p8
Wed 18
14.00 – 16.00
Prime
Audition
p8
Thu 19
11.00 – 12.30
Prime
Company Class
p8
Fri 20
11.00 – 12.30
Prime
Company Class
p8
Fri 20
16.00
Ellen Bartel
Freeview
p15
Fri 20
17.00
Prime
Freeview
p8
Mon 23
9.00 – 17.00
Far Flung Dance
Free Workshop
p9
Tue 24
9.00 – 17.00
Far Flung Dance
Free Workshop
p9
Thu 26
10.00 – 11.30
Tamsyn Russell
Company Class
p15
Tue 3
10.00 – 11.30
Joan Clevillé
Company Class
p16
Thu 5
10.00 – 11.30
Tamsyn Russell
Company Class
p15
Fri 6
16.00
Joan Clevillé
Freeview
p16
Fri 6
17.00
Tamsyn Russell
Freeview
p15
Tue 10
10.00 – 11.30
Igor & Moreno
Company Class
p16
Fri 13
16.00
Igor & Moreno
Freeview
p16
Tue 17
10.00 – 11.30
Rhiana Laws
Company Class
p17
Fri 20
16.00
Rhiana Laws
Freeview
p17
Tue 24
10.00 – 11.30
KaSt Dance Company
Company Class
p17
March
Thu 26
10.00 – 11.30
Frank Koenen
Company Class
p18
Fri 27
16.00
KaSt Dance Company
Freeview
p17
Fri 27
17.00
Frank Koenen
Freeview
p18
Dance Base is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status. Registered in Scotland, Company No: SC145736. Charity No: SC O22512, VAT Registration No: 663852510. Dance Base reserves the right to make any changes deemed necessary. This brochure contains details of the professional programme; for information on general level classes and workshops, please refer to the community programmes. Partnership work with our community projects is welcomed, contact: helen@dancebase.co.uk to arrange this.
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