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This is the fourth year Pavilion Dance South West (PDSW) has worked in partnership with another organisation to present a Dance Summit.

Find us online at: Across a packed two days delegates see dance works ripe for touring and discuss and debate the challenges and opportunities pdsw.org.uk for dance of a particular type or for a particular context.

2016 sees PDSW join forces with The Place to explore dance for small spaces and rural places. Both organisations have a particular interest in this area of work at present as both are engaged in separate Strategic Touring projects seeking to address this context.

PDSW is just concluding its Shift and Share pilot regional touring project while The Place are partners on a nationwide project setting out to present more dance through rural touring schemes.

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As such there are rich experiences to share and meaty topics to explore in this year’s Summit, not to mention some wonderfully accessible and exciting dance.

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SCHEDULE FRIDAY 6th May

SATURDAY 7th May

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Event

Location

Time

Event

Location

12.00pm – 1.00pm

Registration / Tea & Coffee

Foyer

9.30am – 10.30am

Breakfast

Foyer

1.00pm – 1.15pm

Welcome & Introductions

Ocean Room

10.30am – 10.55am

Performance: This really is too much

by Gracefool Collective

Ocean Room

1.15pm – 3.30pm

Performance: Blast from the Past by Spiltmilk

Ocean Room

11.00am – 12.00pm

Talk: Would you call it dance?

Seafront Studio

3.35pm – 4.30pm

Talk: Are audiences really so different?

Garden Studio

12.00pm – 1.00pm

Lunch

Foyer

4.30pm – 4.45pm

Coffee

Foyer

4.45pm – 5.45pm

Talk: Champagne ideas for beer money

Garden Studio

1.00pm – 2.00pm

5.45pm – 7.15pm

Dinner

Foyer

7.30pm – 8.30pm

Performance: COAL

by Gary Clarke

Ocean Room

8.30pm – 9.00pm

Post-performance discussion: Gary Clarke

Foyer

9.15pm late

Social Time – join us for a drink and a chat

Aruba

2.00pm – 2.25pm

Talk: How can you invest in an artist and your audience at the same time?

Performance: 30 Cecil Street

by Still House

Ocean Room

2.25pm – 4.15pm

ChoreoLAB presentation & discussion with Dan Canham

Seafront Studio

4.15pm – 5.15pm

Performance: Imbalance

by Joli Vyann

Ocean Room

5.15pm – 5.45pm

Plenary / Goodbye

Ocean Room

Seafront Studio

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Pavilion Dance South West

Blast from the Past

by Spiltmilk Dance

Jam-packed with hits, Blast from the Past is a fast-paced race through seven decades of the blockbusters and bestsellers we all remember, and the fads and fashions we might prefer to forget.

Set to a soundtrack of chart toppers from 1952 to the present day, the show honours British pop culture and its ability to unite us all in weird and wonderful ways.

Somewhere between a dance performance, sketch show, TV gameshow and the ultimate compilation album, Blast from the Past will have you feeling nostalgic, singing along, and laughing out loud!

ABOUT SPILTMILK DANCE: Spiltmilk Dance have been sticking a big fat ray of sunshine into the world of contemporary dance since 2006. The company are fascinated by the things within popular culture that unite people from different walks of life; the trends we follow, the food we eat, the songs we listen to and the dances we do on a night out. Combining fun and intelligence in equal measure, their work aims to entertain new dance audiences and participants with a unique brand of intricate and charming performance.

The company’s work has previously been shown at venues ranging from village halls to piers, and from car parks to the Royal Opera House.

CONTACT DETAILS:

PERFORMANCE DETAILS:

Adele Wragg (Co-Director)

Friday 6th May, 1.15pm – 3.30pm Ocean Room, Pavilion Dance

Email: info@spiltmilkdance.co.uk Website: www.spiltmilkdance.co.uk Touring Company: 4

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Twitter: @SpiltmilkDance Facebook: /SpiltmilkDance

Photo by James Dodd

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COAL

by Gary Clarke Company

Marking the 30th anniversary of the turbulent end of the 1984/5 British miners’ strike, awardwinning choreographer Gary Clarke proudly presents COAL. A riveting dance theatre show that takes a nostalgic look at the hard-hitting realities of life at the coalface. Strong, powerful and emotive, COAL explores the darker underbelly of the mining industry, unearthing the true nature and body-wrecking demands of a working class industry now almost forgotten.

Pre-show introduction by Gary Clarke - From mid-scale to rural touring.

Tonight’s performance will show extracts of COAL, which is currently an 80-minute mid-scale touring production.

ABOUT GARY CLARKE COMPANY: Gary Clarke has been making his own work for the past 10 years, which has toured nationally and internationally, receiving both critical and audience acclaim. His work to date has been featured in The British Dance Edition, The Edinburgh Festival, Spring Loaded, International Dance Festival Birmingham, The Cultural Olympiad and Exposure Dance at The Royal Opera House. He has created work for StopGAP Dance Company, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Trinity LABAN, Dance4, The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance, MAP Dance and Ludus Dance Company amongst others. He is the winner of the 1998 Brian Glover Memorial Award and the Danceworks UK Artist Development Award.

CONTACT DETAILS:

PERFORMANCE DETAILS:

Annabel Dunbar (Producer)

Friday 6th May, 7.30pm – 8.30pm Ocean Room, Pavilion Dance

Email: annabeldw@yahoo.com Website: www.coaltour.co.uk Touring Company: 8

Twitter: @GaryCLARKEuk @coaltour Facebook: Gary Clarke UK

Post-performance discussion immediately after in the Foyer.

Photo by Joe Armitage

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This really is too much

by Gracefool Collective

Look. (POINT) You’ve never had it so good. We. Are moving. Forward.

Outlandish, theatrical and highly entertaining, This really is too much delves into the downright absurd realities of what it means to be a three-dimensional, high definition, water-drinking, salad-eating, moisturising WO-man in modern society. Presenting farcical stereotypes and preposterous power struggles, four characters wrestle with restriction, gender and identity, trying desperately to work out which box they fit into.

“This really is too much is sharply funny about the way in which women are pigeon-holed into different roles...

Everything is performed with striking discipline and skill.” - Sarah Crompton, Former Telegraph Arts Editor in Chief and Dance Critic

ABOUT GRACEFOOL COLLECTIVE:

CONTACT DETAILS:

Interweaving irreverent physicality, arresting characters and original writing, Gracefool create dance shining a light on the idiosyncrasies of modern society.

Their sharp humour is interlaced with political content and intellectual rigour, challenging audiences and breaking new ground.

Kate Cox/Rachel Fullegar (Members of Gracefool Collective)

Gracefool are regularly invited to perform at venues and festivals across the UK, including The Roundhouse, Bridport Arts Centre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Place and Contact Manchester. Previous commissions have included Arrivals/Departures festival, Furnace (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Northern Connections (NSCD).

Gracefool were the 2014/15 beneficiaries of CATAPULT - awarded yearly to the most exceptional emerging dance maker(s) in the North.

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Email: gracefoolcollective@gmail.com Website: www.gracefoolcollective.com Touring Company: 5 Twitter: @gracefoolC Facebook: /gracefool-collective

PERFORMANCE DETAILS: Saturday 7th May, 10.30am – 10.55am Ocean Room, Pavilion Dance Photo by Lidia Crisafulli

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30 Cecil Street

by Still House

A delicate and heartbreaking elegy for a lost and ruined theatre, 30 Cecil Street is an original piece of dance-theatre from Bristol-based Dan Canham (DV8, Kneehigh, Punchdrunk, Fabulous Beast).

A performance of fragments of memories, of wild nights and long-disappeared communities, it evokes the life of a once-mighty building and asks what is left when a theatre closes its doors to the public?

“Dan Canham raises ghosts in spine tingling dancetheatre piece, 30 Cecil Street… exquisitely crafted, thoughtful theatre.” – Lyn Gardner, The Guardian (UK)

Made with support from Grants for the Arts through Arts Council England, Bristol Old Vic Ferment, Escalator Performing Arts and Battersea Arts Centre.

ABOUT DAN CANHAM/STILL HOUSE:

CONTACT DETAILS:

Dan Canham is a performance-maker and choreographer.

Through his company, Still House, he makes visually poetic work that includes dance-theatre, film and installation.

Dan Canham (Artistic Director / Performer)

His works, 30 Cecil Street and Ours Was the Fen Country have toured extensively throughout the UK and internationally. His latest work, Of Riders and Running Horses is an outdoor dance event for a group of female dancers, a live band and an audience.

As a performer he has worked with Kneehigh, DV8, Punchdrunk and Fabulous Beast among others.

Photo by John Hunter

Email: dan@stillhouse.co.uk Website: www.stillhouse.co.uk Touring Company: 1 Twitter: @stillhouselive, @dancanham Facebook: /StillHouseLive

PERFORMANCE DETAILS: Saturday 7th May, 2.00pm – 2.25pm Ocean Room, Pavilion Dance

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Imbalance

by Joli Vyann

Combining exciting acrobatic skills and athletic dance, this energetic, thought-provoking performance explores our obsessive dependence with technology, asking whether our lives are ‘in’ or ‘out’ of balance?

The highly skilled Joli Vyann present Imbalance in collaboration with internationally renowned choreographer Jonathan Lunn. Produced by Turtle Key Arts.

It’s rare nowadays not to ‘log in’ at every opportunity - the breakfast table, nights out with friends, even in bed! How well connected are you? When and how do we separate ourselves from the virtual chaos surrounding us?

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Imbalance is commissioned by Pavilion Dance South West’s Shift and Share small scale touring project with commissioning partners Activate, Exeter Northcott Theatre, The Performance Centre Falmouth University, ICIA - University of Bath, Tacchi Morris Arts Centre, Theatre Bristol and Tobacco Factory. Supported by ACE.

CONTACT DETAILS:

ABOUT JOLI VYANN:

Holly Cameron-Jennings (Producer)

Joli Vyann are an emerging dance/circus company codirected by Olivia Quayle and Jan Patzke. Joli Vyann have created a fusion style of dance and circus; through character and storytelling Joli Vyann integrate exciting acrobatic skills with athletic and graceful dance. Their current repertoire includes: Don’t Drink & Dance, H2H, Crazy in Love (NT), Stateless, Imbalance and Lance Moi (which premieres this summer). The company are committed to teaching innovative dance/circus workshops to all levels of experience.

Email: holly@turtlekeyarts.org.uk Website: www.joli-vyann.com Touring Company: 3 Twitter: @JoliVyann #Imbalance Facebook: /Joli-Vyann

PERFORMANCE DETAILS: Saturday 7th May, 4.15pm – 5.15pm Ocean Room, Pavilion Dance Photo by Movingproductions Photography

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The Place The Place is one of the UK’s most established and renowned contemporary dance centres, based in central London.

Since its inception in 1969, The Place has been a driving force for contemporary dance in the UK and Europe and one of the world’s key resources for dance development. It has pursued its vision to be a pioneering force for dance and a world-class centre of artistic excellence by creating an ecosystem for dance unlike any in the world.

Its complementary activities include: an in-house contemporary dance company, Richard Alston Dance Company; world-class training through the London Contemporary Dance School; a busy programme of boundary-pushing performances in the Robin Howard Dance Theatre; an extensive professional artist development programme; and learning and participation opportunities for all ages and skill levels. The commitment to artistic development underpins a portfolio of residency, workshop, training and commissioning projects for professional artists from UK and the rest of the world.

www.theplace.org.uk @ThePlaceLondon theplace Registered charity no: 250216

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Talks Programme Are audiences really so different?

Champagne ideas for beer money

Friday 6 May, 3.35pm – 4.30pm - Garden Studio Friday 6 May, 4.45pm – 5.45pm - Garden Studio Can you tour any show anywhere? Is some content off limits in some venues? Does the geography of your tour mean there are taboo subjects?

Join the panel to explore how different audiences respond to dance work and interrogate the statement ‘that will only work in London’.

Chair: Brendan Kearney, Artistic Director and Chief Executive Dance East Panel Members: Sarah Boulter and Adele Wragg, Co-Directors, Spiltmilk Dance Claire Smith, Project Manager Rural Touring Dance Initiative, nrtf

Would you call it dance?

Saturday 7 May, 11am – 12pm - Seafront Studio What’s the hook? If you call it contemporary, or dance, or both will anyone come?

Thinking about marketing dance performances in the small scale and how to talk about work in an engaging and appropriate way – and get an audience through the door.

Chair: Kiki Gale, Dance Development Consultant at Hall for Cornwall Panel Members: Sara Lock, Associate Editor, Arts Marketing Association.

Rebecca Holmberg and Sofia Edstrand, Gracefool Collective Eddie Nixon, Director of Theatre and Artist Development, The Place

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How ambitious can you be in the small scale? How do you shrink a show? How can big physicality fit in a small space? Can you realise big ideas on small budgets and in a small spaces, and should you even try?

The panel will share their experiences and consider the possibilities and challenges.

Chair: Ed Collier, Co-Director China Plate Panel Members: Rachel Clare, Artistic Director, Crying Out Loud.

Subathra Subramaniam, Artistic Director of Sadhana Dance, Choreographer and Teacher

How can you invest in an artist and your audience at the same time?

Saturday 7 May, 1pm – 2pm - Seafront Studio Join in the conversation about how venues and artists can develop new models of making work. This panel will explore the possibilities and challenges of changing the relationship with your audience and the fine balancing act of risk versus sustainability.

Chair: Joe Bates, Relationship Manager, Touring, Arts Council England Panel Members: Clare Clarkson, General Manager, Cast in Doncaster.

Deryck Newland, Artistic Director Pavilion Dance South West.

Gary Clarke, Dance Artist and Choreographer

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About the ChoreoLAB For the fourth year, Pavilion Dance South West and South East Dance have been working in partnership to offer ChoreoLAB. This is a week-long opportunity for two dance artists and their collaborators to experiment without the pressure of producing work. This year, we have focused on artists who wish to explore the potential of working at the small- and micro-scale, where technical and practical limitations complement the work, rather than compromise it.

Chiharu Mamiya and Delphine Lanson

Sofie Burgoyne with Charlie Ashwell & Bryan Woltjen

About the work: Yamima Yamima is a contemporary ritual performance, maximum 15 participants. Led by the performer, the participants are invited to sculpt a creature out of clay.

The gift of the creature initiates an improvised dance as a counter-gift. Each member of the audience experiences the dance personally through the projection he/she made on his/her own creature. Our scope through the ChoreoLAB was to reach out to more audiences by clarifying the framework and to refine the process through playful and intimate exchange. This performance is devised and reassessed for each specific location: in/outdoor, natural or urban environment, in collaboration with the hosting venues.

About the work: Dancing together apart / Dancing apart together The social gathering of people, sustaining a wonder on how we (as in, all of us who are here) might do this in an immaterial, choreographic way. The work is choreography of thought and imagination that aims to create an almost alchemic connection between all of those who are there, doing it. The work seeks an equality amongst the bodies who are experiencing the work, hoping that by doing so, there is a democratic empowerment of these bodies and a genuine empathy between them.

About the artist: As a dancer/choreographer, Chirharu has been collaborating with artists from different horizons such as contemporary circus, theatre and music (Kubilaï Khan Investigations, Gilles Jobin, Nicole Seiler, Cirque Anomalie, Catherina Sagna, Jörg Müller, François Verret). Since her solo Yamima in 2011, relating to people through artistic action has been at the core of her research, by offering her creativity and receiving the creativity of audiences in return. She is interested in poetic expressions which take shape between the fragility and plasticity of human being, especially in natural environments.

Contact details: Chiharu Mamiya: associationelbissop@gmail.com Delphine Lanson: delphinelanson@gmail.com

About the artist: Interested in making thought-provoking performance experiences, a dancer and choreographer, Sofie feels she dances and choreographs to communicate with, and gently provoke the world in which she perceives.

Graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts Honors with Distinction, Sofie was the recipient of the Department of Culture and the Arts Young Artist Fellowship (Western Australia) in 2013 and has received ongoing support for her solo projects from the Department of Culture and the Arts and Arts Council England.

Contact details: Sofie Burgoyne: sofieburgoyne@gmail.com

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As a registered charity and non-profit organisation, we strive to help everyone to lead a healthier and more fulfilled life through dance.

Pavilion Dance South West is a dance development organisation with a local venue, strategic regional remit, national significance and international reach.

We work across the whole South West region with a network of partner organisations and artists to develop dance as an art form, support artists and engage with audiences.

At Pavilion Dance, our venue in Bournemouth, we present live performance with the potential to entertain, excite, move and challenge. It is work we believe in, by artists with exciting, creative and fresh approaches to dance and movement.

We also hold visual arts exhibitions and run 40 weekly dance and movement classes.

We operate with Arts Council England, Bournemouth Borough Council and BH Live and are proud to be an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO).

Registered Charity no: 1111641

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Cover image: 30 Cecil Street by Still House, image by Will Hanke.