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Welcome to the 2017 Pavilion Dance South West (PDSW) Summit, which showcases work by a selection of artists from South West England.

We will explore what is helpful (or not) about regional identification and how artists and promoters from different regions can connect with each other. The Summit provides a chance to make new contacts and support the touring of high quality work. We look forward to getting to know you better and working with you in the future.

Zannah Doan - Chief Executive, PDSW

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Photo by Matt Austin

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pdsw.org.uk @PDSW_org lighthousepoole.co.uk @LighthousePoole Join the conversation with #PDSWSummit17

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Beyond Boundaries Dance Summit

Pavilion Dance South West and Lighthouse, Poole present

Pavilion Dance South West and Lighthouse, Poole are working together this year to present the Beyond Boundaries Dance Summit.

Karla Shacklock

This two-day event brings together venue and festival programmers and presenters from around the UK for a programme of talks and performances exploring how we can work together beyond regional boundaries, to build networks and support the touring of high quality dance to venues and festivals nationally.

Since graduating with a 1st class BA (Hons) in 2002 and a PhD in dance in 2005, Karla has toured her own work extensively throughout Europe and performed internationally with various dance, circus and physical theatre companies.

Curator of Talks Programme

In 2015 and early 2016, Karla decided to get out of her box and out of the South West and embarked on a nationwide networking tour. The aim was to meet all those organisations that seemed The Summit takes place across our two venues in Bournemouth impenetrable, to meet those people who never replied to her and Poole, and performances will highlight some of the emails, and connect with all those she had always dreamt of collaborating with. excellent work coming out of the South West region, and provide an introduction to new work in development and CONTACT DETAILS: available for touring from Autumn 2017.

Website: karlashacklock.com The talks programme is curated by Karla Shacklock, Twitter: @karlashacklock building on and sharing insights from her successful Facebook: /karla.shacklock Getting Out Of The Box tour (2016).

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SCHEDULE FRIDAY 12th May at PDSW, Bournemouth

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Time

Event

Location

From 12pm

Registration/ Tea & Coffee

Foyer

1.00pm

Welcome

Ocean Room

1.10pm

Performance: The Rising by HeatherWalrondCompany

Ocean Room

2.00pm

Discussion panel, curated by Karla Shacklock: Sharing between regions: How can organisations and artists come together to share knowledge?

Panellists: Paul Burns, Artistic Director of Greenwich Dance; Chris Fogg, Creative Producer of Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund and independent; Heather Walrond, Artistic Director of HeatherWalrondDance; and Zannah Doan, Chief Executive of PDSW

Garden Studio

3.30pm

Tea/Coffee break

Foyer

3.50pm

Pitch: Puzzle Creature and film preview: Empathy by Neon Dance

Ocean Room

5.00pm

Performance: These Hands by Crystal Zillwood

Ocean Room

5.30pm

Dinner

Foyer

6.30pm

Coaches to Lighthouse, Poole

Foyer

7.45pm

Performance: Where Is Home? by State of Emergency

Lighthouse, Theatre

9.30pm - late

Social Time – join us for a drink and a chat

Banana Wharf, Poole Quay

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SATURDAY 13th May at Lighthouse, Poole Time

Event

Location

10.00am

Networking breakfast & registration

Foyer

11.00am

Welcome to Day 2

Theatre

11.10am

Performance: V by Joss Arnott Dance

Theatre

11.30am

Discussion panel, curated by Karla Shacklock: Getting out of the regional box: How can artists move beyond boundaries?

Panellists: Joe Bates, Senior Touring Manager for ACE; Phil Hargreaves, Creative Producer at Déda and independent; Sue Smith, Executive Director of Dance in Devon; Fergus Evans, Producer at Trinity Bristol and independent; and Joss Arnott, Artistic Director of Joss Arnott Dance

Studio

12.45pm

Lunch

1st Floor Foyer

1.45pm

Performance: Countless Yellow Chairs by Laïla Diallo and Jules Maxwell

Theatre

3.00pm

Pitches: For You I Long the Longest by Luke Brown Dance and RED by David Lloyd’s Mischief Company

Studio

3.45pm

Tea/coffee break

1st Floor Foyer

4.15pm

Performance: At the end we begin by Richard Chappell Dance

Theatre

5.40pm

Plenary / Goodbye

Theatre

6.00pm

Event ends

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The Rising

by HeatherWalrondCompany

The Rising is an empowering, highly charged evening of dance and live music. The show is inspired

by Fijian dance and culture from Heather’s time working in Fiji with Vou Dance Company.

It explores what it means to feel alive and empowered, drawing from ideas of vulnerability, surrender and our embodied sense of community. Live music originally composed and played by multi award-winning musicians, Will McNicol and Luke Selby.

“Experienced dance audiences and the general public alike rose to their feet at the end of The Rising...It does that to you.”

- Deryck Newland, former Artistic Director, PDSW

ABOUT HEATHERWALRONDCOMPANY: HeatherWalrondCompany is a British professional dance company based in Devon, supported

by Arts Council England and lead by Artistic Director Heather Walrond. A graduate of Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Heather is an emerging choreographer, and Supported Artist at the Barbican Theatre. She has worked with choreographers including Gary Clarke, Charles Linehan, Balbir Singh, Charlotte Spencer, Corey Baker, Angus Balbernie and Sharon Watson. In 2012 her duet work Just Us was chosen for the graduation show at Northern School of Contemporary Dance.

Soon after this, Heather was invited to choreograph for Vou Dance Company in Fiji for 4 months, touring around the Fiji Islands and New Zealand. She has presented work internationally in France, New Zealand, Fiji, England and America.

CONTACT DETAILS: Email: heatherwalrond@hotmail.com Website: heatherwalrondcompany.com

PERFORMANCE DETAILS: Twitter: @Healtherwalrond Facebook: /heatherwalrondcompany

Friday 12th May, 1.10 - 1.50pm Ocean Room, Pavilion Dance

The Rising is available for touring Spring/Summer 2018, touring on its own or as part of a triple bill of touring with a duet and a dance film The Pursuit.

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Photo by Pippa Samaya

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These Hands

by Crystal Zillwood

These Hands is a 15-minute solo inspired by observations of those working on the land and working with machines on a dairy farm in mid-Devon.

These Hands is a celebration of the everyday, set to the interview of June and Dennis Palfrey who have lived and worked on Ashtown Farm in Devon from 1969 and haven’t stopped since. These Hands is a piece that considers their history in my body, as well as the craft that goes into my movement practice.

With thanks to Janet Smith, Theo Clinkard, Chris Fogg, NSCD, Spin Arts, Activate Arts, Dance City and Yorkshire Dance.

ABOUT CRYSTAL ZILLWOOD: Crystal Zillwood hails originally from Devon. She trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and continued at NSCD as a member of the postgraduate dance company, Verve 13, touring the UK and Switzerland with commissioned pieces by Ben Wright, Frauke Requardt, Angus Balbernie and James Wilton.

Since graduating, Crystal has worked with various choreographers and companies including Liz Roche, New Art Club, Ben Wright, Gary Clarke, Theo Clinkard and Stephanie Singer, where she is part of the “Bittersuite” project With the support of the Catapult scheme at NSCD in partnership with Spin Arts, Dance City, Yorkshire Dance and Activate Arts, Crystal received an Arts Council Grant in October 2016 to focus on creating a triple bill of solos called Spirals, with artistic mentorship from Theo Clinkard.

CONTACT DETAILS:

PERFORMANCE DETAILS:

Email: crystalzillwood@googlemail.com Website: crystalzillwood.co.uk Twitter: @CrystalZillwood

12th May, 5.00 - 5.15pm Ocean Room, Pavilion Dance Photo by Tilly May

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Where Is Home?

by State of Emergency

Soweto, late 80s. A young man struggles against the security forces, confronts tribal tensions and deals with the death of his mother. He falls in love with a girl from the wrong neighbourhood and together they decide to run away from home and everything they have ever known. Presenting great music and dance from South Africa, mixed with urban culture from London and Los Angeles, the show marks State of Emergency’s 30th anniversary as a producer.

Choreography: Bafana Matea, Michael Joseph and Dumisani Ngubane. Original score: Steve Marshall and Grammy winner, Wouter Kellerman. Costumes: Natacha Lacosse.

Where Is Home? is supported by Arts Council England, Acossi Jeans New York, Dance In Devon, Dartington Arts Trust, Leicester City Council, Awards For All (Big Lottery Fund).

ABOUT STATE OF EMERGENCY: State of Emergency is a performance and production company, founded in 1986

by Deborah Baddoo MBE (Dance) and Steve Marshall (Music). Dedicated to high quality collaboration, preservation and innovation in dance and music from the outset, the company has established a national and international reputation.

CONTACT DETAILS:

PERFORMANCE DETAILS:

Deborah Baddoo (Artistic Director)

Friday 12th May, 7.45 – 9.30pm Theatre, Lighthouse, Poole

Email: admin@stateofemergencyltd.com Website: stateofemergencyltd.com Twitter: @SOE_Arts Facebook: /SOEarts

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Photo by Kevin Clifford

Where do you come from? Where are you heading? Where is home?

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V

by Joss Arnott Dance

A technical and internationally award-winning solo intrinsically linked to sweeping classical music that explores the rare and contorted beauty our bodies have to offer.

V divulges into the contrasting qualities of an extraordinary dancer ranging from radical and hyper-mobile movement to sensual and graceful subtlety. The work is an exquisite interplay between dance and music, composed by James Keane, which travels through a stunning, serene landscape of ever-changing asymmetric lighting by award-winning designer Fabiana Piccioli.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England, commissioned by Swindon Dance and South East Dance, supported by CAST and Dance City.

ABOUT JOSS ARNOTT DANCE: Joss Arnott Dance (JAD) is an internationally touring, classical contemporary dance company based at the Lawrence Batley Theatre, West Yorkshire.

CONTACT DETAILS:

JAD prides itself on bringing new audiences to contemporary dance through its accessible and physically charged dance productions.

JAD are passionate about building audiences for dance and have achieved an average audience attendance of 70% from mid-scale touring, enhanced by its exciting education projects.

Email: producingphil@gmail.com Website: jossarnottdance.com Twitter: @jossarnottdance Facebook: /jossarnott.dance

JAD collaborates with a team of highly skilled and critically acclaimed dancers, musicians, composers and designers and celebrated its 5th anniversary touring with Polar Music Prize laureate Dame Evelyn Glennie, with the triple bill production of 5|0.

PERFORMANCE DETAILS:

Phil Hargreaves (Producer)

Saturday 13th May, 11.10 - 11.20am Theatre, Lighthouse, Poole

The company are touring in Autumn 2017 with a new triple bill production and currently booking their Spring 2018 tour.

Photo by Brian Slater

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Countless Yellow Chairs

by Laïla Diallo and Jules Maxwell

“At the heart of it are nine chairs. The two of us, and nine chairs. In turn, they, and we, are an aloneness, an embrace, a memory, an imprint, witnesses. They are bones, they are a forest, they are stacked, they are an aftermath, they are a ballroom, they are resting, they are one short, they hold our weight, they hold our wait. They are countless. And they are nine yellow chairs.” - Laïla Diallo With this work dance maker and composer let the objects take centre stage, fire our imaginations and bring to light something of our own humanness.

Countless Yellow Chairs is supported using public funding by Arts Council England, co-commissioned by Theatre Bristol, Bath ICIA and Bristol Old Vic Ferment / Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

ABOUT LAÏLA DIALLO: Laïla Diallo is a dance maker based in Bristol. For the past ten years, she has been creating works, primarily for live performance, that have toured across the UK and internationally. Her practice also involves contributions to opera, theatre and television productions as movement director/choreographer. Among others: All’s Well That Ends Well (National Theatre), The Prince of Homburg, The Dance of Death (Donmar), War and Peace, Aida (Canadian Opera Company), Otello (Opera North), The Story of Music (BBC2).

CONTACT DETAILS:

PERFORMANCE DETAILS:

Email: email@lailadiallo.com Website: lailadiallo.com Phone: 07809 839332

Saturday 13th May, 1.45 – 2.45pm Theatre, Lighthouse, Poole

Claire Morton (Project Manager) Email: me@clairemorton.com

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Photo by Jack Offord

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At the end we begin

by Richard Chappell Dance

Taking inspiration from T.S. Eliot’s classic Four Quartets, Richard Chappell presents his new work At the end we begin.

Using the notions of time and focus as a point of departure, the piece inhabits Eliot’s poetry through both a sensitive and aggressive dance expression.

Stemming from his experience of classical ballet, contemporary dance, martial arts and improvisation, Richard’s powerful choreographic language is combined with composer Samuel Hall’s score, Hannah Taylor’s costume design and dramaturgy by Neus Gil Cortes.

ABOUT RICHARD CHAPPELL:

CONTACT DETAILS:

Whilst training At Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, Richard started developing his choreography for the National Youth Ballet and Youth Dance England’s Young Creatives Scheme.

Email: richardchappelldance@gmail.com Website: richardchappelldance.co.uk Twitter: @RChappellDance Facebook: /richardchappelldance

Throughout 2014-2016 Richard created and toured his inaugural double bill IRIS and The Vast Rocks with funding from Arts Council England and The Linbury Trust. He has also created works for Stuttgart Ballet (Noverre Gesellschaft, 2016), English National Ballet’s engagement department, Swindon Dance, Chichester University and the National Youth Ballet. Richard is a Choreographer and Producer for BalletWorks and a Discovery Artist at Pavilion Dance South West.

PERFORMANCE DETAILS: Saturday 13th May, 4.15 - 5.40pm Theatre, Lighthouse, Poole

Photo by Jack Thomson Photography

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Pitches Puzzle Creature is a 60-minute work for museums, galleries and theatres that questions attitudes to aging, access and the body. Inspired by artist/ architect duo Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins (Reversible Destiny Foundation), Puzzle Creature is an artistic response to their vast body of work and in particular their manifesto We Have Decided Not To Die. Bringing together contemporary dance, music and architecture with a set designed (by the award winning Numen) specifically to affect body perception; Puzzle Creature is created with a BSL communicator and audio describer to embed access and audiences in the heart of the work.

The film preview of Empathy follows Neon Dance behind the scenes as they premiere their large scale performance debut of Empathy at Radialsystem V, Berlin in December 2016.

Neon Dance (2004) is an internationally recognised dance company that produces adventurous work for the stage, screen and spaces in between. Artistically led by Adrienne Hart, their work is underpinned by rigorous research, strong partnerships and generous collaboration and has appeared in diverse spaces including Glastonbury Festival, National Theatre of Kosovo and CC Hasselt, Belgium.

CONTACT DETAILS: Ian Abbott (Producer) Email: ian@neondance.org Website: neondance.org Twitter: @Neon_Dance

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For You I Long the Longest

by Luke Brown Dance

A double bill of alluring dance theatre exploring the ever-changing nature of love and romance.

Second Self is an energised play on the relationships between four individuals and how they long for, linger with and let go of one another.

Princess is an intimate and audacious autobiographical work that explores the edges of the human experience of love, balancing on the fine line between beauty and brutality. Set within a symbolic boxing ring, Princess combines intricate choreography, text and suggestive imagery of fairy tale-like tones with darker, twisted shades.

Luke Brown Dance makes thought-provoking contemporary dance for both the stage and unconventional spaces. The company is interested in the subtleties of how humans socially interact through physical contact, body language and spoken word. These central concepts stem from the fascination of people being people and the passion to devise intricate and moving contemporary dance.

Luke Brown Dance creates emotionally engaging and visually distinct dance theatre work, framing stories of human nature which are current and poignant through poetic touches and delicate craft.

CONTACT DETAILS: Facebook: /NeonDanceUK Puzzle Creature 7 in touring company Empathy - 12 in touring company

Luke Brown (Artistic Director) Email: luke@lukebrowndance.com

Website: lukebrowndance.com Twitter: @lukebrowndance Facebook: /lukebrowndance

PITCH DETAILS:

PITCH DETAILS:

Friday 12 May, 3.50 - 4.45pm, Ocean Room, Pavilion Dance

Saturday 13th May, 3.00 - 3.20pm, Studio, Lighthouse, Poole

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Photo by Nicole Guarino

Puzzle Creature & Empathy (film preview) by Neon Dance

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RED by David Lloyd’s Mischief Company RED is the new work by Mischief Company exploring the darker side of a classic story – Little Red Riding Hood. Influenced by Dante’s Inferno, we watch as three characters; Red, The Wolf & The Devil, embark on a journey of love, sacrifice and betrayal.

Exploring the relationship between Red and The Wolf, you see Red consumed by the forest as we take a dark and misleading pathway to Granny’s house. We watch as the relationship descends into an animalistic madness of manipulation and control, as lovers take actions into their own hands. But who is real in this fairy-tale and who has been brought along for the ride?

Taking theatrical movement as the starting point, choreographer David Lloyd’s previous works have been collaboratively with Dramaturge Natascha Metherell, interweaving movement and storytelling to create innovative physical theatre productions targeting diverse audiences.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England, Commissioned by Pavilion Dance South West and supported by Jasmin Vardimon Company and University of Cumbria.

RED will premiere at Pavilion Dance South West on 21st & 22nd September 2017

CONTACT DETAILS: Phil Hargreaves (Producer) Phone: 07702 755705 Email: phil@producingphil.com

Website: mischiefcompany.info Twitter: @companymischief Facebook: /davidlloyds.mischiefcompany

PITCH DETAILS: Saturday 13th May, 3.25 - 3.45pm, Studio, Lighthouse, Poole

Photo by Rosemary Rance Photography

Based in Kent, Mischief is the brainchild of David Lloyd, Natascha Metherell and Helen Kumar, whose desire is to assemble an international creative team to produce bold, sharp and dynamic works.

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Talks Programme

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curated by Karla Shacklock

Sharing between regions: How can organisations and artists come together to share knowledge?

Getting out of the regional box: How can artists move beyond boundaries?

Friday 12th May, 2.00 - 3.30pm, Garden Studio, PDSW

Saturday 13th May, 11.30am - 12.45pm, Studio, Lighthouse, Poole

Do organisations and artists really know what is happening outside their region? How can we come together to share knowledge - and not just the organisations at venue meetings, but the artists, too?

How can organisations work together to facilitate crossregional collaboration and touring opportunities?

What is it that makes it difficult for artists to get support and or touring opportunities outside of their own region?

How can we better support and equip artists to move beyond the boundaries and work UK wide? How can organisations work together to facilitate cross-regional collaboration and touring opportunities?

Chair: Sheila Creevey

Chair: Sheila Creevey

Contributors: Paul Burns, Artistic Director of Greenwich Dance; Chris Fogg, Creative Producer of Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund and independent; Heather Walrond, Artistic Director of HeatherWalrondDance; and Zannah Doan, Chief Executive of PDSW.

Contributors: Joe Bates, Senior Manager of Touring for ACE; Phil Hargreaves, Creative Producer at DĂŠda and independent; Sue Smith, Executive Director of Dance in Devon; Fergus Evans, Producer for Trinity Bristol and independent; Joss Arnott, Artistic Director of Joss Arnott Dance

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Lighthouse, Poole Lighthouse plays a vital role in Poole and the South West as a nationally important cultural building, where creative work is made, rehearsed, discussed, shared and presented.

We are unique in that we are the only multi-space venue with four auditoria in the South West, and the largest outside London. We house a symphonic concert hall, mid-scale theatre, small-scale studio theatre, independent cinema, art galleries, and learning spaces. Our audiences can discover and enjoy an extraordinary mix of art forms, not possible elsewhere in the South West, all under one roof.

We are passionate about providing opportunities for our community to experience the benefit the arts bring to individuals, communities and the cultural identity of the place in which we live.

Lighthouse plays an essential part in the delivery of the national and regional arts strategy and has an important role as a receiving venue for national and international theatre, dance, music, contemporary circus and film. We support and enable the creation of work and artist development and provide a home for the region’s orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

lighthousepoole.co.uk @LighthousePoole /lighthousepoole Registered charity no: 275961

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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 communities.

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 support from 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: The Rising by HeatherWalrondDance, photo by Pippa Samaya