DanceLeeds and Yorkshire Spring / Summer 2014
the best of what’s on in
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Barnsley The Civic
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Bradford Bradford Theatres
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Bradford Theatre in the Mill
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Harrogate Harrogate Theatre
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Doncaster CAST
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Halifax Square Chapel
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Halifax Victoria Theatre Halifax
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Hull Hull Dance
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Helmsley Arts Centre
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Huddersfield Lawrence Batley Theatre
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Sheffield Sheffield Theatres
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York York St John University
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Wakefield Theatre Royal
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T42 Dance Tour D’Horizon
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NSCD Community Dance Platform
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National Dance Company Wales Mixed Programme
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NSCD Student Showcase
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Vincent Dance Theatre Motherland
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Yorkshire Dance presents Friday Firsts #22: Going Solo
Dance in Leeds 26
Balbir Singh Dance Company Triple Bill
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Phoenix Dance Theatre
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Verve
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Yorkshire Dance Juncture 2014 Launch
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Yorkshire Dance Mixed Programme
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Northern Ballet Cleopatra
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Yorkshire Dance Mixed Programme
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Yorkshire Dance Fresh 2014
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NBprojects/Nicole Beutler 1: Songs
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Manasamitra Rudra
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Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen Eyes as Big as Plates
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ACE dance and music Mana
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Jordi CortĂŠs In Heaven
Yorkshire Dance presents Friday Firsts #23: Burst!
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Juncture Youth Dance Fringe Dancing with your Neighbours
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James Wilton Dance Last Man Standing
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David Hinton, Siobhan Davies & Wendy Houstoun All This Can Happen & Touched
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Yorkshire Dance presents Friday Firsts #24: Bend It
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Northern Ballet Mixed Programme
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Altered Skin Power Games
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Wendy Houstoun & Co Stupid Women
Yorkshire Dance presents Friday Firsts #25: Unusual Connections
The Civic Barnsley Hanson Street Barnsley, S70 2HZ 01226 327 000 barnsleycivic.co.uk
Video: http://vimeo.com/63561917
T42 Dance Projects Tour D’Horizon Thu 27 Feb, 7.30pm Tickets: £10, concessions £8 T42 are an internationally acclaimed dance theatre company from Bern, Switzerland. Choreographers Misato Inoue and Félix Duméril have created 12 works that have toured across the globe, collecting numerous awards.
photo © Christian Glaus
Two fishermen, a woman and a goldfish all move in those grey areas between thought, memory, imagination and reality, and this series of thought is captivatingly portrayed through beautiful yet humorous choreography and physical theatre. “Perfectly timed, yet exhausting improvisation” Marianne Muhlemann
It’s more fun in a group! Parties of 10 or more qualify for reduced rate tickets. For more information call 01226 327 000
“Humorous and entertaining” Sonntagot, Madeleine Schupfer
For up to date listings of dance in Yorkshire visit www.yorkshiredance.com/whatson
Video: http://youtu.be/fmUnBsoIayE
Gary Clarke LUSTRUM AFTERMATH
C-12 Dance Theatre Shhh!
Sat 8 Mar, 7.30pm Tickets: £8
Fri 11 Apr, 7.30pm Tickets: £12, concessions £10
Recommended for ages 16+
This exciting new show, choreographed by Artistic Director Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster, tells the story of a library closed down; but if the community came together, could they save it?
Led by award-winning, Barnsley-born choreographer Gary Clarke, LUSTRUM is fast and furious, driven by creative instinct and quick fire choices creating a one-off public performance – LUSTRUM AFTERMATH. The five works will excite, intrigue and captivate audiences on a promenade journey through The Civic’s different performance spaces.
Creating an innovative and powerful piece of dance theatre, five theatrical performers manipulate the set, cleverly dramatizing the emotion contained within several classic books, including Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.
The evening will also feature extracts of new work by regional artists and a postshow party with Gary Clarke and the LUSTRUM project artists.
The set is mostly recycled from the New Barnfield Library, Hatfield, which closed down in 2012 – but which Shhh! brings gloriously back to life.
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Box Office: 01274 432000 bradford-theatres.co.uk Booking fees: Phone/counter - £1 per ticket plus postage charge where applicable Online - £2.50 per ticket plus transaction fee 50p
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake Alhambra Theatre Thu 4 - Sat 8 Mar, 7.30pm Matinees Wed 5 Mar, 2.00pm & Sat 8 Mar, 2.30pm Tickets: £16 - £38 + booking fees Concessions, Groups & Schools offers available photo © Bill Cooper
photo © Bill Cooper
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake makes a triumphant return. Book your tickets today to see this thrilling, audacious and original production, now unquestionably established as one of theatre’s great events. Since its London premiere, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake has been acclaimed as a landmark achievement on the international stage, collecting over 30 international awards, including three Tonys. Former Northern Ballet star Jonathan Olliver and Chris Thenfield both return to the iconic role of The Swan. photo © Christian Glaus There are 23 new company members for this revival, including dancers from Rambert Dance Company, Northern Ballet, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Michael Clarke, BBC’s So You Think You Can Dance and the West End. Boldy shattering the traditional concept of swans in tutus, and blending dance, humour and spectacle with extravagant award-winning designs by Lez Brotherston and lighting by Rick Fisher, Matthew Bourne has created a passionate and contemporary Swan Lake for our times. “See it! Or live to regret it” The Independent
Video: http://youtu.be/5jMfv7Ek_R4
For up to date listings of dance in Yorkshire visit www.yorkshiredance.com/whatson
photo © Brian Slater
Northern Ballet Three Little Pigs St George’s Hall Thu 27 Mar, 1.30pm & 6.00pm Tickets: £5, children £4 + booking fees Three little pigs set out into the world. The first pig decides to build a house of straw, the second a house made of sticks and the third pig chooses to build a house of bricks. Then along comes a very hungry wolf. The wolf begs each little pig to invite him in for dinner. When they refuse he threatens to huff and puff and blow their houses down. Will any of the pigs be smart enough to escape the big bad wolf? Bringing the timeless fairytale to life, Three Little Pigs is the perfect opportunity to introduce your little ones to the magic of live ballet, music and theatre.
photo © Tap Factory
Tap Factory St George’s Hall Thu 17 Apr, 7.30pm Tickets: £20 & £22 + booking fees Tap Factory is a dazzling, amazing production, showing many genres of dance in an urban setting. Their feet have a life of their own, and the rhythm never stops in this brand new award-winning concept in the genre of Stomp, Tap Dogs and Blue Man Group. This tremendously visual, and highly exciting show created by Vincent Pausanias features the world’s best tap dancers and international musicians as they blend the art of percussion with dance and acrobatics. This amazing fully choreographed spectacular features mind-blowing live percussion, and dancers and acrobats to set your pulses racing.
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Off Shearbridge Road Bradford BD7 1NX Box Office: 01274 233200 www.bradford.ac.uk/theatre
Karla Shacklock Dance Theatre Double Bill Instant Dissidence Caramel Sat 22 Feb, 7.30pm Tickets: £8, concessions £6 Limited student tickets available at £3 You can watch dance, even hear it. But have you ever tried to smell, taste or touch it? Caramel is Instant Dissidence’s cross between a dance-making session and the process of cooking caramel. It is an edible choreography which is as much led by smell, taste and touch, as sight and sound. Intimately close to the performers, you will experience the creation of dance, soundscape and lighting installations, and engage with the process of cooking caramel.
Sat 5 Apr, 7.30pm Tickets: £8, concessions £6 Limited student tickets available at £3 The Buttercup is a simple yet powerful story about hope – expressed through the body and a series of everyday, continuously transforming objects. Using live music and set against a constantly shifting visual landscape, Karla Shacklock gives a physical and evocative performance and bravely bares her soul. The Crutch depicts a highly intense relationship between two bodies, two beings. Through extremely physical contact work, a vocabulary which swings from violence to tear jerking tenderness, a pounding live score and a huge pile of crutches, the duet explores what it means and how it feels to be there for someone at a time of crisis.
photo © Christiane Stroubakis
For up to date listings of dance in Yorkshire visit www.yorkshiredance.com/whatson
Vincent Dance Theatre Motherland Thu 20 Mar, 7.30pm Tickets: £15.50, concessions £13.50 Winding its way through airbrushed beauty, boob jobs and Botox, victim blaming, slut shaming, the might of motherhood and the challenge of childlessness, Motherland is a funny and moving show about having it all.
Box Office 01423 502 116 www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk Harrogate Theatre Oxford Street Harrogate HG1 1QF
In Motherland, Vincent Dance Theatre’s brilliant, multi-talented ensemble of men, women and children take a look at the gender they were born into and the price they are paying for it. Spurred on by Simone de Beauvoir, Caitlin Moran and the Spice Girls, Vincent goes into battle with the big boys, arguing against a narrow, over-sexualized definition of femininity to ask: what it is that we really, really want? Uncompromising yet utterly accessible, Motherland has a broad appeal for both sexes through its potent blend of theatre, live music and dance.
photo © Hugo Glendinning
It is a call to arms: one that sticks two fingers up at the shallow hypocrisies and inequalities of our time and asks ‘what do we hope for now?’ “A crackling intellectual core. It may be bleak but it’s the real thing” The Observer “Delivers moments of extraordinary intimacy” The Guardian “Admirably uncompromising” The Times 9
Doncaster’s new performance venue Waterdale, Doncaster DN1 3BU www.castindoncaster.com Box Office 01302 303 959 photo © Chris Nash
The Lock In Fri 21 Feb, 7.30pm Tickets: £16.50, concessions £14.50 A group of street dancers arrive at an apparently deserted pub. Local rumour has it that The Fighting Cocks is the place to be ‘after hours’, but as the regulars arrive a clash of cultures turns into a dance floor stand-off. With live music by BBC Radio 2 award-winning folk powerhouse The Demon Barbers.
Video: http://vimeo.com/63246256
Flexer & Sandiland Weightless Tue 18 Feb, 7.30pm Tickets: £14.50, concessions £12.50 Schools offer available Weightless is the brand new work from Flexer & Sandiland. This 20th anniversary show carries Flexer’s recognisable stamp of witty text and humour combined with fast-paced, space-hungry movement. An exciting digital element is provided by Nic Sandiland, text by Wendy Houston and the musical score by composer Dougie Evans and Israeli cellist / singer Karni Postel.
Video: http://youtu.be/Y-vAMDEGvdY
Verve Thu 27 Mar, 7.30pm Tickets: £14.50, concessions £12.50 A mixed-bill featuring four contemporary dance works choreographed by acclaimed artists Lea Anderson, Ben Duke, Gemma Nixon and Jonathan Goddard, and emerging artist Jamaal Burkmar. Verve promises a dynamic and passionate theatrical event, performed by twelve dancers trained at some of the world’s leading conservatoires.
For up to date listings of dance in Yorkshire visit www.yorkshiredance.com/whatson
Video: http://youtu.be/3w7v24Acles
Video: http://youtu.be/LTBT9DyCqyM
photo © Brian Slater
Northern Ballet Three Little Pigs Sat 29 Mar, 12.15pm & 3.00pm Tickets: £5.50 Three little pigs set out into the world. The first pig decides to build a house of straw, the second a house made of sticks and the third pig chooses to build a house of bricks. Then along comes a very hungry wolf. From Northern Ballet, this timeless fairytale is the perfect opportunity to introduce your little ones to the magic of live ballet, music and theatre.
Rationale In My Shoes Sat 5 Apr, 12.15pm & 3.00pm Tickets: £5.50 In My Shoes tells the story of a father and son who have a difficult time relating to one-another. In a desperate bid to save their relationship they attend an Extreme Hip Hop Therapy session which allows them to consider what its like to be in each other’s shoes. Rationale present an extreme hip hop experience with gravity defying breakdance, slick popping and incredible street dance.
photo © Paul Hampartsoumian
Sadler’s Wells & Dance Consortium Breakin’ Convention Sat 10 May, 7.30pm Tickets: £16.50, concessions £12.50 Sadler’s Wells’ critically acclaimed international festival of hip hop dance theatre, Breakin’ Convention, hits Doncaster with jaw-dropping performances by companies from around the world and around the corner. This hugely popular production is hosted and curated by UK hip hop theatre artist Jonzi D. Alongside performances from local crews Breakin’ Convention includes ILL-Abilities, a b-boy company that challenges the misconceptions about people with disabilities, Ukweli Roach with an ensemble performance about temptation and vice, and Wanted Posse expressing the roots of their personal revolutions. Breakin’ Convention is more than just a show: DJs, dancers, demonstrations and workshops take over Cast in the ultimate celebration of hip hop culture.
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Square Chapel Centre for the Arts 10 Square Road, Halifax, HX1 1QG
Box Office 01422 349422 Book online www.squarechapel.co.uk photo © Lucy Cash
photo © ZoeTrope Photography
Video: http://youtu.be/WO_hMwl1F9c
Hagit Yakira ...in the middle with you
Tempered Body Dance Theatre it goes here now
Thu 13 Feb, 8.00pm Tickets: £12 & £10
Thu 6 Mar, 8.00pm Tickets: £12 & £10
This exciting, playful and emotive live performance beautifully combines dance with music and text. Watch as the five male and female dancers share real life scenarios, stories and relationships. Together they struggle with their need to love, survive, stop, lose, fear and fall, and their endless commitment to face the surreal, impossible and mundane reality.
Following their 2011 show Body of Work, Tempered Body Dance make a welcome return with their new production, choreographed by Maddy Wynne-Jones. Inspired by the debate on genetic modification and designer babies, it goes here now creates a dystopian world through contemporary dance.
Experience their distress and delight that will rattle, move, tickle and tempt you into a place where simply existing might be all that you were ever looking for.
Combining vigorous and energetic choreography with an original score and projected images, it explores what it means to be human, exposing fetishes, reveries and revulsions.
For up to date listings of dance in Yorkshire visit www.yorkshiredance.com/whatson
photo © Arpana Caur
Love Beyond Measure: The Legend of Sohni and Mahiwal Wed 23 & Thu 24 Apr, 8.00pm Tickets: £12 & £10 A Q&A session will follow the performance on Thu 24 Apr. The midnight trysts of the lovers Sohni and Mahiwal, on the banks of the river Chenab in the Punjab, are celebrated in Indian painting, literature, music, dance and film. Artist Arpana Caur has created a show about the legend, influenced by Sufi interpretations of the story. During this fascinating evening, images of these paintings will be interwoven with readings of poems inspired by Caur’s work, with specially commissioned music by David Wilson and Inder ‘Goldfinger’ Matharu, together with dance sequences choreographed and performed by Rashmi Sudhir. photo © Peter Holloway
412 Dance Super Cool Love Thu 8 May, 7.30pm Tickets: £12 & £10 Join Kirsty and Lee as they explore what it takes to keep love alive. Their characters may have all the answers but when the action stops, the explosions start and even Cupid gets out of their way. They should be loved up, but they keep messing up due to reality TV, WKD and no-one ‘liking’ his picture on Facebook. Super Cool Love is a dynamic, provocative and hilarious piece of dance theatre, made for anyone who has ever loved anyone.
Jaleo Flamenco A Compás Sun 15 Jun, 7.30pm Tickets: £13 & £11 In a scintillating fusion of heart-wrenching vocals, explosive footwork and virtuoso guitar playing, Jaleo return to Square Chapel with their latest new stage show. Packed with the intoxicating rhythms, palpable energy and joie de vivre, A Compás (in rhythm) charts an evocative musical journey through the diverse flamenco regions of Andalusia. 13
Fountain Street Halifax HX1 1BP Box Office 01422 351158 www.victoriatheatre.co.uk
Video: http://youtu.be/Y-vAMDEGvdY
The Lock In Folk & Hip Hop Extravaganza, Sat 22 Feb 7.30pm Tickets: £16.50, discounts available A clash of dance cultures set in an old English pub with live music by BBC Radio 2 award-winning folk powerhouse The Demon Barbers. Some of the UK’s oldest forms of dance are brought bang up to date as they collide with some of the youngest in an exciting new dance show touring the UK throughout 2014. The show, the brainchild of awardwinning folk band The Demon Barbers, sees a group of street dancers
arrive at an apparently deserted pub. Local rumour has it that The Fighting Cocks is the place to be ‘after hours’, but as the regulars arrive a clash of cultures turns into a dance floor stand-off. The skill, speed and athleticism of the dancers on both sides soon wins the others over, as the old and new are brought together in an exciting and dynamic dance-off. Sword dances are performed with snooker-cues, pub bouncers dance the Morris and B-boys flirt with clog girls. Meanwhile house band The Demon Barbers take English Folk music on a new journey with friends Hip Hop, House, Funk and Ska and even say hello to Burlesque and Drum & Bass along the way!
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Jacket Dance by Dan Watson is a duet. Two men dance ridiculously together. We think there must be something seriously meaningful and interesting in the idea of ridiculous dancing. Dan wanted to explore the idea of “ridiculous dancing”, not as a joke or ironic comment, but curiously and joyfully. The kind of ridiculous dancing perhaps found in excitable kids, excessively drunk wedding guests, dancers too old to care, too inexperienced to compose, too overwhelmed to self-edit. Hunt & Darton are a live art collaboration between Jenny Hunt and Holly Darton.
Hull Dance HU1 A2T Fruitspace Fri 28 Feb, 7.30pm Tickets: £7 A stream of consciousness between performer, artistic process and audience, Solitaire by George Adams presents an entertaining and evocative commentary touching on sexuality, death, risk and autobiography. MC to his own vaudeville style show, Adams struts recklessly about the stage quaffing alcohol, mocking modern culture and dancing with energy and panache.
Their work Boredom is an exploration into the highs and lows of being bored. Embrace it, combat it or simply acknowledge it, boredom affects all of us at some time or other. And Hunt & Darton find that rather interesting, bringing you moves, some wise words, ‘you do it bits’ and Holly’s bored face whilst promising lots of visual stimuli in case anyone, well, gets bored. Hunt & Darton think it is a good idea to get bored and actively encourage you do too. It might just change your life.
Book Tickets: www.hullboxoffice.co.uk www.thisishulldance.com www.fruitspace.co.uk Hull Dance is a Hull City Counci initiative and is funded by the National Lottery through the Arts Council England.
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www.helmsleyarts.co.uk Box Office 01439 771700 The Old Meeting House Helmsley,YO62 5DW
Live Screening Bolshoi Ballet Live Lost Illusions Sun 2 Feb, 3pm Ticket: £12, concessions £11
Lucien, a young provincial and budding composer, sets out to conquer the Parisian scene in search of glory. His success soon blinds him, and he betrays his friends and his love. Lost Illusions is a new ballet, created in Moscow in 2011 by Alexei Ratmansky with dramaturgical advice by French actor, writer and director Guillaume Gallienne. This stylised adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel features thwarted love, ambition and disillusionment, with 19th century Paris as its backdrop. Music by Leonid Desyatnikov, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky.
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photo © Damir Yusupov
Live Screening Bolshoi Ballet Live Marco Spada Sun 30 Mar, 4.00pm Tickets: £12, concessions £11 Hitherto rarely presented and added to the Bolshoi’s repertoire in November 2013, this swashbuckling ballet was recreated especially for the Bolshoi by French choreographer Pierre Lacotte. Marco Spada is a grandiose and unique production on both a technical and dramatic level, featuring complex choreography, five lead roles created for five principals, several changes in scenery, the participation of nearly all the Corps de Ballet, and even the presence of animals on stage. With its scenes of pantomime, devilish intrigue, rejected suitors, kidnapped heroines, rebellion and lovers’ misunderstandings, this is a fresh and joyful ballet not to be missed.
Manasamitra Rudra Sat 5 Apr, 7.30pm Tickets: £12, concessions £11 Resurrecting ancient Indian mythology with an exciting fusion of contemporary music and dance, Manasamitra brings together four dancers with contemporary and Indian dance backgrounds in a powerful piece, accompanied by live musicians playing instruments from both East and West. Rudra reverberates through the universe... a powerful force in the shape of Shiva that destroys evil and restores balance; this performance echoes the cycle of peace, disturbance, love and lament.
Box Office open Tue - Fri, 10am-2pm email: helmsleyarts@yahoo.co.uk www.facebook.com/HelmsleyArtsCentre Twitter @helmsleyarts 17
Video: http://youtu.be/FdwB2oGYoME
Manasamitra Rudra Thu 10 Apr, 7.30pm Tickets: £12, £10 & £8, concessions £2 off Under 26s £6 Rudra reverberates through the universe… a powerful force in the shape of Shiva that destroys evil and restores balance, this performance echoes the cycle of peace, disturbance, love and lament. Shri Sriraham (Life of Pi) has created an original composition which will be performed live. Combined with energetic dancing and subtle set design, this rich narrative is reimagined and offers audiences a new experience of Indian arts.
Box Office 01484 430528 Book securely online www.thelbt.org DANCE SAVER Book for any two of Rudra, Flown and Phoenix Dance Theatre and save £4. Offer only applies when both events are booked together, and can only be booked via the LBT Box Office on 01484 430528.
Northern Ballet Three Little Pigs Thu 17 Apr, 12.15pm, 2.00pm & 3.45pm Tickets: £6, children £5 Three little pigs set out into the world. The first pig decides to build a house of straw, the second a house made of sticks and the third pig chooses to build a house of bricks. Then along comes a very hungry wolf... Bringing the timeless fairy tale to life, Three Little Pigs is the perfect opportunity to introduce your little ones to the magic of live ballet, music and theatre.
For up to date listings of dance in Yorkshire visit www.yorkshiredance.com/whatson
photo © Anthony Crickmay
Phoenix Dance Theatre Video: http://youtu.be/6M86O35PzhA
Pirates of the Carabina Flown Wed 23 - Thu 24 Apr, 7.30pm Tickets: £16, £14 & £12 concessions £2 off Under 26s £6 and Family deal available
Wed 21 May, 7.30pm Tickets: £14, £12, £10, concessions £2 off Under 26s £6 Phoenix Dance Theatre return to the LBT with a diverse triple bill.
Our stunning troupe of acrobats, aerialists, daredevil stuntmen and musicians are going to put on a jaw-dropping spectacle for you.
Programme includes Document by European choreographic duo Ivgi & Greben; Didy Veldman’s See Blue Through, which plunges the stage into a fascinating, mysterious, undersea world; and former Phoenix Artistic Director Darshan Singh Bhuller’s Mapping, inspired by his father’s journey from East to West.
Flown is confidently choreographed chaos as the performers fly, fling, spin and swing across the set in perfect time.
Arcaladanza & Moko Dance Constellations
Get ready for a captivating night at the circus, packed with thrills, extraordinary feats, laughs and fantastic live music.
It’s big, beautiful, bonkers; an experience for everyone to treasure. Video: http://youtu.be/2W1x-9Dr4o8
photo © Pedro Arnay
Wed 4 Jun, 1.30pm & 6.30pm Tickets: £7, children £6 This award-winning international dance company delights audiences with its cocktail of colours, shapes, movements and sensations. In Constellations, the beauty and simplicity of world-famous abstract artist Joan Miro’s work is brought to life through dance, puppetry and digital visuals, all delivered with Aracaladanza’s signature playfulness and style. 19
photo © Bill Cooper
Northern Ballet Cleopatra Lyceum Theatre Tue 25 - Sat 29 Mar, 7.45pm Matinees Thu 27 Mar 2.00pm & Sat 29 Mar 3.00pm Tickets: £12 - £37*
photo © Jason Tozer
An enduring icon of the ancient world. The ultimate modern woman. Beautiful, sensual and determined; mother, lover and queen. In a world ruled by men, this courageous and compulsive woman overturned convention and changed the course of history. Now she’s back for a limited time only this spring. Northern Ballet’s Cleopatra has thrilled audiences and critics, and gained celebrity fans, since its world premiere in 2011. This stunning ballet charts Cleopatra’s sensational rise to power, her scandalous romances with the most powerful men in history, and her eventual downfall. With music composed by Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated Claude-Michel Schönberg (famed for Les Misérables and Miss Saigon), played live by Northern Ballet Sinfonia, and choreography from Northern Ballet’s Artistic Director David Nixon OBE, Cleopatra is an unmissable retelling of a remarkable woman’s story.
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Sheffield Theatres Norfolk Street Sheffield S1 1DA 0114 249 6000 sheffieldtheatres.co.uk *A transaction fee applies to all bookings made at the Box Office (excl. cash) of £1.50 (£1.00 to online bookings).
Barry Hines’ Kes Crucible Theatre Thu 27 Mar - Sat 5 Apr, 7.30pm (except Mon 31 Mar 7.00pm) Matinees Wed 2 & Sat 5 Apr 2.30pm Tickets: £10 - £21* A dance-theatre adaptation by Jonathan Watkins. With original music by Alex Baranowski. Billy Casper, isolated at home and school, is shaped by two contrasting worlds: an
industrial, working class Barnsley and the natural landscape that surrounds his Yorkshire town. When he finds and befriends a wild kestrel hawk, his whole life soars to new heights as his relationship with the bird of prey unleashes his imagination, inspiring him to reach for the sky. Eight professional and 20 young local dancers combine dance, physical theatre and puppetry in this world premiere production, to bring the moving story of Kes to life. 21
www.yorksj.ac.uk/arts Lord Mayor’s Walk York YO31 7EX
Hagit Yakira ...in the middle with you Quad South Hall Wed 5 Feb, 7.30pm Tickets: £5 ...in the middle with you is an exciting, playful and emotive live performance poetically combining dance, music and text. The five dancers share real life scenarios, stories and relationships. Watch them struggle with their need to love, survive, stop, lose, fear and fall, and their endless commitment to face the surreal, impossible and mundane reality. It is within the strength of the community that they create that the audience experiences the distress and delight that will disturb, rattle, move, tickle and tempt you into a place where simply existing might be all that you were ever looking for.
Hagit Yakira’s sophisticated and intimate work explores the varying dynamics of human relationships. She plays and shapes fiction and reality, seamlessly shifting between drama and humour through well-considered structures. Yakira’s background in dance and movement therapy informs her warm approach, which enables her to talk to people through her work in a way that is compassionate and relevant to a wide age range from diverse backgrounds. “...their friendly blend of ideas and kinetics combines likeable daring with a warmly human charm” Donald Hutera, reviewing at The Place
For up to date listings of dance in Yorkshire visit www.yorkshiredance.com/whatson
photo © Christopher Mollon
Instant Dissidence Caramel
12 Degrees North Triple Bill
Theatre 1 Wed 5 Mar, 7.30pm Tickets: £5
Quad South Hall Wed 19 Mar, 7.30pm Tickets: £5
You can watch dance, even hear it. But have you ever tried to smell, taste or touch it?
12 Degrees North introduces a new triple bill with work by the talented James Wilton (choreographer for the opening ceremony of Rugby World Cup). His dance is daring, intensely physical, with infectious energy. In contrast, Lea Anderson (Artistic Director of The Cholmondleys and Featherstonehaughs) creates fascinating, challenging and visually stunning dance theatre which bursts with idiosyncratic movement.
Caramel is a cross between a dancemaking session and the process of cooking caramel, stimulating all five senses. It is an edible choreography which is as much led by smell, taste and touch, as sight and sound. Intimately close to the performers, audiences experience the creation of dance, soundscape and lighting installations, and engage with the process of cooking caramel. Instant Dissidence is a Bradford-based company whose work focuses on the body and its physical and cultural architectures. “Conceptually brilliant!” The Culture Vulture
Guest Emma Lansley presents her trio Talking to Mia and Butch, a quirky dance theatre piece with a light twist, focussing on the complex lives of three socially awkward individuals. With music by Kate Bush and a hint of lemons, this is humorous and heart-warming dance. A dazzling display of super-physical dance theatre from North West artists.
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Box Office 01924 211 311 www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk
Essence of Ireland Sat 29 Mar, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets: £16, £19 & £21.50 All matinee tickets £15 photo © Elik Melikov
Moscow Ballet - La Classique Swan Lake Wed 26 Mar, 7.30pm Tickets: £18, £22 & £24 Prince Siegfried is celebrating his coming of age in the garden of his ancestral palace. His mother observes that it’s time to consider marriage and that tomorrow, at the formal celebration of his 21st birthday the court ball, he should select his future wife. Moscow Ballet - La Classique has thrilled ballet lovers during hugely successful tours of Egypt, Morocco, France, Spain, Italy and Austria, to name just a few. Don’t miss your chance to catch this internationally acclaimed company in action!
Set against the backdrops of Ireland, England and America in the 20th century and inspired by true events, Essence of Ireland tells a story of love, joy, happiness and heartache, endured by Cora McGowan and Sean Dempsey as they are separated from each other and their beloved Ireland by emigration. This moving story, told through music, song and dance is a celebration of all things Irish and will take you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions, giving audiences a unique Irish experience. St Patrick’s Day is celebrated once a year throughout the world, but in Essence of Ireland it is celebrated every show! Featuring original choreography and music, together with Irish classics such as Galway Girl, Irish Rover, Song for Ireland, Danny Boy, Carrickfergus and Ireland’s Call.
For up to date listings of dance in Yorkshire visit www.yorkshiredance.com/whatson
Dance in Leeds
Balbir Singh Dance Company
Triple Bill ___________________________________ stage@leeds Thu 6 Feb
photo Š Chris Nash
CONTEMPORARY / KATHAK Balbir Singh Dance Company Triple Bill stage@leeds, University of Leeds Thu 6 Feb, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 343 8730 Book securely online www.stage.leeds.ac.uk Tickets £12.00, concessions £9.00 Using a rich and distinctive creative process drawing on Contemporary and Kathak (Classical North Indian) dance, choreographer Balbir Singh presents work that challenges dancers mentally, physically and technically, taking the audience on a journey into what dance can be. Play of Percentages paints a spectrum scale between two styles of dance with a quartet of female dancers moving back and forth. Decreasing Infinity (Guardian Pick of the Week, Edinburgh Festival Fringe) delves into a world of distinctive mirrors of dance styles reflecting, absorbing and coming closer together. Trespass #2 with six dancers, explores notions of trespass: psychologically, physically, musically through an invasion onto each other’s territory.
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Phoenix Dance Theatre ___________________________________ West Yorkshire Playhouse Wed 12 - Sat 15 Feb
photo Š Anthony Crickmay
CONTEMPORARY Phoenix Dance Theatre West Yorkshire Playhouse Wed 12 - Sat 15 Feb, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 213 7700 Book securely online www.wyp.org.uk Tickets £12.00 - £28.00 Recommended for age 10+ Following the success of 2013’s Particle Velocity, Phoenix Dance Theatre return to West Yorkshire Playhouse with a diverse bill that features two new works and one classic from the company’s archive. Document is the first UK work by exciting European choreographic duo Ivgi & Greben. Featuring five dancers, this new piece is powerful, relentless and packed with emotion. Didy Veldman’s See Blue Through plunges the stage into a fascinating, mysterious undersea world. Featuring sensuous, elastic choreography and costumes, this audience favourite was first performed by the company in 2005. Completing the bill is the latest work by former Phoenix Artistic Director Darshan Singh Bhuller. His first work for Phoenix since 2006, this stunning new piece is inspired by his Mapping series of works, and is filled with thrilling, dynamic and physical choreography. “There’s nothing this mid-scale ensemble cannot tackle and come out victorious” Dance Europe, March 2013
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Verve ___________________________________ The Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance Fri 28 Feb & Sat 1 Mar
photo Š Nicole Guarino
Video: http://www.youtube.com/vervenscd
CONTEMPORARY
Verve The postgraduate performance company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance The Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance Fri 28 Feb & Sat 1 Mar, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 219 3018 Book securely online www.nscd.ac.uk/performances Tickets £8.00, concessions £5.00 Four thrilling contemporary dance works choreographed by acclaimed artists Lea Anderson, Ben Duke, Gemma Nixon and Jonathan Goddard, and emergent artist Jamaal Burkmar. Verve promises a dynamic and passionate performance by twelve dancers trained at some of the world’s leading conservatoires. Lovers of both dance and music will be enthralled by Burkmar’s Ocean, an incredibly passionate, fast-paced work for all 12 dancers. Duke’s creations effectively combine theatre and dance; his meticulous characterisations helping his company win the UK’s most prestigious prize for dance, The Place Prize. Anderson returns after charming both regular and new audiences in 2011 with her quirky and stylish work. Completing the programme, ex-Rambert dancers Nixon & Goddard bring years of experience as dancers at the top of their game to create their first work for Verve. “A very talented cast... and the quality of the pieces in which they perform is also consistently high” Dance Europe, 2013 “The evening was eclectic and well balanced and the dancers looked strong as performers and as an ensemble” Pedro Machado, Candoco Dance Company, 2013
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Yorkshire Dance
Juncture 2014 Launch ___________________________________ The Tetley Thu 6 Mar
photo Š Hugo Glendinning
INSTALLATION / CONTEMPORARY Yorkshire Dance Juncture 2014 Launch Event Hugo Glendinning & John Avery: unstill Candoco Dance Company: Miniatures The Tetley Thu 6 Mar, 5.30pm Box Office 0113 243 8765 Book securely online www.yorkshiredance.com/bookonline Free: limited capacity; advance booking essential Photographer and filmmaker Hugo Glendinning creates a bigscreen projected photo-work with newly commissioned music by John Avery, in a project curated by Noémie Solomon (McGill University Montréal). Glendinning’s work draws on 30 years of photographing dance and performance, while also including work from throughout his archive. John Avery’s music both leads and follows the imagery in a series of long leaning notes that float, and are held, at once in motion and waiting to move. Lea Anderson’s Miniatures is a futuristic nod to the Elizabethan era, playfully musing about what may have gone on ‘outside of the frame’ of traditional portraiture. A solo for Candoco dancer Annie Hanauer, the piece was inspired by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum’s miniatures portrait collection and features layers of references to poses, dress and demeanour of the period. Part of Yorkshire Dance’s Juncture; a festival of contemporary movement, theatre and film work curated by Wendy Houstoun.
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Yorkshire Dance
Mixed Programme ___________________________________ Yorkshire Dance Thu 6 Mar
photo Š Karen Scott Photography
CONTEMPORARY Yorkshire Dance Mixed Programme Gary Stevens, Lucy Suggate & Louise Wallinger Yorkshire Dance Thu 6 Mar, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 243 8765 Book securely online www.yorkshiredance.com/bookonline Tickets £10.00, concessions £8.00 Not Tony by Gary Stevens is like a comedy, quick-change hat routine, where single items represent different members of a family. All speak with the same voice as an ambiguous internal/external conflict is played out. An unnamed, unknown identity emerges in the space between the other established characters. Liquid Gold by Lucy Suggate is a visual delight, a sensual and intricate solo where the performer embarks on a luxurious transformation. With liquid limbs and a spine like treacle, the body becomes fluid in expression, articulation and thought. Annoying the Neighbours is a hilarious and disturbing collection of tales of Shooting Squirrels, Using the Neighbour’s Garden as an Ashtray, and Letting Yourself In for a Nose Around. To create this piece of ‘verbatim theatre’, Louise Wallinger interviewed inquisitive and quarrelling neighbours and the noise officers and council workers who deal with their disputes. In this performance she listens to the edited interviews via an earpiece while repeating their words exactly as they are being spoken. Part of Yorkshire Dance’s Juncture; a festival of contemporary movement, theatre and film work curated by Wendy Houstoun.
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Northern Ballet
Cleopatra ___________________________________ Leeds Grand Theatre Thu 6 - Sat 15 Mar
photo Š Jason Tozer
BALLET
Video: http://youtu.be/auk4Oy-cfzkcfzk
Northern Ballet Cleopatra Leeds Grand Theatre Thu 6 - Sat 15 Mar, 7.30pm (no performance Mon 10 Mar) with matinees Sat 8, Thu 13 & Sat 15 Mar, 2.30pm Box Office 0844 848 2700 Book securely online www.leedsgrandtheatre.com Tickets £9.00 - £40.00 Age guidance 12+ An enduring icon of the ancient world. The ultimate modern woman. Beautiful, sensual and determined; mother, lover and queen. In a world ruled by men, this courageous and compulsive woman overturned convention and changed the course of history. Now she’s back for a limited time only this spring. Cleopatra has thrilled audiences and critics, and gained celebrity fans, since its world premiere in 2011. This stunning ballet charts Cleopatra’s sensational rise to power, her scandalous romances with the most powerful men in history, and her eventual downfall. With music composed by Golden Globe and Academy Awardnominated Claude-Michel Schönberg (famed for Les Misérables and Miss Saigon), played live by Northern Ballet Sinfonia, and choreography from Artistic Director David Nixon OBE, Cleopatra is an unmissable retelling of a remarkable woman’s story. “Cleopatra is a stunner... the audience loved every minute of it” Sunday Express “Gripping entertainment” The Mail on Sunday
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Yorkshire Dance
Mixed Programme ___________________________________ Yorkshire Dance Fri 7 Mar
photo Š Malcolm Johnson
CONTEMPORARY Yorkshire Dance Mixed Programme Grace Surman, Cathy Butterworth & Oliver Bray Yorkshire Dance Fri 7 Mar, 4.30pm Box Office 0113 243 8765 Book securely online www.yorkshiredance.com/bookonline Tickets 10.00, concession £8.00 Cathy Butterworth is a performer, curator and researcher in Live Art practices, who for the last ten years has programmed, produced and performed in projects within this field. In 2011 she began collaborating with Grace Surman and they produced Two Four One One, which was first presented as part of Compass Live Art Festival in Leeds. Over the last decade Surman has been making work to disentangle, to escape, to slip in and out of logics, of traditions and of modes of selfhood, modes which move between the seemingly honest and the playfully constructed, she works firmly in a tradition that exists to be plundered, revered, and ridiculed in equal measure. Oliver Bray’s The Animal was Upon Him is a ridiculous conversation, a wry two-hander of nonsensical, pseudo-philosophical badinage and silliness. It’s a trip to a Victorian zoo, a filthy reading of astral constellations and what it’s like to be an ape. But it’s also really complicated, with more moves than the average game of chess* and a lot more swearing. *Probably
Part of Yorkshire Dance’s Juncture; a festival of contemporary movement, theatre and film work curated by Wendy Houstoun.
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NBprojects / Nicole Beutler
1: S O N G S ___________________________________ The Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance Fri 7 Mar
photo Š Anja Beutler
CONTEMPORARY NBprojects / Nicole Beutler 1 : S O N G S The Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance Fri 7 Mar 7.30pm Box Office 0113 219 3018 Book securely online www.nscd.ac.uk/performances Tickets £12.00, concessions £6.00 A solo performance presented as a concert, a Liederkreis, an existential exercise for a singing body. The performer surrenders her voice to the intense words of tragic female figures from the history of theatre, including Antigone, Medea and Gretchen. The suffering of the fictional heroines (and anti-heroines) repeatedly enters her very being as she sings, shouts and speaks – she is fragile, raw, calculating and emotional. But who is speaking here, and do the dramatic references from the past still resonate in the here and now? A subtle but loud scream against the instability and the incalculability of our existence. 1 : S O N G S has been performed to critical and audience acclaim across Europe and The United States. The work also crosses the boundary into pop culture and has appeared at large-scale music festivals in Beutler’s home country, The Netherlands. “From gentle, frail and melancholic to rough, wild and hysterical, 1: Songs careers from one emotional extreme to the other as the literary greats infiltrate contemporary reality” De Keuze 2010, Theater Festival Flanders Part of Yorkshire Dance’s Juncture; a festival of contemporary movement, theatre and film work curated by Wendy Houstoun.
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Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen
Eyes as Big as Plates ___________________________________ The Tetley Sat 8 Mar
photo Š Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen
PHOTOGRAPHY Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen Eyes as Big as Plates The Tetley Sat 8 Mar, 2.00pm & 4.00pm Box Office 0113 243 8765 Book securely online www.yorkshiredance.com/bookonline Free: limited capacity; advance booking essential Eyes as Big as Plates is the first collaborative venture between the Finnish artist Riitta Ikonen and the Norwegian photographer Karoline Hjorth. Inspired by the Romantics’ celebration of imagination, the series has played with references from Norwegian and Finnish folklore. Each image presents a solitary figure in a landscape, dressed in elements from surroundings that indicate neither time or place. As in a folktale where the forest could be any forest and the sea could be any sea, the scenes in Eyes as Big as Plates encourage a sense of timelessness and universality. The natural world acts as both content and context in this work, with the characters literally inhabiting the landscape. This blending of figure and ground also recalls the way in which folk narratives animate the natural world through a personification of nature. The slippage of elderly figures into the landscapes also suggests a return to the earth, a final celebration of lives that have been lived, reinforcing the link between our humanity and the natural world. The three previous stages of the project have been photographed in Norway, Finland and New York. Part of Yorkshire Dance’s Juncture; a festival of contemporary movement, theatre and film work curated by Wendy Houstoun.
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Juncture Youth Dance Fringe presents
Dancing with your Neighbours ___________________________________ Yorkshire Dance Sat 8 Mar
photo Š Tom Gowanlock
FILM Juncture Youth Dance Fringe presents Dancing with your Neighbours Yorkshire Dance Sat 8 Mar, 2.00pm Box Office 0113 243 8765 Book securely online www.yorkshiredance.com/bookonline Free Dancing with your Neigbours is a short film created by young people from Yorkshire Dance Youth who represent areas of Leeds such as Seacroft and Richmond Hill. Working alongside professional choreographer Anthony Middleton and group leader Danielle Byars, the group have explored dancing with and for their neighbours. Shot on location, the film presents a personal insight into the communities, presenting conversations through dance. Part of Yorkshire Dance’s Juncture; a festival of contemporary movement, theatre and film work curated by Wendy Houstoun.
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Jordi Cortés
In Heaven ___________________________________ Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre Sat 8 Mar
photo © Victor Navarro
CONTEMPORARY Jordi Cortés In Heaven Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Northern Ballet Sat 8 Mar, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 220 8008 Book securely online theatreleeds.com Tickets £10.00, concessions £8.00 In Heaven is part of a trilogy which began with Lucky and Happy Hour. In Lucky, Jordi Cortés was looking for the people who are no longer here, a journey through life in front of death. In Happy Hour, he took us on a journey towards happiness. Now, in In Heaven, Jordi is no longer looking for answers: he’s reached the epiphany of the metaphorical heaven mentioned in the title, which allows him to go beyond the two previous versions of himself and explore a multitude of possibilities. Jordi Cortés is a choreographer and performer who has worked with companies around the world, including DV8 Physical Theatre and Nigel Charnock + Company. Part of Yorkshire Dance’s Juncture; a festival of contemporary movement, theatre and film work curated by Wendy Houstoun.
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David Hinton, Siobhan Davies & Wendy Houstoun
All This Can Happen & Touched ___________________________________ Hyde Park Picture House Sun 9 Mar
photo Š BFI National Archive
FILM David Hinton, Siobhan Davies & Wendy Houstoun All This Can Happen & Touched Hyde Park Picture House Sun 9 Mar, 3.30pm Box Office 0113 275 2045 Book securely online www.hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk Tickets £4.50 All This Can Happen (2012) is a beautifully choreographed compilation film which invites us on a meditative walk through a not-so-distant past, in the spirit of writer Robert Walser. A flickering dance of intriguing imagery brings to light the possibilities of everyday movements which appear, evolve and freeze before your eyes. Made entirely from archive photographs and footage from the earliest days of moving image, it follows the footsteps of the protagonist of Walser’s story, The Walk. Touched is a choreography of close-ups, a romance for hands and faces. The setting is a bar in north London. The characters are people who talk, smoke, drink, dance, fight, laugh and weep. They are just people at a party but, in one way or another, they are all touched. Part of Yorkshire Dance’s Juncture; a festival of contemporary movement, theatre and film work curated by Wendy Houstoun.
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Altered Skin
Power Games ___________________________________ stage@leeds Tue 11 Mar
photo Š Simon Richardson
Video: http://youtu.be/auQVeWSfSUU
CONTEMPORARY
Altered Skin Power Games stage@leeds, University of Leeds Tue 11 Mar, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 343 8730 Book securely online www.stage.leeds.ac.uk Tickets £12.00, concessions £9.00 Deepak is a wealthy banker whose life is spiralling out of control. His high flying life of gambling and drinking is not all it’s cracked up to be. Follow Deepak through this reality game show and influence the outcomes of his story by voting live and deciding Deepak’s fate...right here on the night. Blending character-driven physical theatre with contemporary and South Asian dance, this stunning new work by Altered Skin explores the forces that shape our destiny. Live voting, physical choreography and unexpected twist and turns – tune into Power Games for tonight’s entertainment!
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Wendy Houstoun & Co
Stupid Women ___________________________________ Yorkshire Dance Sat 15 Mar
photo Š Berkeley White Photography
STUPID Wendy Houstoun & Co Stupid Women Yorkshire Dance Sat 15 Mar, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 243 8765 Book securely online www.yorkshiredance.com/bookonline Tickets £6.00 Stupid Women is a live directed improvisation. It aims to combine idiocy with skill, anarchy with meaning and costumes with music. Five mystery guests of high calibre and low pay attempt the possible and quite probably fail. Stupid Women is an endeavour made especially for Juncture as a tribute to the late and great Nigel Charnock, whose piece Stupid Men irritated and annoyed most audiences that saw it. We are hoping to be able to achieve something similar. Stupid Women will have been created over four days by Wendy Houstoun with Jo Fong,TC Howard, Sophie Unwin,Vivien Wood and others. Part of Yorkshire Dance’s Juncture; a festival of contemporary movement, theatre and film work curated by Wendy Houstoun.
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T42 Dance
Tour D’Horizon ___________________________________ Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre Wed 19 Mar
photo © Christian Glaus
Video: http://vimeo.com/63561917
CONTEMPORARY
T42 Dance Tour D’Horizon Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Northern Ballet Wed 19 Mar, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 220 8008 Book securely online theatreleeds.com Tickets £10.00, concessions £8.00 Suitable for ages 14+ T42 are an internationally acclaimed Swiss dance theatre company. Tour D’Horizon brings to life the fascinating story of one man who lived in isolation for decades on the coast of Brittany and the strange fate that befell him. Mesmerising, beautiful and humorous, don’t miss this exciting company on their first UK tour. “Visually the performance was mesmerising” The Cape Times
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Community Dance Platform ___________________________________ The Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance Sat 22 Mar
photo Š Gavin Joynt
Video: http://vimeo.com/60088546
CONTEMPORARY
Northern School of Contemporary Dance Community Dance Platform The Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance Sat 22 Mar, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 219 3018 Book securely online www.nscd.ac.uk/performances Tickets £8.00, concessions £5.00 NSCD’s Community Platform brings together community dance groups from across Leeds and Yorkshire to perform work they have created. Featuring groups of children, young people and adults, this evening of work will celebrate the rich diversity of community dance in the region. Watch the groups perform, be inspired and find out how you can get involved!
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National Dance Company Wales
Mixed Programme ___________________________________ Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre Tue 25 - Wed 26 Mar
Video: http://vimeo.com/79995387
CONTEMPORARY
National Dance Company Wales Mixed Programme Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Northern Ballet Tue 25 - Wed 26 Mar, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 220 8008 Book securely online theatreleeds.com Tickets £17.50, concessions £15.00 National Dance Company Wales return with a triple bill of dazzling dance from world class choreographers and home-grown talent. With original music from Grammy and Academy Award-winning composer Atticus Ross (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network), and choreographed by Stephen Petronio, Water Stories is unmissable. This new piece conjures up the abundant and magical waterscapes of Wales and features stunning original visuals from artist Matthew Brandt. The programme also includes Lee Johnston’s They Seek To Find The Happiness They Seem, inspired by elements of classic love stories and famous dance partnerships, and Stephen Shropshire’s Mythology set to Rzewski’s Coming Together. “Impressive dancers” The Times “A feast for the eyes and ears” Dance Europe
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Student Showcase ___________________________________ The Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance Tue 25 - Fri 28 Mar
photo Š Josh Hawkins
CONTEMPORARY Northern School of Contemporary Dance Student Showcase The Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance Tue 25 - Fri 28 Mar, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 219 3018 Book securely online www.nscd.ac.uk/performances Tickets £8.00, concessions £5.00 NSCD’s Student Showcase is the perfect opportunity to see a vibrant and diverse programme of newly-commissioned contemporary dance works by professional choreographers. The new commissions will be performed by NSCD students currently enrolled on the undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Visiting professional choreographers working with our first and second year degree students include Odette Hughes, Associate Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Leeds-based artists Pauline Mayers and Andile Sotiya, and recent NSCD graduates Gemma Harrison and Carlos Pons Guerra. The evening’s programme will be completed by a new work by Yorkshire-based artist Beth Cassani, performed by our postgraduate students.
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Vincent Dance Theatre
Motherland ___________________________________ West Yorkshire Playhouse Thu 3 Apr
photo Š Hugo Glendinning
CONTEMPORARY Vincent Dance Theatre Motherland West Yorkshire Playhouse Thu 3 Apr, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 213 7700 Book securely online www.wyp.org.uk Tickets £16.00, concessions £12.00 Winding its way through airbrushed beauty, boob jobs and Botox, victim-blaming, slut-shaming, the might of motherhood and the challenge of childlessness, Motherland is a funny and moving show about having it all. Vincent Dance Theatre’s brilliant, multi-talented ensemble of men, women and children take a look at the gender they were born into and the price they are paying for it. Spurred on by Simone de Beauvoir, Caitlin Moran and the Spice Girls, Vincent goes into battle with the big boys, arguing against a narrow, over-sexualized definition of femininity to ask: what is it that we really, really want? Uncompromising yet utterly accessible, Motherland has a broad appeal for both sexes through its potent blend of theatre, live music and dance. Motherland is a call to arms: one that sticks two fingers up at the shallow hypocrisies and inequalities of our time and asks ‘what do we hope for now?’
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Yorkshire Dance presents
Friday Firsts #22: Going Solo ___________________________________ Yorkshire Dance Fri 4 Apr
photo Š Arnaud Stephenson
CONTEMPORARY Yorkshire Dance presents Friday Firsts #22: Going Solo Yorkshire Dance Fri 4 Apr, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 243 8765 Book securely online www.yorkshiredance.com Tickets £8.00, concessions £6.00 Yorkshire Dance presents their annual showcase of solo performances, celebrating the diverse art of having something to say and a unique way of saying it. Autin Dance Theatre was recently formed by French dancer and choreographer Johnny Autin as a vehicle for his choreographic work. Taksim Square Reloaded is a poignant and energetic piece of dance theatre inspired by the Arab Spring demonstrations and, more particularly, by this year’s popular protests in Turkey and the violent clashes with the riot police in Ankara and Istanbul. Johnny uses symbolic movements, patterns and a full-out body language to build up an intense portrait of repression and tell his story. Also featured is work by Manchester-based artist Hannah Buckley, amongst other artists.
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Yorkshire Dance
Fresh 2014 ___________________________________ West Yorkshire Playhouse Sat 5 Apr
photo Š Brian Slater
YOUTH DANCE Yorkshire Dance Fresh 2014 West Yorkshire Playhouse Sat 5 Apr Box Office 0113 213 7700 Book securely online www.wyp.org.uk Tickets £8.00, concessions £2.00 off Fresh 2014 (a part of U.Dance) is a breath-taking celebration of the achievements of our region’s young dancers, returning to West Yorkshire Playhouse for the fourth year running. Experience an amazing range of dance styles as the very finest youth dance companies from across Yorkshire compete for an extraordinary prize. Of the 25 groups performing in Fresh, nine have been selected to be entered into U.Dance: RJC Youth Dance; NYD North Yorkshire Dance; Street Beat – Doncaster; Hull Youth Dance Company; North Lindsey Dancers; Phoenix Junior Youth Academy;Yorkshire Dance Youth; DAZL Junior Youth Dance Company; and Momentum Dance Company. A panel of judges will select two groups to represent Yorkshire at U.Dance 2014, Youth Dance England’s flagship event, staged this year at various venues around Nottingham in June. Alongside the performances on stage, youth dancers will perform in the theatre foyer and at Yorkshire Dance, next door on Quarry Hill.
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Manasamitra
Rudra ___________________________________ Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre Sun 13 Apr
CONTEMPORARY / KATHAK Manasamitra Rudra Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Northern Ballet Sun 13 Apr, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 220 8008 Book securely online theatreleeds.com Tickets ÂŁ15.00, concessions ÂŁ12.00 Manasamitra resurrects ancient Indian mythology with an exciting fusion of contemporary music and dance. Choreographer Sonia Sabri, working in contemporary Kathak, brings together four regional dancers with contemporary and Indian dance backgrounds to create Rudra. Combined with an original composition by Shri Sriram (of Badmarsh and Shri fame) Rudra will offer audiences a new experience of Indian arts.
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ACE dance and music
Mana ___________________________________ The Riley Theatre Fri 25 Apr
photo Š Brian Slater
CONTEMPORARY ACE dance and music Mana The Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance Fri 25 Apr, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 219 3018 Book securely online www.nscd.ac.uk/performances Tickets £12.00, concessions £6.00 Delving deep into the unknown, Mana will take you on a journey. Feel the hairs on your neck stand up and a shiver down your spine as you encounter the force which resides within all animate and inanimate objects, the stuff of which magic is made. Watch exceptional dancers express soul, energy and precision to a stunning backdrop of commissioned music and cutting-edge lighting design, with movement styles drawing from Afro-fusion, Martial Arts techniques, the essence of Flamenco and Ballet. For A Thousand Shepherds, Spanish choreographer José Agudo was inspired by two months in an Indian monastery. This piece is a celebration of discipline and dedication. With Mana, South African choreographer Vincent Mantsoe will take you back to ancient times, evoking the spirit and earthy ambience of African dance and Shaman traditions. The word ‘mana’ is used in over twenty-four languages, it unifies beliefs, cultures and ages. Feel alive with ACE dance and music.
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Yorkshire Dance presents
Friday Firsts #23: Burst! ___________________________________ Yorkshire Dance Fri 2 May
photo Š Jason Ingelson
CONTEMPORARY Yorkshire Dance presents Friday Firsts #23: Burst! Yorkshire Dance Fri 2 May, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 243 8765 Book securely online www.yorkshiredance.com Tickets £8.00, concessions £6.00 The next generation gets a chance to show us what the future is made of with an evening of mixed performance from some of Yorkshire’s most promising young dancers. Groups from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, York St John University and Leeds Metropolitan University, amongst others, showcase their diverse talents and demonstrate their wit, charm and intelligence.
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James Wilton Dance
Last Man Standing ___________________________________ Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre Wed 14 May
CONTEMPORARY James Wilton Dance Last Man Standing Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Northern Ballet Wed 14 May, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 220 8008 Book securely online theatreleeds.com Tickets £10.00, concessions £8.00 Fusing martial arts, breakdancing and capoeira, Last Man Standing is dance driven by unparalleled energy and athleticism. Winner of the Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest, choreographer James Wilton returns with this exhilarating piece that will leave you breathless. “James Wilton, the new mover and shaker of the contemporary dance world” londonlist.com
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Yorkshire Dance presents
Friday Firsts #24: Bend It ___________________________________ Yorkshire Dance Fri 6 Jun
CONTEMPORARY Yorkshire Dance presents Friday Firsts #24: Bend It curated by Gary Clarke Yorkshire Dance Fri 6 Jun, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 243 8765 Book securely online www.yorkshiredance.com Tickets £8.00, concessions £6.00 For one night only, Yorkshire Dance Associate Artist Gary Clarke curates an evening that brings together an eclectic mix of established artists from the world of dance, film, theatre, drag and cabaret to showcase work that challenges themes of gender, sexuality, queer aesthetics and stereotypes. The evening will include the international premiere of award-winning choreographer Lea Anderson and film maker Marisa Zanotti’s new documentary film Edits, as well as a unique post-film discussion with Anderson and Zanotti. Performances from both regional and national artists will animate the spaces at Yorkshire Dance, taking the audience on a queer journey of celebration, education and participation. “Clarke has a wonderful sense of theatricality” East Anglian Daily Times
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Northern Ballet
Mixed Programme ___________________________________ Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre Wed 18 - Sat 21 Jun
photo Š E Kauldhar
CONTEMPORARY Northern Ballet Mixed Programme Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Northern Ballet Wed 18 - Sat 21 Jun, 7.00pm Box Office 0113 220 8008 Book securely online theatreleeds.com Tickets £17.50, concessions £15.00 Northern Ballet return with a new Mixed Programme featuring works by Dutch dance master Hans van Manen, one of the US’s foremost dance makers Lar Lubovitch, and Northern Ballet Premier Dancer and British choreographer Kenneth Tindall. Kenneth Tindall’s choreographic debut Project#1 and follow up Luminous Juncture have attracted critical acclaim and made him one to watch in the dance world. The premiere of his hotly anticipated third work is not to be missed. Northern Ballet dancers stunned audiences when they performed Hans van Manen’s Concertante last year. This sensational piece, inspired by and set to Frank Martin’s Petite Symphonie Concertante, returns by popular demand. Described by the New York Times as “one of the ten best choreographers in the world”, the final piece is by Tony Awardnominated Lar Lubovitch who has created more than 100 dance works. Do not miss this unique opportunity to see Northern Ballet’s talented dancers up close. “Northern Ballet performed it superbly” Dancing Times on Concertante
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Yorkshire Dance presents
Friday Firsts #25: Unusual Connections ___________________________________ Yorkshire Dance Fri 4 Jul
CONTEMPORARY Yorkshire Dance presents Friday Firsts #25: Unusual Connections Yorkshire Dance Fri 4 Jul, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 243 8765 Book securely online www.yorkshiredance.com Tickets £5 An evening of work showcasing what happens when dance meets new contexts: when artists work in communities; when Namibians visit Yorkshire and when teenagers dance with their neighbours. A chance to celebrate and reflect on some of the most magical personal journeys, embarked upon as a result of the impact of coming into contact with dance on your doorstep and without ever having to visit a ‘theatre’. The evening will feature work by Ombetha Yehinga Organisation (OYO) from Namibia, presenting new work created in partnership with a group of young people and artists from Leeds. The Yorkshire Dance Youth have, inspired by Louise Wallinger’s Annoying the Neighbours, created a short film about dancing with their neighbours, first seen at Juncture 2014. Community arts organisation Space2 presents two short films in response to the experiences of connecting with particular community groups in Leeds, by artists Kevin Hickson (visual and digital artist) and Tony Stephenson (visual artist), working alongside Fallen Angels Dance Theatre. Supported by Leeds Inspired.
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Dance Yorkshire in
Other Yorkshire venues which programme dance Barnsley Lamproom Theatre www.barnsleylamproom.com
Whitby Northallerton Scarborough
Hull New Theatre www.hullcc.gov.uk/hullnewtheatre
Ripon Bridlington
Malton
Hull Truck Theatre www.hulltruck.co.uk
Harrogate Skipton York
Pocklington Arts Centre www.pocklingtonartscentre.co.uk
Beverley Bradford
Leeds
Richmond, Georgian Theatre Royal www.georgiantheatreroyal.co.uk
Wakefield Barnsley
Doncaster
Scarborough, Stephen Joseph Theatre www.sjt.uk.com
Rotherham
York Barbican www.yorkbarbican.co.uk
Sheffield
York Grand Opera House www.atgtickets.com
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1:35 1:50 1:50 0:30 1:50 1:50 1:30 1:55 1:05 1:20 1:40 2:00
0:50 0:25 0:55 1:45 0:30 0:50 1:10 0:40 1:10 1:40 1:45 0:15 2:00
0:20 0:20 0:30 1:35 0:35 0:30 0:45 0:20 1:05 1:10 1:15 0:35 1:40 0:35
1:50 2:05 2:05 0:55 2:10 2:05 1:45 2:10 1:35 1:10 1:30 2:20 0:30 2:25 1:55
2:00 1:40 0:35 0:30 2:25 1:55 1:00 1:10 0:45 1:20
York
Whitby
0:45 0:25 0:55 1:40 0:30 0:55 1:10 0:40 1:10 1:35 1:40
Wakefield
1:15 1:25 1:20 2:05 1:30 1:25 0:55 1:30 1:55 0:35
Sheffield
1:05 1:20 1:15 1:45 1:25 1:20 0:50 1:25 1:50
Scarboro’
Halifax
0:30 0:25 0:25 1:50 0:55 0:15 0:50
York Theatre Royal www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
Hull
Doncaster
1:05 0:45 0:25 0:30 1:45 0:30 0:35 0:55 1:40 0:50 0:15 0:30 1:30 1:50 1:35 1:30 0:55 1:00 1:50 0:55 0:45 1:35 1:00 0:45 1:50 0:55 0:15 0:50 0:45 1:00 1:15 1:25 1:45 1:25 1:20 0:50 2:05 1:30 1:25 0:55 1:40 0:30 0:55 1:10 0:30 1:50 1:50 1:30 1:45 0:30 0:50 1:10 1:35 0:35 0:30 0:45 0:55 2:10 2:05 1:45 1:00 1:00 0:55 0:35
Brid’ton
Bradford
0:30 0:20 0:40 0:40 1:45 1:40 0:30 0:50 0:35 0:15 0:55 0:30 0:25 0:25 1:15 1:15 1:20 1:15 1:25 1:20 0:25 0:55 1:50 1:50 0:25 0:55 0:20 0:30 2:05 2:05 0:55 0:55
Hudd’field
0:30 0:20 1:05 0:45 0:25 0:30 0:30 1:10 1:05 1:15 0:45 1:35 0:50 0:20 1:50 0:40
Harrogate
Leeds Barnsley Bradford Bridlington Doncaster Halifax Harrogate Huddersfield Hull Northallerton Richmond Rotherham Scarborough Sheffield Wakefield Whitby York
Barnsley
Leeds
Yorkshire may be the biggest county in the UK, but look how quickly you can travel from one venue to another! These are approximate drive-times, courtesy of www.theaa.com
Rotherham
Huddersfield
Richmond
Halifax
Hull
N’allerton
Richmond
0:40 0:55 0:55 1:00 1:00 0:55 0:35 1:00 0:55 0:55 1:05 1:10 1:00 1:10 0:45 1:20
Dance Leeds in
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Yorkshire Dance St Peter’s Square, Leeds LS9 8AH www.yorkshiredance.com
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West Yorkshire Playhouse Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UP www.wyp.org.uk
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Carriageworks Theatre Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk
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The Riley Theatre Northern School of Contemporary Dance 98 Chapeltown Road, Leeds LS7 4BH www.nscd.ac.uk
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Northern Ballet / Phoenix Dance Theatre and Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre Quarry Hill, Leeds, LS2 7PA theatreleeds.com northernballet.com www.phoenixdancetheatre.co.uk
stage@leeds University of Leeds Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT www.stage.leeds.ac.uk
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Leeds Grand Theatre & Opera House and Howard Assembly Room 46 New Briggate, Leeds LS1 6NZ www.leedsgrandtheatre.com
Leeds Town Hall The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AD www.leedstownhall.co.uk
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Seven Artspace 31a Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, Leeds LS7 3PD www.sevenleeds.co.uk
Map: Andy Edwards Design, 0113 242 8350 cover photo Mad Dogs Dance Theatre’s Missing © Joe Armitage at BoneShaker photography
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