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Friday Firsts showcases new work by independent choreographers and dance companies working on the small scale. Each evening has its own distinct theme, and will often be the first chance to see performances by the most promising dance makers from Yorkshire and beyond who seek to experiment, push dance as a form or find a new voice. “Providing support and platforms for my work,Yorkshire Dance has enabled me to gain beneficial experience and contacts, preparing me for the advance into industry.” Sophie Unwin,Yorkshire Dance New Associate “As a result of attending Friday Firsts we booked Taciturn dance company from Liverpool. It was great to bring them to the festival – they were fantastic and had appreciative audiences for both performances. I’m really glad it was possible – and it couldn’t have happened if Yorkshire Dance hadn’t introduced me to the company.” Kate Beard, Grassington Festival
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Friday Firsts #13
Going Solo
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Friday 1 February, 7.30pm Admission £8.00, concessions £6.00 The acid test of a solo is having something to say and a unique way of saying it. Lucy Suggate’s Bonedust is a Danse Macabre for the 21st century. Inspired by medieval images of the dancing skeleton who personified death and united us all in a dance, and a healthy curiosity about the unknown, it asks, “If I no longer have my body, what will I dance?” “Suggate’s work is masterful... She achieves an exquisite balance between what is amusing and what is frightening, and it creates an extraordinary performance.” Edinburgh Guide Ultimate Dancer presents Intercourse, a work created in collaboration with a number of dance critics, which imagines the relationship and interaction between critic, performer and audience as an act of sexual intercourse. Riccardo Meneghini’s Je me souviens is a slowly unfolding last goodbye to someone who already left – an untangling and unfastening of thoughts and memories. “I am not eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most people.” Eleanor Perry’s Edith is a portrait of Edith Sitwell, the “high priestess of 20th century poetry.” Ultimate Dancer photo © Julia Bauer
Friday Firsts #14
Double Act
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Friday 1 March, 7.30pm Admission £8.00, concessions £6.00 Curated by Beth Cassani, this evening of work focuses on the idea of choreography that is born out of a particular performance relationship – the Double Act. Is a danced duet a type of double act? Is a double act always humorous? Is choreography an implicit part of a double act relationship? Some of these partnerships are long-term collaborations. Some have come together to explore this idea for the first time. Terrorists of the Heart is a duet by Jules Dorey Richmond and David Richmond – a meditation on parenthood, ageing, grief and loss, as well as a political manifesto with some Morris dancing. It has been said that collaboration is ‘an affair of the mind’. For Jules and David it has been rather more – not only are they long-term artistic partners, but they’re married, and parents. Oliver Bray and Rachel Krische present Ryan – a dance / performance / singing work featuring a collision of practices, a few ‘experts’, a beautiful dream and a charity single – God Bless ‘the Movie’. Further performances to be confirmed. photo © Jonathan Turner
Friday Firsts #15
STAY Connected
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Friday 5 April, 7.30pm Tickets £8.00, concessions £6.00
The first of many, this is a new Yorkshire-wide performing artist showcase of spoken word, dance, music and theatre for independent Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic artists who want to entertain and provoke, experiment, question and engage.
performance work, enable artists to become economic and does so in the context of the national Sustained Theatre Network.
This evening brings together a range of diverse artists and their audience to have a dialogue about new work; What moves us? Who is it for? Where should it go next?
STAY Creative Partnership is working with West Yorkshire Playhouse, Phoenix Dance Theatre and Yorkshire Dance to establish a programme of creative artist development which will lead to the opening of new dedicated making-space and offices at Yorkshire Dance, autumn 2013.
Sustained Theatre Artists Yorkshire (STAY) exists to enable the development of quality
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Professional Development at Yorkshire Dance James Wilton workshop for professional dancers & undergraduates Sun 20 Jan, 2.00pm - 5.00pm £10 The class draws influence from flying-low technique, martial arts, capoeira and breakdancing focusing on high energy bodily awareness, and the use of fluidity to generate power, with an emphasis on using the floor safely and effectively. Following class, participants will learn the challenging and dynamic repertoire from Wilton’s work Cave. James Wilton’s choreographic career began whilst a student at London Contemporary Dance School, with his work Drift subsequently commissioned for Scottish Dance Theatre in 2010. His work, The Shortest Day, won Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest. James is also a BBC Performing Arts Fellow in partnership with Swindon Dance. www.jameswiltondance.org.uk
James Wilton photo © Jui Wei Hung / Hagit Yakira photo © Lucy Cash
‘We went to the middle... we got bored’ Improvisation workshop with Hagit Yakira Fri 25 Jan, 1.00pm - 3.00pm Book at http://hagityakira.eventbrite.co.uk £5.00,Yorkshire Dance Collective £3.00 An exciting opportunity to work with performer, choreographer and teacher Hagit Yakira. Revel in the sensuous experience of feeling free whilst moving. Engage in an exploration of memory, storytelling and tasks that informed the making of Hagit’s current work through improvisation, creative tasks and vocal elements. The workshop encourages the playfulness and enjoyment of dancing with abandon. Suitable for anyone aged 18 or over who likes to move, know their bodies and embrace the unknown. There will be a sharing of Hagit’s work-in-progress at 3.30pm. “Hagit is truly an amazing teacher.The energy throughout the class is hugely positive and kinetic.” Nick Street, Danceworks member Hagit graduated from the Music & Dance Academy in Jerusalem and went on to an MA in European Theatre Dance at Laban Centre, London. She is a qualified Dance Movement Therapist, and is studying for a PhD in Choreography at Laban with a focus on autobiography. Her choreographic practice has already garnered awards: Oh Baby in the Kajaani Choreography Competition, Finland 2009 (1st Prize) and Somewhere between a self and an other in the Burgos New York Choreography Competition (New Dance Trend Category), Spain 2007 (2nd Prize). www.hagityakira.com
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