A festival you do 25–30 October 2016
Gillie Kleiman Š Camilla Greenwell
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Juncture 2016 curated by Gillie Kleiman A festival of contemporary dance at Yorkshire Dance and other venues around Leeds 25 – 30 October 2016
We know that everybody dances The community dance movement, folk dance, YouTube dance classes and Strictly all tell us the same thing: everybody dances. This third edition of Juncture, curated by Gillie Kleiman, collects artworks where the role of professional dancer is given to someone else; bringing artists, participants and their shared work into conversation about what happens when the dancing is handed over. www.yorkshiredance.com www.juncturedance.com Juncture was first curated for Yorkshire Dance in 2012 by Charlotte Vincent in an initiative designed to bring new work, professional development, critical debate and innovative performance practice to Yorkshire. Juncture 2014 was curated by Wendy Houstoun.
Yorkshire Dance is delighted to work with Gillie, whose interest spans an unusual spectrum of charged performance and dance. Gillie has immense courage, curiosity and tenacity in pursuing depths of understanding whilst generating an infectious sense of adventure and fun. 3
The Yorkshire Dance team joke that I use the word ‘rad’ all the time. Where ‘radical’ takes itself seriously, and almost always misses the mark when used in publicity material, ‘rad’ is tongue-in-cheek, reflexive, hopeful, whilst gesturing towards the future-possible. Juncture is rad. – Gillie Kleiman
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Tickets & Passes Box Office 0113 243 8765 or book securely online: www.juncturedance.com
Workshops Pass: £50.00 (Conc. £40.00) entry to these events W Ftoreeworkshop pass holders Festival Pass: £50.00 (Conc. £40.00) entry to these events F Ftoreefestival pass holders Passes are available online, by phone or in person at Yorkshire Dance until Friday 30 September 2016 5
Workshops
We Know That Everybody Dances Yorkshire Dance Tickets: ÂŁ10.00 per workshop Concessions: ÂŁ8.00 per workshop
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This six-part workshop departs from the premise that non-professional dancers, and professional dance workers of all kinds, can form different modes of collaboration in the making of choreographic works. Drawing from works in Juncture 2016 and their practices at large, six innovative artists and artist-groups introduce their approaches in making work with non-professional participants, offering over three days a uniquely varied set of tools and objects for discussion which together expose a breadth of practice. Participants will be encouraged to dive into the methods of each artist as well as drawing connections and divisions across the sessions. Professional dance artists of all kinds are welcome in this workshop, as well as non-professional dancers. Sessions are bookable individually, but it is recommended to see this as an interconnected series, for which a Workshops Pass is available.
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immigrants and animals Tuesday 25 October 10.00am - 1.00pm
Gillie Kleiman Tuesday 25 October 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Nicola Conibere Wednesday 26 October 10.00am - 1.00pm
Jo Fong & Richard Gregory (Quarantine) Wednesday 26 October 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Fitzgerald & Stapleton Thursday 27 October 10.00am - 1.00pm
Sara Lindstrรถm Thursday 27 October 2.00pm - 5.00pm
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Laura Laura Double Penetration Š immigrants and animals
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Celebration / Performance
Festival Opening Thursday 27 October 6.00pm - 6.45pm Yorkshire Dance Free: Everyone welcome
immigrants and animals Laura Laura Double Penetration Thursday 27 October 7.00pm - 8.30pm Saturday 29 October 7.30pm - 9.00pm Live Art Bistro Tickets: £10.00 Concessions: £8.00 Age guidance: 16+
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LOCKUPYOURDAUGHTERS. Laura Laura is some women performing femininity. What the hell is femininity? Do we even have any? If not, how do we get some? Set to a soundtrack of songs you know, about love and other less important stuff. Almost shameless and sort of stylish, like a gangster movie with no men, no guns, no sex scenes, set in your bedroom. Laura Laura is apparently like watching a film when you haven’t seen the beginning and you don’t see the end. Something of a dance show, something of a karaoke session, something of a gig. A performance of technique, abandon, joy, frustration and not giving a fuck. For Laura Laura Double Penetration – a double performance – immigrants and animals are joined by two other women to consecutively dance this dance born out of the frustration and alienation of not relating to assigned and supposed gender roles. Supported by JoJo – Oulu Dance Centre (Finland), Les Trois C-L (Luxembourg) and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
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Swarm Sculptures © Amy Sinead Photography
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Performance
Lucy Suggate Swarm Sculptures Friday 28 October 1.00pm - 3.00pm Sunday 30 October 1.00pm - 3.00pm The Tetley Free: Everyone welcome
Swarm Sculptures is a durational movement installation created by dance artist Lucy Suggate. Influenced by swarm intelligence as a choreographic process and the body as sculpture, the work takes the infectious nature of movement to transform the single human form into a communal and collective body. Produced by Dance4. Commissioned by Dance4, Yorkshire Dance and NN Contemporary Art, Northampton. Supported by Nottingham Contemporary, Dance Base and Dancing Museums. Using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
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Talks
Labour, Politics, Place & Family Yorkshire Dance / The Tetley Pay what you like
Labour — Who is or isn’t working in these works? Does it have to be hard work? What does fun have to do with it? Politics — To what extent are these works political acts, explicitly or implicitly? How does that relate to other kinds of political action? What kinds of politics are we talking about? Place — What does it mean to make an artwork in a specific place? Does it matter if it has been made elsewhere, too? What is the relationship between community and location in a global, digital world? Family — What does it mean to make an artwork with your nearest and dearest? How does this make us reshape our ideas about skill or expertise? What about when we go home? Juncture’s careful focus naturally invites conversation of and between works. This is fortified by a series of hosted discussions in an experimental format that combines a panel talk, Lois Weaver’s Long Table, and Chisenhale Dance Space’s Coffee Mornings, originally designed by this year’s Juncture curator, Gillie Kleiman. Each talk departs from a singular concept arising through the curatorial process.
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Labour Friday 28 October 3.00pm - 5.00pm Yorkshire Dance with Nicola Conibere immigrants and animals Toby Lloyd & Andrew Wilson
Politics Saturday 29 October 11.00am - 1.00pm Yorkshire Dance with Fitzgerald & Stapleton Dr Sara Houston Dr Rita Marcalo
Place Saturday 29 October 4.30pm - 6.30pm Yorkshire Dance with Sara Lindstrรถm Amy Letman Annie Lloyd & Peter Reed
Family Sunday 30 October 11.00am - 1.00pm The Tetley with Grace & Hope Surman Beth & Tom Cassani Will Edmondes
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Performance
Fitzgerald & Stapleton MINE Friday 28 October 5.30pm - 6.30pm Live Art Bistro Tickets: £10.00 Concessions: £8.00
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MINE is a choreography for the internet by Fitzgerald & Stapleton, choreographed with Jennifer Doyle, Grannymar, Poppy Kane and Kay O’Grady. MINE was created through an online choreographic process involving Fitzgerald & Stapleton and four Irish females; Jenny Doyle, Poppy Kane, Grannymar and Kay O’Grady. The participants lived in different locations around Ireland and were aged between 8 and 63 years. A choreographic score, or compilation of language and visual materials to direct the dancer’s attention during performance, was created from the written and visual responses of each of the participants to a series of questions and tasks posed by Fitzgerald & Stapleton. Performed by Emma Fitzgerald and Áine Stapleton. MINE was originally created as a commission from choreograph.net
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Jo Fong in Wallflower © Simon Banham
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Performance
Quarantine Wallflower Friday 28 October 8.00pm - 9.30pm Yorkshire Dance Tickets: £15.00 Concessions: £12.00 Free admission to Festival Pass holders for this performance or the performance on Sat 29 Oct
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Memories of dancing alone all night at a party; of whirling across the stage at the Paris Opera Ballet; of silently, slowly revolving with a new lover on a canal boat at night; of a repeated tic – a bodily habit that feels like dancing; of walking alongside their mother; of racing with a dog across a beach; of dizzily spinning children; of weeping and dancing; of hitting the mark for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker… Can you remember every dance you’ve ever danced? Wallflower is a dance marathon, a game that alters according to the players. Each night the performers choose what they want to reveal, what story of themselves they want to tell as they try to remember every dance they’ve ever danced. In the seats around the dance floor, the spectators bring their own histories and expectations. And somewhere between the spotlight and the sidelines, Wallflower happens. On stage is a DJ, a disco-ball and a single chair. A fourth performer sits in the audience, recording every dance to add to an ever-expanding archive, a vast record of hundreds of memories which begins with first rehearsals and always ends with the last dance. 17
Assembly © Christian Kipp
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Performance
Nicola Conibere Assembly Saturday 29 October 1.00pm - 4.00pm Room 700 Leeds Central Library Pay what you like
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Assembly is a performance of several hours that explores shifts in relation between individual and collective bodies. Its changing configurations respond to those who come to see it; each time a spectator enters the room a performer will join the performance, leaving only when the same spectator departs, creating groupings of constant variation. Its performers enact a range of simple actions and formations that imply the organic and the organised. Assembly proposes a quiet, playful and sometimes meditative place in which to attend the ways we exist in relation. Spectators will be free to come and go throughout the duration of Assembly. Limited capacity.
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Nic Green in Wallflower © Simon Banham
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Performance
Quarantine Wallflower Saturday 29 October 3.00pm - 8.00pm Yorkshire Dance Tickets: £15.00 Concessions: £12.00 Free admission to Festival Pass holders for this performance or the performance on Fri 28 Oct
F For full details see p17. This durational version of Wallflower transforms the performance into an epic, exhausting 5-hour piece, where the dancers grapple with effort of memory as bodies and minds tire, hurt, slow, repeat… and the audience are free to come and go throughout or to stay the full 5 hours. 21
© Live Art Bistro
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Party
Karaoke Party with Live Art Bistro Saturday 29 October 9.00pm - late Live Art Bistro Tickets: £5.00
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Responding to the theme of the professional’s role being given over to ‘everyone else’, Live Art Bistro’s Adam Young invites one and all to take a turn in the timehonoured tradition of Karaoke. From Stars In Your Eyes to The Voice, the act covering popular music songs has long been one of the most cherished forms of entertainment in Britain. Amateurs take the role of the professional, with the lyrics projected publicly so everyone can also sing along. Show off your vocal talents and style and demonstrate your performance flare – strike a pose, rile the crowd or show off a dance routine. With the help of a local professional Karaoke MC, Adam promises a night of unforgettable fun for all – Karaoke with added performative elements. Dance Karaoke, even… 23
Dancing On My Own © Sara Lindström
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Celebration / Film Screening
Sara Lindström Dancing On My Own This 20 minute screening takes place during the closing celebration Sunday 30 October 3.00pm - 4.00pm The Tetley Free: Everyone welcome
Dancing On My Own is a short film that celebrates the simplicity and complexity of dancing. Why is dancing to a song that we love so joyful? What activates our sensory creativity and what are our individual motives for dancing? Sara Lindström has invited people of different ages and experiences to dance to their favourite music track in front of the camera. She has interviewed each dancer about why they’ve chosen their music and how it moves them, emotionally and physically. When they dance, do they dance the song or their selves? Can dancing be an act of selfconsciousness and bodily becoming and is there such a thing as our own dance? Or is dancing a collective becoming and result of culture and other influences? Is it a combination of both? Dancing On My Own evokes a variety of sensations for both viewers and dancers, from humour and joy to nostalgia, sadness and absurdity. Commissioned by Juncture.
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Juncture 2016 Venues
Yorkshire Dance champions the value of dance and its development in Yorkshire. We do so by raising standards, increasing knowledge and understanding and fostering creativity and innovation.
Yorkshire Dance
3 St Peter’s Buildings St Peter’s Square, Leeds LS9 8AH
Live Art Bistro
1-2 Regent Street, Leeds LS2 7QA
The Tetley
Hunslet Road, Leeds LS10 1JQ
Room 700
Leeds Central Library Calverley Street, Leeds LS1 3AB
Yorkshire Dance Registered 2319572 England Registered Charity No. 701624 VAT No. 418 0193 70
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Festival Associate
Juncture Patrons Helen Bowdur Margaret Coleman Ruth Moran Andrew Walker Lucinda Yeadon
Partners & Funders
With thanks to the many people who have supported this festival through their contributions to the Spirit of Juncture fundraising campaign.
Gillie Kleiman’s curatorship of Juncture 2016 is part of Artists Curating Dance, a Yorkshire Dance project supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
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Juncture, October 2016 Date
Time
Artists
Event Name
Event Type
Venue
Tue 25
10.00am - 1.00pm
immigrants and animals
We Know That Everybody Dances
Workshop
YD
Tue 25
2.00pm - 5.00pm
Gillie Kleiman
We Know That Everybody Dances
Workshop
YD
Wed 26
10.00am - 1.00pm
Nicola Conibere
We Know That Everybody Dances
Workshop
YD
Wed 26
2.00pm - 5.00pm
Jo Fong & Richard Gregory (Quarantine)
We Know That Everybody Dances
Workshop
YD
Thu 27
10.00am - 1.00pm
Fitzgerald & Stapleton
We Know That Everybody Dances
Workshop
YD
Thu 27
2.00pm - 5.00pm
Sara Lindström
We Know That Everybody Dances
Workshop
YD
Thu 27
6.00pm - 6.45pm
Gillie Kleiman
Festival Opening
Celebration
YD
Thu 27
7.00pm - 8.30pm
immigrants and animals
Laura Laura Double Penetration
Performance
LAB
Fri 28
1.00pm - 3.00pm
Lucy Suggate
Swarm Sculptures
Performance
TT
Fri 28
3.00pm - 5.00pm
Various
Labour
Talk
YD
Fri 28
5.30pm - 6.30pm
Fitzgerald & Stapleton
MINE
Performance
LAB
Fri 28
8.00pm - 9.30pm
Quarantine
Wallflower
Performance
YD
Sat 29
11.00pm - 1.00pm
Various
Politics
Talk
YD
Sat 29
1.00pm - 4.00pm
Nicola Conibere
Assembly
Performance
R700
Sat 29
3.00pm - 8.00pm
Quarantine
Wallflower
Performance
YD
Sat 29
4.30pm - 6.30pm
Various
Place
Talk
YD
Sat 29
7.30pm - 9.00pm
immigrants and animals
Laura Laura Double Penetration
Performance
LAB
Sat 29
9.00pm - late
Live Art Bistro and YOU
Karaoke Party
Party
LAB
Sun 30
11.00am - 1.00pm
Various
Family
Talk
TT
Sun 30
1.00pm - 3.00pm
Lucy Suggate
Swarm Sculptures
Performance
TT
Sun 30
3.00pm - 4.00pm
Gillie Kleiman
Festival Close
Celebration
TT
Sun 30
3.00pm - 4.00pm
Sara Lindström
Dancing On My Own
Film Screening
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