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Friday 3 March, 7.30pm
Nora Invites Nora
Yorkshire Dance Tickets: £10 / £8 conc. Age guidance: 14+
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Tanguy’s choreography, Digging, slips between subjects - road trips, plant biology and sexual desire - as dialogue and motion twist the stage into all corners of the imagination.
Burrows’ and Fargion’s piece, Eleanor And Flora Music, overflows with free-ranging, rhythmical dancing, their musical score translated into a playful landscape of touch and synchronicity.
Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells and DanceEast. Co-commissioned by South East Dance.
Aggiss’ finale, BLOODY NORA!, is a fiery send up of all who dare patronise the menstruating woman. It is a riot of hormones, competitiveness and female solidarity.
Supported by Arts Council England. Creative Credits Curators & Performers: Eleanor Sikorski and Flora Wellesley Wesley Rehearsal Director: Stephanie McMann Lighting Designer: Seth Rook Williams Costumes: Holly Murray
Box Office: 0113 243 8765
Nora brings to the stage a bold, hysterical and sublime programme of duets by renowned choreographers Liz Aggiss (UK), Simon Tanguy (FR), and Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion (UK). Dancers Eleanor Sikorski and Flora Wellesley Wesley, AKA Nora, offer up an evening of energy and wit as they shift between the contrasting characters and worlds of the three pieces.
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A sensational showcase of dance by young people aged 11-19 from across Yorkshire Experience an amazing range of dance styles from the very finest youth dance companies from across Yorkshire. A panel of judges will select two groups from FRESH 2017 to represent Yorkshire at U.Dance 2017 at Birmingham Hippodrome in July.
FRESH is our annual showcase of the very best youth dance from across Yorkshire, and part of U. Dance, a national celebration of performance by young people.
Photograph: Brian Slater
FRESH West Yorkshire Playhouse, 7.30pm Tickets: £8 / £6 conc. Discount available for groups of 5+ Box Office 0113 213 7700
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As well as the performances taking place on the stage of the West Yorkshire Playhouse, there will be a ‘fringe’ programme of performances at Yorkshire Dance.
FRESH FRINGE Yorkshire Dance, 5.30pm – 6.45pm Tickets: £4 / £2 conc. Box Office 0113 243 8765
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Friday 21 April, 6.00pm
Mother Load Grace Surman Transform 17
Yorkshire Dance Tickets: £12.50 / £10 conc. Age guidance: 14+ 95 mins (inc. interval) Tickets available from Transform 17 Box Office West Yorkshire Playhouse 0113 213 7700 / wyp.org.uk
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A transaction fee of £1.95 will be applied to all phone and internet bookings.
performance (art), live art, theatre and choreography; in Mother Load she invites you to question her as an artist, a woman and a mother.
In part one, Performance With Hope, Grace and her 9-year old daughter share the stage, making decisions together; Grace is trying her best to raise a woman in front of you. Part two, Things Stack Up, is a solo performance, using the subject of education to explore notions of play, agency, risk and physicality.
“This tender piece will have parents laughing and crying with recognition” The Skinny
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Commissioned by Yorkshire Dance Amplified and supported by Transform. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Mother Load is presented as part of Transform 17, a festival of bold, local & international theatre.
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Mother Load is an uplifting and powerful choreographic work in two parts, reflecting upon relationships between parent and child.
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Tuesday 25 April, 5.00pm
Digital Artist Salon
part of Leeds Digital Festival Yorkshire Dance Tickets: FREE
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Join us to share insights and experiences, map future trends and consider how emerging technologies and cross-disciplinary, creative practice might influence different sectors.
The digital artist salon aims to explore and expand what is possible. It will inspire, challenge and influence our perception and creation of movement and dance work where it meets new technologies.
The Leeds Digital Festival is a multi-venue, city-wide festival celebrating digital culture in all its forms, taking place from Saturday 22 to Saturday 29 April 2017. www.leedsdigitalfestival.org
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Yorkshire Dance is inviting artists, technologists, creative companies, designers and academics to come together to talk about and explore digital innovation, creative technology and radical ideas.
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Friday Firsts
Burst
Photograph: Sara Teresa
Friday 5 May, 7.30pm
Yorkshire Dance Tickets: ÂŁ8 / ÂŁ6 conc. Age guidance: 14+
Celebrating our thriving student dance population, this unique evening showcases some of the most promising new graduates ready to unleash their creative energy on the professional stage.
Experience the diverse talent being nurtured in higher education, with its wit, passion and intelligence. Full programme to be released in the spring.
Box Office: 0113 243 8765
Burst will showcase work by students and post graduates from, amongst others, Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Leeds Beckett University.
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Friday 12 May, 2.00pm
Essentials of Dance Marketing
A workshop with Antony Dunn & April Skipp Yorkshire Dance Tickets: £10 kshire
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You’ve made a beautiful, breath-taking new dance work. Maybe you’re launching a brand new dance company. You’re excited about getting in front of some audiences. But how are you going to persuade them to come?
Pick up tips on identifying audiences, writing good blurbs, using digital and social media, handling the media, understanding your own ‘brand’ and much more. This informal and occasionally hilarious workshop will feature a mix of practical exercises and
conversation, with examples of some truly great – and truly terrible – dance marketing… Antony Dunn has worked in dance, theatre and literature marketing since 1997. He led the communications department of York Theatre Royal to win the TMA Award for Achievement in Marketing 2008, and was appointed Marketing & Communications Manager of Yorkshire Dance later that year. April Skipp, winner of the Creative & Cultural Skills Intern of the Year Award in 2016, was appointed Marketing Officer at Yorkshire Dance later that year. Since graduating from Leeds Metropolitan University, April has gained experience in all aspects of Arts Marketing.
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This workshop will equip you with marketing skills to help raise the profile of your work, your company and yourself.
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Friday 26 May, 7.30pm
This really is too much Gracefool Collective
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Look. (point) You’ve never had it so good. We. Are moving. Forward.
Supported by Arts Council England, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Yorkshire Dance, Spin Arts, The Civic and Activate.
Box Office: 0113 243 8765
Outlandish, bold and highly entertaining, This really is too much delves into a world of farcical stereotypes and preposterous power struggles. With irreverent physicality, four characters wrestle with restriction, gender and performance of identity, trying desperately to work out which box they fit into.
Raucous and thought provoking in equal measure, Gracefool’s genre-busting performance reveals the downright absurd realities of what it means to be a 3-dimensional, high definition, water-drinking, salad-eating, moisturizing WO-man in modern society. Dripping with virtuosic charm and anarchic wit, this is feminist comedy dance at its very best.
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Friday 9 June, 7.30pm
Recreation Gillie Kleiman
Yorkshire Dance Tickets: £8 / £6 conc. Age guidance: 14+
Performed by professional, not-quite-professional and non-professional dancers –
including guest performers local to Yorkshire Dance Recreation is a lamentation for leisure, a choreographed question of labour, a danced demand for seeing our value beyond our work. Commissioned by ARC Stockton, Shoreditch Town Hall and Yorkshire Dance. Supported by Arts Council England, Rajni Shah Projects, and via South East Dance and Jerwood Charitable Foundation Dramaturg in Residence programme.
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Highly visual, unabashedly experimental and underscored by generous humour, Recreation is a choreography about work. Rather, it’s about the things that we do that aren’t work, or that aren’t quite work. It’s a show about caring, about cooking, about sex, about gardening and meditating and singing in the kitchen and playing 5-a-side, and, of course, about dancing.
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The Artists Curating Dance
project aims to develop curatorial practice with a selected group of six artists who are working at the cutting edge of contemporary practice and who are supported to develop curatorial ideas. Supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation, the artists present dance-performance events which will diversify and enrich the artistic offer to audiences in Yorkshire and beyond and further develop critical dialogue about dance. Jerwood Charitable Foundation is dedicated to imaginative and responsible revenue funding of the arts, supporting artists to develop and grow at important stages in their careers. It works with artists across art forms, from dance and theatre to literature, music and the visual arts.
For more information on Jerwood Charitable Foundation visit: www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org
Box Office: 0113 243 8765
Gillie Kleiman, one of the six artists, curated Juncture in October 2016 as part of Artists Curating Dance.
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Dancing gender, sexuality and queerness skew-whiff.
Friday 2 June, 7.30pm Amy Bell presents
Yorkshire Dance Tickets: ÂŁ10 / ÂŁ8 conc. Age guidance: 16+
Full programme will be released in the spring.
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Bend It
A night of subversively wonky dance that sets queerness in motion. Featuring vanguard artists from near and far, the programme looks to warp expectations, send stereotypes askance and clear space for vibrant ambiguity.
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Saturday 1 July Live Art Bistro presents
BASIC TENSION
Live Art Bistro 1-2 Regent Street, Leeds SAVE THE DATE
Drawing on her interest in the inbetween spaces, in things that slip through the cracks of time, memory or attention, in syncopation, trance states, dance as radical
social practice, electronic music, the disappearance of counter-cultures and two-step dances, BASIC TENSION will consider the blurred boundaries between the public and the intimate for the performing body and its audience. For two weeks Jamila will be based at LAB creating, researching and reaching out to the local artistic community. BASIC TENSION will culminate in an event involving other invited artists and speakers and a prototype of the installation. Full details will be released in the summer.
Box Office: 0113 243 8765
Live Art Bistro is hyped to be working in support of artist Jamila Johnson-Small in the development and creation of BASIC TENSION. Her project will create an installation space that turns the questions driving her physical research outwards, provoking processes of ‘untaming’ - shedding back layers of learned information and trained obedience - to access other ways of moving or thinking about moving.
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Friday 7 July, 7.30pm Grace Surman presents
Playtime
Yorkshire Dance SAVE THE DATE
How do we learn and how do we move? How do different cultures view (or treat) the agency, status and role of children? How is the intimate (and or private) act of parenting interrupted, undermined or supported by education and society?
I spent many hours alone, alone in an empty studio space. Through this lengthy process I practised a state of mind that allowed exploration and play.
I fostered a concentration and focus that can be observed of playing children. There is something powerful in this state, and discovering the importance of play in child development through personal experience and research, has increased my desire to use it as a tool and concept with real fervour in my work and in this role as curator. I am looking forward to bringing something to Yorkshire Dance that will move you, delight you and, most probably, seriously trouble you...” Grace Surman Full details will be released in the summer.
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“I’m interested in the strategy of play; this began in earnest in the practical research for a solo performance work ...White (2003).
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SLAP was dreamt up to bring exceptional performance to the city of York.
21 - 23 September
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Full details will be released in the summer.
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Various venues and sites in York SAVE THE DATE
As part of the Artists Curating Dance project, SLAP’s Sophie Unwin & Lydia Cottrell will curate a mini Festival with a mix of performances, workshops, talks and parties happening at various venues and sites across York.
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Yorkshire Dance likes to work with dance artists across Yorkshire. You might like working with us, too. Here’s how to get started… · If you have a project planned and you think we’d be the perfect partner to help you realise it, you should talk to Tanya Steinhauser, our Artist Development Producer, or to Kirsty Redhead, our Creative Projects Producer. · If you really want to make things happen where you are – to be a catalyst for change in your bit of Yorkshire – you should talk to Hannah Robertshaw, our Programmes Director. · If you need time in a dance studio, first-class professional development opportunities, or to scratch a performance you should definitely talk to us.
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