YORKSHIRE DANCE
FRIDAY FIRSTS
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Wendy Houstoun’s Stupid Women, professional development opportunities and a Salon
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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.
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www.yorkshiredance.com www.facebook.com/yorkshiredance @YorkshireDance #FFirsts instagram.com/yorkshiredancepictures cover photo: Akeim Toussaint Buck, Jordan River at Friday Firsts #30 Š Sara Teresa photo above: theMiddletonCorpus, The Prototype at Friday Firsts #30 Š Sara Teresa
Friday Firsts #31
Burst
Friday 1 May, 7.00pm & 8.30pm £8.00, concessions £6.00 This mixed evening represents the next generation of dance makers – capturing moments of wit, charm, intelligence and risk. The works on offer are freshly brewed in some of Yorkshire’s universities and colleges. Part One, 7.00pm Tickets £4.00, concessions £3.00 Emily Rose Start, Space Studies Jamaal Burkmar Dance, Sonder Rachel Clarke & Nicole Godfrey, Throw like a Girl Hannah Courtney, One through five University Centre Doncaster, Centrefold
Part Two, 8.30pm Tickets £4.00, concessions £3.00 MAZPOD Rhythmic Stories, Mad Meg Esther Verlaque & Zoe Bradley, If I Had, I Would Have Done Dan Craddock, Rhythm is a Daniel TM Dance Company, Tomorrow’s Yesterday EdgeFWD Dance Theatre, Revolt
Please note: if you would like to attend both parts of the evening, please make sure you buy tickets for both!
University Centre Doncaster’s Centrefold © University Centre Doncaster MAZPOD Rhythmic Stories’ Mad Meg © Megan Haines
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Yorkshire Dance & Compass Live Art present
WENDY HOUSTOUN’S
STUPID WOMEN Howard
Krische
Friday 29 May, 7.30pm Yorkshire Dance Tickets: £9.00 concessions £7.00 Running time: as long as a piece of string (probably about 2 hours) Suitable for ages 14+ Five guests of high calibre and low pay attempt the impossible and quite probably fail in this live directed improvisation. Stupid Women: TC Howard, Rachel Krische, Lucy Suggate, Grace Surman & Sophie Unwin directed live by Wendy Houstoun This new presentation of Stupid Women has been brought to Leeds through a collaboration between Compass Live Art and Yorkshire Dance.
Suggate
Surman
Unwin
Combining idiocy with skill, anarchy with meaning and costumes with music, Wendy Houstoun presents Stupid Women. Initially performed as a work-in-progress at Yorkshire Dance’s Juncture 2014 festival, and a tribute to the late and great Nigel Charnock whose piece Stupid Men irritated and annoyed most audiences who saw it, Stupid Women, with its all-new (well, mostly new) cast, hopes to achieve something similar. ___ Wendy Houstoun has worked as an independent and collaborative theatre artist since 1980. Her work hovers around the edges of movement and language. Over time Wendy has developed solo work as a way of processing both formal investigations and life events and her pieces articulate responses to contemporary life with a serious playfulness. “A blessed relief to see this... brilliant - very real, moving, entertaining, honest... loved it... I am so happy right now.” Audience at Juncture
Friday Firsts #32
Bend It Friday 5 June, 7.30pm £8.00, concessions £6.00 Get up close and personal with Carlos Pons Guerra’s male dancers in a workin-progress exploring voyeurism. Connor Quill presents Knock Knock, a new dance theatre work for teenagers exploring the gritty issues surrounding homophobia choreographed by acclaimed choreographers Gary Clarke and Yorgos Karamalegos. Following the huge success of last year’s Bend It (curated by Yorkshire Dance Associate Artist Gary Clarke) we are proud to present an eclectic evening of dance and film work that explores gender stereotyping, sexuality and queer aesthetics. ___ We’re pleased to gather regional and international artists around these non-mainstream dance practices and particularly excited to welcome one of Aerowaves* priority companies, Giorgia Nardin (Italy) with All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go for its first UK date.
Moreno Solinas, Uranus © Emergency
At the more radical end of the evening there is Moreno Solinas’ wonderfully explicit and cheeky Uranus, and we have another chance to watch very beautiful archive films of the late Nigel Charnock. From 6.45pm we will be screening Jamie Fletcher’s Alphabet Club. Music, dance and spoken word are blended together in a short film meditating on sex and identity. Free – no ticket required. Special thanks to Gary Clarke for his support in bringing together this evening.
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*Aerowaves is a hub for dance discovery in Europe that creates cross-border performance opportunities for emerging choreographers. http://aerowaves.org/
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Friday Firsts #33
Unusual Connections Friday 3 July, 7.30pm £8.00, concessions £6.00 Unusual Connections is a unique Friday Firsts event that brings together dance forged with unusual themes, unusual partnerships or in unusual circumstances. From dancing shoppers to dancing families, Unusual Connections will present a range of work including the première performance by Raised,Yorkshire Dance’s integrated performance company for adults with and without disabilities. We will also screen specially-commissioned films created as part of The Dance WE Made and The Dance Leeds Made by Casson & Friends in January and June 2015. They feature choreographer and dancer Tim Casson creating new dance works with four Yorkshire dance artists, and with a range of community groups, based on the stories and movements of unsuspecting passers-by in Trinity Leeds shopping centre. See p8 for more information...
Raised © David Lindsay; The Dance WE Made © Brian Slater
Yorkshire Dance presents
Salon #4
Site-specific dance work Wednesday 22 April, 6.30pm Yorkshire Sculpture Park ÂŁ3, including a glass of wine
For our fourth Salon we invite you to join us at Art Funds Museum of the Year 2014, Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The union of nature and art at this beautiful location has inspired our focus for this Salon: site-specific dance work. Discuss questions such as: What does it mean to make site-specific work? How does making site-specific work change the making process? Does it change who it is for?
There will also be presentations and provocations by three artists making or involved in site-specific work: Mole Wetherell (Artistic Director of UK / Belgium-based theatre-makers Reckless Sleepers), Gary Clarke (Yorkshire Dance Associate Artist), and Alison Andrews (director of A Quiet Word, a performing arts company based in Leeds, making site-specific performances in collaboration with people where they live and work).
Vanessa Grasse, Movementscapes (Juncture 2014) Š Mike Johnson
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Yorkshire Dance and Trinity Leeds present
The Dance Leeds Made Saturday 6 June Trinity Leeds Free Age guidance: all ages Who are the performers? Who are shoppers? Watch out for a real explosion of everyday wonder in Trinity Leeds this June. In January,Yorkshire Dance and Trinity Leeds worked in partnership with Yorkshire-born Tim Casson to present the record-breaking interactive dance performance The Dance WE Made. Tim worked with three local dance artists and unsuspecting members of the public shopping at Trinity Leeds to devise and choreograph dances. These newly-created dances were then performed to the public, filmed and shared online. We are excited to announce that The Dance Leeds Made will be even bigger and brighter! A week-long creative residency will bring together five different groups of dancers and non-dancers of all ages, who’ll come together at the end of the week to perform a very surprising series of unmissable popup performances... www.thedancewemade.co.uk The Dance WE Made, January 2015 Š Brian Slater
Professional Development Opportunities Dance Umbrella is piloting an online resource for choreographic development, called The Making Of / The Making By. As part of the research for this project Dance Umbrella is inviting UK artists to come and discuss with them their needs and perspectives around professional resources. Š Clare Sikorska
Calling artists and creators Thoughts sought To RSVP please contact: Louise Costelloe Creative Learning Producer Dance Umbrella louise@danceumbrella.co.uk
Artistic Director & Chief Executive of Dance Umbrella Emma Gladstone would like to invite choreographers and artists to an informal focus group to discuss the highs, lows and possibilities of digital learning. Tell us what you would find useful to keep moving forwards, and share what has worked for you in the past. Refreshments will be provided. Date: Wednesday 13 May Time: 6.00pm - 7.30pm Place: Martha’s Meeting Room Yorkshire Dance
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Gracefool Collective present Professional Class
Contemporary Class with Rita Marcalo
Gracefool Collective has received funding from Arts Council England to run a six-month pilot project which will see professional dance classes running in Leeds on a weekly basis.
Summer term 2015 Tuesdays, 21 Apr - 14 Jul ÂŁ6.50, concessions ÂŁ5.50
2 May 5-7 May 11-13 May 20 May 21 May 22 May 27-29 May 1-3 Jun 10-12 Jun 22-24 Jun 29 Jun-1 Jul 6-8 Jul 13-15 Jul
Kerry Nicholls (NSCD) Stuart Waters (YD) TJ Lowe (MC) Natalia Iwaniec (YD) Natalia Iwaniec (PDT) Natalia Iwaniec (tbc) Jamaal Burkmar (NSCD) Jack Webb (tbc) Eleesha Drennan (tbc) Lea Tirabasso (DSL) Jerome Wilks (tbc) Amy Bell (YD) Tim Casson (NSCD)
For more information, contact Gracefool Collective prodanceleeds@gmail.com Twitter: @ProDanceLeeds DSL: Dance Studio Leeds MC: The Mandela Centre NSCD: Northern School of Contemporary Dance PDT: Phoenix Dance Theatre YD: Yorkshire Dance
6.30pm - 8.00pm, Level D for professionals, dance students and those with advanced ability 8.00pm - 9.30pm, Level B/C for people with a good basic level ability wanting to try a higher level With a focus on risk taking, individuality and non-linear movement, teacher Rita Marcalo will encourage you to embrace her way of moving in this weekly class. With an attempt to enable participants to work against their common learned dance movement patterns and find new ways to develop, Rita creates a safe and fun environment to explore new ways of thinking and moving. It is taught on two levels to enable complete beginners to get acquainted with basic principles of contemporary dance, at the same time as allowing people with some experience to develop further.
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Transform International Residency Sharing Thu 30 Apr, 8.00pm Barber Studio, West Yorkshire Playhouse Free To pilot a new Leeds-based international residency programme, Transform has brought together West Yorkshire based artists for a four-day period of exchange with artists from countries including Belgium, Germany and Iran. A collaboration between Yorkshire Dance and West Yorkshire Playhouse, the workshop is overseen by Leeds-based artist and facilitator Oliver Bray and Lebanese theatre maker and social activist Lucien Bourjeily. Come and see the results of four days of cross-cultural exchange in this rough and ready sharing by the group. RESIDENCY PARTICIPANTS West Yorkshire Evie Manning Javaad Alipoor Hannah Buckley Grace Surman Mainland Europe Cornelius Pushcke (Germany) Barbara Berti (Italy) Sachli Gholamalizad (Iran / Belgium) www.wyp.org.uk/what’s-on/2015/transform-15/
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Join The Collective... two new, improved memberships for dance artists at Yorkshire Dance Standard • Up to 50 hours’ free studio space per year • E-bulletins • Free equipment hire • One-to-one advice session • Residency opportunities • Discounts and offers on training, events, conferences and performances
Plus £100 / concessions £60 per year All the benefits of Standard, plus... • Unlimited free Standby Space • Three one-to-one advice sessions • Opportunity to curate a performance, workshop or event with a £1000 budget • Free professional contemporary class • 3hr training session on lighting & sound or marketing • One facilitated Critical Response Process feedback session
For more detailed description of these benefits, visit www.yorkshiredance.com/professional/the-collective
Hannah Buckley’s Woman with Eggs, Friday Firsts #27: Live Bites © Sara Teresa
£50 / concessions £30 per year
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