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Following on from a real summer of dance across the region I am delighted to announce that Dance4 has been awarded revenue investment from Arts Council England. This will allow us to work with extraordinary artists and develop opportunities for the public to see, take part in and celebrate brilliant dance performance and events in amazing spaces. We are also delighted to have been awarded investment to develop our plans for a new space for dance in the heart of Nottingham. Check our website for further news later in the year.

This autumn our programme begins with work from Gabriele Reuter, a dance artist with strong links to the region. Gabriele will be creating a site-specific installation at Backlit Gallery, details of which you can find opposite.

If you are passionate about dance then join us for our series of events ‘Discourse on Dance’ – a real opportunity to discover, provoke and participate in conversations with others. This season we are also presenting new works across the region with one particular highlight for me being Candoco Dance Company returning to Nottingham Lakeside Arts. We are delighted that both New Art Club’s and Caroline Bowditch’s work, premiered in Nottingham in May, now hits the road for national tours. This autumn welcomes artists from across the world to be in residence. Check out our website for all the up-to-date news on this and all our events. So enjoy the autumn of dance !

PAUL RUSSChief Executive / Artistic Director

@PaulRussDance4

College Street Centre, College Street Nottingham NG1 5AQ

0115 941 0773 • www.dance4.co.uk

@Dance_4 dance4

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This sound installation invites its audience on a choreographed sound journey through several rooms and back corridors of the former factory building Alfred House in Sneinton (Backlit Studios). Urban sounds, historical recordings and interviews with local residents will bring the building’s hidden spaces and the surrounding neighbourhood to life. Triggering collective and individual memory, the installation focuses on Sneinton’s key historical shifts from the 1950s until today.

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A collaboration with sound designer and composer Mattef Kuhlmey, with additional support from students at Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies.

SATURDAY 6 & SUNDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 12 - 5PMBACKLIT GALLERY, NOTTINGHAM NG3 1JGFREE but booking essential.Email heather@dance4.co.uk

Suitable for all

With thanks to Backlit Gallery and Confetti Institute of Technology. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Dance4 is an international centre for the development of 21st century dance. As well as this season’s events, Dance4 provides an ongoing dance development offer across the East Midlands. We work with a range of cultural partners to create exciting opportunities for people from all walks of life to experience and engage in the richness of dance.

GABRIELE REUTER (GERMANY / UK) hidden spaces #1: Sneinton

Cover Photo: Hugo Glendinning (Candoco Dance Co., p.12)

Design: MightyGrand.co.uk

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We are capable of so much more: experiments in listening

Rajni Shah and Karen Christopher are friends. This is at the heart of it. Every week since 2011, they have met to perform a duet called Holding OPEN in which they sit together, doing nothing, and then write. It’s a private duet, though it sometimes happens in a public space. In October 2014 they will spend a week together in Nottingham, having conversations about the things they care about. At the end of the week they will open up this conversation to the public as a short performance. You are very welcome to join them.

This event is part of In Dialogue 2014 – an international symposium that interrogates how artists and researchers use dialogue in their practice. Co-curated by Rebecca Beinart, Heather Connelly and Rhiannon Jones.

FRIDAY 3 OCTOBER 6PM - 9.30PMBACKLIT GALLERY, NOTTINGHAM NG3 1JGFREE as part of an evening of presentations Further information: www.indialogue2014.wordpress.com

Duration: 3 hrs 30 • Suitable for 14+

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The dual identity of the dance artist-scholar: synergies, tensions and opportunities

The boundaries between artists working in Higher Education and the professional arts sector have blurred over the last decade. Sally and Marie invite colleagues from academia, the dance sector and beyond to examine the identity of the dance artist working within academia who seeks to maintain creative practice in both contexts.This Dance4 roundtable is an opportunity to exchange, debate and network. Meet with us to discuss the potential synergies, tensions and opportunities that may exist for the practicing dance artist-scholar. This is one of three national events that will enable Sally and Marie to construct a context for their research: ‘Mapping the landscape: the identity of dance artist-scholars working across academia and the professional arts sector’. SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER 12PMCOLLEGE STREET CENTRE,NOTTINGHAM NG1 5AQFREE

Duration 2 hrs (light refreshments provided)Suitable for 16 +This event is suitable for professional artists looking to explore the boundaries of their practice Reserve your place by emailing info@dance4.co.uk.

RAJNI SHAH AND KAREN CHRISTOPHER (UK)

SALLY DOUGHTY AND MARIE FITZPATRICK (UK)

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As part of Dance4’s ongoing relationship with Critical Path, Sydney, we will be remotely sharing some of the highlights of this symposium co-organised by Martin del Amo and Caterina Mocciola.

Critical Path is a choreographic research and development centre for dance artists in New South Wales, Australia. Improvisation raises many issues around the nature of choreography, performance and authorship. In the relationship between improvisation and other approaches to choreography the themes of authenticity, presence, habit and technique become foregrounded.

This symposium encourages dance makers, researchers and cross-disciplinary practitioners to explore these different strands, and to learn from each other in an environment that stimulates discussion and the trading of skills.

This event coincides with the current exchange residency with Critical Path. Participating artists hosted at Dance4 are Matt Cornell and Miranda Wheen.

THURSDAY 27 NOVEMBER – SUNDAY 7 DECEMBER

Check www.dance4.co.uk for details closer to the time.

Choreography, Technology and New Audience Experiences – a Collider Creative Conversation

You are invited to a Collider Creative Conversation: a chance for creatives, technologists, producers and everyone in-between to explore and debate the ways in which technology and choreography can create exciting and challenging experiences for audiences.

The event will begin with a presentation and Q&A with Instant Dissidence, who will share their experience from ‘bus.stop.dance’ – a research and development project exploring augmented reality and choreography.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England. bus.stop.dance is supported by the Jerwood Choreographic Research Project and the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Additional support from Fabric Bradford, Bradford Metropolitan District Council. bus.stop.dance is a Corners Initiative project.

THURSDAY 4 DECEMBER 6PM - 8PM ANTENNA MEDIA CENTRE, NOTTINGHAM NG1 1EQFREE

Duration: 2 hrs • Suitable for 16+

Registration: www.collidercreative.eventbrite.co.uk

IMPROVISATION PRACTICES SYMPOSIUM

THRESHOLD STUDIOS AND DANCE4

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I know you so well.I know the things you like to eat, The clothes that hang inside your wardrobe,I know where you sleep, the music you lay down to.I’ve sat in your garden and at your table.I know you left your mark on everything, including their hearts.They all fell in love with you.I’ve never met you, but I’ve done it too.

Falling in love with Frida is an intimate and enticing performance that explores the life, loves and legacy of painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954).

It is a reclaiming of a disabled artist, a love like obsession, and an enquiry into how we shape what we are remembered for and how much can we really control others’ memories of us. It exposes many little-known facts about the infamous woman, remembered for her art. Where affinities and parallels are drawn, happy distractions are employed and a tale of ‘the great concealer’ is skillfully revealed by and through powerful yet fragile bodies.

Caroline is a Dance4 associate artist.

JOE MORAN (UK) Arrangement

Choreographer Joe Moran brings a new collection of live performance and installation to Nottingham Contemporary. Each work is a daring and very different response to the question ‘What can dance say, today?’. Choreography in galleries, full-bodied dancing, stillness, virtuosity and overblown masculinity all come under inspection in this arresting collection of works. Durational performance installations happen throughout the day, punctuated by performances re-imagined for the gallery every hour and a half. Joe performs his compelling solo Decommission, presented alongside the bold all-male ensemble, Arrangement and celebrated trio Obverse, commissioned for The Place Prize for dance sponsored by Bloomberg. BAFTA award-winning sound artist Kaffe Matthews performs live and nine local performers join the installation work The Body. Audiences are invited to come and go throughout the afternoon, navigating their own journey through the work

‘A good-humoured inspection of ‘overblown masculinity’’ – SEEN & HEARD INTERNATIONAL

Originally from Australia, Caroline is an established Glasgow-based independent disabled performance maker, choreographer and provocateur.

SUNDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 3PM & 6.30PMQUEEN ELIZABETH HALL, SOUTHBANK CENTRE, LONDON SE1 8XX(3pm performance is audio described, with a Touch Tour at 2pm. A post-show discussion follows the 6.30pm performance)Tickets £15 (£7.50 concessions)www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Duration 1hr • Suitable for 16+

Both performances include a BSL interpreter

www.fallinginlovewithfrida.wordpress.comwww.carolinebowditch.com#FridaTour

Produced by Dance4. Commissioned by Dance4 and SICK Festival. Supported by Creative Scotland, Arts Council England and Fundays.

Part of Unlimited Festival at Southbank Centre – extraordinary new work by disabled artists, 2 – 7 September.

CAROLINE BOWDITCH (AUSTRALIA / UK)

Falling in love with Frida

SATURDAY 8 & SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBERNOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY, NG1 2GBFREE (no booking required) Suitable for all Installations and durational performance:Saturday: 2 – 6pmSunday: 11am – 5pm Performances:Saturday: 2pm, 3.30pm, 5pmSunday: 11am, 12.30pm, 2pm, 3.30pm Arrangement is produced by Dance Art Foundation and funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and The Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation. Developed with support from The Place, South East Dance, Movingeast, Artsadmin and Merseyside Dance Initiative. Obverse (2012) was commissioned for The Place Prize for dance sponsored by Bloomberg.

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ONE extraordinary superhero, 12 impossible tasks… it’s the story of Hercules as you’ve never seen it before! Hercules is best known for his incredible strength. But who knew the guy could dance?THIS story of Hercules is told through hilarious dance routines and amazing speciality acts. It’s a modern cabaret the whole family will enjoy. You get a pantomime, a comic take on history and a party all rolled into one side-splitting adventure. Created by and starring the award winning dancing comedy double act Tom Roden and Pete Shenton of New Art Club. With a cast of stunning professional performers and talented local dancers, this irreverent, innovative and life-affirming show will have you up on your feet wanting to dance.

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Wealth’s Last Caprice

Chris Dugrenier, creator and solo performer, envisages a future where she is not present and asks the audience to be legal witnesses to her inventory – including the listing of her dreams, ambitions, vanities and wishes.With 2162 objects totalling 18 years of consumption, compulsion, needs and wants, Wealth’s Last Caprice is an uplifting celebration of life and a sensitive, funny and touching reflection on what we value.

Chris Dugrenier is an independent performance maker, originally from France. Her work is often autobiographical with, she admits, a few exaggerations and some little white lies thrown in...

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and developed with support from The Core at Corby Cube.

TUESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 7.30 AND 9.15PMCHELSEA THEATRE, LONDON SW10 0LRPart of Chelsea Theatre’s Sacred season Tickets: £10 / £8www.chelseatheatre.org.uk Duration: 1hr • Suitable for 16+

Also showing at Embrace Arts, Leicester – see page 14 for details.

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CO-PRODUCED WITH DANCE4 AND NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE

Hercules: A Dance Cabaret for all Ages

Visit herculestour.co.uk for show clips, interviews, 12 challenges to Hula-Hooping and much much more.

@Herculesthetour SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER 2PM AND 7PMCAST, DONCASTERTickets: £14.50 (£12.50 concessions) £42 Family 4 Ticketwww.castindoncaster.com

Duration: 1hr 30 (including interval)Suitable for all

Originally commissioned by: Dance4 as part of Big Dance 2012 East Midlands, supported by the Foundation for Community Dance. Co-produced for touring by Dance4, New Art Club and Nottingham Playhouse. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

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‘It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die’ – STEVE BIKO

The life, death and legacy of the inspirational campaigner Steve Biko, murdered at the hands of the security police during the apartheid era in South Africa, are the inspiration for this powerful, large cast production which takes the audience on a poignant and emotional journey through danced storytelling.

‘This one’s a winner…powerful, thought-provoking, moving and unforgettable’ – CAPE TIMES

Directed by Mandla Mbothwe with choreography by Jackie Manyaapelo, Ina Wichterich-Mogane & Mzo Gas.Presented by The Steve Biko Foundation in association with Jazzart Dance Theatre.

JAZZART DANCE THEATRE (SOUTH AFRICA)

Biko’s Quest

TUESDAY 28 OCTOBER 3PM AND 7.30PMNOTTINGHAM LAKESIDE ARTS, NG7 2RDTickets: £16 (£14 concessions) £11 restricted viewwww.lakesidearts.org.uk

Duration: 1hr 20 (no interval) • Suitable for 10+

WORKSHOPS

Jazzart dancers will be leading two workshops in partnership with Dance4 to present a curtain-raising performance before one of the Biko’s Quest performances.

MONDAY 27 OCTOBER

Youth dancers are invited to participate in this project; contact jim@dance4.co.uk or call 0115 941 0773 to reserve your place.

Haruki Murakami’s dark but beautifully tender novel, Norwegian Wood, is the inspiration behind Cousins’ choreography for Without Stars and There We Have Been. Taking the themes of love, loss and friendship from the Japanese story, James has added his own unique quality to them, creating a rich and powerful double-bill. Abstract yet utterly accessible, his choreography is dynamic, emotional and clever.

‘Intricate, beautifully dance…. Cousins is a rising star’ – THE INDEPENDENT

JAMES COUSINS CO. (UK)

Without Stars / There We Have Been

There will be a post show discussion with Dance4.

TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 8PMNOTTINGHAM LAKESIDE ARTS, NG7 2RDTickets: £16 (£14 concessions) £11 restricted viewwww.lakesidearts.org.uk

Duration: 1hr 20 (including interval)Suitable for 12+

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‘A mash-up of superhero comics, Japanese manga and kung fu movies. Hip-hop and fighting moves mesh wonderfully’ – THE INDEPENDENT

Five young troublemakers are drawn into a power struggle that has divided a secret group of warriors. Given a chance to redeem themselves in the ensuing battle to restore peace, their action-packed adventure becomes a celebration of camaraderie and the triumph of the human spirit.

Set in modern Tokyo, The Five & the Prophecy of Prana sees dazzling visuals frame a dynamic fusion of hip-hop and martial arts in an explosive tribute to manga – Japan’s popular graphic novel form.

Kenrick ‘H20’ Sandy and Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, the Olivier award-winning team behind Pied Piper and choreographer and composer for the film Streetdance 3D, have worked with the monks from the Shaolin Temple Warrior School, Japanese manga artist Akio Tanaka, and award-winning video animation studio Yeast Culture, to create this electrifying show.

For video, photos, interviews, audience reviews and a free resource pack go to www.TheFiveTour.co.uk

DANCE TOURING PARTNERSHIP PRESENTS

BOY BLUE ENTERTAINMENT (UK)

The Five & the Prophecy of Prana FRIDAY 24 & SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER 7PMNOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE, NG1 5AFMeet the Company after the show on 24 OctoberTickets: £11, £15, £17, £19Under 26s and schools £9.50. www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk

Duration: 1hr 50 (including interval) Suitable for 6+

Production co-commissioned by the Barbican, London and Derry-Londonderry UK City of Culture. Produced by Boy Blue Entertainment. Co-produced by the Barbican and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg. Additional support from The Great British Sasakawa Foundation and Laban Theatre, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance.

Original creation and UK tour supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Arts Council Wales.

DANCE YOUR CITY IS BACK

See www.danceyourcity.co.uk for details of this online dance video competition which offers the chance to perform live on stage with Boy Blue Entertainment in London on Sunday 15 February 2015.

Candoco Dance Company, the renowned contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled performers, presents Playing Another, an evening of two outstanding works by Hetain Patel and Thomas Hauert.

Visual artist Hetain Patel has created a humorous and intimate piece for Candoco that builds on an exploration of the dancers’ personalities and distinctive physicalities. The work is a playful interrogation of identity that probes the audience to think beyond surface appearances.

Award-winning choreographer Thomas Hauert’s Notturnino is a poignant work that takes inspiration from Tosca’s Kiss, a touching documentary about the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. Using the soundtrack from the film, the piece is scored by fragments of conversation, reminiscences and great operatic works performed by the ageing residents of the nursing home. With wit and melodrama Notturnino explores the fragility of life.

Playing Another is a beautiful mix of stunning movement, operatic music and art. If you’re new to contemporary dance then you’re in for a treat. For those who have seen Candoco’s work before, you don’t

CANDOCO DANCE COMPANY (UK)

Playing Another – A Double Bill

want to miss this exquisite new programme which celebrates different ways of making dance and reaffirms Candoco’s position as a company that pushes boundaries and challenges notions of what dance is.

There will be a post-show discussion with Dance4. TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 8PMNOTTINGHAM LAKESIDE ARTS, NG7 2RDTickets: £16 (£14 concessions) £11 restricted viewwww.lakesidearts.org.uk

Duration: 1hr 20 (including interval) Suitable for 12+

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MOVEMENT + COMPOSITION WITH NEIL CALLAGHAN & SIMONE KENYON

This two-day intensive workshop gives an insight into the practices and processes on which Neil and Simone’s work is based. During the morning participants will gain an insight into the concepts and principles that inform their practice generally. Working through gentle to vigorous movement, the workshop explores what it means to work with different bodies. The afternoon will focus on more detailed work, specifically what it means to compose and structure material. The workshop is suitable for performance makers, artists and curious people who are interested in working physically and with others.

SATURDAY 20 – SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 10AM – 4PMCOLLEGE STREET CENTRE, NOTTINGHAM NG1 5AQTickets: £60 for two days.

www.dance4.co.ukwww.neilandsimone.co.uk

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Quick Shifts returns for another series of improvised dance performances. Led by a pioneering group of dance explorers each show offers something different – balancing entertainment, experimentation and discussion; navigating the unpredictable terrain of improvised performance. Quick Shifts dancers are regularly joined by UK and international guest performers and musicians. For opportunities to participate in a range of ways incuding online, in studio or on stage, go to:

Quickshifts @quick_shifts

Maintained by a collective of professional dance artists in Leicester, Nottingham and Berlin including Jo Breslin, Jill Cowley, Sally Doughty, Miriam Keye, Susanne Martin, Gabriele Reuter, Eleanor Walker, plus invited guests. Suitable for all ages and of particular interest to anyone, with or without a disability, studying dance or exploring improvisation in their professional practise.

SUNDAY 16 NOVEMBER, 14 DECEMBER AND 25 JANUARY 2015 6PMEMBRACE ARTS, LEICESTER LE1 7HATickets: £6 (£4 concession)www.embracearts.co.uk

Duration: 2 hrs • Suitable for all

QUICK SHIFTS (UK) Dance Improvisation

Performance Conversation

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Wealth’s Last Caprice

For full details see page 9.

FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER 6PM & 8PMEMBRACE ARTS, LEICESTER LE1 7HATickets: £8, £5, £4www.embracearts.co.uk Duration: 1hr • Suitable for 16+

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CHANGING PERCEPTIONS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY

Dance4 invites teachers and practitioners working in or with an interest in inclusive dance practice to join us at the second East Midlands Inclusive Dance Forum. This friendly, informal twilight session will be a chance to meet with like-minded practitioners to share successes, challenges, plans and new ideas. If you are interested in sharing a successful activity or approach, raising a question, bouncing a new idea around, or starting a discussion, please express your interest by Friday 3 October so that you can be added to the schedule. For more information about the Changing Perceptions research, visit www.dance4.co.uk

THURSDAY 9 OCTOBER 6PM - 8PMEAST MIDLANDS INCLUSIVE DANCE FORUMELLESMERE COLLEGE, LEICESTER LE3 1BEFREE. Book your place by emailingjess@dance4.co.uk

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CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE

Dance4 supports recruitment of dancers to youth dance companies in the region.

LINCOLNSHIRE YOUTH DANCE COMPANY AUDITIONLincoln Drill Hall Theatre, in association with Lincoln College, is looking to further develop the Lincolnshire Youth Dance Company with new members who show exceptional talent and potential in dance to join the company. For more information and an application form visit www.dance4.co.uk.

FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 4PMLINCOLN DRILL HALL THEATRE

Deadline for applications: Friday 12 September 4pmApplications to be returned to Louise Gibbs: louisegibbs90@gmail.com

Get ready for U.Dance 2015! Applications for the sell out youth dance county platforms will be available from Monday 8 September, for full information on how to apply visit: www.dance4.co.uk. Deadline for applications is Thursday 27 November 2014. MY (Midlands Youth) Dance Festival returns to the East Midlands and welcomes performances from youth dance groups across the region.

U.Dance County Platform dates: N.DANCE (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE)SATURDAY 24 JANUARYROYAL AND DERNGATEwww.royalandderngate.co.uk EPISODES (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE)SUNDAY 25 JANUARYNOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSEwww.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk

MASS MOVEMENT (LEICESTERSHIRE)SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARYCURVE THEATREwww.curveonline.co.uk

TRUE MOTION (LINCOLNSHIRE)SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARYLINCOLN PERFORMING ARTS CENTREwww.lpac.co.uk

INTERFACE (DERBYSHIRE)MONDAY 9 MARCHWINDING WHEEL, CHESTERFIELDwww.pomegranatetheatre.co.uk

MY (MIDLANDS YOUTH) DANCE FESTIVALSATURDAY 11 APRIL NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk

YOUTH COMPANY AUDITIONS NORTH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE YOUTH DANCE COMPANYCounty Youth Arts, Nottinghamshire County Council is developing a new youth dance company held in the north of the county. The group will take part in weekly contemporary technique and choreography and work towards performances. The company is looking for young people aged 11 – 17 years who show excellent potential and talent in dance.

For more information and an application form visit www.dance4.co.uk. Applications to be returned to: sam.holgate-davey@nottscc.gov.uk.

TUESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 6PM – 8PMOLD LIBRARY THEATRE, MANSFIELD

Deadline for applications: Monday 15 September 4pm

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LIZ AGGISS The English Channel

This intimate, quirky and engaging solo features movement, text and film. Liz Aggiss as The English Channel is a witty commentator on life, death, and the pain, pleasure and paradox of the stage.FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER 7.30PMLINCOLN PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE, LN6 7TSwww.lpac.co.uk

LINCOLN SCHOOL OF FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS PRESENT

Performance Fortnight A two-week-long celebration of the work being developed by undergraduate and postgraduate students at University of Lincoln.MONDAY 1 – SUNDAY 14 DECEMBERLINCOLN PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE, LN6 7TSFurther information: www.lpac.co.uk

HEADSPACE DANCE (UK) Three and Four Quarters The programme features work specially commissioned from Protein’s Luca Silvestrini, Didy Veldman and Javier de Frutos, alongside a revival of Light Beings by Mats Ek.THURSDAY 2 OCTOBER 7.30PMTHE CORE AT CORBY CUBE, CORBYwww.thecorecorby.com

NORTHERN BALLET (UK) Three Little Pigs Northern Ballet brings this timeless tale to life in a new production especially for children.FRIDAY 3 OCTOBER 11.30AM & 1.30PMTHEATRE ROYAL, NOTTINGHAMwww.trch.co.uk

PHOENIX DANCE THEATRE (UK) Triple Bill A diverse bill that features two new works and one classic from the company’s archive.TUESDAY 14 OCTOBER 7.30PMTHE CASTLE, WELLINGBOROUGHwww.thecastle.org.uk

WENDY HOUSTOUN (UK) 50 Acts The award winning 50 Acts is a spirited retaliation against ageism and other modern rubbish involving manifestos, apologies and errors, random acts, small dances and big ideas, ghostly appearances, serious stupidity and much, much more.SATURDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 7.45PMCURVE THEATRE, LEICESTERwww.curveonline.co.uk

INALA A Zulu Ballet INALA presents choral legends, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, in a unique artistic collaboration with award-winning choreographer Mark Baldwin.FRIDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 7.30PMROYAL CONCERT HALL, NOTTINGHAMwww.trch.co.uk

RICHARD ALSTON DANCE (UK) Rejoice In The Lamb

The company’s new performance centres on Richard’s latest work Rejoice In The Lamb, danced to Benjamin Britten’s superb setting of Christopher Smart poetry.TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER – WEDNESDAY 1 OCTOBER 7.30PMROYAL AND DERNGATE, NORTHAMPTONwww.royalandderngate.co.uk

NORTHERN BALLET (UK) The Great Gatsby Northern Ballet brings F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel to the stage.TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER – SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER 7.30PM & SATURDAY 2.30PMTHEATRE ROYAL, NOTTINGHAMwww.trch.co.uk

RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY (UK) Rooster + The Castaways +

Sounddance + Dutiful Ducks

Rooster tops the bill in a programme also featuring new work by Barak Marshall and two classics from Rambert’s rich repertoire.TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER – THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER 7.30PMTheatre Royal, Nottinghamwww.trch.co.uk

JASMIN VARDIMON DANCE COMPANY Park

In this playground of relationships young lovers wrestle in a historic fountain, a graffiti artist sprays his story, a busker finds his only appreciative audience in a bag lady and a flag-waving bully rants worn out political beliefs. Their stories intertwine creating a modern day fairy-tale that is alternately sharp, funny and cruel. Park presents a breath-taking collision of highly acute physical theatre, text, athletic dance and funky music, delivering fresh statements about our time.‘Vividly physical and quirky performances’– THE TIMESTHURSDAY 23 OCTOBER 7.30PMLINCOLN PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE, LN6 7TSwww.lpac.co.uk

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What makes us who we are? Is it where we are from? Or how we talk? Is it the way we dance? Our pasts, our futures...? And most importantly, doesn’t everyone like pizza?! Chalk About is a playful, funny and sometimes moving look at how we see ourselves and others, featuring dance, chat and one perfect scene containing everything you could wish for...

MOKO Dance family activities available pre- and post-show. Please check venue for details. SUNDAY 19 OCTOBER 3PMNOTTINGHAM LAKESIDE ARTSwww.lakesidearts.org.uk

WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 6PMTHURSDAY 23 OCTOBER 10.30AMLINCOLN DRILL HALLwww.lincolndrillhall.com

SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2.30PMDÉDA, DERBYwww.deda.uk.com

SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 3PMEMBRACE ARTS, LEICESTERwww.embracearts.co.uk An East Midlands Children’s Theatre & Dance Network Promotion

Suitable for 8+ and families Duration: 50 mins (approx.)

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COMMISSION COLLECTIVEThe collective effort and commitment from individuals to support the creation of an extraordinary new work.

With an individual contribution you can take a personal journey through the creative commissioning process and become a private owner of an innovative choreographic dance performance.

At Dance4, we believe that dance and performance can provide experiences that change the way we look at ourselves in the world. The Commission Collective is a space where people can come to witness, be challenged, learn and experience; a space where adventure is celebrated.

To learn more contact: Laura-Mae Browne (Communications Manager)laura@dance4.co.uk • 0115 941 0773

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