Curated by Charlotte Vincent

Featuring:

Liz AggissWendy Houstoun

Eddie LaddAurora LubosAntonia Grove

The Two WrongiesNew Art Club

Charlotte VincentClaire MacDonald

Ruth Ben Tovim / EncountersVincent Dance Theatre

Four weeks of experimental performance & practiceYorkshire Dance, Leeds

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Welcome to Juncture 2012! A warm welcome to Yorkshire Dance’s first ever Juncture, for which we are proudly collaborating with acclaimed artist Charlotte Vincent in the role of curator. With Juncture we hope to re-affirm Yorkshire Dance as a home for experimental and innovative dance practice and we are delighted with the scintillating programme that Charlotte has created for audiences and artists alike. Laugh, create and be moved – and don’t forget to let us know what you think at www.juncturedance.com.

Wieke EringaCEO & Artistic Director, Yorkshire Dance

I am delighted to introduce the first ever Juncture at Yorkshire Dance. Four weeks of residencies, performances, workshops and critical debates, programmed with an emphasis on female-led work and experimental, cross disciplinary practice. I have invited some of my closest working colleagues to be part of this initial programme – funny, smart women (and a few renegade men), who have something to say and a unique way of saying it. Their work is surprising, bold and intelligent. They are quiet anarchists, searching for an appropriate language to say what they need to say. They are mature, experienced makers, researchers, producers, writers, performers, dancers, managers, musicians and composers – artists whose work needs to be seen and whose voices need to be heard. As part of Juncture, seen and heard they will be. Come join us!

Charlotte VincentCurator Juncture 2012

Charlotte Vincent is Artistic Director of Vincent Dance Theatre and one half of V&A Artefacts.

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Cover image Liz Aggiss © Matthew Andrews

THURSDAY8 MARCH -FRIDAY9 MARCH

10.00am - 1.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Admission FREE

Vincent Dance Theatre MotherlandWorkshop

Artistic Directors Charlotte Vincent (Vincent Dance Theatre) and Ruth Ben Tovim (Encounters) alongside new and established members of Vincent Dance Theatre are in residence at Yorkshire Dance from 5 - 9 March.

The company will explore innovative approaches to community practice and ways of collecting stories from the general public that will contribute towards the making of Motherland, an intergenerational middle scale work touring in autumn 2012. Participants will be involved in road-testing a high quality process of community engagement that shifts how people see the world and their place within it as the company develops a new model for a series of curated events that will form part of their autumn 2012 tour.

Vincent Dance Theatre has been making and touring devised dance theatre work and leading associated programmes of community participation and professional development work since 1994.

Encounters create imaginative spaces and processes for people of all ages and backgrounds to explore their relationship with themselves, each other, where they live and the natural world.

THURSDAY15 MARCH

1.00pm - 4.30pm

Yorkshire Dance

Admission FREE

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Northern Area Dance Network Meeting Debate

Facilitated by Charlotte Vincent and David Edmunds, with speakers Martin Wilson (Director, Tin Arts) Matt Fenton (Director, Nuffield Theatre @ Lancaster University) and Victoria Firth (Director, Lawrence Batley Theatre). Funded by Arts Council England, Join us for this second Northern Area Dance Network Meeting to discuss in detail the specific issues facing independent dancers, artistic directors, producers, community practitioners and venue programmers working in the Greater Northern Region (NE England, NW England, Yorkshire and Humberside), and to hear feedback from a series of smaller meetings held in February 2012 involving practitioners from across the North. Tea and Cakes available and free travel bursaries for people wishing to attend from outside Leeds. Contact rachael@departsltd.com if you are interested in attending / require a travel bursary.

FRIDAY16 MARCH

6.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Admission FREE

BrightFurnace /Harry TheakerEnglish Folk DanceWorkshop

Harry Theaker will teach the components of a rapper dance with its intricate and complex figures, sequences and locks. This will lead into structured improvisations though which you will create a new dance, of your own making but rooted in the tradition. You’ll work on your own material and as a team. Swords will be provided. Wear hard-soled shoes and bring your boldness with you as this workshop isn’t for the faint-hearted!

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SUNDAY18 MARCH

11.00am - 2.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Admission £15.00

Concessions £12.00

BrightFurnace - The TraipseSharing & discussion

BrightFurnace will share their progress towards the creation of The Traipse, an examination of concepts of Englishness and cultural identity through new explorations of traditional folk dance. Harry Theaker is an independent dance artist and choreographer who has worked with Vincent Dance Theatre, Javier de Frutos, Wayne McGregor and many more. The Traipse is the launch project for his company BrightFurnace, and will tour Yorkshire in March 2012.

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10.00am - 5.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Admission £60.00

Concessions £40.00

New Art ClubComedy DanceWorkshop

Tom Roden of New Art Club, Britain’s funniest dance duo, will lead a two day workshop for professional artists that draws on the company’s new show, Quiet Act Of Destruction. It will be a practical session that looks at how the physical and spoken elements of their work are conceived and executed. It will be challenging, rigorous and funny.Participants will gain an insight into the creation of New Art Club’s work by exploring some of their devising methods and creating some material of their own. The session is for anyone interested in experimenting with movement, text and comedy.

Antony DunnWriting DanceWorkshop

You’ve made a beautiful, breath-taking new dance work. You’re excited about putting it in front of some audiences. But how are you going to persuade them to come? Talking about dance isn’t always easy. We’ve all read dance flyers that have left us puzzled and perplexed. So how do we avoid falling into the same trap? How canwe talk to our audiences in a language they understand?This informal, practical and occasionally hilarious workshop willexplore some creative writing techniques which will help shakeup your ideas about writing dance.

Antony Dunn has worked in theatre and dance marketing since 1997. He is Marketing & Communications Manager of Yorkshire Dance in one life, and a poet, dramatist and creative writing tutor in another.

12.00pm - 2.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Admission £5.00

WEDNESDAY21 MARCH -THURSDAY22 MARCH

From ‘The Breakfast Sculpture’ developed in collaboration with artist Mel Brimfield, Paul Higgs and Dinnington Colliery Band for Brimfield’s ‘This Is Performance Art – Performed Sculpture and Dance’ exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

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SUNDAY18 MARCH

THURSDAY22 MARCH

THURSDAY22 MARCH

6.00pm - 9.00pm

FRIDAY23 MARCH

6.00pm - 8.30pm

SATURDAY24 MARCH

6.00pm - 8.00pm

7.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Admission FREE

Yorkshire Dance

Admission £5.00

V&A Artefacts (Charlotte Vincent & Liz Aggiss) Blurred VisionPerformance

Blurred Vision is a scientific exploration on Nothing. No thing. Nothing at all. Nada. Rien. Niente. Gar nichts. A cocky, clever couple, concerned with comprehensible context, conceptual clarity and the simple execution of complex content, V&A Artefacts are searching

Aurora Lubos - Still AliveInstallation

for something – anything – that can shed light on the questions ‘what on earth are we doing here?’ ‘why are we doing it?’ and perhaps most importantly, ‘when will all this end?’Measuring time and space as they go, Blurred Vision finds Vincent and Aggiss dodging around dictators, dogma, dickheads and dirt as they earnestly explore the void.

‘Immaculate timing and choreographic precision…the humour is knowing, at times side splittingly funny. Brave ladies! Take a bow!’Total Theatre

Still Alive is an intimate, simple portrait of a performer and mother. Five rooms, filled with objects and thoughts relating to childhood, motherhood, nature and the female psyche. Capturing authentic, striking glimpses into the life of a woman whose body and face carry a certain tiredness, Still Alive is also a moving portrait of a mind slipping out of time. Viewing Aurora one person at a time, this is an intimate and moving meeting point between performer and viewer, a game between what is alive and what is dead, what moves and what is still, between what has a voice and what is silent...Aurora Lubos is a Polish performer who has worked extensively with Dance Theatre of Gdansk and with Vincent Dance Theatre.

‘Lubos’s exquisitely pitched performance [is] small but beautiful.’The Observer

8.00pm

Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre

Admission £10.00

Concessions £8.00

Wendy Houstoun50 ActsPerformance

A warm, intimate, affecting show, 50 Acts is a spirited retaliation against ageism involving: manifestos, songs, apologies and errors, random acts, small dances and big ideas, ghostly appearances, invisibility, stupidity, inexplicable feats and unexpected turns, techno idiocy and much, much more.

Wendy Houstoun makes work which is both personal and pertinent to our times. Having established herself as a performer with DV8 Physical Theatre she has made a series of solo works and collaborated with a number of artists including Nigel Charnock, Rose English, Gary Stevens, David Hinton, Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment. She brings her own brand of radicalism to 50 Acts: a declaration of intent and a commitment to action.

THURSDAY22 MARCH

50 Acts is programmed in partnership with Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre as part of Juncture.

‘Her work is completely engaging and above all, humorous.’Cloud Dance Festival

THURSDAY22 MARCH

FRIDAY23 MARCH

9.30pm

10.00am - 1.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Yorkshire Dance

Admission FREE

Admission £15.00

Concessions £12.00

Party at Yorkshire DanceCome and join the many artists involved in Juncture for a drink and a shindig at Yorkshire Dance after Wendy Houstoun’s show, for some live music, a short poetry slam, some rogue sword dancing by BrightFurnace and a bar open until midnight. Featuring live music from folk-rock extravaganza Blackbeard’s Tea Party.

Liz AggissMistressclassWorkshop

This fast-tasking, quick-thinking, performance-making workshop considers content and context, specificity and framing, past histories and lineage. The workshop will make reference to Aggiss’ research, process and choreographic practices, and will invite participants to spread their wings, move outside the box, grapple with the unknown and recover bodies from their libraries.

Participants should bring a selection of uncluttered performance clothes and shoes to wear during the workshop. Expect to talk, critique, show off, move and be moved.

Liz Aggiss is a Brighton-based performer, choreographer, film-maker, writer, artiste and Professor of Visual Performance at the University of Brighton.

11.00am - 1.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

2.00pm - 5.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Admission £5.00

Admission FREE

Ceri Brierley, Dave Edmunds, Gwen van Spijk & Lisa Wolfe - What Do Venues Want from Artists?Debate

A range of super-experienced independent dance and theatre managers, producers and programmers discuss what venues are looking

Professor Liz Aggiss, Wendy Houstoun, Eddie Ladd, Claire MacDonald, The Two Wrongies & Charlotte VincentConsiderations in Contemporary Performance Practice Symposium

FRIDAY23 MARCH

for when programming new performance work. How best to describe something that hasn’t been made yet? Is ‘setting up a company’ the best way to support the development and promotion of new work? Can we any longer ecologically and financially justify touring as a way to distribute ideas? And indeed does the dance touring circuit need remodelling? Is the UK touring circuit on its knees? Aimed at recent graduates and practising professionals, each manager will present a 10 minute provocation for discussion by the panel and the audience. Ceri Brierley is Communications and Development Manager, Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Dave Edmunds is Director of DEP Arts. Gwen Van Spijk is Executive Director of Lone Twin & Producer for New Art Club. Lisa Wolfe is producer of performance by non-conformists including Liz Aggiss, Tim Crouch & Sue Maclaine. Chaired by Wieke Eringa (Yorkshire Dance).

A panel of established practitioners and artists discuss the politics and issues involved in making performance work in the contemporary context, including discussion around female humour, gender and sexuality on stage, the ageing body, the inadequacies of the language we use to describe, market and critique work and notions of generation.

When did the first post show discussion get invented? When did the star system for reviews start? When did marketing start changing the copy of the artist? When did the hour-long piece become inevitable? What is generation and what does it mean to us? What does it mean to get older in performance? How do we work across generations? How have practices, approaches and ideas been passed down through the generations? How do new generations see the past? How does the transgressive, subversive, ageing, fleshy female body have a relevant place in dance? How do the personal and political collide? How does working outside of England impact on practice? How do women work with humour and sexuality in performance?

This free symposium promises to be a fiery, thought-provoking debate by the UK’s leading female solo artists. It is for practitioners, students, teachers, academics and general public alike. Come, listen and have your say!

FRIDAY23 MARCH

5.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Yorkshire Dance

6.30pm

Admission FREE

Admission £10.00

Concession £8.00

Yorkshire Dance, Charlotte Vincent & Claire MacDonaldReception / Launch Event

We invite you to join us for a glass of wine to celebrate the inaugural Juncture and the launch of The Table website, a new platform developed by Charlotte Vincent & Claire MacDonald, designed to curate, promote, document and disseminate interdisciplinary arts practice by and for experienced female practitioners, working in a range of art forms including dance, theatre and visual art.

Eddie LaddLlain Performance

“Llain” is Welsh for “strip of land”. This solo piece combining dance, speech, drawing and video is by Eddie Ladd, whose first language is Welsh as she was born and brought up in the west of Wales. A mile from her home is an airstrip that, during the last decade, has been used for testing drones. It is known that an Israeli defence company is one of those that tests on the site and the piece looks at the connections between Israel, Wales, the West Bank and the wider world.

Eddie Ladd was born and brought up in Wales and makes performances which feature dance, bilingual text, music and new media technologies.

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Festival Pass £60.00Concessions £50.00Allows you into all events marked for free

Practitioner Pass £80.00Concessions £65.00Allows you into all events marked for free

Both passes are available to buy online,by phone or in person at Yorkshire Danceuntil Friday 9 March 2012

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If you buy a Festival Pass or Practitioner Pass, there will be a place reserved for you in each event covered by your pass.

Please ensure that you arrive at least 15 minutes early for the performance or workshop, otherwise we’ll assume you’re not coming to that event and allocate your place to someone waiting for one to become available.

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Date Time Artists Event Name Type Venue

Thur 8 10.00am - 1.00pm Vincent Dance Theatre Motherland Workshop (day

one) Yorkshire Dance

Fri 9 10.00am - 1.00pm Vincent Dance Theatre Motherland Workshop (day

two) Yorkshire Dance

Thur 15 1.00pm - 4.30pm Charlotte Vincent & David Edmunds Northern Area Dance Network Meeting Debate Yorkshire Dance

Fri 16 6.00pm BrightFurnace The Traipse Sharing & discussion Yorkshire Dance

Sun 18 11.00am - 2.00pm BrightFurnace English Folk Dance Workshop Yorkshire Dance

Sun 18 12.00pm - 2.00pm Antony Dunn Writing Dance Workshop Yorkshire Dance

Wed 21 10.00am - 5.00pm New Art Club Comedy Dance Workshop (day

one) Yorkshire Dance

Thur 22 10.00am - 5.00pm New Art Club Comedy Dance Workshop (day

two) Yorkshire Dance

Thur 22 6.00pm - 9.00pm Aurora Lubos Still Alive Installation Yorkshire Dance

Thur 22 7.00pm V&A Artefacts (Charlotte Vincent& Liz Aggiss) Blurred Vision Performance Yorkshire Dance

Thur 22 8.00pm Wendy Houstoun 50 Acts Performance Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre

Thur 22 9.30pm Yorkshire Dance Party at Yorkshire Dance Party Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 10.00am - 1.00pm Liz Aggiss Mistressclass Workshop Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 11.00am - 1.00pm Various What Do Venues Want

from Artists? Debate Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 2.00pm - 5.00pm VariousConsiderations in Contemporary Performance Practice

Symposium Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 5.00pm Yorkshire Dance, Claire MacDonald & Charlotte Vincent

Reception / Launch Event

Reception / Launch Event Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 6.00pm - 8.30pm Aurora Lubos Still Alive Installation Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 6.30pm Eddie Ladd Llain Performance Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 8.00pm Antonia Grove Small Talk Performance Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 9.30pm New Art Club Quiet Act of Destruction Performance Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre

Sat 24 12.00pm - 1.30pm Wieke Eringa, Yorkshire Dance City of Dance Tour Meet at Yorkshire

Dance

Sat 24 2.00pm - 4.00pm The Two Wrongies Comedy Dance Workshop Yorkshire Dance

Sat 24 6.00pm - 8.00pm Aurora Lubos Still Alive Installation Yorkshire Dance

Sat 24 6.45pm Claire MacDonald & Charlotte Vincent Traces of Her Performance Yorkshire Dance

Sat 24 8.00pm Liz Aggiss Survival Tactics Performance Yorkshire Dance

Sat 24 10.00pm The Two Wrongies World of Wrong Performance Yorkshire Dance

Mon 26 - Fri 30 10.00am - 5.00pm

Wendy Houstoun & Charlotte Vincent

Professional Development Week

Residency Workshop Yorkshire Dance

Fri 30 5.00pm The Two Wrongies Work in progress Sharing Yorkshire Dance

Juncture at a glance

Date Time Artists Event Name Type Venue

Thur 8 10.00am - 1.00pm Vincent Dance Theatre Motherland Workshop (day

one) Yorkshire Dance

Fri 9 10.00am - 1.00pm Vincent Dance Theatre Motherland Workshop (day

two) Yorkshire Dance

Thur 15 1.00pm - 4.30pm Charlotte Vincent & David Edmunds Northern Area Dance Network Meeting Debate Yorkshire Dance

Fri 16 6.00pm BrightFurnace The Traipse Sharing & discussion Yorkshire Dance

Sun 18 11.00am - 2.00pm BrightFurnace English Folk Dance Workshop Yorkshire Dance

Sun 18 12.00pm - 2.00pm Antony Dunn Writing Dance Workshop Yorkshire Dance

Wed 21 10.00am - 5.00pm New Art Club Comedy Dance Workshop (day

one) Yorkshire Dance

Thur 22 10.00am - 5.00pm New Art Club Comedy Dance Workshop (day

two) Yorkshire Dance

Thur 22 6.00pm - 9.00pm Aurora Lubos Still Alive Installation Yorkshire Dance

Thur 22 7.00pm V&A Artefacts (Charlotte Vincent& Liz Aggiss) Blurred Vision Performance Yorkshire Dance

Thur 22 8.00pm Wendy Houstoun 50 Acts Performance Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre

Thur 22 9.30pm Yorkshire Dance Party at Yorkshire Dance Party Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 10.00am - 1.00pm Liz Aggiss Mistressclass Workshop Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 11.00am - 1.00pm Various What Do Venues Want

from Artists? Debate Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 2.00pm - 5.00pm VariousConsiderations in Contemporary Performance Practice

Symposium Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 5.00pm Yorkshire Dance, Claire MacDonald & Charlotte Vincent

Reception / Launch Event

Reception / Launch Event Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 6.00pm - 8.30pm Aurora Lubos Still Alive Installation Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 6.30pm Eddie Ladd Llain Performance Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 8.00pm Antonia Grove Small Talk Performance Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23 9.30pm New Art Club Quiet Act of Destruction Performance Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre

Sat 24 12.00pm - 1.30pm Wieke Eringa, Yorkshire Dance City of Dance Tour Meet at Yorkshire

Dance

Sat 24 2.00pm - 4.00pm The Two Wrongies Comedy Dance Workshop Yorkshire Dance

Sat 24 6.00pm - 8.00pm Aurora Lubos Still Alive Installation Yorkshire Dance

Sat 24 6.45pm Claire MacDonald & Charlotte Vincent Traces of Her Performance Yorkshire Dance

Sat 24 8.00pm Liz Aggiss Survival Tactics Performance Yorkshire Dance

Sat 24 10.00pm The Two Wrongies World of Wrong Performance Yorkshire Dance

Mon 26 - Fri 30 10.00am - 5.00pm

Wendy Houstoun & Charlotte Vincent

Professional Development Week

Residency Workshop Yorkshire Dance

Fri 30 5.00pm The Two Wrongies Work in progress Sharing Yorkshire Dance

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8.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

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FRIDAY23 MARCH

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Antonia GroveSmall Talkby Wendy Houstoun Performance

‘A girl should be two things: who and what she wants’, Coco Chanel

Don’t miss ‘dance goddess’ Antonia Grove of Probe in this virtuosic display of disguise and derangement, specially created by Wendy Houstoun. Houstoun stands out as one of the most original artists of her generation, with an international reputation for solo work. In her first ever such creation for another protagonist, Houstoun channels her capacity to make lucid and humorous observations on contemporary culture into Small Talk, a screen-test for a B-movie actress embodied by a series of edgy, sexy and unpredictable transformations. Using stand-up singing, sit down talking, monosyllabic dancing and fast talking movement, the metamorphic Grove embraces the chameleon desire to be all things to all people.

Antonia Grove, Artistic Director of Probe, is well known for creating new contexts for presenting contemporary dance and has an enviable reputation for performances with Rambert, Random, National Theatre, Fabulous Beast and Bonachela Dance Company.

FRIDAY23 MARCH

9.30pm

Admission £10.00

Concessions £8.00

New Art ClubQuiet Act of DestructionPerformance

Tom Roden and Pete Shenton, aka New Art Club, are the only men allowed in Charlotte’s performance programme. This is because she agrees that they are ‘Downright funny’ (New York Times).

Recognised as one of the truly original forces in comedy and winners of the Edinburgh Spotlight Best Comedy Show 2010, Quiet Act of Destruction is an energetic and hilarious rampage through the placid Cambridgeshire village of Meldreth.

Against an exhilarating soundtrack, chaos bubbles in the church tea-rooms and revolution leaks from under the post office door. Farm parks and yoghurt become sources of emotional break downs and along the way new rules are created, bent, broken and ignored in the duo’s vain attempt to take control of the situation.

Quiet Act of Destruction is programmedin partnership with Northern Ballet as partof Juncture.

‘A standing ovation... it is a joy to watch’ ****The Scotsman

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Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre

12.00pm - 1.30pm

Meet at Yorkshire Dance

Admission FREE -

Wieke Eringa, Yorkshire Dance - City of DanceTour

Leeds has a hugely active dance community. Join Wieke Eringa, Director of Yorkshire Dance, as she leads you around some of the key dance organisations in the city. A rare chance to talk to Janet Smith, the new Principal of Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Sharon Watson, Director of Phoenix Dance Theatre, and prolific Producer David Edmunds from DEP Arts about their respective visions and ambitions. Likely subjects concern training, talent development, production and touring.

SATURDAY24 MARCH

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SATURDAY24 MARCH

2.00pm - 4.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

6.45pm

Admission £15.00

Concessions £12.00

Yorkshire Dance

Admission £5.00

The Two WrongiesComedy DanceWorkshop

Fun Dance Techniques: Find your inner dance idiot with The Two Wrongies’ two-hour dance technique workshop that may include lunging, wafting of material with Dame Judy Scarf movements, horizontal hokey cokey and Barrychin.

The Two Wrongies draw on a wide range of influences from Pina Bausch to The Muppet Show to inform their choreographic work. They will share with participants the processes they use to create new work in this workshop.

Suitable for 16 years + dance practitioners, performers and non dancers. Please wear suitable clothing that allows freedom of movement. (Thonged leotards, headbands and legwarmers are suggested but not required.)

Claire MacDonald & Charlotte VincentTraces of HerPerformance

In 1983, when Claire MacDonald was 28, she made a show called The Carrier Frequency, with an experimental theatre co-operative called Impact Theatre. In 2000, when Charlotte Vincent was 32, she recreated that show, playing Claire’s role, with an experimental theatre company called Stan’s Café. Carrying with them all their scars and back stories, left with just half remembered phrases and some grainy video footage, Traces of Her is an attempt to make something out of what is remembered and what remains lost to the ruthless passing of time.

8.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Admission £10.00

Concessions £8.00

SATURDAY24 MARCHLiz Aggiss

Survival TacticsPerformance

From a glamorous, blonde bombshell in high-heels to a pigeon-toed, bow-legged oddball in big pants - Survival Tactics turns the usual perception of the female stage body on its head. Inspired by Ausdruckstanz, with an unhealthy fascination for grotesque dance and a penchant for British music hall, Liz Aggiss pays homage to her historical mentors (and to herself) through a seamless fusion of text and movement, film and reconstruction.

Liz Aggiss is a Brighton-based performer, choreographer, film-maker, writer, artiste and Professor of Visual Performance at the University of Brighton.

‘Liz Aggiss wowed us with her Survival Tactics, a bravura volley of agile mischief with ideas and limbs flying in brilliantly ridiculous directions.’Glasgow Herald

SATURDAY24 MARCH

10.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Admission £10.00

Concessions £8.00

A word of caution: their absurdist humour is not for the faint hearted! Contains nudity.

The Two WrongiesWorld of WrongPerformance

Ready for a right royal wronging? Then enter the world of The Two Wrongies; the double act who dare to do the dirty! It’s dance, it’s comedy, it’s sordid synchronised swimming. ‘It’s so wrong it’s right!’

World of Wrong is a risqué and experimental 60-minute performance that intersperses elements of cabaret with moments that are funny, poignant and daring. It’s dance, it’s comedy, it’s theatre. It’s funny, it’s tongue in cheek, it’s daring. It has some serious bits and some rude bits.

Welcome to the strange and chaotic world of The Two Wrongies. Come with an open mind, sit back, and experience (in no particular order):

‘a delightful, whimsical animation. A glorious physical parody of the male of the species in full-on, hard-on sexual mode. A beautiful silent dance illusion. An unforgettable display of synchronised swimming on land. Jaunty goodtime-jazz intro complete with exaggerated Groucho-style walk. A pas de deux between giant genitalia. All of this interspersed with voicemails and gigglemongering films about ‘Public Lunging’, blow-up dolls and a dancing chicken.’

The Two Wrongies, Avis Cockbill & Janine Fletcher, celebrate and re-interpret the classic double act in a funny, crude, unrestrained and honest female sort of way, creating work with comic prowess, inspired choreographed moments and a considered visual impact.

10.00am - 5.00pm

5.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Admission £120.00

Yorkshire Dance

Admission FREE

Wendy Houstoun & Charlotte Vincent Professional Development WeekResidency Workshop

Established performance makers / teachers Wendy Houstoun and Charlotte Vincent co-lead a week’s residency exploring the tensions and truths involved in collaborative practice, shared leadership and finding authentic, appropriate forms to express an idea. Working across disciplines and flowing between movement, text, humour and song, this is a playful, experimental, process-driven week for professional level participants, with no pressure of a public sharing at the end of the week!

The Two WrongiesWork in ProgressSharing

Showing of new work created in residence at Yorkshire Dance over five days. Feedback is welcome from the public. Chaired by Charlotte Vincent.

MONDAY26 MARCH -FRIDAY30 MARCH

FRIDAY30 MARCH

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Yorkshire Dance celebrates its 30th birthday this year.

We’d like to thank you – along with thousands of dance artists, audience members, participants in classes, board members, staff and funders – for playing your crucial role in the life of this dance agency for Yorkshire.

Yorkshire Dance champions the development of dance in Yorkshire. We do so by raising standards, increasing knowledge and understanding and fostering creativity and innovation.

Visit the website for details

www.yorkshiredance.com

Yorkshire DanceRegistered 2319572 EnglandRegistered Charity No. 701624VAT No. 418 0193 70

We create opportunities for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to see, make and take part in high quality dance that is rooted in their creativity, in their lives and in their communities, with the power to transform and inspire.

We create opportunities for emerging and established artists and practitioners to research, create and present new contemporary work on the small scale, and in communities, developing their skills, expertise and networks.

We create opportunities for people to experience dance by working with partners in local authorities and the arts, in health and in sport, building a region-wide infrastructure for dance development.

The Collective: Yorkshire Dance Membership

Join a thriving new network of dance practitioners, The Collective. For a small annual fee, Professionals, Students and Recent Graduates will receive a huge range of invaluable benefits.

• Yorkshire Dance Bulletin• Responsive Residency scheme• Membership of The Dance Network• Open Practice• Advice surgeries & coaching• Free Standby Space• Discounts on CPD opportunities and performances• Your profile on the Yorkshire Dance website• Reduced-price rehearsal space• Bursaries • Platform / Scratch Night opportunities• Free equipment hire

and much, much more...

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Finding Yorkshire Dance

Yorkshire Dance3 St Peter’s BuildingsSt Peter’s SquareLeeds LS9 8AH

Yorkshire Dance is situated in the cultural quarter of Leeds city centre, opposite the BBC building and Leeds College of Music, between the Wardrobe bar and the new Northern Ballet / Phoenix Dance building, , two minutes’ walk from Leeds city bus station and 15 minutes’ walk from the train station.

There is limited on-street parking outside Yorkshire Dance, but there are plenty of public car parks within easy walking distance.

All weekend customers of Yorkshire Dance are entitled to a special discount in The Markets NCP. Please ask our Front of House staff for details.

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