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Re-SiTEAN ONLINE BROCHURE DEDICATED TO
PROMOTE OUTDOOR OR SITED DANCE WORKS FROM THE UK
READY FOR TOURING
Edition 1November 2011
www.digm.org www.urbanmovesfestival.co.uk
DiGMDance Initiative Greater Manchester
EDITION ONE - 2012
A note from DiGM’s Director, Deb Ashby INDEXI am proud to welcome you to the very first edition of Re-SiTE!
Re-SiTE is an online brochure dedicated to promoting UK based professional dance performance works ready for touring for outdoors, sited or site-specific contexts. At Dance Initiative Greater Manchester we specialise in developing dance for the outdoors and in unusual spaces, we want to break boundaries and offer new experiences both to artists and audiences.
We intend Re-SiTE to become an annual feature, produced by DiGM and hope that it becomes a key part of your programming processes, building an important bridge between artists/companies and promoters/festivals etc.
We received a large number of applications from dancers and companies hoping to be featured and would like to thank everybody that applied. There were many positive aspects to the work that we viewed, but we have been selective to ensure that we feature a variety of work that we feel is exciting, innovative, tour ready and offers diversity in programming options.
2012 is set to be both a busy year for Dance Initiative Greater Manchester and an exciting year for dance generally in the North West. Please keep up to date with al l news and projects on our website www.digm.org and we hope to see you at our very own outdoor festival, Urban Moves International Dance Festival in July 2012, www.urbanmovesfestival.co.uk
Thank you
Deb Ashby Director
P2Akademi - South Asian Dance UKAvant Garde and Remarkable ProductionsP3 Axial DanceBridget FiskeP4 Charlotte Spencer ProjectsCompany ChameleonP45Etta Ermini Dance TheatreFevered SleepP6 FuelKompany MalakhiP7 Mark Brew CompanyMotionhouseP8Ragroof TheatreScarabeusP9Step Out ArtsStopGAPP10Tilted ProductionsUpSwingP11 Wired Aerial TheatreYael Flexer, Nic Sandiland (YFNS)
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AKADEMI - SOUTH ASIAN DANCE UKhttp://www.akademi.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 0207 691 3210
AVANT GARDE DANCE & REMARKABLE PRODUCTIONShttp://www.avantgardedance.comhttp://www.remarkableproductions.org
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 0207 387 1203
The Artists: Akademi actively pushes the boundaries of where dance can appear and produces innovative South Asian dance events in unusual places. Our productions embrace and are inspired by extraordinary architecture and public spaces. We offer new experiences both to artists and audiences alike and increase access to high quality dance activity to underrepresented communities.
We create work for artists and engage the widest possible public with an art form that while rooted in classical tradition is at the cutting edge of contemporary culture and a particularly British creative force. We are a local organisation with a global perspective and worldwide connections. Our pioneering work contributes significantly to Britain’s international reputation for innovation in South Asian dance.
Our ambitious productions have included part-nerships with a wide range of collaborators eg: Initium (London College of Fashion) Bells (Theatre Tol) and Sufi:Zen (Red Earth). We perform at dance venues, outdoor spaces and festivals, and in both the private and the commercial sectors. We respond to major events such as the Queen’s Commonwealth Games Baton Relay ceremony. We promote a cross arts-led approach and reflect diversity in collaboration with circus, cinema, fashion, music and literature.
The Work: Paradiso (28 minutes) Paradiso is a site-responsive, open-air dance performance inspired by William Blake's illustrations of Dante's Paradiso and the language of both con-temporary and South Asian classical dance. Paradiso is a low impact and highly portable outdoor promenade dance production, created for gardens, parks and greens choreographed by Mayuri Boonham.
Floor required: Grass, concrete, wood/decking, sprung and unsprung floors, uneven and multi levelled areas, multi textured flooring, walls, stairs and physical features of space incorporated in to this piece.
Performance area required: Paradiso is a flexible, site responsive piece, able to work in a majority of outdoor spaces. No specific features are required. Minimum space: approximately 10m x 10m.
Number of performers: 4
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: 2 shows a day in the same location, five days per week.
Available to Tour: Present and ongoing
Other Works Available: INITIUM, SUFI:ZEN
The Artists: Avant Garde Dance Company-Founded and initiated by Tony Adigun, Avant Garde Dance, a Hackney based company es-tablished in 2001 uses Hip-Hop at its core, delivered in a contemporary package.
Constantly playing with styles and genres, the company has developed a unique approach and strives to create fresh and exciting work. They're highly respected and recognised in Hip-Hop and contemporary dance circles, but always aim to move forward, embrace new concepts, challenge convention and break boundaries.
Always at the forefront of the Hip-Hop Dance Theatre scene in the UK, the company work within three fields: theatre, the commercial sector and education.
Remarkable Productions (Producers) : Remarkable’s work can be divided into three complementary areas: the production and pro-gramming of major outdoor arts festivals; the development of one-off site specific projects; and longer term artist collaborations.
The Work: Taxi (40 minutes) - Combining traditional street theatre with high impact, high energy street dance, ‘Taxi!’ takes us on a comic journey through the hurly - burly of urban Lon-don seen through the eyes of a London Cabbie and his motley selection of passengers.
Fusing the elements of Parkour, Contemporary and Hip-Hop Dance, and set in, around and on top of the iconic London Taxi, this piece is a
refreshing, entertaining piece of street theatre and dance.
Floor required: A green field site is preferred although Taxi! can be performed on most other surfaces, providing that it is clear of uneven and slippery ground.
Performance area required: As the perform-ance begins as a walkabout (or driveabout) we will need a route which has the clearance for the Taxi to enter the performance space. Once in position, the Taxi will be parked side on, with the driver’s side facing towards the audience. The performers will need a dance space ap-proximately 4m wide and 5m lengthways in front of the Taxi. This will need to be demar-cated with a rope/similar prior to the perform-ance to manage audience. They will need at least 2m behind the taxi as a backstage area which will need barriers to cordon this off from the public thoroughfare. We will also need clearance of at least 3m from the roof of the Taxi.
Number of performers: 6
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Twice ( with minimum gap of two hours)
Available to Tour: Summer 2012 for outdoor shows and all year round for indoor perform-ances.
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The Artists: Axial Dance is a Manchester based company specialising in Outdoor, Sited and Site–specific dance work. It is headed up by Artistic Director Ruth Tyson-Jones.
The Work: Lance & Brenda (10 minutes) In July 2009, axial dance received a Made For The Lakes commission to make a new outdoor work, Lance and Brenda, for Lakes Alive Festi-val 2009.
Lance and Brenda is a choreographed duet that arrives, uses and departs on an iconic 1963 Lambretta. A couple, Lance and Brenda ex-press their passion for one another through their personalised version of Sixties dancing to their favourite Sixties tunes.
Choreographed by Ruth Tyson-Jones, with dancers Debbie Milner and James Dunbar.
Floor required: Grass, flat, concrete, no cob-bles
Performance area required: Minimum space 5m x 5m x 5m. A safe route off road to the per-formance area, for the scooter
Number of performers: 2
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Four
Available to Tour: All year round until 2013
Other works available: BO SISTERS
AXIAL DANCE
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 7939 135 759
BRIDGET FISKE
http://www.bridgetfiske.com
Email: [email protected]
The Artist: Bridget is a dance theatre artist working across performance and choreography for the stage, digital environments, sited and outdoor work and broadcast media.
Bridget engages dance as a collaborator, per-former, creator, facilitator, teacher and story-teller. Bridget works across the UK, Europe and Australia as a solo, collective and company artist.
The Work: Aquarist Nimble (*50min includ-ing moving between vignettes. 35 min in one site. Each vignette between 9 and 12 min long.) ‘Aquarist Nimble’ a quirky and charmed explorer, dances across the oceans a n d d e s e r t s t o r e v e a l a s t o r y o f transformation. Deep in emotion, both reminis-cent and humorous in its storytelling and re-fined in its physical articulation ‘Aquarist Nim-ble’ is a sensitive series that is suitable for chil-dren and family audiences.
Floor required: Concrete, grass, tiles, wood and staging
Performance area required: Clear 6m x 6m flat area
Example spaces: parks, church yards, court-yards, castle ruins, art galleries, museums, libraries, public amphitheatre, water fronts.
Number of performers: 1
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: 2 x full length shows or 4 x ‘Aquarium: Aquarist Nimble 2’
Available to Tour: All year round (Winter in-door sites)
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The Artist: Charlotte Spencer Projects’ work draws on an intricately woven combination of dance, music and visual art. Driven by inter-ests in the environment and perceptions of time, artistic director, Charlotte Spencer seeks to create work that enables all people to re-connect with the natural world. Charlotte Spencer Projects always work closely with composers and this dialogue is fundamental in the development and realisation of each new work. Charlotte invites audiences to let the performance seep into them - to engage with how it makes them feel. CSP’s work is de-signed to animate a wide range of public, non-theatre spaces. Working in the fields of art and the environment, it is important to foster an awareness of the sustainability and environ-mental impact for the delivery of every project - not only in terms of content, but how the pro-ject is managed, rehearsed, constructed, and realised. Charlotte Spencer is a choreographer based in Brighton. She is an Associate Artist at The Point, Eastleigh, supported by South East Dance, Dance Ireland and a participant on the Tour d’Europe des Choreographes interna-tional networking initiative 2010/11 which took her to choreographic centres in France, Ger-many, Poland, Ireland and Spain. Charlotte is one of the choreographers working on The Making Space programme for Siobhan Davies Dance.
The Work: The Nature of Things (25 min-utes) The Nature of Things is an expansive landscape of movement and sound that is full of circles and spirals, wind blowing across long
grass in open fields, birds flying. It looks at naturally occurring living patterns, like branch-ing and spiral forms; erosion and aggregation processes and investigates choreographic structures that both create and change these patterns. The Nature of Things was created in 2011, funded by Arts Council England, South East Dance and Patrons of Charlotte Spencer Projects.
Floor required: grass, concrete, wood, dance floor, any flat clean surface can be considered. A dance floor can be used but is not essential
Performance area required: min 12m x 12m, max 25m x 25m. Flat, open space. Can be in natural environment (eg park) or expansive urban/architectural landscape. Not suitable for extremely busy streets.
Number of performers: 5
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Four
Available to Tour: From March - end August 2012. (May and June – weekend perform-ances only)
CHARLOTTE SPENCER PROJECTS
http://wwwchoreographicjourneying.wordpress.com
Email: [email protected]
COMPANY CHAMELEONhttp://www.companychameleon.com
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0)1132 346 911
The Artists: Company Chameleon was formed in 2007 by Anthony Missen and Kevin Edward Turner.
Chameleon believe that Dance Theatre is a vital method for social change. Our work allows the viewer to experience the art of dance whilst tackling challenging subjects in inventive ways that are inclusive and accessible.
We create and present groundbreaking dance theatre that brings histories and stories to life with beauty, force and intensity, revealing new insights and alternative views on traditional archetypes, carving a path of inspiration and aspiration for individuals and communities in society whose voice is often misrepresented or not heard.
Through the performance of our work, and through educational programmes, we support social cohesion and artistic understanding. Alongside our touring work we run workshops for young people to engage in dance and we are particularly committed to working with young men to challenge the stereotypes of men in dance and to enable young men to develop key skills in responsibility, discipline and social interaction.
The Work: Search and Find (15 minutes) - Search & Find explores the idea of connection and disconnection between people, as two pro-tagonists search for a way to find a sense of shared understanding and purpose. Physically awesome and sensitive, the work invites you to consider your connection with others.
Search & Find was commissioned by Dance Initiative Greater Manchester.
Floor required: Any flat, clean surface can be considered. Performance space must be a hard, flat surface (concrete paving slabs or similar with no bumps and not on a sloping sur-face). A dance floor can be used but is not needed.
Performance area required: Typical playing dimensions required are 10m wide x 10m deep though exceptions and alterations can be made for smaller spaces. This piece cannot be played in spaces less than 8m wide x 8m deep.
Number of performers: 2
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Twice
Available to tour: Summer 2012
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ETTA ERMINI DANCE THEATREhttp://www.ettaermini.com
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 7595 707 622
The Artists: Fevered Sleep creates new work in performance, installation and print, for chil-dren and for adults.
Our work takes place in arts venues such as theatres and galleries, in unusual places and interesting sites, both indoors and out, and in the physical and virtual spaces people encoun-ter in their everyday lives. Whatever we make, and wherever it’s found, we seek to provide thought-provoking, surprising and intimate ex-periences that encourage people to see the world in new and unexpected ways.
Committed to research and fearless about ex-perimentation, we aim in each of our projects to discover something fresh about the art forms in which we work. All our work grows through collaboration and conversation: with world-class artists, with expert thinkers and re-searchers, with scientists, with members of the public, and with our audiences.
The Work: The Bounce (10 minutes) The Bounce combines live music with contempo-rary dance and a set made simply of inflatable balls to create a playful performance that is suitable for all. The Bounce appears in public spaces, playgrounds or parks – just waiting to be discovered by children and adults during their summer adventures.
Floor required: Grass / Any surface with dance flooring.
Performance area required: Any flat, level space at least 16m x 8m.
The piece can be performed inside or outside, but would need to be abandoned in wet weather where the surface becomes a slip hazard.
Number of performers: 5 (4 dancers, 1 dancer/musician)
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: The Bounce can be per-formed up to 10 times over a weekend (max 5 performances a day) or 18 times over a 6 day week (max 3 performances a day).
Available to Tour: By negotiation Summer 2012
FEVERED SLEEPhttp://www.feveredsleep.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 2079 222 986
The Artists: Etta Ermini trained in Performing Arts in Brussels, Belgium (1999-2002) and completed her dance training at Laban in 2004. She then went on to complete a MA in Euro-pean Dance Theatre Practice at Laban in 2005. Etta Ermini Dance Theatre was founded in 2005 with the aim to explore human relation-ships through cross art form storytelling tech-niques. The physical theatre company works with an interdisciplinary approach and exam-ines relationships through dance, theatre, spo-ken word and other creative disciplines. In ex-tracting elements of the absurd, the Company uncovers the dark humour in dramatic events and together with audience interaction weaves this into a series of theatrical vignettes for a range of audiences. The company is committed to making fun and entertaining work that appeals to all ages and backgrounds. The Company aims to make work that can be presented both indoor and outdoor and that has universal appeal in its execution. Etta Ermini Dance Theatre has performed and delivered workshops in London, UK and abroad.
The Work: ‘Roadworks’ (15 minutes) Road-works - is a quirky and humorous engagement between two dancers, a BMX rider and a busker, devised and directed by Etta Ermini. This dance theatre piece incorporates acrobat-ics, B-Boying, Contemporary dance, BMX-ing, music, clowning and physical theatre. Through a sequence of humorous events, an entertain-ing engagement unfolds amongst three charac-ters that use their 'art-form' as a technique to communicate. Inspired by the Hip Hop battle format - a multitude of creative expression is brought to life as they battle for their place on the road.
Floor required: Smooth surface such as con-crete, tarmac or granite
Performance area required: Minimum 12m x 12m area required
Number of performers: 3
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Three
Available to Tour: From January 2012
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FUELhttp://www.fueltheatre.com
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 207 228 6688
KOMPANY MALAKHIhttp://www.kompanymalakhi.com
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 7534 956 356
The Artists: Led by Kate McGrath and Louise Blackwell, Fuel produces fresh work for adven-turous people by inspiring artists. Fuel is a producing organisation which works in partner-ship with some of the most exciting theatre artists in the UK to develop, create and present new work for all. Fuel is currently producing work with Will Adamsdale, Clod Ensemble, Inua Ellams, Fevered Sleep, David Rosenberg, Sound&Fury, Uninvited Guests and Melanie Wilson.
Fuel’s projects with artists are varied in form and content, and happen in all sorts of places: from a spectacular dance event popping up in public spaces around the UK, to a journey across the body of a 65 year old lesbian grandmother in medical schools; from a heart-felt celebration of love in village halls, to a street party in Bognor Regis.
The Work: Electric Hotel (1 hour) Electric Hotel is a lonely, bizarre and beautiful outdoor spectacle; a uniquely designed, fly-by-night hotel brought to vivid life through dance and sound. Sitting on the outside looking in, the audience snatch glimpses of the do-not-disturb lives unfolding behind the floor to ceiling win-dows. Wearing headphones to eavesdrop on the internal spaces of the building they watch the residents in their private rooms: natural habits, unnatural fantasies and wildly eccentric housekeeping. Conceived and directed by
David Rosenberg; choreographed and co di-rected by Frauke Requardt.
Floor required: Hard standing
Performance area required: Minimum of 40m x 20m, with at least half of the site flat/level
Number of performers: 7
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Once
Available to Tour: Spring, summer, autumn 2012 & 2013
Other Works Available: MAKIKO’S SHED
The Artists: Under the Artistic Direction of Kwesi Johnson, Kompany Malakhi creates ex-citing and dynamic interdisciplinary perform-ance work fusing a wealth of cultural and artis-tic forms. Our work and organisation reflect the diverse and multifaceted nature of contempo-rary society. Rooted in dance and physical theatre Kompany Malakhi creates experiences that change perspectives. We are interested in the relationship between theatre and the urban environment. Kompany Malakhi creates con-temporary performance in its truest sense, dis-tinctively modern in style and attitude, working with new forms and connecting with new audi-ences. Kompany Malakhi has been touring and producing work for over 10 years. We have two years experience of working with site specific and outdoor work having performed Rotations at a variety of events across the UK in 2010 and 2011.
The Work: Rotations (15 minutes) Rotations is a unique fusion of BMX flatlanding, breakin’ (breakdancing) and contemporary dance, creat-ing a visually thrilling performance that is puls-ing with energy, verve and invention. With a floor design painted by world-renowned graffiti artist Paris, four highly skilled performers col-laborate and unite through a fast and breath-taking series of high-energy twists, flips, and world class BMX tricks.
Floor required: This show needs a hard, flat surface. It can not be performed on cobbles, grass or slopes.
Performance area required: 10m x 10m
Number of performers: 4
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Twice
Available to Tour: Summer 2012 (Could be available from May)
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The Artists: Marc Brew Company makes ten-der, precise choreographic material that exem-plifies the beauty of the moments shared be-tween people.
Marc Brew’s choreography draws out the un-expected physicality of each performer. Work-ing with a range of disabled and non-disabled artists his work entwines newly discovered movement, finding new ways to work with their bodies and reveals the unusual and the inspir-ing in the mundane to tell beautiful stories about being.
Marc Brew Company is committed to develop-ing innovative collaborative work that inter-weaves a physicality derivative of strong con-temporary dance technique. The choreogra-pher employs the use of line and extension, with intricate folding, placement and re-placement. This complex use of the body fused with a very human content offers audiences a clear, intricate and emotive experience. The works created by the company can be thought of as a series of physical conversations, en-counters and interventions that reflect what it is to be human.
The Work: Nocturne (20 minutes) - Nocturne pulls back the sheets on exhausted embraces and near misses in the night. It’s an exquisite contemporary dance quartet that draws you into the unseen dreams of cities at dusk.
Four dancers perform this dynamic work with two specially built double beds. The day to day of couples and domesticity, unfolds into an evening of restless dreams.
Floor required: The performance space must be wheelchair accessible. Any flat, clean sur-
face can be considered. Black dance floor is preferable. Performace space must be a hard, flat surface (concrete paving slabs or similar with no bumps and not on a sloping surface). Beds on wheels and wheelchair will easily mal-function if there are cracks, holes or bumps.
Performance area required: Typical playing dimensions required are 9m wide x 9m deep, though exceptions and alterations can be made for smaller spaces. This piece cannot be played in spaces less than 6m wide x 6m deep.
Number of performers: 4
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Twice
Available to Tour: Summer 2012
MARC BREW COMPANY http://www.marcbrewcompany.com
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 7794 350 415
MOTIONHOUSE
http://www.motionhouse.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 1926 887 052
The Artists: Motionhouse has been producing ground-breaking and exciting dance theatre since 1988. It has an extensive touring history showcasing full-scale productions to theatres and venues, as well as large-scale site-specific dance spectacles and short festival pieces for performance in a wide range of public places and spaces. From theatres to festivals, from close and intimate to large scale and spectacu-lar, Motionhouse perform on stunning sets, in beautiful places and in the public eye.
Motionhouse’s touring productions suspend disbelief and capture the imagination, seam-lessly integrating highly physical dance, breath-taking flying and striking theatrical imagery. Motionhouse’s work has toured extensively in the UK, mainland Europe and beyond.
In addition Motionhouse create large scale per-formance events in which setting, action and context collide. These dance spectacles can be made in response to a wide range of extraordi-nary places and to date have featured cranes and diggers, pyrotechnics, giant sandcastles, hot air balloons and huge fairy tale ballgowns.
The Work: Cascade (25 minutes) Set on a submerged house amidst rising flood waters Cascade is an enthralling look at one family’s scramble to keep their heads above water and their feet on dry land! Cascade combines the very best of dance and acrobatics in a physical and dramatic spectacle.
Floor required: Requires a firm, level, even surface (eg concrete). Cannot be performed on grass or cobbles.
Performance area required: Clear perform-ance area of 10m x 10m with height clearance of 5m
Number of performers: 4
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Maximum of three
Available to Tour: Open availability
Other Works Available: UNDERGROUND,WAITING GAME
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RAGROOF THEATREhttp://www.ragrooftheatre.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 1237 699 733
The Artists: Ragroof Theatre specialises in site-specific work, engaging and collaborating with the community in which its productions are realised. We bring our work to the heart of the community; high streets, social centres, boxing clubs, dance halls and schools. We are a col-lective of individual artists with a dazzling array of skills in dance, physical theatre, visual art, written word and curation. We explore specific subjects and communities. It is the human ex-perience and the people’s stories that are at the heart of our work.
Our work process is rooted in the personal connection made between us and the people we meet; it is a journey of learning, laced with laughter, sadness and confrontation. We invite our audience to actively engage with the work and be part of a visceral environment that cap-tures sounds and voices from the worlds we explore. As theatre-makers we are fascinated by the way that stories and memories become brighter, more vivid in the retelling. Our work is often inspired by the very smallest detail, and it is in the retelling of any story, with the added elements of theatricality, that these details, the essence of memory, come to life. We believe our work is relevant. We aim to challenge and transform perceptions, enhancing difference and celebrating change.
The Work: Bridges Y Puentes (45 minutes) Inspired by the Tango and migration, ‘Bridges’ celebrates the inter pollination of cultures. A site -specific promenade performance, it explores how music and dance can overcome barriers of language, creating mutual respect, understand-ing and wonderful new art forms. Collaborating with Spanish/French Company ‘Vendaval’, the show can be performed in English, French or Spanish.
Floor required: Any
Performance area required: Car Park, Ware-house or similar working space suitable for promenade piece. Size flexible
Number of performers: 7
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Three
Available to Tour: Throughout 2012-2013
Other works available: GLOVES ON, SHALL WE DANCE? ENCORE!
The Artists: Scarabeus is an exciting, well-established aerial theatre company who has pioneered the use of outdoor site-specific per-formance. We have developed a unique visual style and our work has been described as “captivating, illusionary and tantalising” (Scot-tish Herald) and have an international reputa-tion for creating beautiful, poetic and spectacu-lar shows. We pride ourselves on our intelli-gent approach to creating aerial work. Previ-ous highlight performances created for unusual outdoors locations include work commissioned by the Greenwich and Dockland’s Festival, Salisbury Festival, Fuse Medway Festival, Lib-erty Festival, Killarney Festival, the British Li-brary, the Natural History Museum, More Lon-don building, and performances for the Olym-pic Torch Relay. Internationally, we have toured extensively throughout Europe and created a large-scale performance on a giant satellite dish in Trinidad, on the Russian Embassy in Shanghai and in Bel Horizonte in Brazil.
The Work: Light Touch (30 minutes) A site-specific show mixing live performance and video art (from SnakeOil) for the façade of buildings.
Floor required: N/A
Performance area required: Rigged from façade of buildings- the show is tailor made for particular buildings.
Number of performers: As required, but at least four performers for effect
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: 1 or 2 - show takes place at night
Available to Tour: Open Availability
SCARABEUS
http://www.scarabeus.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 2072 817 493
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The Artists: Yu Yu Rau: Taiwanese born YuYu Rau is an associate Artist to Step Out Arts since 2010.
Yu Yu’s training includes classical ballet, con-temporary dance and Chinese classical dance, and she holds a BA in Dance from the Chinese Culture University (CCU) in Taipei. Yu Yu com-pleted an MA Performance: Dance at University of Chichester, UK.
Yu Yu’s recent work includes choreography for SOA’s Jumping Dragon project which com-menced with research and development work in May 2011 and developed in July 2012 for the Greenwich World Cultural festival in July 2011, commissioned by Greenwich Dance. Yu Yu has also been delivering workshops for the dance students at the University of Bedfordshire and Plymouth, based on her choreographic inter-ests. Re-Encounter was invited to perform at the Hawth Theatre and Plymouth festival and in 2010 Yuyu was selected by Sadler’s Wells Big Intensive 2010.
Producing company - Step Out Arts
Supporting the visibility and sustainability of British East Asian dance artists nationally through showcases, productions and educa-tional projects.
The Work: Jumping Dragon – Harmony (15 minutes) Exploring the core spirit of Chinese Culture through choreographic exploration of the traditional art form of Martial Arts. This pro-ject aims to celebrate the community spirit through two strands: Outdoor performances, & Working with a local school or community to create a bespoke performance opportunity alongside professional artists.
Floor required: Can be Flexible
Performance area required: Can be Flexible
Number of performers: 7 including musicians
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Twice
Available to Tour: May - Aug 2012
Other Works Available: JUMPING DRAGON - CIRCULAR ENERGYSTEP OUT
ARTShttp://www.stepoutarts.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 7899 807 741
The Artists: StopGAP is a contemporary dance company that has unparalleled experi-ence in integrated dance and choreographic practice. The company makes engaging work for national and international touring and is one of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisations. StopGAP’s creative inspiration stems from the rich movement and choreo-graphic potential that comes from a diverse range of bodies and minds, working together with honesty and integrity.
StopGAP is a resident company of Farnham Maltings, and has been making touring work for over seven years performing across the UK and in Spain, Sweden, Germany, Norway, France and Japan.
The Work: SPUN Productions (30 minutes) SPUN Productions is a vibrant piece of dance theatre drawing on the popularity of interactive TV programmes. Set in the imaginary world of an audience voting show “So You’re Not Sure If This Is Dance” the ten strong performers par-ody the corporate star-making machine and the erratic nature of entertainment TV.
Fusing the techniques of street theatre and integrated dance, StopGAP takes the audience through the mayhem of bizarre entertainment TV, whose powerful lure drags our wannabe through whimsical acceptance and rejection.
Floor required: Flat concrete
Performance area required: 12m x 12m
Number of performers: 10 + 2 technicians
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Twice
Available to Tour: May – September 2012
Other Works Available: TRACKING
STOPGAP
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 1252 745 443
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TILTED PRODUCTIONShttp://www.tilted.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 1206 825 674
The Artists: Led by Artistic Director Maresa von Stockert, Tilted Prouctions’ work is charac-terised by its combination of vivid imagery, in-novative dance and an integral use of props & set as well as landscapes & architecture.
Current, sometimes beautifully subtle, some-times brutally disturbing and often laced with dark humour, at the heart of von Stockert’s work lie social and political observations. Creating work for the stage and site-specific locations, Tilted refuses to be categorised and aims to stretch expectations of what dance and theatre can be.
Maresa von Stockert came to the UK in 1999 to set up her own dance theatre company in Lon-don. Since then she has received wide recogni-tion for her work and has won numerous awards including a 2005 Time Out Live Award for Outstanding Choreography and the prestig-ious Jerwood Choreography Award in 2002.
The Work: SEASAW (1 hour approx.) A trail of contemporary dance, performance art and physical theatre vignettes, SEASAW is inspired by the relationship between humans and water. Whether evoking childhood memories of water-side holidays or provoking thoughts on current environmental issues such as water pollution and global warming, SEASAW wants to both entertain and challenge.
Floor required: Varied surfaces, e.g. concrete, grass, sand
Performance area required: Various locations. The work is a ‘trail’ therefore using different locations depending on the route chosen.
Number of performers: 8
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Twice
Available to Tour: Currently in repertoire
The Artists: Upswing produces modern cross art form work that uses circus skills as a vehi-cle for physical expression. Upswing explores contemporary issues through the performing arts in general and circus in particular, chal-lenging preconceptions of what circus can ad-dress and its relevance to modern culture. The company produces a mix of indoor touring pro-ductions, participation projects and bespoke, site specific performance.
The company has toured work nationally and internationally, including performances at the London International Mime Festival. Outdoor projects have included outdoor commissions for Greenwich and Docklands Festival, The Mayor of London Trafalgar Square Festival, London 2012 (including the only performance ever staged from Nelsons Column) and BBC London, Henley International Riverside Festival and Without Walls as well as work as aerial consultants and choreographer on a number of projects including the Opening Events for the Liverpool Capital of Culture (dir Nigel Jamieson and Mark Murphy), Peter Pan (National Thea-tre of Scotland, dir John Tiffany), Wicked Lady (New Vic, dir Theresa Heskins), Peter Pan (New Vic, dir Theresa Heskins), King Cotton (dir Jude Kelly), Little Eagles (RSC dir Roxana Silbert). Upswing are Director of Spectacle on The Moment When, a commissioned site spe-cific project in Cheshire as the region’s major Cultural Olympiad presentation in May 2012 with Cheshire Dance and Walk The Plank..
The Work: Loved Up (20 minutes) A light-hearted, fast paced fusion of aerial dance and hip hop centred around the pursuit of love. Created initially as a collaboration between Vicki Amedume and Jonzi D, Loved Up was commissioned by The Mayor of London as part of the Trafalgar Square Festival. It mixes b-boying (breakdance), dancehall, popping and house dance with aerial techniques that demonstrate the pure joy and spirit of dance.
Floor required: Must be firm, flat and level
Performance area required: The aerial rig for the production has afootprint of 6m x 7m when erected but requires a space of 9m x 7m to be lifted into position.
Number of performers: 3
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: The show can be pre-sented twice on a performance day. We can present up to 10 shows in a single week de-pending on the length of the run.
Available to Tour: Currently in repertoire
UPSWINGhttp://www.upswing.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 207 613 4843
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WIRED AERIAL THEATREhttp://www.wiredaerialtheatre.com
Email: [email protected]@xtrax.org.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 151 207 7568
The Artists: Wired Aerial Theatre are best known as the creators of bungee-assisted dance, but after more than a decade of pushing the aerial performance world beyond every imagined boundary, they are so much more than the sum of their parts.
Led by husband and wife team Wendy and Jamie Ogilvie, they are the perfect pairing of movement beauty and technical powerhouse. Based at their centre for aerial excellence, The Higher Space, in the heart of Capital of Culture ’08 Liverpool, they have built a home for every person who ever wanted to fly, but didn’t know how.
With their growing company of highly trained aerial and performance staff, they are changing the face of aerial performance through not only their site-specific corporate shows, hugely popular festival touring and spectacular new show As the World Tipped - which is one of the UK’s largest ever outdoor theatre shows- but also through investing in their community offer-ing work placements and teaching the aerialists of tomorrow through three degree modules in aerial performance available at Edge Hill Uni-versity. What Wired can offer is so much more than performers, choreographers, climbers or teachers. They are dreamers, they are achiev-ers…and they can fly.
The Work: As the World Tipped (55 minutes) A real life disaster movie performed live in the night sky! This ambitious and extraordinary piece of aerial theatre tells a powerful tale of ecological crisis. Combining dramatic film and visuals with breath-taking aerial performance, it confronts one of the most pressing issues for the planet with spectacle, humour and emotion.
Floor required: The show can be performed on hard standing or soft surface. (Concrete, grass, stone)
Performance area required: Build Area 35m x 35m and Performance Area 35m x 30m
Number of performers: 5 aerial performers, 5 climbers
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Once
Available to Tour: May 2012 onwards
Other Works Available: STRAW DOG, ROSA’S BAR
The Artists: Directed by award-winning chore-ographer Yael Flexer and digital artist Nic San-diland, the company creates live and digital installation works. Work ranges from touring stage performances, to site-specific events, interactive installations for galleries, foyers, public spaces and shop fronts as well as com-missions for other dance companies, youth and community groups (including large-scale com-munity projects). YFNS’ unique artistic vision is jointly fashioned by two artistic directors work-ing in different, but mutually complementary, disciplines; each being renowned internation-ally for their work.
Yael and Nic’s work generates of a sense of intimacy in live performance and digital installa-tion, which acknowledges the physicality and presence of the viewer. Works offer acute ob-servations on the everyday and the mundane using pedestrian movement and gesture as well as working with dancers and non-dancers as performers within digital works.
Previously associate artists with Woking Dance Festival (2010), both Yael and Nic have pre-sented their work throughout the UK and inter-nationally over the last 18 years. The company works with a range of partners including: South East Dance, Chichester University, Swindon Dance, Landsdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, Dance South West and Bewegungs Art, Germany. Commissioners include: Arts Council England, The British Council, Sadler’s Wells and The Barbican Cen-tre.
The Work: The Living Room (Outdoor ver-sion: 20 Minutes) Six performers move in and out of solo, duets and sextets, interfering or seemingly assisting each others ‘solo moment’, together inhabiting an imagined domestic space. The work cuts from tight and fast paced choreography to informal banter and wry hu-mour.
*The Living Room also includes the option of special appearances by local guest artists.
Floor required: Ideally a sprung dance floor but it has also been presented on concrete.
Performance area required: Ideally a mini-mum space of 8m x 8m
Number of performers: Long version: 6 Short version: 5 (can be up to 9 including guest performers and a live musician)
How many times can the performance be repeated in a day: Long Version, Twice, Short version, Four times.
Available to Tour: Now until 2013
Other Works Available: EVERYTHING LOOKS BEAUTIFUL IN SLOW MOTION
YAEL FLEXER, NIC SANDLAND (YFNS)Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 1252 745 443
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MANCHESTER’S SPECTACULAR
INTERNATIONAL OUTDOOR DANCE FESTIVAL IS
BACK FOR 2012
Presented by Dance Initiative Greater Manchester and Manchester International Arts, Urban Moves is Manchester’s only international outdoor dance fes-tival.
Urban Moves celebrates all forms of dance in new exciting, accessible, outdoor spaces. The last event Urban Moves 2010 was a roaring success, playing host to performances from both local and interna-tional artists, and attracting audiences of over 10,000 people!
We are pleased to announce that Urban Moves will be back for the special year of 2012
Between 27th and 29th July the city of Manchester will come alive with exciting, unique and entertain-ing dance spectacles.
For more information and updates on Urban Moves 2012 keep your eye on the official website
www.urbanmovesfestival.co.uk
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STRIDE 2012
TURN 2012
Here at Dance Initiative Greater Manchester, we’ve been keeping busy to ensure the region is filled with dance activities throughout 2012! Here’s some
dates for your diaries...
STRIDE is our thriving dance project for young men in partnership with Company Chameleon. It’s fundamental aims being; to introduce young men (aged 10-20) to dance, to offer opportuni-ties for these young men to experience dance as a high quality art form and to challenge stereotypes of young men in dance. STRIDE engages these young men from diverse back-grounds and offers them not only the opportunity to learn dance skills but enables them to de-velop key life skills through discipline, responsi-bility and social interaction. All STRIDE sessions are completely FREE!
Each year we run STRIDE workshops across Greater Manchester from which participants work towards a sited and outdoor performance event. This year workshops will take place in Bolton, Bury, East Manchester, Oldham, Roch-dale, Stockport, Tameside & Wigan
www.digm.orgwww.companychameleon.com
STARTS MARCH 2012
3-5th MAY 2012, CONTACT THEATRE, MANCHESTER
PUT IT IN YOUR DIARY!
SOME NOTABLE DATES FOR NORTH WEST
DANCE IN 2012...
Turn is an open submission dance platform for North West dancers and dance-makers. To showcase short finished pieces, excerpts, works in progress or sited works in and around the building.
It is a public platform, an opportunity for artists to meet, show and peer review work, an artist networking event and a selection platform for the Turn Prize, a small, supported commission, sup-ported by Dance Initiative Greater Manchester, Live at LICA, Contact and hAb.
Turn is a greenroom legacy project.
www.turnmcr.org
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Brought to you by Merseyside Dance Initiative, Dance Initiative Greater Manchester, Cheshire Dance, Dance Cumbria and Ludus Dance, Lancashire.
Big Dance 2012 is the UK’s biggest ever celebration of dance. Taking place across the UK, big dance will feature thousands of events inspired by dance. They will take place in all sorts of locations and in all dance styles which will be open to absolutely anyone. Events will include classes, workshops, courses, performances, flashmobs, have-a-go days, film screenings, photog-raphy courses, competitions, world record attempts, dancing in unusual spaces - shops, parks, galleries, shopping centres -dancing in schools, at home, wherever you like!
DiGM are proud to be a part of The Big NW 2012 Dance Link Up, artistically led by Jeanefer Jean-Charles. For more informa-tion please visit the Big Dance website.
www.bigdance2012.com
BIG DANCE 2012 - North West7-15 July 2012, North West England
www.digm.orgwww.urbanmovesfestival.co.uk
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