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Yorkshire Dance champions the value of dance and its development in Yorkshire. We do so by raising standards, increasing knowledge and understanding and fostering creativity and innovation. 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. www.yorkshiredance.com
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Yorkshire DanceAnnualReview2014 - 2015
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“Yorkshire Dance continuesto play a vital role in the deliveryof dance in Yorkshire, supporting
established artists, excitingemerging talent and youngdancers across the region.”
2 Wieke Eringa photo © Sara Teresa; Margaret Coleman photo © Yorkshire Dance
Cover photo Bodies on the Beach, Big Dance 2014 commission © David Lindsay
Mission
Yorkshire Dance champions the value of dance and its
development in Yorkshire. We do so by raising standards,
increasing knowledge and understanding and fostering
creativity and innovation.
Introduction
This year we put a capital ‘D’ in Development: we
successfully developed our research profile with two
projects that chart the broad spectrum of Yorkshire
Dance’s activity, producing on the one hand new
contemporary practice for the professional stage and, on the
other, grass-roots participatory health and wellbeing work in
areas of deprivation.
respond_ and Dancing in Time enabled us to start
reflecting in more detail on the impact of our work and gave
us a hugely valuable chance to develop new partnerships, so
critical in this time of economic uncertainty. Sketch, our
new dramaturgy project, aligned itself with respond_ in its
quest to open up the creative process to a wider audience
and explore the relationship between dance and its audience
through enhancing critical discourse.
We were immensely pleased with the development of the
infrastructure in the region with a thriving and increasingly
joined-up (youth) dance community and excellent evaluation
of the conference, the regional showcase, substantial new
investment in Hull and East Riding and new workforce
development through Dance Transports. A hugely
rewarding year with new partnerships, a new digital
exploration and much optimism for the role of dance in
answering some of the critical challenges facing our local and
global community.
Wieke Eringa
CEO & Artistic Director
This year is yet another of great achievement and
innovation at Yorkshire Dance. As you read this review
of our activities I am sure you cannot fail to be
impressed by the range of work that pushes creative
boundaries and that demonstrates our continuing
commitment to use the power of dance to work with so
many different people. The board shares my passion and
enthusiasm for this excellent organisation and congratulates
Wieke and her team on an outstanding year.
Margaret Coleman
Chair of the Board of Directors
Alex Croft Dance Relationship
Manager, Arts Council England
Wieke Eringa
Margaret Coleman
“I appreciate the warmth and
support Yorkshire Dance has
shown me, and respect yourcontinued effort to connect
with Europe, London and generally
bring good things North!”
Hannah BuckleyIndependent Artist
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Dancing in Time © Yorkshire Dance
Grace Surman performs at Sketch 1: The Live Masterclass © Sara Teresa
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Snap shot: our achievements
During 2014 / 2015 we:
• Developed a new digital platform respond_ through which
120 people, some frequent, infrequent or non-arts attenders,
actively participated in critical dialogue with two producing
artists, the impact of which was investigated by University of
Leeds (supported by Digital R&D Fund award).
• Produced Douglas and Air Hunger, new works by Robbie
Synge and Hagit Yakira.
• Presented Dance Visions, the region’s Youth Dance conference
bringing together 127 delegates in York to share good practice,
network and increase knowledge and skills.
• Delivered Fresh 2015, the regional youth dance showcase with
a record 255 young people performing and participating in
workshops at Yorkshire Dance and West Yorkshire Playhouse.
• Delivered a high-quality, well-attended workforce development
programme, Dance Transports, supporting 12 selected
regional practitioners and providing access for 69 practitioners
to work with Dance United Yorkshire and Stopgap, Candoco
and 2Faced Dance Companies.
• Supported the development of artistic practice and critical
discourse, investing in 6 new dance ideas through Sketch, an
8-month dance dramaturgy project with international dramaturg
Peggy Olislaegers.
• Presented a thriving Friday Firsts performance series including
work by nationally established artists alongside local artists,
providing opportunities for enhanced critical debate.
• Started Dancing in Time, a research collaboration with
University of Leeds, supported by Leeds Public Health, a health
and wellbeing dance programme for older adults in areas of
deprivation.
• Delivered Bodies on the Beach, a large scale Big Dance
commission performed by an intergenerational cast of 76
people on the beach in Bridlington.
• Re-launched a 3-year Youth Company programme in East
Leeds, supporting a group of young people and their families to
engage with learning, making, performing and watching dance.
• Secured substantial investment for a 2-year strategic
step-change project with Hull Dance and the Hull & East
Riding Dance Hub.
• Co-presented Thinking Dance and Questioning the Contemporary symposium in collaboration with Leeds
Beckett University.
OYO at Friday Firsts © David Lindsay
Fresh 2015 at West Yorkshire Playhouse © Brian Slater
Saturday Street Crew at CBBC event, Trinnity Leeds © Yorkshire Dance
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Leadership and regional
development
We worked in partnership with four sub-regional hubs to improve
access, progression routes and performance opportunities for
young people and professional development for their leaders.
A key development this year was in the East Riding & Hull where,
with our support, substantial new investment was secured for an
artist and practitioner development programme.
The Regional Dance Development Network (RDDN) is thriving
and continues to be a driving force for Fresh and the Dance
Visions conference.
Fresh 2015
The Regional Youth Dance Showcase celebrated the richness of
young talent in Yorkshire through a successful fringe event and
main stage showcase at West Yorkshire Playhouse. 255 young
people took part, many showcasing their work for the first time.
Groups took part from Hull, Bradford, East Riding, North
Yorkshire, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Leeds and Pontefract.
The event culminated in a spectacular finale choreographed by
guest artist, Jon Beney.
Thank you for allowing us to give our students such an
amazing opportunity in such a prestigious venue.
412 Dance Theatre
Fresh 2015 was the best night of my life!
Participant
Rotherham Boys Project
The Rotherham Boys Project continued to provide grass roots
youth dance opportunities through outreach sessions that fed into
the core group Rebuzz.
Most notably, the group created new work with Zoie Golding
(FuzzyLogic) and Dave McKenna (Beingfrank Physical Theatre),
performing at local and regional venues.
In February, a two-day taster project led to the creation of a film
Surveillance in which the group worked with CCTV footage,
handheld devices and drones to create a 9-minute dance
documentary.
Rebuzz was selected as one of ten regional youth dance groups to
take part in the regional youth dance project Dance Whispers.
ReBuzz (Rotherham Boys Project) at Fresh 2015 © Brian Slater
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Sub regional Hubs
North Yorkshire & York HubNorth Yorkshire County Council;
Hambleton District Council
South Bank Hub
North Lincolnshire District Council
& Lincs Inspire
Hull & East Riding Hub
Hull City Council & Hull College
South Yorkshire Hub
Wayne Sables Project & Point Blank Theatre
West Yorkshire
is served by two dance strategy groups
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Bodies on the Beach © David Lindsay
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Dance Visions –
the Regional Youth Dance Conference
The Dance Visions Conference was the third and largest regional
youth dance conference delivered by Yorkshire Dance in
partnership with RDDN. The focus this year was on exploring two
core themes of Quality and Content within the Youth Dance
Sector. The conference brought together 127 young people,
delegates and presenting artists. Speakers included Lucy Bennett
(Stopgap Dance Company), Zoie Golding (FuzzyLogic), Vicky
Igbokwe (Uchenna Dance), Linda Jasper (Youth Dance England),
Helen Linsell (Dance United Yorkshire), James Morgan
(choreographer, performer & writer), Lily Turner (professional
dancer) and Verity Clarke (Cape UK).
Really buzzy day, great to explore real dance issues and
understand other situations. Nice to have young people
involved in the initial presentation. Very well organised
event, I look forward to attending next year.
Delegate Feedback
The balance between practical and discussion was great,
very inspiring to see talented young people dancing at the
conference.
Delegate Feedback
The conference was fantastic, one of the best I have been
to as it was honest and open about the work, not
pretentious.
Zoie Golding, FuzzyLogic
It has been a very productive day and it has been good to
be able to bring fresh new ideas away to experiment with
in future sessions and practice.
Delegate Feedback
I have begun to look at how we embed the 12 Visions for
Youth Dance alongside Arts Council’s quality principals in
every aspect of our work. We want to be able to address
the 12 Visions and bring these to life where possible.
Tracy Witney
Northern School of Contemporary Dance
Bodies on the Beach – Big Dance
Commissioned for the national Big Dance programme, Yorkshire
Dance produced a large scale community work led by Susanne
Thomas (Seven Sisters) working alongside Julius Ebreo, Kim
Oakley, Sam Lawrence and a cast of 76 community participants
and young people. It provided a valuable artistic experience for
those young people, groups and schools networked through the
East Riding, Hull and North Yorkshire Hubs and was performed on
a particularly atmospheric morning in July.
www.bodiesonthebeach.co.uk
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Ellen Turner performs at Dance Visions conference © Brian Slater
Dance Visions seminar © Brian Slater
Dance Visions workshop © Brian Slater
Bodies on the Beach © Yorkshire Dance
Yorkshire Dance Youth Juniors © Yorkshire Dance
Dancing into the Third Age, Middleton © Yorkshire Dance
Dancing in Time © Sara Teresa
Yorkshire Dance Youth at Fresh 2015 © Brian Slater
Developing Talent: creating inspiring
dance opportunities with people
with little or no access to quality
dance
Dancing in Time
The longstanding Dancing into the Third Age partnership with
Leeds Community Health and University of Leeds resulted in
research with older adults from various economic backgrounds
into attitudes to and barriers to attending (contemporary) dance.
Initial research led to a new Public Health commission, Dancingin Time, for work in 3 economically disadvantaged communities
in the inner city, the first of which took place in partnership with
Middleton Elderly Aid. The project was a huge success and the
group has decided to continue a weekly session whilst the
Dancing in Time project will move on to Woodhouse and
Richmond Hill, with research outputs due to be published in 2016.
I didn’t know what to expect, I thought it would just be
exercise but it’s nothing like exercising, it’s dancing, which is
great and I’ve really enjoyed it. Making friends, meeting
other people and basically having fun.
Participant
I can already see that people have benefited; one lady has
more mobility in her shoulder than she had before, one
lady has started to feel muscles that she forgot she had
starting to tone up. There’s already an improvement and an
improvement in confidence levels.
Artist
The focus group was lovely to be part of as all the
participants had such overwhelmingly positive things to
say about their time dancing, how it has affected them
and their desire for it to carry on!
Dr Sarah L. Astill, PhDLecturer in Motor Control, University of Leeds
Youth Dance Company, East Leeds
Following a review this popular programme was re-launched,
supported by a new 3-year relationship with the Igen Trust.
Two companies of young people living in East Leeds are creating
and touring topic-based work whilst developing dancing and
leadership skills (through, among others, Arts Award).
The groups benefited from a range of performance opportunities
including Fresh (part of U.Dance), the Rugby Champions Cup
Final (Wembley), Leeds Sports Awards and Aspire.
Two ex-company members successfully entered Higher Education
this year and one is now in paid employment as an assistant on
our Saturday Superstars programme.
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Yorkshire Dance Saturday Street Crew at Fresh 2015 © Brian Slater
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OYO perform at Friday Firsts © David Lindsay
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Youth and Community programme in Leeds
The weekly Saturday Superstars dance programme continues
to be highly popular with a diverse group of families who enjoy
access to affordable, pupil-centred dance provision which is
creative as well as challenging and fun.
The Saturday Street Crew grew in stature and became a hugely
effective flag-ship group for our organisation due to the standard
of performance and skills level of young people. Performance
opportunities included U.Dance, the National Youth Dance
Festival in Nottingham.
The ongoing partnership with Leeds Adult Social Care resulted in
a plethora of work with adults with learning disabilities as part of
the Leaps & Bounds programme. Our weekly Mind the Step
group for adults with learning disabilities was extended with a
pilot project, Raised, bringing together an integrated performance
company.
Ombetja Yehinga Organisation (OYO)
meeting the Tour de France
We were thrilled to offer an unusually inspirational opportunity to
young dancers in West Yorkshire on account of a long standing
partnership with OYO in Namibia. www.ombetja.org
Leeds Inspired supported us to welcome a group of ten young
Namibian dancers to work with Yorkshire-based young people
during an intensive week with input from artists Zoie Golding, Dr
Philippe Talavera and other supporting artists Rachel Fullegar and
Stuart Waters. This culminated in a sharing of new and existing
work at Friday Firsts (Unusual Connections) and Le Grand Départ
(Tour de France), Scotthall Road spectator hub. The participants
were so deeply inspired by the collaboration that one Yorkshire
dancer joined the apprentice programme in Namibia a month
later.
For us the project was very nice, we enjoyed it and
working with young different people from Yorkshire the
creative tasks we[re] perfect. We learned that even if we
are different coming from different places we can work
together and make a difference.
OYO dancers, July 2014
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OYO at Le Grand Départ © Philippe Talavera
Leaps and Bounds, Rothwell © Sara Teresa
Saturday Street Crew at U.Dance 2014, Nottingham © Bobak Walker
Snakebox perform P.L.A.Y. at Friday Firsts © Sara Teresa
Dance Transports with StopGap Dance Company © Yorkshire Dance
Tara Baker / Dance Network Sheffield’s Cityscapes © Charlotte Armitage
Anthony Middleton’s theMiddletonCorpus at Friday Firsts © Sara Teresa
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Developing, retaining & attracting
talent; independent artists
Dance Transports
This new regional workforce development programme was
programmed in consultation with the sub-regional youth dance
hubs and therefore hugely well-attended and well-received.
We championed The Regional 12, selected dance practitioners
based all over Yorkshire who received a small bursary for
professional development and one-to-one support. Two-day
intensive training workshops were held by Candoco Dance
Company, Stopgap Dance Company, Dance United Yorkshire and
2Faced Dance Company.
A much-needed event across Yorkshire. Artists I speak to
comment on the lack of CPD for contemporary dance
practitioners, so an event targeting this was extremely
beneficial. The workshops offered variety, yet the
programme felt cohesive and offered fundamental
information for those working in community dance.
Steph Potter, Regional 12
Open Access: professional development
This year’s open workshops for artists & practitioners were led by
Hagit Yakira, Stopgap Dance Company, Janine Fletcher, James
Wilton, Rita Marcalo, Charlotte Vincent, Peggy Olislaegers,
Deborah Light, Jo Fong and Liz Lerman.
This has already had a massive effect on my practice, I’m
much more aware of details in my work, and how it’s
important those details are meditated upon – not
necessarily changed or altered – but recognised and
reflected upon. I feel I’m more aware, and seek to find
further depth in my work, and hope these skills will stick
with me as I continue to create with my company.
Anthony Middleton
Yorkshire Dance was pleased to support Gracefool Collective’s
popular new Professional Class with free studio space alongside
NSCD, Phoenix Dance Theatre, RJC and Dance Studio Leeds.
Artists members: The Collective
Following a review we re-launched The Collective, our artist
membership (on average 42 artists), through which we provided
141 days of residency space for 47 artists, and 750 hours of free
stand-by space for 49 members. 9 artists / companies amongst
those received specific project support.
Thank you for helping us and providing us excellent
facilities and atmosphere. It’s been fun and a step up for us
to have this time and space to explore a new idea.
Akeim Toussaint Buck & Otis Jones (Snakebox)
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Liz Lerman leading Critical Repsonse Process workshop © Yorkshire Dance
Sketch workshop with Peggy Olislaegers © Yorkshire Dance
Grace Surman with Peggy Olislaegers,
Sketch 1: The Live Masterclass © Sara Teresa
Carlos Pons Guerra with Peggy Olislaegers,
Sketch 1: The Live Masterclass © Sara Teresa
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Developing, retaining & attracting
talent: independent artists
Sketch – artist development project
Sketch was developed as a direct result of the learning of the
previous New Associate programme. For this 8-month project we
invested in the development of artistic practice of 7 artists who
were selected, with the help of independent expertise, on the
strength of their artistic ideas. Sketch included:
• a mini-commission of just under £1200
• a 1-day followed by 3-day dramaturgy workshop with
international dramaturg Peggy Olislaegers
• a series of 4 peer-to-peer learning meetings facilitated by
producer Richard Sobey
• a minimum of 2 weeks of studio time
• 1-2-1 time with a member of the YD team
The project culminated in a well-attended and hugely appreciated
open access dramaturgy Masterclass where Peggy worked with
Grace Surman and Carlos Pons in front of a very appreciative
audience. Most Sketch projects are receiving further project
support in 2015.
My work gained another level of richness on a physical,
intellectual and artistic level. Peggy made me look at my
work in much more detail and question my practice and
process. I gathered a greater understanding of form,
structure, detail and the importance and use of subtext.
Sketch artist
The performance was really good fun. You can only do this
type of thing if you feel the trust from the audience
[which] you can push quite far. I felt I was able to share
that, in this kind of approach to developing dance, you can
combine serious rigour with fun, provocation with safety
[and] jointly enjoy the questioning of shared territory and
experience how much fun this can be.
Peggy Olislaegers
Thinking Dance
Thinking Dance grew out of the City of Dance partnership’s
shared desire to support choreographic innovation. Lead partners
Leeds Beckett University and Yorkshire Dance collaborated with
NSCD and Phoenix Dance Theatre to deliver new choreographic
research opportunities for emerging choreographers and
academics. This was achieved through a two-week programme
leading up to the symposium Questioning the Contemporaryin 21st Century British Dance Practices in which artist-
researchers Rosanna Irwine, Mark Flisher and Beth Cassani
developed practice-based research. The symposium was a huge
success and will be developed for the autumn of 2015.
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Keira Martin at Thinking Dance © Yorkshire Dance
Questioning the Contemporary © Yorkshire Dance
Melanie Forbes-Broomes, Buy This! © Sara Teresa
12 Degrees North, Lucid © Sara Teresa
Gary Clarke, Between Me and You © Sara Teresa
Nadia Iftkhar, The Sense of an Ending © Sara Teresa
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Developing talent: presenting work
Friday Firsts
Eight Friday Firsts evenings provided a platform for independent
dance artists working on the small scale whilst introducing
audiences to contemporary dance. We were particularly proud to
invite Associate Artist Gary Clarke to curate Bend It, an evening
celebrating queer work which was hugely successful and brought
in a new audience.
I particularly enjoyed the performances that explored,
questioned and challenged taken-for-granted ideas on
gender and relationships. The vinyls (real vinyls!!!) played in
the foyer, the cross-dressing, the amazing and approachable
performers and artists.
Roser Rafols-Hilari, audience member, Bend It
It was a great experience to be in the role of curator at
this stage in my career and thank you for trusting me with
that. It would be something I would do again!
Gary Clarke
The programme included: Bish Bash Bosh, open scratch night;
Live Bites, the best of new independent work across the North;
This is Where It’s At, a new scratch night; and two new works
produced through respond_. As a previous Juncture artist, we
were pleased to present Brighton-based Janine Fletcher with
her new work in progress, Trace Elements.
It was a real pleasure to be involved in Burst – a great
performing and networking opportunity for the graduate
company and the atmosphere was so supportive and
welcoming it made it all very enjoyable.
Giorgio de Carolis, 12 Degrees North
Northern Platforms
As part of this annual artist-exchange with Dance Base, Dance
City and Merseyside Dance Initiative we supported Gracefool
Collective to perform at Manchester’s Turn platform and Sophie
Unwin to perform Chronicles of Joy in Manchester, Liverpool and
Newcastle. In return we were able to invite Melanie Forbes-
Broomes (Scotland) and Nadia Iftkhar (North East) to Leeds for
Friday Firsts #27: Live Bites. Post-show discussion and facilitated
dinners & breakfasts provided artists with a critical chance to
enter into dialogue with audiences and promoters.
The feedback session was very useful. I’m really starting to
understand the work and its direction. Being part of
Northern Platforms was great; it’s valuable to work across
new venues, spaces and agencies, raising my profile as an
artist whilst seeing work being created across the region.
It’s enabled me to build my networks which is positive for
future collaborations.
Sophie Unwin
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Sophie Unwin, The Chronicles of Joy © Sara Teresa
Vincent Dance Theatre, Look at Me Now, Mummy © Matthew Simpson
Vincent Dance Theatre, Archive & Engagement Space © Yorkshire Dance
The Dance WE Made, Trinity Leeds © Brian Slater
Navaridas & Deutinger,Your Majesties © Navaridas & Deutinger
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Aerowaves and Your Majesties
With a shared ongoing commitment to create an international hub
for contemporary practice we worked with Northern School of
Contemporary Dance to welcome the exceptional Austrian
Navaridas & Deutinger with Your Majesties, an Aerowaves
priority piece in 2013 (www.aerowaves.org).
The post-show talk was attended by five local Councillors who
exchanged views with the artists on political responsibility and
public speaking.
We need to thank you and NSCD for bringing Your
Majesties to Leeds. What a terrific piece of work.
And excellent to have the discussion afterwards.
More events like that please!
Roger HaringtonCouncillor for Gipton & Harehills
The Dance WE Made
The presentation in Leeds of this unique performance project by
Tim Casson was the result of an ongoing relationship with Trinity
Leeds shopping centre.
For the first time in two years Tim was able to develop the project
with 3 new (local) artists who together created 48 short new
dances with members of the public, resulting in a beautiful short
film on YouTube. This project will be developed in June 2015 to
include community groups.
Vincent Dance Theatre:
21 Years / 21 Works
We were delighted to welcome Charlotte Vincent back to the
region with a tour of an Archive and Engagement installation
in Studio 2, an open talk and the performance of Look at Me
Now, Mummy.
Over 120 people, some new community groups, students and
regular dance aficionados got stuck in and enjoyed a peek into
Charlotte’s creative and intellectual process.
Six emerging young artists will be working with Charlotte as
mentor to create their response to this 21 Years work at Yorkshire
Dance in July 2015.
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Hagit Yakira’s Air Hunger © Sara Teresa
Hagit Yakira’s Air Hunger © Sara Teresa
Hagit Yakira’s Air Hunger © Sara Teresa
Hagit Yakira’s Air Hunger © Sara Teresa
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In September 2013, Yorkshire Dance, in partnership with Breakfast
Creatives and University of Leeds, was chosen by Nesta, Arts
Council England and Arts & Humanities Research Council as one
of over 60 arts and cultural projects to receive funding from the
£7 million Digital R&D Fund for the Arts.
The partnership used the award of £125,000 to build respond_, a
responsive online platform to encourage audiences and the wider
public to become more actively engaged in the creation and
interpretation of contemporary dance. A digital adaptation of Liz
Lerman’s renowned Critical Response Process (CRP), the
technology enabled participants to interact directly with artists;
share their feedback and interpretations of artistic ideas and
works-in-progress; and exchange ideas with others on the site.
CRP is a feedback system based on the principle that the best
possible outcome is for the maker to want to go back to work. In
use for over 20 years, it has deepened dialogue between makers
and audiences, enhanced learning between teachers and students
and proved valuable for all kinds of creative endeavours and
collaborative relationships within and beyond the arts.
Some of the award money was used to commission two new
dance works to be developed through the digital adaptation of
CRP, and Yorkshire Dance put out an open call to dance artists at
the end of 2013, inviting them to submit a digital ‘pitch’ for their
planned new works. The six shortlisted films were posted online,
and the public invited to vote for two they would like to see
commissioned. Almost 800 people from around the world voted,
and selected Robbie Synge’s Douglas and Hagit Yakira’s Air
Hunger.
Following an initial creative period, Robbie and Hagit each made a
short film, giving a flavour of their works-in-progress, both posted
online for a week in September 2014. Hagit’s film was shared
privately with a ‘Closed Group’ of 30 participants working with
researchers from University of Leeds; a mixture of Frequent
Attenders of contemporary dance (4+ performances per year),
Infrequent Attenders (1-4 performances per year) and people who
identified themselves as Non-Attenders.
Robbie’s film was made public, and anyone, anywhere in the world,
was invited to watch it and join in the Critical Response Process
as a member of the ‘Open Group’.
Participants in both the ‘Open’ and ‘Closed’ groups interacted with
Robbie and Hagit through the four steps of CRP. At each step,
respond_ enabled direct communication back and forth between
artists participants, with members of the respond_ team acting as
a facilitator in the same way that CRP in a ‘real-life’ environment
would be facilitated by an intermediary.
Robbie Synge’s Douglas © Sara Teresa
Robbie Synge’s Douglas © Sara Teresa
Robbie Synge’s Douglas © Sara Teresa
Robbie Synge’s Douglas © Sara Teresa
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When the week of CRP came to an end, Robbie and Hagit went
back into the studio to develop Douglas and Air Hunger
further, equipped with all the questions, feedback and opinions
from their respective participants and, in November, supplied new
films demonstrating how their works had developed further. The
films were posted online and a second week-long period of CRP
was launched, this time featuring two live webchats to which
online participants were invited; one between Liz Lerman herself
and Robbie, and one between Liz and Hagit.
In December, both artists returned to Yorkshire Dance to
complete Douglas and Air Hunger in time for their world
premiere performances.
The research team has been busy analysing data gathered through
observation and content analysis of the audience’s engagement
with the platform and through qualitative feedback provided
during a focus group, a series of surveys conducted throughout the
programme, and depth interviews conducted with selected
participants from the three user groups and with the two artists.
Findings indicate that the process has enhanced participants’
engagement with contemporary dance, broken down barriers to
attendance for non-attenders and changed the way that
participants will provide feedback in future, both in the context of
the arts and beyond. One participant described the platform as a
welcome antidote to the immediacy of feedback encouraged by
social media and to today’s ‘pundit culture’.
For participants, the platform seems to have enabled the fostering
of productive and empathetic relationships between audiences and
artists and supported the understanding of contemporary dance-
making processes within non-dance audience groups.
The respond_ team will publish its full research findings on the
Digital R&D Fund for the Arts’ website later in 2015:
http://artsdigitalrnd.org.uk/
The two new commissioned dance works have successfully
established lives beyond the project, with Douglas taking
international bookings and Air Hunger scheduled to the tour
the UK later in 2015.
We continue to develop the respond_ platform, in partnership
with Liz Lerman, and have already planned to develop a new work
by dance artist Lucy Suggate using respond_ in July 2015.
I’m thrilled that Yorkshire Dance has taken the leap to test
CRP within a digital platform. It has been so interesting to
me to consider what feedback reached me and what didn’t,
and why, questions which spurred me to develop CRP and
which continue to drive its refinements and variations.
I hope that users of respond_ will experience new
pleasures of the Process through this platform.
Liz Lerman
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Tara Baker performs at Friday Firsts © David Lindsay
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In the spotlight
Tara Baker, independent artist, Sheffield
Tara has been striving to establish a Dance Network for Sheffield for
the past 12 months and Yorkshire Dance identified Tara as a catalyst
individual to support and develop. Tara was chosen to be one of the
Regional 12, new initiative offering individually tailored support and
advice.
Subsequently, Tara took part in Dance Transports regional CPD,
working with Stopgap, Dance United and 2Faced. Yorkshire Dance
then supported her to achieve her first Grants for the Arts bid
Cityscapes, which will build on The Dance Network Sheffield and
deliver a site-specific project linking with local festivals including
Sheffield Design Week and Tramlines Music Festival.
Being in the Regional 12 has had a positive impact on my
development as a professional artist. My aim at the start of the
year was to attend more professional performances that
reflect my areas of interest, including physical theatre, site-
specific work, and theatre-based productions. It has been great
to have my own little pot of money to fulfill these ambitions.
Recognition of the Regional 12 programme has been particularly
useful at networking events; as a result I had the opportunity to join
professional artist Gerry Turvey in the creation and performance at
Leeds City Gallery in March, working with other professional dancers
and Regional 12 artists, and with Leeds College of Music students,
towards a collaborative public performance.
My involvement has also provided me one-to-one mentoring and
support from Yorkshire Dance in writing and successfully receiving my
first Arts Council bid. I’ve really valued the support and feel I’ve
developed a key set of management skills needed to operate the
activities of the Dance Network.
Joe Cummins (14), Rotherham Boys Project
Joe has been part of Rotherham Boys Project for two years,
before which he had little experience of dance. Through it, he has
developed in confidence, skill and enthusiasm and was recently
nominated as lead choreographer for the regional Dance Whispersproject. Visiting Sadler’s Wells and connecting to young people in the
National Youth Dance Company has opened Joe’s eyes to new
opportunities and experiences. He is now considering auditioning for
the Yorkshire CAT scheme.
Rebuzz has given me so many opportunities, I’ve made new
friends, learnt new skills and performed at so many different
platforms. When I leave school I want to complete a diploma
in Dance at Rotherham College and hopefully go on to study
dance at University as I want to become a dance teacher. I’ve
really enjoyed working with different choreographers in
ReBuzz and I’m looking forward to our next project as I’m able to
make my choreography on the group. I really enjoy coming to Rebuzz
every week. If I didn’t come I think I’d just be playing on my Xbox or
winding my Mum up! Being involved has made me realise how much I
enjoy dancing.”
“
“I’ve really valued the supportand feel I’ve developed a key set
of management skills.”
“
Joe Cummins performing at Fresh 2015
West Yorkshire Playhouse, April 2015 © Brian Slater
“If I didn’t come [to ReBuzz],
I think I’d just be playing on myXbox or winding my Mum up!”
Financial Overview 2014-2015
The information above is derived from the Detailed
Statement of Financial Activities contained in the audited
annual accounts for the year ended 31st March 2015.
Full audited accounts and Trustees’ report can be
obtained from Yorkshire Dance.
15
Income£
Core incomeCore: Arts Council England 325,794
Core: Leeds City Council 60,000
Other public fundingArts Council England 65,276
Leeds City Council 10,028
Digital R&D Fund for the Arts 95,500
Earned incomeArtistic and educational activities 91,329
Tenants and hires 194,643
Trading and other income 11,209
Trusts and Foundations 52,234
Donations 6,923
Corporate Donations 36,128
Total income 949,064
Expenditure£
Artist development
& professional programme 122,741
Youth and community 87,361
Regional dance development 33,603
Marketing 25,276
Building and admin overheads 206,274
Salaries and staff costs 318,321
Total expenditure 793,576
Digital Reach
Yorkshire Dance’s website attracted over 77,000
visits by 50,200 unique visitors during the year, an
increase from 2013-2014 of 16,000 visits and 10,200
unique visitors.
The new Bodies on the Beach site (launched in the
last week of March 2014) attracted 187 visits by 162
unique visitors in the week to the year-end.
www.respondto.org attracted 3,857 visits by 2,336
unique visitors, engaging an international digital
audience in an unusually extended and involved online
process of critical inquiry and exchange.
Yorkshire Dance films on YouTube and Vimeo
received nearly 3500 views, more than double the
figure in the previous financial year, and reflecting our
aim to make more of our work available online.
Yorkshire Dance continued to develop its social
media activity; by the year-end, we had attracted
6,100 followers on Twitter (up by 1,600), 1,850
Facebook ‘Likes’ (up by 450) and 179 followers
on Instagram (account launched August 2014).
Yorkshire Dance Centre Trust Ltd
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Artist Advisory GroupAndrea Buckley
Beth Cassani
Rachel Krische
Balbir Singh
Sarah Spanton
Associate ArtistGary Clarke
Artist practitioners (regular)Katie Aynsley
Anthony Bayou
Jemma Broomhead
Charlie Buchanan
Cassandra Butler
Danielle Byars
Sharon Cameron
Alison Grace Clissold
Rachel Dean
Victoria Drew
Rachel Fullegar
Laura Liddon
Janetta Maxwell
Louise McDowell
Alex Mettam
Laura Murphy
Bryony Mylroie-Smith
Zoe Parker
Matthew-Jay Pratt
Sheridan Sherratt
Craig Turner
Bobak Walker
Laura Withers
Artists receiving
project supportAkeim Toussaint Buck
Hannah Buckley
Jamaal Burkmar
Beth Cassani
Gary Clarke
Gavin Coward
Dance United Yorkshire
Janine Fletcher
Gracefool Collective
Carlos Pons Guerra
Igor & Moreno
Rosanna Irvine
Annika Kompart
Deborah Light
Rita Marcalo
Keira Martin
Antony Middleton
Non Applicables
Rachael O’Neill
Connor Quill
Devika Rao
Phil Sanger
Lucy Suggate
Grace Surman
Robbie Synge
Sophie Unwin
Vincent Dance Theatre
Hagit Yakira
Artists in receipt of bursariesTara Baker
Gemma Barker
Anthony Bayou
Sharon Cameron
Lois Grinstead
Carlos Pons Guerra
Nisha Lall
Sam Lawrence
Laura Liddon
Riccardo Meneghini
Zoe Parker
Stephanie Potter
Matthew Jay Pratt
Ayisha Simpson
Rosemary Spencer
Benjamin Skinner
TenantsBalbir Singh Dance Company
DJ School UK
Elephant Marketing
Kendells Bistro
Red Ladder Theatre Company
Split Design UK
Talking Lens
Therapy Heaven
Type Agency
Yew Tree Therapies
With thanks to all our fundersand partners for 2014 – 2015Arts Council England
Ann Maguire Trust
Bailey Thomas Charitable Fund
Bircham Dyson Bell
Breakfast Creatives
Co-Operative Community Foundation
Creative Employment Programme
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
The Fenton Arts Trust
Foundation for Community Dance
Green Hall Foundation
Grey Court Trust
Hull and E Riding Charitable Trust
IGEN Trust
Irwin Mitchell
Jimbo’s Fund
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Land Securities
Leeds City Council and Leeds Inspired
Leeds Adult Social Care
Leeds Public Health
Leeds Beckett University
Leeds Building Society
Leeds City College
Leeds Community Foundation
Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation
The National Lottery
Nesta
N Smith Charitable Settlement
Northern Ballet
Northern School of Contemporary
Dance
Phoenix Dance Theatre
Rayne Foundation
Royal Norwegian Embassy
RTR Foundation
Sovereign Health
Space 2
Sylvia and Colin Shepherd Trust
Thistle Trust
University of Leeds
Wade Charity
West Yorkshire Playhouse
West Yorkshire Sport
Youth Dance England
All our individual donors – many thanks!
Volunteers Beth Armstrong
Victoria Clapshaw
Tori Drew
Kerry Frood
Katy Hewison
Laura Holbrook
Nikki Hope
Pippa Inkster
Laura Kaye
Hannah Martin
Luke Mcdonough-Stratford
Stephanie McGrath
Sophie Mitchel
Ashley Neal
Sophie Newall
Rachael O’Neill
Rosie Riley
Eimear Smyth
Emily Snow
Charlotte Statham
Andrew Walker
Lillian Walsh
Rebecca Ward
Lauren Watshaw
Emma Wilde
Board of Directors
Margaret Coleman (Chair)Alison AndrewsHelen BowdurJune Goodson-MooreRic GreenRachel KrischeGraham MallinsonRuth MoranCllr Adam OgilvieAndrew Walker
Yorkshire Dance staff
Wieke Eringa
CEO & Artistic Director
Andrea Smart
Administrative Director
Hannah Robertshaw
Youth & Community Dance Director
Kirsty Redhead
Creative Producer
Sam Hobrough / Jackie Malcolm
Fundraising & Development Manager
Antony Dunn
Marketing & CommunicationsManager
Katrina Ward
Studio Operations Manager
Sarah Lyon
Youth & Community Dance Manager
Hollie Harkness-Gowers / Kate Thomas
Programmes Manager / Co-ordinator
Natalie Duffield-Moore
Junior Producer, Amplified
Fuzzy Jones / Seetal Gahir
Administrative Assistant
Judy Rose
Finance Administrator
Lauren Clarke
Assistant Studio Operations Manager
Danielle Byars / Lisa Clayton
Youth & Community Dance Intern
Gemma Whitham
Youth & Community ProjectsAssistant
Katie Roberts / Sophie Inkster
Marketing & Development Intern
Callum Powell
Studio Operations Apprentice
Anil Patel
Building Maintenance
Laura Griffiths
respond_ Project Manager
Clementina Pun
respond_ Project Placement
Sarah Johnston
Annelise Andersen
DARE Fundraising Fellow
Melanie Purdie
BBC Performing Arts Fellow
Akeim Buck, Rachel Clarke, Jayne Fullerton,
Alex Ivanov, Maria Jardardottir, Angie Knott,
Rachael O’Neill, Nina Ojuroye, Matthew
Peters, Daniel Phung, Beth Powlesland,
Connor Quill, Chloe Richardson,
Rebekah Roman
Front of House
Sarah Buckmaster, Elb Hall, Leanne Hobbins,
Adam Steed, Huw Williams
Theatre Technicians
Mansys
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