View Points

Don't forget to get your tickets from the Flavel Box Office!

SLUK Dance Leaders Level 1

Hello all,

Sorry for being a little quiet of late, things have been rather hectic in the run up to the big performance in Stoke Fleming...but that is all done now and its only two weeks until View Points which is very exciting!!

Today I have spent the day with my wonderful dance leaders doing lots of lovely practical work and assessments. I hope they got as much out of the day as I did, it really reminded me just how much I love teaching and helping others by sharing my experience with them. I think they all were wonderful and know they are all going to make amazing teachers :).

I thought I would share a few snaps with you so you can see what we got up to!

Ben Duke Workshop 18th October

BEN DUKE – LOST DOG MASTERCLASS

        

Led by:                                            Ben Duke – Lost Dog

Date:                                                        Thursday 18^th October 2012

Time:                                               11.30am - 1.30pm

Venue:                                             Plymouth Life Center – Performance Studio

Cost:                                                £10

Ben is the Artistic Director of Lost Dog, whose work It Needs Horses was the winner of the 2011 Place Prize in London.  Ben trained at the Guildford School of Acting, The London Contemporary Dance School and has a first class degree in English Literature from Newcastle University.  His work explores the overlap and transition between Dance and Theatre. Lost Dog’s work has toured nationally and internationally, was awarded first prize at the Burgos International Choreography competition, second prize at the prestigious Hanover choreography competition, and has recently been toured by Phoenix Dance Theatre.

As a performer he has worked with Probe, Hofesh Shechter Company, The Gate Theatre, The National Theatre of Scotland, Glyndebourne Opera and Punchdrunk.

Led by Ben Duke, these workshops will focus specifically on the creative methods and techniques used by the company when creating Home for Broken Turns.  Home for Broken Turns is about the return of a prodigal child and the effect this has on a family. 

To request a place at this Masterclass, please email Claire at claire@eximdance.org.uk  You will then be asked to secure your place by sending a cheque for the sum of £10, made payable to:

Plymouth Dance at the address below before Friday 12^th October 2012. Please note that places are limited and that the fee will be non-returnable.

 

5 Day intensive with Jess Curtis

Perception, Presence and Performance

5 Day intensive with Jess CurtisBristol Uk, 20th-24th November 2012

This course will be an embodied exploration of cycles and scales of sensing, observing, and consequential action in physical practice. Working from the cellular to the global, we will examine how we sense each other, take action and make meaning while we move. We will give particular attention to the tension between the concepts of presence and performance as lenses through which to observe/view/feel/listen-to/activate the body. 

We will “spend” time shifting our awareness to a more cyclical time state, unencumbered by desires and goals and we will “take” time observing ourselves and each other, thoughtfully examining the consequences of our actions. We will examine the physical actualities of touch, manipulation, counterbalance, force, resistance, and surrender, both as physical states and as meaningful expressions of interpersonal and intercultural relations. Bring curiosity, a desire to dance and a willingness to be seen.

Venue: DanceSpace, The Island, Nelson Street, Bristol, BS1 2LE.http://www.theislandbristol.com

Dates: Tuesday 20th - Saturday 24th November 2012. 10.30am-5.30pm

Cost:    Unemployed/overseas participants £130, 

           low waged/independent artist £140

             full wage/funded £150

To book or for more information about accommodation and travel contact:

noel_perkins@yahoo.co.uk or 07816603937
This intensive will be followed by a one day Contact Improvisation workshop onSunday 25th November. For more info and booking, http://contactdance.co.uk/events/jess-curtis-25-12/


Jess Curtis has created a body of work ranging from the underground extremes of Mission District Warehouses with Contraband and CORE (1985-1998) to the formal refinement and exuberance of European State Theaters and Circus Tents with Compagnie Cahin-Caha and Jess Curtis/Gravity (1998-present). Often working within a paradigm of collaboration and co-authorship, he has also produced thoughtful and engaging work with a number of innovative artists including Maria Francesca Scaroni, Jörg Müller, Claire Cunningham and the FabrikCompanie in Potsdam, Germany. He has been commissioned to create works for companies such as Artblau in Germany, ContactArt in Milan, Italy, Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company in England, and Croi Glan Integrated Dance in Ireland. Recently awarded the prestigious 2011 Alpert Award in the Arts for choreography, Curtis and Gravity have received a total of six Isadora Duncan Dance awards and a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for fallen, which went on to tour to over 40 cities in 9 countries. Curtis teaches Dance, Contact Improvisation, and Interdisciplinary Performance throughout the US and Europe and has been a visiting professor at UC Berkeley and the University of the Arts in Berlin. He holds an MFA in Choreography from UC Davis and is currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies there.

DNA Launch Event

DNA is a new year-long project in Devon and Torbay supporting all those
working with children and young people and dance (or wanting to!).  See
attached flyer for details.  Our first event is a great opportunity to meet
your peers from across the region and see the internationally acclaimed
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance at their first ever performance at Exeter Northcott
Theatre.

This will be an inspirational evening and really is not to be missed!

Date: Thursday 11 October

Time: 6.00pm 

Venue: Exeter Northcott

DNA

Active

Network

Dance

DNA is delighted to invite you to its launch event:

Meet the DNA partnership and get talking to others across the year we’ll devise all sorts of ways to support each other in our work, plus many exciting CPD, practice sharing and event offers like this one! A brief presentation about the internationally

acclaimed work of Shobana Jeyasingh Dance before the show. Watch the show together at Exeter Northcott Theatre: SJDC’s Classic Cut: An intriguing show from choreographer Shobana Jeyasigh revisiting the past & boldly stepping into the new.

http://www.shobanajeyasingh.co.uk/

For all school teachers, dance practitioners and youth leaders who work with children and young people and dance (or want to...)

DNA: this project, across academic year 2012-13, is due to a successful bid to the Pavilion Dance South West Co investment Programme, an initiative by the South West’s regional dance agency to support and develop the quality of our children and young people’s dance offer. The DNA partnership is: Daisi, Dance in Devon, Exeter Northcott Theatre,

Exeter University, Exmouth Community College And you!

What’s in the first event…? ...Meet, network and watch a show together

With direct support from DNA partner Exeter Northcott Theatre, you can book the whole launch event for just £8

To make your booking contact Exeter Northcott Theatre on 01392 493493, or visit in person, and quote ‘DNA package’

(package not available through on-line booking)

don’t miss this!

Need more info.?

Contact Daisi on 01392 385214

Chapel House Studios offer

Great offer from Chapel House Studios in Totnes

10 classes for £50! Just follow the link bellow for more information.

http://www.chapelhousestudios.com/10-class-card.html

Yoga Studio open in Plymouth

A lovely new yoga studio has just opened in Plymouth. I went to their open day on Saturday and its lovely! its just above Cafe Rouge

For more information visit their website http://www.yogaloft.co.uk/index.html