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

New Contemporary Class in Totnes

Another new class in South Devon led by the wonderful Susie Reeves-Sharp in Totnes.

So much dance happening :)

Lisa May Thomas - Open class and work in Progress at Dartington Hall

Please see the bellow message from the lovely Lisa May Thomas who will be resident at Dartington Hall in October with her dancers. This is a fantastic opportunity to take class with them and to also see the work in its beginning stages.

grassblades research and development project - film dance sound

Director and Choreographer Lisa May Thomas will be in residence at Dartington Space with her company of dancers; Niall tyzack-Carlin, Isabelle Cressy, Lucy Haighton, Rachele Rapisardi and Anne-Gaelle Thiriot, Composer and Sound Designer Andy Pink and Film-maker Dan Farberof. The team will be working on themes connected to TS Elliot's The Wasteland and The America Trilogy by John Dos Passos alongside an exploration into physical contact between humans how it connects us with our stories and the spaces we inhabit. Using improvisation-based scores, Lisa will be investigating and instigating relationships between movement and sound and working with a moving camera eye in the space to form compositional structures, characters and scenes. She will also be working with mentors Lois Taylor and Angus Balbernie as part of this residency process.

Participation opportunities

All sessions will take place in studio 6 and are free to participants, your ideas and feedback are welcome to support our process.

Company class

As part of the studio time, Lisa and her team of dancers will be offering two morning sessions from 9.30-10.45am to local dance artists.

Monday 22nd October will be an Improvisation-based session with Lisa May Thomas

Wednesday 24th October will be a Contemporary dance class with Lois Taylor

The studio will be open at 9.15am, if you can please arrive promptly so that we can begin together.

Open rehearsal session on Tuesday 23rd October between 3-4pm

You are invited to come and observe the working process.

Informal sharing onThursday 25th October from 5.15-6pm.

You are invited to come and watch some 'extracts' of from the research and development week and ask any questions to Lisa and the team.

Please email Lisa May Thomas lisamay.thomas@mac.com to register your interest in these opportunities.

This is a research and development project and is supported by Arts Council England, Dartington Space, ICIA, Arnolfini, Plymouth University, Dancespace and Theatre Bristol.After our time at Dartington, we will be in residence at the ICIA at the University of Bath in January and the Arnolfini in Bristol in March 2013. 

Please visit www.lisamaythomas.co.uk for more details.

The barbican Theatre Plymouth looking for Young Dancers

Wow it is all happening this month!! Check out the flyer bellow for another exciting opportunity to join the young apprentices at the Barbican Theatre. My advice, if you can and you want to be a dancer you should really try to do both of these. Both The Barbican and Attik dance have fantastic teachers and you will learn a lot as well as getting some great performance opportunities!

Attik Dance are looking for Young Dancer

Please find bellow a message for the wonderful Attik Dance Company. If you can get to Plymouth and you are serious about dance then this is a must!!

We are looking for young dancers to join Attik Youth Dance. If you are ages between 13-21 and are able to train weekly on Wednesdays 5-7 at the Plymouth City College, Goschen Centre and take part in performance opportunities throughout the year, why not come along to our audition and find out what Attik Youth is about. The audition will be fun and informal.

(If you are just out of the age range do get in contact anyway)

Contact clair@attik.org.uk for more information, or to book your place. This is an accessible building.

WEDNESDAY 12th September 5-7pm!

Dance Leadership Awards

Do you have what it takes to be a leader? Do you love to dance? Are you over 13 years old? And would you like to gain a qualification in Dance Leadership?

Then why not join us at The Flavel in Dartmouth on Monday evenings starting 10th September at 4pm to join a performance group and gain a Level One qualification in Dance Leadership accredited by Sports Leaders UK. Not only will this be a fun and exciting way to gain a recognised qualification that will look great on your CV but you will also be part of a group that will be performing at The Flavel in November.

For more information or to sign up please contact Claire

south@danceindevon.org.uk

View Points -Performance looking for dancers!!

Local dancers and dancer groups needed!

View Points will be a special evening held at The Flavel on the 24^th November to celebrate almost a year of focused dance activity in South Devon. We are looking for local dancers and dance groups to take part in this not to be missed opportunity! We want all kinds of dancers and groups, from Hip Hop to Contemporary, to make the night jam packed with explosive dance routines from across the South Hams. the deadline for applications is 1st October so you have 4 weeks to get your application in! Please contact me south@danceindevon.org.uk for a application form.

If you are a dancer, or would like to learn, and you would like to join a group to perform in this evening then Youth4Us and Dance in Devon are looking for enthusiastic dancers age 8-18 to be part of their performance group. They will meet every Monday evening at 5pm until 7pm beginning 10^th September at The Flavel.

You don’t need to have any previous dance experience just lots of enthusiasm. There will be guest teachers from BeatBreakers Dance Crew in Plymouth including Kadus K-Dot Smith (pictured) and Chris Gilchrist. 

As well as dancers we are looking for young people to take leadership positions in the group and gain a qualification for it, young people interested in Stage design, Graffiti Art, DJ-ing, Stage Management and others who might like to help usher the event on the 24th November.

For more information or to register interest please contact Claire

south@danceindevon.org.uk

The Clash Project

Youth4Us and Dance in Devon are looking for enthusiastic dancers age 8-18 to be part of an exciting dance project lasting for 10 weeks that finishes with a performance at The Flavel Theatre in Dartmouth on the 24^th November. The group will meet every Monday evening at 5pm until 7pm beginning 10^th September at The Flavel.

You don’t need to have any previous dance experience just lots of enthusiasm. There will be guest teachers from BeatBreakers Dance Crew in Plymouth including Kadus K-Dot Smith (pictured) and Chris Gilchrist. 

As well as dancers we are looking for young people to take leadership positions in the group and gain a qualification for it, young people interested in Stage design, Graffiti Art, DJ-ing, Stage Management and others who might like to help usher the event on the 24th November.

For more information please contact Claire south@danceindevon.org.uk