Workshops
Spring 2012
During Juncture 2012, four weeks of experimental performance and practice curated by Charlotte Vincent (Vincent Dance Theatre) at Yorkshire Dance, there will be several workshops.
[Please note: these are not on sale just yet, but will be shortly - put them in your diary, though!]
Thu 8 & Fri 9 Mar, 10.00am – 1.00pm
Vincent Dance Theatre
Motherland
Artistic Directors Charlotte Vincent (Vincent Dance Theatre) and Ruth Ben Tovim (Encounters) alongside new and established members of Vincent Dance Theatre are in residence at Yorkshire Dance from 5 – 9 March. The company will explore innovative approaches to community practice and ways of collecting stories from the general public that will contribute towards the making of Motherland, an intergenerational middle scale work touring in autumn 2012.
Participants will be involved in road-testing high quality processes of community engagement that shifts how people see the world and their place within it as the company develops a new model for a series of curated events that will form part of their autumn 2012 tour.
Vincent Dance Theatre has been making and touring devised dance theatre work and leading associated programmes of community participation and professional development work since 1994.
Encounters create imaginative spaces and processes for people of all ages and backgrounds to explore their relationship with themselves, each other, where they live and the natural world.
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Sun 18 Mar, 11.00am – 2.00pm
BrightFurnace
English Folk Dance
£15.00, concessions £12.00
Harry Theaker of BrightFurnace will teach the components of a rapper dance with its intricate and complex figures, sequences and locks. This will lead into structured improvisations though which you will create a new dance, of your own making but rooted in the tradition. You’ll work on your own material and as a team. Swords will be provided. Wear hard-soled shoes and bring your boldness with you as this workshop isn’t for the faint-hearted!
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Sun 18 Mar, 12.00pm – 2.00pm
Antony Dunn
Writing Dance
£5.00
You’ve made a beautiful, breath-taking new dance work. You’re excited about putting it in front of some audiences. But how are you going to persuade them to come?
Talking about dance isn’t always easy. We’ve all read dance flyers that have left us puzzled and perplexed. So how do we avoid falling into the same trap? How can we talk to our audiences in a language they understand? This informal, practical and occasionally hilarious workshop will explore some creative writing techniques which will help shake up your ideas about writing dance.
Antony Dunn has worked in theatre and dance marketing since 1997. He is Marketing & Communications Manager of Yorkshire Dance in one life, and a poet, dramatist and creative writing tutor in another.
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Wed 21 & Thu 22 Mar, 10.00am – 5.00pm
New Art Club
Comedy Dance
£60.00, concessions £40.00
Tom Roden of New Art Club, Britain’s funniest dance duo, will lead a two day workshop for professional artists that draws on the company’s new show, Quiet Act Of Destruction. It will be a practical session that looks at how the physical and spoken elements of their work are conceived and executed. It will be challenging, rigorous and funny.
Participants will gain an insight into the creation of New Art Club’s work by exploring some of their devising methods and creating some material of their own. The session is for anyone interested in experimenting with movement, text and comedy.
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Fri 23 Mar, 10.00am – 1.00pm
Liz Aggiss
Mistressclass
£15.00, concessions £12.00
This fast-tasking, quick-thinking, performance-making workshop considers content and context, specificity and framing, past histories and lineage. The workshop will make reference to Aggiss’ research, process and choreographic practices, and will invite participants to spread their wings, move outside the box, grapple with the unknown and recover bodies from their libraries.
Participants should bring a selection of uncluttered performance clothes and shoes to wear during the workshop. Expect to talk, critique, show off, move and be moved.
Liz Aggiss is a Brighton-based performer, choreographer, film-maker, writer, artiste and Professor of Visual Performance at the University of Brighton.
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Sat 24 Mar, 2.00pm – 4.00pm
The Two Wrongies
Comedy Dance
£15.00, concessions £12.00
Fun Dance Techniques: Find your inner dance idiot with The Two Wrongies’ two-hour dance technique workshop that may include lunging, wafting of material with Dame Judy Scarf movements, horizontal hokey cokey and Barrychin.
The Two Wrongies draw on a wide range of influences from Pina Bausch to The Muppet Show, to inform their choreographic work. They will share with participants the processes they use to create new work in this workshop.
Suitable for 16 years + dance practitioners, performers and non dancers. Please wear suitable clothing that allows freedom of movement. (Thonged leotards, headbands and legwarmers are suggested but not required.)
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Mon 26 – Fri 30 Mar, 9.00am – 5.30pm
Wendy Houstoun & Charlotte Vincent
Professional Development Week
£120.00
Established performance makers / teachers Wendy Houstoun and Charlotte Vincent co-lead a week’s residency exploring the tensions and truths involved in collaborative practice, shared leadership and finding authentic, appropriate forms to express an idea. Working across disciplines and flowing between movement, text, humour and song, this is a playful, experimental, process-driven week for professional level participants, with no pressure of a public sharing at the end of the week!
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[Please note: these are not on sale just yet, but will be shortly - put them in your diary, though!]
Before you book, you should decide if you want to buy a Festival Pass or a Practitioner Pass for Juncture, which will get you into some of these workshops for FREE.
