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North East, North West and Yorkshire Professional Dance Development Seminar

Professional Dance Development Seminar

North East, North West and Yorkshire Professional Dance Development Seminar Yorkshire Dance, Leeds Wed 3 July, 2013 Lunch 12:30pm Seminar/Discussion 1:15-5:00pm Performances 5:30-6:30pm Who is it for: All those who are working in/or for the professional dance sector, focused on, although not exclusive to, those creating, making and producing work. For dance makers, dance organisations, [...]

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OverWorlds & UnderWorlds – come and play…

OverWorlds & UnderWorlds

OverWorlds & UnderWorlds: Come and Play Can you remember what you were doing this time last year? In this week in May 2012, Yorkshire Dance was getting ready for OverWorlds & UnderWorlds, one of the biggest most unusual events of our lives, created for the Cultural Olympiad. It took us out of our usual environment, into [...]

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The Jerwood Choreographic Research Project

DanceXchange

A National Dance Network initiative delivered by DanceXchange The Jerwood Choreographic Research Project (JCRP), is designed to develop a new culture of investment across a breadth of choreographic research to benefit dance and the wider arts/cultural ecology in Britain. The project seeks both to stimulate new ideas and thinking in choreography and underpin the development [...]

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Volunteer Opportunity – U.Dance 2013

U.Dance 2013

Volunteer Opportunity – U.Dance 2013 National Youth Dance Festival – Leeds Thursday 18 – Sunday 21 July • Are you interested in Dance or Arts & Event Management? • Are you looking for valuable experience in the cultural sector and a fantastic addition to your CV? • Are you over 18? • Are you available [...]

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WANTED! Dancers / Performers for New Channel 4 TV Series

Rare Day

Are you fairly fit & enjoy dancing or performing? Would you like to have the experience of a lifetime? Did you always think you had to be a size 6 to do classical ballet?  THINK AGAIN! We’re looking for ladies who are larger than a size 12 & gents who are larger than a 32 [...]

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Opportunity for Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Artists

STAY

Sustained Theatre Artists Yorshire (STAY) exists to support the deveopment of quality performance work by Black, Asian & Minority Ethinic (BAME) artists, and to enable those artists to become economically successful. STAY invites BAME artists to perform in Friday Firsts #15: STAY Connected at Yorkshire Dance on Friday 5 April. Whatever your artform – dance, [...]

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Invitations to dance

Animated

Dance artist and facilitator Zoe Parker shares her thoughts on dance and wellbeing for learning disabled adults at Yorkshire Dance, in an article for Animated magazine (Foundation for Community Dance, Winter 2013) Read it here

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BACC for the Future: our campaign’s first success

BACC for the Future

If you raised your voice in support of the BACC for the Future campaign, you might like to read this message from its Project Manager, which we received on Thu 7 Feb: You may have heard already that the government has backed down over their proposed English Baccalaureate Certificates – replacements for selected GCSEs. The Government [...]

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‘A Study of Dance’ exhibition

A Study of Dance

Yorkshire Dance is delighted to be doubling as a gallery in February, hosting Karolina Szymkiewicz’s ‘A Study of Dance’. The exhibition opens on Friday 8 February and will be here indefinitely. Do come and have a look! Karolina Szymkiewicz (aka “karolful”) graduated in 2011 from Edinburgh College of Art with a Masters in Illustration, and [...]

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The Worlds – a new online companion piece to OverWorlds & UnderWorlds

The Worlds

In May 2012 four hundred artists led by the Quay Brothers created OverWorlds & UnderWorlds, a three day event in Leeds that was directly experienced by 20,000 people. The Worlds is a new companion piece to OverWorlds and UnderWorlds, designed in response to the live event as a creative digital experience for online audiences. Produced [...]

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