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Friday, 4 March 2011

Moved…by decoda... Intensive Number 3 with Andrea Buckley

Moved…by decoda... Intensive Number 3 with Andrea Buckley...

2nd & 3rd April 2011
Coventry University
10am-5pm

Price for 2 days £40 (morning sessions available for £25)

Morning workshops…
Finding playfulness in our dancing through exploration into experiential anatomical themes, touch and movement and a sensory awareness into our physical structure and patterns can highlight our potential to move 3 dimensionally.

The Landscape of the Body, Volume, Weight, Spirals & Support will provide beginning markers.

Emphasis on afternoon workshop....
Creating a learning context to explore the performing qualities of the work through compositional and creative tools can be further developed. Time will be dedicated to sharing and observing others as they move. As a starting point Andrea will draw from her current performance piece WALKING WITHIN as an opportunity to deepen compositional and creative practice.

The 2 full day workshop costs £40 and will take place in the Ellen Terry Building for Performing Arts, which is in the City of Coventry. The mornings are available for £25 but the afternoons are only available as part of the full 2 day package.

This weekend is open to people interested in and with significant experience in movement, improvisation and performance. The weekend will propel from an openness and curiosity to explore.

To book a place, email k.coe@coventry.ac.uk. Places are limited so early booking is recommended.

Biography
Andrea Buckley works as an independent dance artist, whose experience extends over 20 years, performing teaching and creating work in various professional contexts to include the wider community and is currently working with Siobhan Davies. She has worked with MacLennan Dance & Company, Rosemary Lee, Gill Clarke, Kirstie Simson, Nancy Stark-Smith and Deborah Hay.

Her primary research draws upon an extensive range of improvisation and contact skills as a way to continue to develop an awareness of the moving body and expand a repertoire of composition. With support from The Rebecca Skelton Fund and Dancers’ Career Development Andrea is currently studying Rolfing.

Committed to work taking place in the North West of England, Andrea is a founder member of Liverpool Improvisation Collective (LIC); initiating workshops, festivals and performance projects, they have a designated artist led space at the Bluecoat, Liverpool. Andrea's current performance project Walking Within - episode III is in collaboration with film artist Daniel Williams and composer/musician Jamie McCarthy.

ICE Dance Seminar Series 2011, Coventry

ICE Dance Seminar Series 2011

ICE invite you to join them for an exciting series of dance seminars, with expert speakers Scott de Lahunta, Ruth Pethybridge and Ruth Gibson.

Monday 14 March 17:30-19:00 A Seminar with Scott de Lahunta 'Publishing Choreographic Ideas'

Monday 21 March 14:30-16:30 A Seminar with Ruth Pethybridge 'Intergenerational Dance'

Monday 28 March 17:30-19:00 A Seminar with Ruth Gibson 'Porous Borders'

To book your place, or for more information, please contact Jenna Hubbard. ICE look forward to seeing you for debate, discussion and drinks!

Jenna Hubbard
Email: JHubbard@cad.coventry.ac.uk
Tel: 02476 158304

New community dance classes in Stratford upon Avon

New community dance classes in Stratford upon Avon led by Mezzoforte Dance Company


Contemporary dance classes for young people

Venue: Stratford High School, Dance Studio
Day/Time: Wednesday evenings – 6.30-7.30pm
First session: Wednesday 2nd February 2011
Price: Special student rate £3.50 per session

These sessions are open to GCSE, A Level and BTEC dance students and to those who have sufficient dance experience

The focus of the classes will be to improve technique, stamina, flexibility and performance

Pupils will learn contemporary dance routines and be given the opportunity to perform on two occasions
The dates and venues are as follows:

Stratford upon Avon High School - April 9th 2011
Arts Centre Evesham – June 11th 2011
(Both are evening performances, times to be confirmed)

Booking essential as places are limited
Charlotte Onslow: 07738338199
Email: charlotte@mezzoforte.co.uk


Parent and Toddler classes

Mezzoforte Dance Company’s Parent and Toddler Group, involves parent and child interaction to dance and music. It is a rewarding and enjoyable way for parents to exercise with their children.

All these sessions enable your child/children to stay active and have a healthy lifestyle, through an enjoyable from of exercise. Dance helps young children to develop key skills, such as coordination, balance, flexibility, strength, stamina, discipline and even memory. Being active in this way also helps boost a child’s self-esteem, making them feel good about their own abilities and increasing their self-confidence.

Music is a natural part of life for toddlers. Early introduction to music does more than entertain; it can kick start learning, serve as an important cue in a child's routine, and offer lifelong benefits. Of course there is one more reason to introduce music and dance into your toddler’s life: it’s enjoyable for both of you.

Venue: Bishopton Community Centre, Drayton Avenue, Stratford upon Avon
When: Mondays, 11am-12pm
Price: £3.50 per family

For more information and to book your place contact:
Charlotte Onslow: 07738338199
charlotte@mezzoforte.co.uk

Lead Dance Artist for integrated group required

WANTED IN2DANCE Lead Dance Artist and Mentor Opportunity
Bidford on Avon, South Warwickshire

A lead dance artist is required to lead weekly sessions with an integrated dance group for adults with and without disabilities in Bidford on Avon. The lead artist will also be required to Mentor an emerging artist for the duration of the contract (May 2011 to Feb 2012).

hft is a charity that supports people with learning difficulties across England. They support people with a range of abilities and needs from profound and multiple physical and learning disabilities to those with a mild learning disability. They provide support for people in their own homes via a supported living service and also through registered residential care, and a Day Opportunities service that enables people to access the local community. Some of the people hft support engaged in a previous dance project run by Warwickshire County Arts Service and found it enormously beneficial and great fun. So they are pleased to be working in partnership with
Warwickshire County Council on this BLF funded project.

The project aims to:
1. Explore and extend the movement, choreographic experience of adults with learning and/or physical disabilities and people living in the local community.
2. Develop personal and social skills including confidence, team building and communication.
3. To provide the opportunity for an emerging community dance practitioner to be mentored by an experienced dance artist in the area of dance and disability and towards becoming Group leader/choreographer.

Project Description
hft are seeking a lead dance artist to work one half day per week running dance & choreographic sessions on Thursdays morning 10.15- 12.45 for 30 weeks and who will mentor to an emerging dance artist. They expect up to 16 people to take part in each session (this will include people with learning disabilities supported by Hft and people with learning or physical disabilities from other social care settings, care staff and members of the local general community). Project monitoring will be designed and delivered by Hft with the support of the lead and the emerging dance artists.

At the end of each term a short informal showing will enable participants to share achievements
with family, friends and staff (a possible venue of a local college is presently under negotiation).
The emerging dance artist is a member of staff from hftBidford-on-Avon, South Warwickshire
(border) and a dance graduate, and the Lead Artist will support her to extend her knowledge, skills and confidence enabling her to gradually take on more leadership and responsibility for the group activities and by Week 24 we envisage that she will be delivering the dance sessions observed, guided and supported by the lead dance artist. The mentor relationship will be supported by Dancescape.

Lead Dance Artists’ main responsibilities:
• Lead weekly dance sessions for the group
• Act as Mentor to Emerging Dance Artist and meet at the end of each session to discuss observations, learning objectives etc
• Choreograph and devise a short performance to be shared at the end of each term
• Support monitoring & evaluation of the project.
Additional Activity TBC
Funding is also presently being negotiated to provide the participants with a summer two-day
residency with a professional dance company.

Venue:
Hft Resource Centre, 7 Waterloo Road, Bidford on Avon, B50 4JP
NB: One performance may take place at a local college.


Timetable:
If you are considering applying for this position you must be available between May 2011 and Feb 2012 to run dance and mentoring sessions, Thursdays 10.15-12.45.
Term One: 12 weeks May 5th to July 21st 2011
Term Two: 12 weeks September 15th to 8th December 2011
Term Three: 6 weeks January 5th to 23rd February 2012

Lead Dance Artist Essential Requirements:
• Enthusiasm and a passion for working with people in integrated settings
• At least two years successful track record of preparing & delivering community dance sessions for adults in an integrated setting (with adults with and without learning disabilities, adults with and without physical disabilities), which lead to informal showings of work.
• Experience of undertaking risk assessments for dance activities in a non-dance environment with people of different abilities
• Enthusiasm for and experience of mentoring emerging community dance practitioner/s
• Experience of monitoring and evaluation processes
• Reliable travel arrangements
• Public Liability Insurance to a minimum of £5 million
• A willingness to work within hft's policies and guidance
• An understanding of equal opportunities and confidentiality and procedures relating to working with vulnerable adults
• A CRB check less than two years old and who is prepared to undertake a CRB with hft

Lead Dance Artist Desirable Requirements:
• Experience/understanding of working with adults with autism
• Experience of mentoring in the specialised area of dance and disability

Fee:
Contract for 30 half days dance and mentoring session: £3,000
Travel expenses (£100 per term) £300
Invoices will be required monthly.

How to apply:
If you are interested in applying for this project please supply:
• A professional CV
• A statement which demonstrates your knowledge and experience related to the required essentials and desirables, please also confirm your availability
• Details of two referees who have knowledge/experience of your work with dance and disabled people/integrated groups

Please note: If you are invited to interview you will be required to bring a CRB and Public Liability Insurance Certificate.

Deadline for applications: 12pm March 16th 2011

For more info please contact: Phil Knowles, email Philip.knowles@hft.org.uk, tel 01789 772141

Please send applications to: Cathryn Ravenhall WCC, E&E, County Arts Service, PO Box 43,
Warwick CV34 4SX

£10 tickets for Protein Dance at Warwick Arts Centre



Warwick Arts Centre £10 ticket offer

L.O.L (lots of love) - Protein Dance
Tue 8 Mar 7.30pm

Known for turning the everyday into witty and profound dance theatre, Luca Silvestrini’s award-winning Protein return with a timely new piece of physical theatre where love, wanting and connectedness take centre stage.

Logging on to our lives online, LOL (lots of love) delves into the world of electronic communication to uncover the evolutionary shift that social networking and the internet have had upon the way we live, love one another and belong to society in general.

With video animation by Rachel Davies, lighting by Jackie Shemesh – co-creators of Protein’s Dear Body – and with original music by Andy Pink, LOL (lots of love) mixes social comment, provocative humour and engaging performances.

To take advantage of this offer just quote “£10” when booking. Maximum of two £10 tickets per transaction. Not available retrospectively or online. Subject to availability.

Box office: 024 7652 4524

Workshop with Protein Dance for young people (aged 14+) plus ticket to performance!


Workshop with Protein Dance for young people (aged 14+) plus ticket to performance!

Led by Luca Silvestrini
Monday 7th & Tuesday 8th March

Free places available!!!!

Known for turning the everyday into witty and profound dance theatre, Luca Silvestrini’s award-winning Protein return with a timely new piece of physical theatre where love, wanting and connectedness take centre stage. Logging on to our lives online, LOL (lots of love) delves into the world of electronic communication to ...uncover the evolutionary shift that social networking and the internet have had upon the way we live, love one another and belong to society in general.

Protein tour to Warwick Arts Centre on Tuesday 8th March at 7.30pm, and you could gain an insight into their show and work alongside dancers from the company in a very exciting workshop opportunity!

Workshop
When: Monday 7th March 2011, 4.30 – 6.30pm
Where: The Creative Space at Warwick Arts Centre, CV4 7AL
Open to young people aged 14+

Performance
When: Tuesday 8th March, 7.30pm
Where: Warwick Arts Centre, CV4 7AL

To book a place for the workshop please phone Hayley Guest on 0121 704 6309 or email heguest@solihull.gov.uk.

To take up a free place you must be able to attend the workshop and performance.

Please note this event was previously advertised as an opportunity for boys and young men, but is now open to all young people aged 14+

http://www.proteindance.co.uk/productions.php
http://www.lollotsoflove.net/
http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/events/dance/l-o-l-lots-of-love