Dance City Performances Autumn 2011

It is with huge excitement at Dance City that we present the Autumn season of dance, featuring leading dance companies from across the UK.Over the past 18 months

we have brought exciting and also challenging work for you to enjoy here in the North East and this season continues that with some outstanding work which has been seen across Europe. Ockham’s Razor, who performed The Mill here last year, return and Earthfall make their first Dance City appearance with At Swim, Two Boys, adapted from the book of the same name by Jamie O’Neill. Both these works, along with our other numerous highlights, show the power and excitement of dance and will delight audiences.If you are also interested in learning to dance please see our separate classes brochure. We run over 80 different classes for all ages and abilities, there really is something for everyone at Dance City – dance for everyone in the North East.

Look out for our Dance City Classes Brochure.Offering over 80 different classes for all ages and abilities.

September − December 2011 | 32 | Performances

IntroductionAnthony Baker, Artistic Director

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What’s On Ticket Office: 0191 261 0505 or book online at www.dancecity.co.uk

Suitable Age Guidelines

Post Show Talk*

Running Time

Interval No Interval

We hope you will join us at

Dance City to see some of

the UK’s most exciting and

inspiring dance performance.

30 Sept - 1 Oct

22 - 23 Oct

4 Nov

19 Nov

7 Oct

25 - 27 Oct

26 Nov

15 Oct

1 Nov

11 - 12 Nov

3 Dec

Triple Bill Ockham’s Razor

A Journey Begins Dance City / Theatre Royal

Kathakbox Sonia Sabri Company

Aftermath / Tribal Assembly Bad Taste Cru

Fly By Night Bare Toed Dance Company

In The Dust 2Faced Dance Company

La Nuit Intime balletLORENT

Caravaggio: Exile and Death Darshan Singh Bhuller

Public Announcement Various Artists

Just Jam Weekend Bad Taste Cru

At Swim, Two Boys Earthfall

0191 261 0505 | Temple Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4BR | www.dancecity.co.uk

10 September - 11 December 2011

* Meet the cast and creators of the show in an informal chat in the theatre immediately after the performance. All welcome. FREE


8pm£12 (£8 concession) 1 hour 10 mins (includes 20 mins interval) This performance will be followed by a post show talk.

8pm £15 (£10 concession) 1 hour 30 mins (includes 15 mins interval) T he performance on Fri 30 will be followed by a post show talk.

2Faced create explosive break and contemporary dance performances, which fuse styles and energise audiences. Their high energy style and contemporary street moves thrill audiences across the world.

They bring a triple bill of new works from critically acclaimed choreographers Tom Dale, Place Prize finalist Freddie Oppiku-Addaie and 2Faced Artistic Director Tamsin Fitzgerald.

Ockham’s Razor are a fantastically fun dance and theatre company who make ingenious work with ropes, pulleys and platforms. Arc tells the story of three people who find themselves stranded together. It is about the balance between them as relationships form and break apart. Memento Mori is a powerful duet performed on a suspended metal frame.Every Action… is a playful look at the bonds that form when people are thrown together. Four strangers meet before twenty-five metres of suspended rope. As they explore this elevated set of scales they discover a world where everything you do will affect someone, somewhere.

“perilously expressive, real vulnerability and strength”

The Independent

In The Dust

Triple Bill (Arc, Momento Mori and Every Action...)

2Faced Dance Company

Ockham’s Razor

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Just Jam is back - bigger and better!

Bad Taste Cru, Dance City and Juice Festival present an explosive weekend jam-packed with Hip Hop activities; breakdance workshops, Jam and Juice: a hip hop performance showcase featuring Bad Taste Cru’s Aftermath and the fourth annual international b-boy battle.

Just Jam brings the best international breakers to Newcastle, with guests from the UK and around the world making this one of Britain’s breakdance highlights.

Presented as part of JUICE NewcastleGateshead’s award

winning festival for children and young people.

ScheduleSaturday (Workshops)

Superworkshop 11am - 1pm (Advanced) (£10)Beginners Breakin’ 12pm - 1pm (7-16 years old) (£5)House & Waakin’ 1:15pm - 2:15pm (12+ years old) (£5)

Saturday (Performance)

Jam & Juice: Hip Hop Performance Showcase 7pm (£8, £6 concession)Sunday

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Public Announcement is Dance City’s showcase for North East based dance makers. The work is selected as a snap-shot of what is hot and happening in our vibrant region and beyond, with invited guests.If you want to be ahead of the crowd and see the headline makers of tomorrow, PA is the place to be.

Public Announcement

Just Jam Weekend

Various Artists

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Fly By Night Performances

Tuesday 25th October | 2pm*Wednesday 26th October | 10am* & 2pm*Thursday 27th October | 10am & 2pm* Show will be followed by an hour’s workshop (separate ticket required).Full details at www.dancecity.co.uk

Performance only: £7 adults, £5 children Performance and Workshop Family Ticket (1 adult & 1 child): £20

45 mins, arrive 30 mins early to enter the the world of Bare Toed.

Join Bare Toed in the fascinating world of sleep, where dancers fly with the moon, sleep mid-air, bounce on pillows and take a peek under the bed. Wake up to a world of sleep... all dreams are welcome!

Join the Bare Toed dancers and musician in a fantastic after-show family workshop where children get to explore the beautiful set, designed with little people in mind. Climb, dance, fly and play along with the company (limited tickets for post show workshop - pre-booking essential).

8pm£15 (£10 concession) 2 hours 30 mins (no interval)

This show contains nudity.

Back by popular demand, La Nuit Intime (An Intimate Night) is one of balletLORENT’s most loved productions. Experience the theatre as it is transformed into a dreamy, hazy, club with an in house bar and come and go as you please for the duration of the evening. Escape everything as you lose yourself in a great soundtrack of songs and experience the intimacy of the dancers at their vulnerable and beautiful best.

Unreserved cabaret-style seating and standing room with bar.

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entertainment where fantasies and desires emerge from the shadows

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Presented as part of JUICE NewcastleGateshead’s award

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8pm£15 (£10 concession) 1 hour 10 mins (no interval) The performance on Fri 11 will be followed by a post show talk.

Adapted from the critically-acclaimed novel by Jamie O’Neill, ‘At Swim, Two Boys,’ Earthfall revive this award winning production with their first visit to the North East.

Catholic against Protestant, forbidden love and class struggles provide an engrossing backdrop to this stunning dance work. Physical dancing and amazing live music blend to form an enthralling and heartbreaking experience.

Staged entirely in water and set against the backdrop of the Easter Rising in Ireland, this tender and visually beautiful production previously toured to sell-out audiences across the UK and Europe.

“A stunning concept”

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“Mesmerising...”

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Former Phoenix Dance Artistic Director Darshan Singh Bhuller creates Caravaggio: Exile and Death; a dance show inspired by the life and work of the 17th century master painter. Bhuller’s choreography is always mesmerising and engaging, combining fluid movement with powerful imagery.

With highly physical choreography, stunning projections and a beautiful soundtrack, Darshan has created a show that tells the tempestuous story of Caravaggio’s life and art.


Caravaggio: Exile and Death

At Swim, Two Boys

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Earthfall

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Before leaving take a long look. Burn it into your memory because you can’t go back. This physical theatre piece emerges from a dynamic collaboration between dancers from Dance City and actors from the Theatre Royal.

8pm£12 (£8 concession) 1 hour (no interval) This performance will be followed by a post show talk.

A Journey BeginsPresented by Dance City and Theatre Royal Newcastle

Sat 26 November

Sonia Sabri Company celebrates the unique, diverse energy of modern Britain through a brand new dance style: Urban Kathak.

Kathakbox brings together Indian Kathak dance’s grace and vigour alongside the rhythms and rhymes of Hip Hop culture, including dynamic b-boy Nathan Geering, tabla maestro Sarvar Sabri and beatboxer Shan Bansil.

8pm£12 (£8 concession) 1 hour 15 mins (no interval) This performance will be followed by a post show talk.

KathakboxSonia Sabri Company

Community South Indian Dance Celebration Sun 27 NovemberAs part of the celebrations for South Asian Dance Weekend we are hosting an afternoon of Kathak, Bollywood, Bharatanatyam and other dance styles from community groups across the North East, celebrating their talent and their communities.3pm£8 (£5 concession)

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A mind-blowing evening featuring two epic hip-hop theatre pieces choreographed and performed by Newcastle’s own world renowned Bad Taste Cru.

Heavily influenced by the boys’ own experiences of growing up in Omagh, the emotive Aftermath follows four characters struggling to exist in the wake of a terrorist act. Aftermath became the first breakdance work to be commissioned for the prestigious Place Prize for Dance 2010.

Performed for the first time in a theatre, Bad Taste’s major outdoor commission Tribal Assembly follows four very different characters (The Chav, The Homeless Person, The Businessman and The Rocker) in their battle for power amidst social class stereotyping, to spectacular effect.

Who will come out on top?

Want to enjoy the very best dance shows the North East has to offer in style? Then why not indulge yourself with our exclusive VIP ticket.

Each person will receive:

• Exclusive Champagne and Canapés Reception on arrival

• Guaranteed best seats in the house and priority entry into the theatre on the night

• Meet the Dance City Artistic Director and production team

• VIP Cloakroom • Programme on arrival

So, if you want the red carpet treatment for an enthralling night’s entertainment, then the Dance Deluxe Package is for you. Call 0191 261 0505 to find out more and to take your Dance City experience to the next level.

8pm£12 (£8 concession) 1 hour 10 mins (includes 15 min interval) This performance will be followed by a post show talk.

Aftermath / Tribal Assembly

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Available on the following shows:

Triple Bill Ockham’s Razor

At Swim, Two Boys Earthfall

Fri 30 Sept - Sat 1 Oct Fri 11 - Sat 12 Nov

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