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New works byNigel CharnockMatteo Fargion

Saju HariDetta Howe Keira Martin

SPRING TOUR 2012“Inches from its audience, the troupe radiated energy. A sharpand pithy showcase…rare to find and thrilling to watch” Lisa Wolfe, Total Theatre

“A terrific evening of contemporary dance -there were lots of really positive commentsfrom the sell out audience afterwards” Jane Scorer, Devizes Festival Committee

Celebrating its 6th year, mapdance is one of theleading postgraduate dance companies in the UK.Recruiting dancers nationally and internationallymapdance commissions new repertoire fromrenowned and upcoming contemporarychoreographers and directors. This year the companyhas new works by Nigel Charnock, Matteo Fargionand Saju Hari. As well as recreating Keira Martin’spopular piece Strange Journey (2010) the company willalso work with their director Detta Howe to remakeBubble, a solo created on herself in 2011. Ranging instyle and emotion, mapdance’s programme offers a diverse and refreshing mixture of dance theatre,lyrical choreography, punchy physicality and intriguing humour. It is a mixed bill that offerssomething for everyone.

Nigel Charnock: XXXX is a new piece for mapdance by dance iconoclast Nigel Charnock. Exploring the heaven and hell of relationships between men and womenand women and women, XX combines words, music and movement to create passionately human dance theatre.

XX: (genetics) normal complement of sex chromosomes in a female.

Matteo Fargion: Wrong SongsMatteo is well known for composing music, danceand for his collaborations with Jonathan Burrows and Siobhan Davies. His new work for map involvessinging, shouting, making sounds, folk dancing and armwaving. It doesn’t involve improvising, using the spacein interesting ways or moving beautifully. Wrong Songsworks with structure and time, and explores ways tohold the attention of an audience so that they care what happens next.

Saju Hari: EdgesEdges explores a hybrid movement language thatreflects Saju’s exposure to the South Asian martial art Kalarippayattu and the influence of South Asiandance forms. Both abstract and physical, poetic andhard hitting, this work will intrigue, inspire and keepyou on the edge of your seat

Detta Howe: See … Listen … Here Three short pieces capturing a moment in music. Each dance has a dialogue with a movement fromBach’s Cello Suite No1 and invites the audience to hear the movement, see the sound and enjoy the moment.

Keira Martin: Strange Journey (2010)Irish dance and music has its roots based firmly intales and tradition and is expressed through themedium of family and community gatherings; in thisway it has been passed down from generation togeneration. Strange Journey seeks to express the selfsame spirit of story and sentiment evoking the Celticpast of struggle, joy, love, travel and loss, at thesame time fusing with contemporary influences togive a lively and absorbing experience.

SPRING TOUR 2012

Tour dates

January

18th Minerva Theatre, Chichester (Preview)

March

9th Rich Mix, London, Tel: 020 7613 7498, www.richmix.org.uk

15th The Showroom, Chichester, Tel: 01243 781312, Email: showroom@chi.ac.uk

21st Michaelis Theatre, Roehampton University, Tel: 020 8392 3864, www.roehampton.ac.uk/dance

22nd Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot, Tel: 01235 515144, www.cornerstonearts.org

28th Coventry University. For tickets Email: aa1823@coventry.ac.uk

29th Wilnecote High School, Tamworth.

April

26th Quarterhouse, Folkstone,Tel: 01303 858500, www.quarterhouse.co.uk

May

23rd The Civic, Barnsley, Tel: 01226 327000, www.barnsleycivic.co.uk

25th The Brindley, Runcorn, Tel: 0151 907 8360, www.thebrindley.org.uk

29th The Brewhouse, Taunton,Tel: 01823 283244, www.thebrewhouse.net

31st Robin Howard Dance Theatre, The Place, London, Tel: 020 7121 1100. www.theplace.org.uk

June

18th Devizes Corn Exchange. www.devizesfestival.co.uk

Contact us

For mapdance availability, fees or any information regarding booking the company please contact: Morton Bates Arts Services • Email: info@mortonbates.com • Tel: +44 (0)20 7724 1616

For direct information relating to educationworkshops and residencies contact: Sue Francis, mapdance Administrator • Email: s.francis@chi.ac.uk • Tel: +44 (0)1243 816474

Education workshops and residencies

Alongside touring mapdance also offers tailor-madeeducational residencies, delivering one-offworkshops, creating choreographic projects ormaking short ‘curtain-raisers’ with participants tocompliment the touring programme. All workshopsare led by members of the company who arespecialising in dance education.

Auditions

The company forms one of two postgraduateroutes offered at University of Chichester:Performers, and Independent Researchers.mapdance operates as a professional company with dedicated making periods with guestchoreographers, followed by an intensive nationaland international tour. The course is run at MA anddiploma levels. The University offers an Arts andHumanities Research Council funded bursary for theMA Performance route (details on the mapdancewebsite). The University also offers bursaries forPhD study, enquiries welcome.

Audition Dates

• 14 February 2012• 6 March 2012• 27 March 2012• 24 April 2012• 15 May 2012

Find out more

For further details regarding courses, contactour admissions team on: Tel: 01243 812004or Email: admissions@chi.ac.uk

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