FRIDAYFIRSTS

YORKSHIRE DANCE

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+ lots of

Professional

Development

Opportunities

cover photo Melanie Forbes-Broomes, Buy this! © Kim Cessford

Friday Firsts showcases new work by independentchoreographers and dance companies working on the small scale.

Each evening has its own distinct theme, and will often bethe first chance to see performances by the most promising dancemakers from Yorkshire and beyond who seek to experiment, pushdance as a form or find a new voice.

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OYO Dance Troupe & Young Dancers - Sink or SwimFriday Firsts #25: Unusual Connections© David Lindsay

Friday Firsts #26

Bish Bash Bosh

Friday 3 October, 7.00pm

Tickets FREE

As part of Light Night Leeds, BishBash Bosh sees Yorkshire Dance holdits annual scratch night which focuseson entertaining, experimenting andpresenting a real variety of short work.As usual, the evening will be split intodifferent sections, each using a differentspace in our building.

Expect to see work from Yorkshireartists such as Barking Productions(Mad Dogs Dance Theatre), Jordan

Massarella Dance, Dance United Yorkshire PerformanceCompany, Susanne Thomas, Hype Dance Company, LucyHaighton, Laura Simpson and many more.

Acclaimed choreographer and Yorkshire Dance Associate Artist GaryClarke will be creating a one-off performance piece throughout the day.Between Me and You will reflect upon the notions of LOVE and all of itscomplexities, performed by both professional dancers and members of thecommunity. The piece will be performed as part of the evening’sprogramme – the only opportunity to see this unique work made by oneof the region’s best and most loved choreographers.

As ever, Bish Bash Bosh will be a blend of wonderful andwacky dance, theatre, cabaret, music and film, with a funatmosphere and bar service. Come expecting theunexpected because anything goes!

Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to ensure your place

Jordan Massarella Dance © Joe ‘Boneshaker’ Armitage

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Janine Fletcher

Trace Elements

Friday 17 October, 7.30pm

Tickets £8.00, concessions £6.00

Created & performed

by Janine Fletcher

Coaxing & direction

by Sue MacLaine

Trace Elements is an

Ovalhouse Seed Commission.

Janine Fletcher is an Ovalhouse

Associate Artist and part of

Escalator Live Art 2014.

A woman struggles; trying to be honestwithout telling the whole truth.

She is going round in circles tryingto figure it out, leave it behind butold habits die hard.

Trace Elements fuses repetitiousmovement of the everyday with tautstylisation, creating a silent plea for thepast not to be repeated.

Yorkshire Dance is delighted towelcome back this charismaticperformer following her appearancein Juncture 2012 as half of The TwoWrongies.

A choreographer and performer withan interdisciplinary approach to thecreation of work, Janine co-founded TheTwo Wrongies with Avis Cockbill in2007. She has been a member ofinternational performance parkourcompany The Urban Playground andchoreographer for Bicycle Ballet,creating outdoor dance performanceson bikes. She has performed in work byLiz Aggiss & Joe Murray and many more.

© Matthew Andrews

Nadia Iftkhar © James Froment; DeNada Dance Theatre © Josh Hawkins; Melanie Forbes-Broomes © Kim Cessford

Friday Firsts #27

Live Bites

Friday 7 November, 7.30pm

Tickets £8.00, concessions £6.00

Northern Platforms is a joint initiative of five agenciesfrom Scotland and the north of England, to increasethe visibility of dance artists and companies outsidetheir respective regions.

Nadia Iftkhar’sThe Sense of an Ending isinspired by women; their experiences and stories,highs and lows, love affairs, careers, childhoods, loss,fertility and friendships.

De Nada Dance Theatre’s Passionaria, inspiredby Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin novels, is a darkand humorous piece, highlighting the lives of peoplebrave enough to fight social and politicalconventionalism to find their true identity.

Sophie Unwin, The Chronicles of Joy. “In the

words of Bertrand Russell, Aristotle, America and myself,

I will teach you the steps to happiness. I will jump head

first into the murky world of Joy.”

Hannah Buckley’s Woman with Eggs is a soloabout women’s ability to be many things.

Melanie Forbes-Broomes’ Buy this! is a newwork exposing the absurdities of commodifiedproducts through athletic movement and voice.

For more information please seewww.yorkshiredance.com/live-bites

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Robbie Synge, Douglas © Robbie Synge; Hagit Yakira, Air Hunger © Takaka Hasegawa

Friday Firsts #28

Douglas Air Hunger

Friday 5 & Saturday 6 December, 7.30pm

Admission £8.00, concessions £6.00

Robbie SyngeDouglas

Douglas is alone, committed and absorbedin his activity. He seeks connections with hissurroundings; conversations that gonowhere and everywhere; a new, liveecology in which he can see and feel hisplace.

Douglas has its origins in the everydaytasks of the choreographer at his home in

The Highlands. A ‘garden shed’ approach initiated a reconsidering of ouroften trivial or incidental everyday relationship with objects.

Hagit YakiraAir Hunger

We often forget that we breathe, but neverforget to breathe...

You’re invited to take a moment to inhaledeeply. The instance of losing one’s breatheevokes many reactions, images andmemories. Performers and audience willshare the same breath in a collaborationthat will inspire and allow moments of

exhalation. Air Hunger is a sensual, emotional and honest sharing ofexperiences that will leave you breathless.

respond_ is a new digitaladaptation of Liz Lerman’srenowned Critical ResponseProcess which is enabling peopleacross the world to interactdirectly with Hagit and Robbie asthey share two stages of theirworks-in-progress online, inSeptember and November 2014.

Hagit’s work will have been sharedwith a ‘Closed Group’ of individualsin a process controlled byresearchers from University ofLeeds, while Robbie’s will have beenopen to anyone, anywhere in theworld.

respond_ has been developed bythe partnership after being selectedby Nesta, Arts Council England andArts & Humanities ResearchCouncil as one of over 60partnerships to receive fundingfrom the £7 million Digital R&DFund for the Arts.

http://artsdigitalrnd.org.uk

The respond_ team is testingwhether an online adaptation of LizLerman’s Critical Response Processcan deepen audiences’understanding of and engagementwith dance and their empathy withartists; whether it can expand theaudience reach of new danceworks; and whether it can benefitthe creation and developmentprocess of new artworks.

The research team will be testingthe potential of digitalcommunications technologies toenhance the audience experienceand demystify the creative process.

Find out more, and join in, at

www.respondto.org

www.facebook.com/respondtodance

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This world premiere of two new dance works,one by Hagit Yakira and one by Robbie Synge,is the culmination of a year-long collaborationbetween Yorkshire Dance, the University ofLeeds, Breakfast Creatives and Liz Lerman.

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Professional Development

Opportunities

Grants for the arts:

Surgery SessionsThu 9 Oct, 11.00am - 4.00pmFREE - booking essential

If you are thinking about, or in the process of,writing a Grants for the Arts application to ArtsCouncil England, then why not book a one-to-

one surgery session with Alex Croft, Dance Relationship Manager (North). Youcan book a 30-minute slot with Alex during which he can tell you more about theGrants for the Arts process, what kind of work Arts Council England supports andhe can troubleshoot any questions you may have.

These 30 minute sessions are free but you’ll need to book in advance by emailing

Hollie Harkness-Gowers: hollieharknessgowers@yorkshiredance.com

Katy Raven

Mindful Movement Workshopfor dancers and non-dancersSun 21 Sep, 10.30am - 4.00pm£25.00, concessions £20.00

This course aims to access mindfulness throughthe privilege of movement.

In the workshop, participants will learnmindfulness technniques to improve bodyawareness and relive stress, anxiety and injury.

For more information contact Katy Raven, katyraven@hotmail.com

Katy trained at Northern School of Contemporary Dance and graduated in 2005.In 2012 she completed teacher training in Breathworks which focuses onMindfulness-based pain- and stress-management. She has since led Mindfulness-based meditations and recently received funding from the Rebecca Skelton Fundto set up her own practice of Mindful Movement for dancers and non-dancers

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Physical Responses

a workshop with Janine FletcherSun 19 Oct, 11.00am - 1.00pm£5.00 (only 12 places available)

Janine is a choreographer and performer with acuriosity for what moves us and how we move.

In Physical Responses, participants will be ledin a series of choreographic and devising tasksto explore emotional habits. The workshop willfocus on ways to turn inner feelings intoexternal actions, and draws upon the artistic

process of Janine’s new work, Trace Elements (see p4 for details).

Open to anyone with experience in dance, choreography, theatre or performance.Please wear comfortable clothing and bring a pen and paper with you.

© Matthew Andrews

Class with Hagit YakiraWed 29 & Thu 30 Oct9.30am - 11.00am£3.50

Hagit introduces her unique style, blendingelements of contemporary dance, improvisation,contact improvisation and dance movementtherapy.

For the last 15 years Hagit has been developing this technique class, believing thatdance should be learned in a positive, energetic, fast and ecstatic environment,with a celebration of movement, emotion, group dynamic and music.

This fun environment enables Hagit’s students to push their limits and enjoymoving. The class is a way to discover Hagit’s approach to the creative process sheis going through with her dancers and company.

The emphasis in the classes will be on the enjoyment of moving through simpleyet challenging dance routines; shifting constantly from set material toimprovisation, allowing each dancer to explore his/her own way of moving. Theclass invites participants to be spontaneous and daring in the types and quality ofthe movement vocabulary, challenging their choices, familiarity and physicality.

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Sketch

Yorkshire Dance has chosen six artists to takepart in Sketch, an 8-month developmentopportunity for dance makers with an interestin developing their dramaturgical practice.

Sketch will enable artists to research anddevelop a new dance idea with a focus ondramaturgical practice.

They will be supported by internationaldramaturg Peggy Olislaegers, with supportthrough the reflective process from strategicplanning facilitator and producer RichardSobey. The project will culminate in earlyFebruary 2015.

The six artists

• Jamaal Burkmar• Gavin Coward• Non-Applicables (Sian Myers & Fenella Ryan)• Carlos Pons Guerra• Grace Surman• Sophie Unwin

Sketch will support these artists with:

• Intensive workshops with international dramaturg (Oct 2014 & Feb 2015) • Minimum of two weeks of studio space at Yorkshire Dance for research

and development • Peer to peer learning and feedback • A fee to cover costs of both time in the studio and of attending

the workshops • Public sharing or performance of research as part of Friday Firsts • Advice & guidance and 1-2-1 access to the Yorkshire Dance team

The selection of the six was undertaken by a panel including expertise external toYorkshire Dance, and we are delighted to be working with artists new to us aswell as continuing to support some of those we have already worked with.

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Igor & Moreno, Idiot-Syncrasyat Yorkshire Dance, 2013© Sara Teresa

Contemporary Class

with Rita MarcaloAutumn termTuesdays, 9 Sep - 9 Dec

Book securely onlinewww.yorkshiredance.com£6.50, concessions £5.50

6.30pm - 8.00pm, Level Dfor professionals, dance students and those with advanced ability

A challenging class encouraging dancers to work against common learned dancemovement patterns. The class reflects the training background and the personalmovement style of the artist, placing an emphasis onco-ordination, risk-taking, and non-linear movement.

8.00pm - 9.30pm, Level B/Cfor people with a good basic level ability wanting to try a higher level

This class reflects the training background and the personal movement style of theartist, placing an emphasis on co-ordination, risk-taking, and non-linear movement.

It is taught on two levels to enable complete beginners to get acquainted withbasic principles of contemporary dance, at the same time as allowing people withsome experience to develop further.

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Finding Yorkshire Dance

Yorkshire Dance3 St Peter’s BuildingsSt Peter’s SquareLeeds LS9 8AH

Yorkshire Dance is in the culturalquarter of Leeds city centre, oppositethe BBC building and Leeds Collegeof Music, next to the Northern Ballet/ Phoenix Dance Theatre building,over the road from Leeds city busstation and 15 minutes’ walk fromthe train station.

There is limited on-street parkingoutside Yorkshire Dance, but thereare plenty of public car parkswithin easy walking distance.

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