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Wendy Houstoun’s Stupid Women,professional development opportunitiesand a Salon+

cover photo: Akeim Toussaint Buck, Jordan River at Friday Firsts #30 © Sara Teresaphoto above: theMiddletonCorpus, The Prototype at Friday Firsts #30 © Sara Teresa

Friday Firstsshowcases new workby independentchoreographers and dancecompanies working on thesmall scale.

Each evening has its owndistinct theme, and willoften be the first chance tosee performances by themost promising dancemakers from Yorkshire andbeyond who seek toexperiment, push dance asa form or find a new voice.

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3University Centre Doncaster’s Centrefold © University Centre DoncasterMAZPOD Rhythmic Stories’ Mad Meg © Megan Haines

Friday Firsts #31

Burst

Friday 1 May, 7.00pm & 8.30pm

£8.00, concessions £6.00

This mixed evening represents the nextgeneration of dance makers – capturingmoments of wit, charm, intelligence and risk.

The works on offer are freshly brewed insome of Yorkshire’s universities and colleges.

Part One, 7.00pmTickets £4.00, concessions £3.00

Emily Rose Start, Space Studies

Jamaal Burkmar Dance, Sonder

Rachel Clarke & Nicole Godfrey, Throw like a Girl

Hannah Courtney, One through five

University Centre Doncaster, Centrefold

Part Two, 8.30pmTickets £4.00, concessions £3.00

MAZPOD Rhythmic Stories, Mad Meg

Esther Verlaque & Zoe Bradley,If I Had, I Would Have Done

Dan Craddock, Rhythm is a Daniel

TM Dance Company, Tomorrow’s Yesterday

EdgeFWD Dance Theatre, Revolt

Please note: if you would like to attend both

parts of the evening, please make sure you buy

tickets for both!

Combining idiocy with skill, anarchy withmeaning and costumes with music, WendyHoustoun presents Stupid Women.

Initially performed as a work-in-progress atYorkshire Dance’s Juncture 2014 festival, anda tribute to the late and great Nigel Charnockwhose piece Stupid Men irritated andannoyed most audiences who saw it, StupidWomen, with its all-new (well, mostly new)cast, hopes to achieve something similar.

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Wendy Houstoun has worked as anindependent and collaborative theatre artistsince 1980. Her work hovers around the edgesof movement and language.

Over time Wendy has developed solo work asa way of processing both formal investigationsand life events and her pieces articulateresponses to contemporary life with a seriousplayfulness.

“A blessed relief to see this... brilliant - very

real, moving, entertaining, honest... loved it...

I am so happy right now.”

Audience at Juncture

STUPID WOMENWENDY HOUSTOUN’S

Howard Krische Suggate Surman Unwin

Yorkshire Dance & Compass Live Art present

Friday 29 May, 7.30pmYorkshire Dance

Tickets: £9.00concessions £7.00

Running time: as long

as a piece of string

(probably about 2 hours)

Suitable for ages 14+

Five guests of high calibreand low pay attempt theimpossible and quiteprobably fail in this livedirected improvisation.

Stupid Women:TC Howard, RachelKrische, Lucy Suggate,Grace Surman & SophieUnwin directed liveby Wendy Houstoun

This new presentation of Stupid Women

has been brought to Leeds through

a collaboration between Compass

Live Art and Yorkshire Dance.

5Moreno Solinas, Uranus © Emergency

Friday Firsts #32

Bend It

Friday 5 June, 7.30pm

£8.00, concessions £6.00

Following the huge success of lastyear’s Bend It (curated by YorkshireDance Associate Artist GaryClarke) we are proud to present aneclectic evening of dance and filmwork that explores genderstereotyping, sexuality and queeraesthetics.

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We’re pleased to gather regional andinternational artists around thesenon-mainstream dance practices andparticularly excited to welcome oneof Aerowaves* priority companies,Giorgia Nardin (Italy) with AllDressed Up With Nowhere toGo for its first UK date.

Get up close and personal with CarlosPons Guerra’s male dancers in a work-in-progress exploring voyeurism.Connor Quill presents Knock Knock,a new dance theatre work for teenagersexploring the gritty issues surroundinghomophobia choreographed byacclaimed choreographers Gary Clarkeand Yorgos Karamalegos.

At the more radical end of the eveningthere is Moreno Solinas’ wonderfullyexplicit and cheeky Uranus, and wehave another chance to watch verybeautiful archive films of the late NigelCharnock.

From 6.45pm we will be screeningJamie Fletcher’s Alphabet Club.Music, dance and spoken word areblended together in a short filmmeditating on sex and identity.Free – no ticket required.

Special thanks to Gary Clarke for his support in bringing

together this evening.

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*Aerowaves is a hub for dance discovery in Europethat creates cross-border performance opportunitiesfor emerging choreographers.http://aerowaves.org/

Raised © David Lindsay; The Dance WE Made © Brian Slater

Friday Firsts #33

Unusual Connections

Friday 3 July, 7.30pm

£8.00, concessions £6.00

Unusual Connections is a unique FridayFirsts event that brings together danceforged with unusual themes, unusualpartnerships or in unusual circumstances.

From dancing shoppers to dancing families,Unusual Connections will present arange of work including the premièreperformance by Raised, Yorkshire Dance’sintegrated performance company for adultswith and without disabilities.

We will also screen specially-commissionedfilms created as part of The Dance WEMade and The Dance Leeds Made byCasson & Friends in January and June 2015.

They feature choreographer and dancerTim Casson creating new dance works withfour Yorkshire dance artists, and with arange of community groups, based on thestories and movements of unsuspectingpassers-by in Trinity Leeds shopping centre.

See p8 for more information...

7Vanessa Grasse, Movementscapes (Juncture 2014) © Mike Johnson

Yorkshire Dance presents

Salon #4Site-specific dance work

Wednesday 22 April, 6.30pm

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

£3, including a glass of wine

For our fourth Salon we invite you tojoin us at Art Funds Museum of theYear 2014, Yorkshire SculpturePark. The union of nature and art atthis beautiful location has inspired ourfocus for this Salon: site-specific dancework.

Discuss questions such as: What does itmean to make site-specific work? Howdoes making site-specific work changethe making process? Does it changewho it is for?

There will also be presentations andprovocations by three artists making orinvolved in site-specific work:

Mole Wetherell (Artistic Director ofUK / Belgium-based theatre-makersReckless Sleepers), Gary Clarke(Yorkshire Dance Associate Artist), andAlison Andrews (director of A QuietWord, a performing arts companybased in Leeds, making site-specificperformances in collaboration withpeople where they live and work).

The Dance WE Made, January 2015 © Brian Slater

Yorkshire Dance and Trinity Leeds present

The Dance Leeds Made

Saturday 6 June

Trinity Leeds

FreeAge guidance: all ages

Who are the performers? Whoare shoppers? Watch out for areal explosion of everydaywonder in Trinity Leeds this June.

In January, Yorkshire Dance and TrinityLeeds worked in partnership withYorkshire-born Tim Casson topresent the record-breakinginteractive dance performanceThe Dance WE Made.

Tim worked with three local danceartists and unsuspecting members ofthe public shopping at Trinity Leeds todevise and choreograph dances. Thesenewly-created dances were thenperformed to the public, filmed andshared online.

We are excited to announce thatThe Dance Leeds Made will beeven bigger and brighter!

A week-long creative residency willbring together five different groups ofdancers and non-dancers of all ages,who’ll come together at the end ofthe week to perform a verysurprising series of unmissable pop-up performances...

www.thedancewemade.co.uk

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Professional Development

Opportunities

Calling artists

and creators

Thoughts sought

To RSVP please contact: Louise CostelloeCreative Learning ProducerDance Umbrella

louise@danceumbrella.co.uk

Dance Umbrella is piloting anonline resource for choreographicdevelopment, called The MakingOf / The Making By.

As part of the research for thisproject Dance Umbrella is invitingUK artists to come and discuss withthem their needs and perspectivesaround professional resources.

Artistic Director & Chief Executiveof Dance Umbrella EmmaGladstone would like to invitechoreographers and artists to aninformal focus group to discuss thehighs, lows and possibilities of digitallearning.

Tell us what you would find useful tokeep moving forwards, and sharewhat has worked for you in the past.

Refreshments will be provided.

Date:Wednesday 13 May

Time:6.00pm - 7.30pm

Place:Martha’s Meeting RoomYorkshire Dance

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Contemporary Class

with Rita Marcalo

Summer term 2015Tuesdays, 21 Apr - 14 Jul£6.50, concessions £5.50

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

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

With a focus on risk taking,individuality and non-linearmovement, teacher Rita Marcalo willencourage you to embrace her wayof moving in this weekly class. Withan attempt to enable participants towork against their common learneddance movement patterns and findnew ways to develop, Rita creates asafe and fun environment to explorenew ways of thinking and moving.

It is taught on two levels to enablecomplete beginners to get acquaintedwith basic principles ofcontemporary dance, at the sametime as allowing people with someexperience to develop further.

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Gracefool Collective present

Professional Class

Gracefool Collective has receivedfunding from Arts Council England torun a six-month pilot project whichwill see professional dance classesrunning in Leeds on a weekly basis.

2 May Kerry Nicholls (NSCD) 5-7 May Stuart Waters (YD)11-13 May TJ Lowe (MC)20 May Natalia Iwaniec (YD)21 May Natalia Iwaniec (PDT)22 May Natalia Iwaniec (tbc)27-29 May Jamaal Burkmar (NSCD)1-3 Jun Jack Webb (tbc)10-12 Jun Eleesha Drennan (tbc)22-24 Jun Lea Tirabasso (DSL)29 Jun-1 Jul Jerome Wilks (tbc)6-8 Jul Amy Bell (YD)13-15 Jul Tim Casson (NSCD)

For more information, contactGracefool Collectiveprodanceleeds@gmail.com

Twitter: @ProDanceLeeds

DSL: Dance Studio LeedsMC: The Mandela CentreNSCD: Northern School

of Contemporary DancePDT: Phoenix Dance TheatreYD: Yorkshire Dance

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Transform

International Residency SharingThu 30 Apr, 8.00pmBarber Studio, West Yorkshire PlayhouseFree

To pilot a new Leeds-based international residency programme,Transform has brought together West Yorkshire based artists fora four-day period of exchange with artists from countries includingBelgium, Germany and Iran.

A collaboration between Yorkshire Dance and West YorkshirePlayhouse, the workshop is overseen by Leeds-based artist andfacilitator Oliver Bray and Lebanese theatre maker and socialactivist Lucien Bourjeily.

Come and see the results of four days of cross-cultural exchangein this rough and ready sharing by the group.

RESIDENCY PARTICIPANTS

West YorkshireEvie ManningJavaad AlipoorHannah BuckleyGrace Surman

Mainland EuropeCornelius Pushcke (Germany)Barbara Berti (Italy)Sachli Gholamalizad (Iran / Belgium)

www.wyp.org.uk/what’s-on/2015/transform-15/

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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,opposite the BBC and Leeds Collegeof Music, next to Northern Ballet &Phoenix Dance Theatre, over theroad from the bus station and 15minutes’ walk from the train station.

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Join The Collective...two new, improved membershipsfor dance artists at Yorkshire Dance

Standard£50 / concessions £30 per year• Up to 50 hours’ free studio space per year • E-bulletins • Free equipmenthire • One-to-one advice session • Residency opportunities • Discountsand offers on training, events, conferences and performances

Plus£100 / concessions £60 per yearAll the benefits of Standard, plus...• Unlimited free Standby Space • Three one-to-one advice sessions •Opportunity to curate a performance, workshop or event with a £1000budget • Free professional contemporary class • 3hr training session onlighting & sound or marketing • One facilitated Critical Response Processfeedback session

For more detailed description of these benefits, visitwww.yorkshiredance.com/professional/the-collective