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PERFORMANCES SPRING/SUMMER 2024
Welcome to our Spring/Summer 24 Edition of Get Into Dance. We’re excited to kick 2024 off with a whole host of inspiring dance activity and performances. Our theatre programme continues to showcase dance from across the region, the UK and the globe with performances from both early-career and world-renowned talent. I’d like to say a special thank you to North East based, TIN Arts for hosting Augenhöhe in partnership with Perform(D)ance who are visiting from Straslund, North East Germany. Other North East dance companies include Fertile Ground with a new Gillian Dickinson Trust commission (Play, Pause, Repeat) and Eliot Smith Dance Company presenting Past and Future. We’re hosting two platform evenings this season, Dance Edits in February featuring four regionally based artists and Moving Art Management bring their scratch night Move: In Progress in April. Our partnership with Northern Stage and Gem Arts continues as we present Mehek by Aakash Odedra Company and Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company. Making his debut at Dance City, Akshay Sharma presents Can this place be a temple?, followed by performances by Thick and Tight, Tom Dale Company, Akeim Toussaint Buck & Crystal Zillwood, Yewande 103 and Amina Khayyam. Plus, for families, Ella Mesma’s The Rainbow Butterfly visits in June. We’re excited to be hosting international pieces from Fengling Productions, and to be part of Kontemporary Korea with works from Sung Im Her and Melancholy Dance Company. In partnership with Curious Arts, we are thrilled that The Curious Ball will return to Dance City this June one of the hottest tickets in town. With over 25 styles and over 60 classes a week, we’re back with a bang! With new classes and workshops for you to try out, there really is something for everyone – Samba, Advanced Ballet 2
We have a number of Pay What You Decide (PWYD) tickets available for each performance? Visit dancecity.co.uk for more information.
and Flamenco Improvers have all been added this term. Dance City offers classes for all ages - over the last term, I had the pleasure of taking my son to Boogie Babies and enjoyed chatting with some of our over 55 class participants. It was an equal joy to watch so many supporters come to the end-of-term performance ‘Shimmer’ in December, and I am very much looking forward to welcoming you at Dance City for the next show in April. The Spring ushers in a busy period for our students on both the BA(Hons) and CAT programmes, with a mix of intensives, placements and working with artists in residency. If you’d like to know more about either programme then please get in touch with our fantastic team or come along to an open day or workshop. Our Engagement team, will be hard at work in schools and communities across the North East this season – as well as organising the regional heat of U.Dance, which is a brilliant showcase of youth dance in the UK. If you’d like to collaborate with Dance City in your local community then get in touch for a chat. Enjoy!
Klassenzimmerstuck Tanz Running time: 40 mins Friday 26 January, 7.30pm Age: All | Tickets £10.50
Image: Peter Van Heesen
How do you move through school, through the city and through life? With contrasting experiences of growing, moving and meeting others, two people come together. Standing. Sitting. Eye to eye.
Dance City Running time: 70 mins Friday 9 February, 7.30pm Tickets £10.50 Image: Bill Knight
An informal platform for new work presented by regional and national dance artists. It’s a great evening where you can experience a range of dance work and meet the artists who are making it.
Running time: 60 mins Thursday 15 February, 7.30pm | Age: 12+ Tickets £15/£12.50 concessions
Akshay Sharma Blending together personal experience & myth and told through dance, text & music Can This place be a Temple? questions the role of history and place in shaping our deepest desires and fears. Image: Camilla Greenwell
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Fertile Ground Running time: 60 mins Friday 8 March, 7.30pm | Age: 10+ Tickets £18/£14.50 concessions Play, Pause, Repeat is a stunning programme showcasing some of the best-emerging dancers from the North East. Their work explores the complex and often contradictory nature of human connection and what makes us want to play, explore, learn and share, again and again and again.
Image: Renaud Wiser
Thick & Tight Running time: 90 mins Thursday 21 March, 7.30pm | Age: 12+ Tickets £18/£14.50 concessions A riotous night of Thick & Tight’s best bits, with famous and notorious figures revived through dance, drag and satire.
Image: Hoo Tao
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Fengling Productions Running time: 60 mins Thursday 11 April, 7.00pm | Age: 10+ Tickets £10.50 Ten Thousand Tons of Moonlight is a compelling dancetheatre production that draws inspiration from the thought-provoking poems of Yu Xiuhua, a celebrated contemporary Chinese poet living with Cerebral Palsy.
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Running time: 90 mins Thursday 18 April, 7.00pm Tickets £6.50/£5.00 concessions Image: Camilla Greenwell
Moving Art Management
Aakash Odedra Company and Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company Performed at Northern Stage Running time: 70 mins Friday 19 April, 7:30pm | Age: 12+ | Tickets from £12 Mehek is an enchanting exploration of the human heart, its desires, courage, and resilience, masterfully brought to life by the artistry of Aakash Odedra and Aditi Mangaldas, the great South Asian dancers of their respective generations.
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Explore dance’s evolution at Move: In Progress, a specialist dance scratch platform offering you a chance to network and see brand new work in progress in an informal setting.
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Tom Dale Company Running time: 70 mins Thursday 2 May, 7.30pm | Age: 8+ Tickets £22/£18 concessions SURGE gives life to a future human on the bridge between the digital and organic worlds. An immersive, audio-visual, genre-breaking performance. SUB:VERSION Ten dance sketches: bold and bristling with the urgency of undiluted connection to WEN’s experimental club music. 5
Akeim Toussaint Buck & Crystal Zillwood Running time: 50 mins Friday 10 May, 7.30pm | Age: 11+ Tickets £15/£12.50 concessions An invocation of maternal ancestors and land, this hypnotic duet weaves together stories, song and ritual - tapping into the body to find answers about what is universal and timeless. Image: Omer Ga’ash
Kontemporary Korea Image: Sang Hoon Ok
Running time: 60 mins Saturday 18 May, 7.30pm | Age: 8+ | Tickets £18/£14.50 concessions Sung Im Her’s TiNTiY looks at the impact of (social) media on society. Followed by Flight by Melancholy Dance Company which expresses the human endeavour to soar towards goals through leaps and falls.
Ella Mesma Company Running time: 35 mins plus 25 mins stay and play Saturday 1 June, 11.45am & 2.00pm | Age: 3+ | Tickets £ 10.50 An immersive family adventure to the moon! An experience that blends traditional storytelling with aerial circus and graceful contortion with dynamic contemporary and Hip Hop dance. Image: Dan Martin
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Amina Khayyam
ONE uses the cyclic phenomenon of South Asian classical dance, to tell stories of migrants tarnished by media and politicians. Followed by, BIRD which poses a question that crosses the mind of many women stuck in abusive relationship: “Where will I go?”
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Double bill Running time: 70 mins Friday 7 June, 7.30pm | Age: 8+ Tickets £18/£14.50 concessions
Eliot Smith Dance Running time: 55 mins Wednesday 12 June, 7.30pm | Age: 12+ Tickets £18/£14.50 concessions Experience two distinct and captivating dance works that are filled with passion and commitment. Eliot Smith Dance embraces the past and future with the premiere of Paul Taylor’s ‘DUET’ from 1964, alongside Eliot Smith’s latest work – ‘HUMAN’. Image: Fabrice Herault
Yewande 103 Supported by
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Running time: 60-75 mins Friday 28 June, 7.30pm Tickets £18/£14.50 concessions
Many Lifetimes is a new live work in the round by Yewande 103 building on their body of work exploring dynamic cycles of loss and healing through watery symbolism. All under a melting canopy. Through symbolism they portray their grief as splinters, less about mending their heart and more about holding those splinters in an expansive new network suspended in space, as they are. 7
Curious Arts Running time: 180 mins Saturday 15 June, doors open at 7.00pm | Age: 18+ Tickets from £12 An unforgettable celebration of the North East’s LGBTQIA+ culture. Join us for an evening like no other, professional artists and community members take to the catwalk to celebrate queer excellence with fierce performances and incredible fashion. Image: Hadyn Brown
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Dance City’s theatre in the centre of Newcastle is dedicated to dance. There are also fantastic shows on offer in other venues around the region, and we’ve gathered a selection of Spring/Summer dance performances here. Date
Performance
Venue
Saturday 2 March
The Velveteen Rabbit Ballet Lorent
Alnwick Playhouse
Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 March
São Paulo Dance Company
The Theatre Royal
Friday 22 March
Engage GCT SEN performers and Outreach groups
Gosforth Civic Theatre
Wednesday 27 March Saturday 6 April
Edward Scissorhands New Adventures
The Theatre Royal
Wednesday 10 April
Believe - My Life on stage Graziano Di Prima
The Fire Station Sunderland
Friday 19 April
Mehek Aakash Odedra Company and Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company
Northern Stage
Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 April
Death Trap Rambert Dance Company
The Theatre Royal
Sunday 19 May
House of Jojo Johannes Radebe
The Theatre Royal
Thursday 13 June
The Monocle Rendez-Vous Dance
Queens Hall Hexham
Sunday 23 June
Coppelia KVN Dance Company
Darlington Hippodrome
Dramatic dance at Newcastle Theatre Royal Dance Consortium Presents
Qudus Onikeku | The QDance Company
Re:INCARNATION
Tue 5 & Wed 6 Mar 2024
Tue 15 – Wed 16 Oct 2024
0191 232 7010 TheatreRoyal.co.uk
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Dance City are proud to be hosting the North East Regional platform for U.Dance 2024. This fantastic event showcases the breadth of youth dance, choreography and performance across the North East. This exciting festival brings together young people aged 11 to 19 (and disabled young people up to the age of 25) in a stunning display of talent and skill.
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U.DANCE regional Sunday 14 April | 6.30pm | £7/£5 accessible price Running time: 60 mins
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