Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2022 Brochure

IN SITU: RESPONDING TO SPACE, PLACE, PEOPLE AND TIME

29 APRIL – 8 MAY 2022

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WELCOME Welcome to Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2022 (LDIF22). We are delighted to present the twelfth edition of the annual festival of dance in Leicester. This year’s theme In Situ: Responding to Space, Place, People and Time is an open conversation around how dance inhabits different spaces, can bring communities together, share lived experiences beyond barriers and express moments of joy. The theme takes on particular relevance during recent times, as dancers and choreographers have continued to innovate around restrictions. Whilst recognising the embodiment of knowledge in dance from the African and African Caribbean Diaspora.

We celebrate International Dance Day with a new commission Siren Calls: To an Illusive Journey with choreography set to Philip Herbert’s evocative score interpreted by two different choreographers, Monique Jonas and Thomas Talawa Prestø, sharing their work on 29 and 30 April respectively. LDIF22 will showcase Artincidence, Yinka Esi Graves, Maya Taylor and Tabanka Dance Ensemble who will share new incarnations of work they have been developing in digital and physical domains. There will be opportunities throughout the festival to participate in dance and discussion through the annual conference, the LDIF+ Masterclass programme and the Dance Dialogues series. Rising dance talent takes centre stage with the return of Signatures and Black British Dance Platform, two initiatives that support the aim of cultivating a dance sector that is representative of contemporary Britain. As the finale to LDIF22, we are delighted to present Ballet Hispánico with a mixed repertoire of work recognising 50 years of amplifying voices from the Latinx Diaspora.

In person and online, Let’s Dance International Frontiers to date has supported the work of 280 artists from over 46 countries. As we plan a return to bringing dance to audiences in person we would like to thank everyone who has supported LDIF over the last twelve years. We look forward to seeing you at LDIF22, Let’s Dance!

Pawlet Brookes MBE CEO and Artistic Director Serendipity

Cover Image: Ballet Hispánico's Dandara Veiga in Batucada Fantástica. Photography by Rachel Neville Pawlet Brookes MBE, Photograph by the Unloved

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LET’S DANCE INTERNATIONAL FRONTIERS 2022 LAUNCH Friday 29 April 2022 7:00pm Leicester Museum and Art Gallery £18 | £16 Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2022 returns with a unique launch event to celebrate International Dance Day. Embracing the theme of this year’s festival, In Situ: Responding to Space, Place, People and Time are two site specific works; Nus Descendant L’Escalier and Siren Calls: To an Illusive Journey.

Nus Descendant L’Escalier Artincidence

Artincidence’s Annabel Guérédrat and Henri Tauliaut present a new interpretation of their work, Nus Descendant L’Escalier (Nudes Descending the Staircase). Inspired by the title and controversial side of Marcel Duchamp’s painting Nu descendant un escalier no. 2 (1912), occupying a space where dance meets visual art.

Through an Afro-Punk lens, visuals and movement, their audacious and transgressive work seeks to create an affirmation of representing ourselves as we want to in this world.

Image: Notting Hill Carnival (1959) Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy

Siren Calls: To an Illusive Journey

Composed by Philip Herbert Choreographed by Monique Jonas Commissioned by Serendipity, composed by Philip Herbert and choreographed by Monique Jonas, Siren Calls: To an Illusive Journey seeks to honour the Windrush generation and crystallise their experiences. With choreography that encapsulates the strength, tenacity and spirit of adventure into a new world, whilst the fluidity of the music for string quartet considers echoes of the past, hopes of the future and the density of the middle passage.

This work, embodies the energy of different choreographers and spaces, recognising the richness and legacy of the African Caribbean Diaspora in the UK.

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LET’S DANCE IN THE CITY Friday 29 April – Sunday 8 May Online and In Situ Free Embodying the theme In Situ: Responding to Space, Place, People and Time, dancers take to the streets and buildings across Leicester to respond with movement. Now more than ever it is important for artists to take ownership of public spaces, whether they are structures of power, places to gather or historic landmarks. The resulting improvisations will be documented in photography and film that will then be shared in the lead up to and throughout Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2022, online and at select sites across the city.

Image: Associació Capoeira Topázio BCN. Photograph by Imaan Hakeem.

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TABANKA DANCE ENSEMBLE MIXED BILL FEATURING SIREN CALLS: TO AN ILLUSIVE JOURNEY JAZZ AIN’T NOTHING BUT SOUL RHYTHM ROOTS AND REVOLUTION Saturday 30 April 7:30pm Sue Townsend Theatre £18 | £16 Tabanka African and Caribbean People’s Dance Ensemble are known internationally for their platform that pioneers, promotes and centres artistic legacy for Black Nordic Personhood. Based in Norway and founded by Thomas Talawa Prestø, the company are guardians of the Talawa Technique™, one of few fully codified African and Caribbean dance techniques.

This mixed bill presents works from Tabanka’s repertoire.

Siren Calls: To an Illusive Journey

Composed by Philip Herbert Choreographed by Thomas Prestø A second interpretation of Siren Calls: To an Illusive Journey, choreographed by Thomas Talawa Prestø.

Jazz Ain’t Nothing But Soul Based on what was once known as “the music and dance of the Devil” (jazz), Tabanka explores the genre’s rich artistic and musical tradition.

Image: Tabanka Dance Ensemble. Photograph by Rob Sloetry Covell.

Rhythm, Roots and Revolution Rhythm, Roots and Revolution is an energetic and hard-hitting dance performance that addresses the struggle for self-preservation, survival, self-definition and identity.

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JOMBA! FILM SHOWCASE Sunday 1 May 2:00pm Dialogue Box, Serendipity and Online Free In partnership with JOMBA! one of South Africa’s leading dance festivals, LDIF22 presents a selection of dance shorts from six Durban-based dance makers. The artists were asked to work loosely around the theme of Border Crossings, embracing the opportunity to re-imagine their creativity and their dance work for a digital space.

Uhambo

Sabelo Cele

Border Impositions Sinethemba Khuzway

Aikyam ... reincarnating identity Cameron S Govender

imThwalo

Aphelele Nyawose

Sihamba sizibhala Thobile Maphanga

Can You See me Now? Nqubeko ‘Cue’ Ngema Image: Thobile Maphanga

Following the screening, take the opportunity to delve deeper through a discussion of the work.

Limited capacity, advance booking necessary. The short films will also be available online.

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IN SITU: RESPONDING TO SPACE, PLACE, PEOPLE AND TIME CONFERENCE Tuesday 3 May 10:00am – 5:00pm Curve RR2 £80 | £70 Concession Early Bird £60 (Available until 8 March 2021) £40 Livestream Pass

The theme for both the festival and conference for Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2022 is In Situ: Responding to Space, Place, People and Time. Dance can be anywhere, in a studio, on screen, in the streets, on a stage, dance can bring communities together, share lived experiences beyond barriers and express moments of joy. Dance can be a powerful tool for change.

This conference brings together artists, practitioners and educators, rooted in the African and African Caribbean Diaspora to share ideas and research as a part of a collective questioning. How do we define

space for dance in the Diaspora that transcends geography? How can dance respond to the challenges of the environment? What histories are embodied in the spaces and bodies we inhabit? How can dance amplify the voices of the communities that surround us?

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Image: Ashley Mayeux in Paris. Photograph by Melika Dez

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Contributors include:

John Hunte (Barbados)

Thomas Talawa Prestø (Trinidad/Norway)

John Hunte is an accomplished performer, arts activist, choreographer, teacher and

Thomas Talawa Prestø is the originator of Talawa TechniqueTM, a codified system rooted in the traditional African and Caribbean movement aesthetic.

�Opening Keynote

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Monique Jonas (Jamaica/UK) Monique Jonas is a Jamaican born contemporary dance artist and creative based in London, England.

Yinka Esi Graves (UK/Spain) Yinka Esi Graves is a British flamenco dancer whose choreographic work explores the form alongside other corporeal expressions in particular from an African Diasporic and contemporary perspective.

Henri Tauliaut and Annabel Guérédrat (Martinique) Henri Tauliaut and Annabel Guérédrat are co-directors of Cyber AfroPunk Laboratory and organise FIAP (Festival International d’Art Performance) in Martinique.

Makeda Thomas (Trinidad/USA) Makeda Thomas is a New York/Port of Spain based dance artist and founding director of the Dance and Performance Institute, Trinidad and Tobago.

Eduardo Vilaro (Cuba/USA) Closing Keynote

Eduardo Vilaro joined Ballet Hispánico as Artistic Director in August 2009. Vilaro’s own choreography is devoted to capturing the Latin American experience in its totality and diversity, and through its intersectional points with other Diasporas an ability to spawn new dialogues about what it means to be an American.

Image: Belmont Baby Dolls. Photograph by by Abigail Hadeed, Courtesy of Makeda Thomas

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LDIF22 NETWORKING EVENT Tuesday 3 May 5:30pm Black Iron Social For conference delegates and Serendipity Connect members An opportunity for delegates and members to join together for an exclusive networking event to meet fellow practitioners, debate and discuss development in the sector.

Serendipity Connect is an international network of artists, arts administrators and academics which open the door for innovative collaborations, talent development and ideas exchange.

Image: Annabel Guérédrat and Henri Tauliaut in Nus Descendant L’Escalier

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LDIF+ MASTERCLASSES LDIF+ is Let’s Dance International Frontiers’ year-round programme supporting continuing professional development opportunities for dancers and choreographers. For LDIF22 the masterclasses cover a range of techniques rooted in the richness of the African and African Caribbean Diaspora.

Makeda Thomas

Ballet Hispánico

Wednesday 4 May 10:00am – 2:00pm Curve RR1 £30

Wednesday 4 May 4:00pm – 6:00pm Curve RR1 £20

Makeda Thomas is a New York/Port of Spain based dance artist and founding director of the Dance and Performance Institute, Trinidad and Tobago. Interdisciplinary in nature, her artistic practice, scholarship and teaching are situated at the intersection of performance practice, Diaspora theory, dance studies, ethnography and Black feminisms.

She has presented intermedia performances in relation to her scholarship internationally, including at the New York Live Arts, Teatro Africa and Mexico’s Teatro de la Ciudad.

Ballet Hispánico brings communities together to celebrate and explore Latinx cultures through innovative dance productions, transformative dance training, and community engagement. An eclectic fusion of contemporary and Latin dance forms, work alongside Ballet Hispánico to learn more about their repertoire as a resource providing access points for movement, socio-political and cultural context.

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John Hunte

Maya Taylor

Thursday 5 May 10:00am – 2:00pm Curve RR1 £30

Friday 6 May 10:00am – 2:00pm Curve RR1 £30

John Hunte is an accomplished performer, arts activist, choreographer, teacher and consultant. Executive Director of the Barbados Dance Project, Hunte was artistic coordinator for CARIFESTA XIII and a former Cultural Officer for Dance at the National Cultural Foundation (NCF). Hunte is currently a tutor at the Barbados Community College and lecturer at the UWI Cave Hill Campus in the creative studies and cultural studies programmes.

Maya Taylor is a choreographer and movement director based in Los Angeles and New Orleans. Her work is visible in multiple creative and commercial domains, ranging from television and film to fashion and stage performance. Taylor’s choreography has made distinct contributions to the incredible visions of Solange Knowles, Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire, SZA, and St. Vincent. Her most recent credits include NETFLIX’s Song Exploder, The Dirt, The Lovebirds, TNT’s CLAWS and HULU’s Looking for Alaska.

Image: Maya Taylor. Photograph by Diogo Delima.

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DANCE DIALOGUES

#BlackBoyJoyGone Film Screening and Discussion Black Digital Dance Revolution Launch Saturday 30 April 3:30pm – 5:30pm Dialogue Box, Serendipity Free to Members | £10 #BlackBoyJoyGone (#BBJG) is a BFI Doc Society funded hybrid documentary by and for Black men on mental health, sexual trauma and finding strength through brotherhood. Directed by Ashley Karrell and Isaac Ouro-Gnao, blending interviews, poetry, dance and storytelling, it captures the lives, realities, and the hopeful perspectives of men in the North, the Midlands and London in the United Kingdom. A post screening discussion will be led by the film creators to exchange views on the elements within the film.

The event will launch the Black Digital Dance Revolution.

Signatures and Black British Dance Platform In Conversation Thursday 5 May 3:00pm – 5:00pm Dialogue Box, Serendipity Free Aimed at promoters, programmers and producers, this in conversation is an opportunity to hear more from the artists participating in the Signatures and Black British Dance Platform. In collaboration with Dance4.

A Wise Monkey Knows Which Tree to Climb: Perspectives on Decolonising Black Dance Thomas Talawa Prestø Friday 6 May 4:00pm – 5:00pm Dialogue Box, Serendipity Free to Members | £10 A roundtable conversation with Thomas Talawa Prestø discussing his PhD research and the steps we need to take to unpack and decolonise dance practice, with specific reference to the African and African Caribbean Diaspora.

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Black British Ballet with Patrick Williams, Denzil Bailey, Sandie Bourne and Marsha Lowe Roundtable Saturday 7 May 3:00pm – 4:00pm Dialogue Box, Serendipity Free The Black British Ballet project aims to celebrate and document the careers of Black dancers and choreographers in British ballet.

This conversation seeks to open the doors for future collaboration and documentation.

Conversation and Cocktails with Eduardo Vilaro Saturday 7 May 5:00pm – 6:30pm Manhattan 34 Free to Members | £10 Eduardo Vilaro is the Artistic Director and CEO of Ballet Hispánico. He was named Ballet Hispánico Artistic Director in 2009, becoming only the second person to head the company since its founding in 1970. Vilaro has infused Ballet Hispánico’s legacy with a bold brand of contemporary dance that reflects America’s changing cultural landscape.

Vilaro’s philosophy of dance stems from a basic belief in the power of the arts to change lives, reflect and impact culture, and strengthen community.

Image: Thomas Barwick / Getty Images

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SIGNATURES AND BLACK BRITISH DANCE PLATFORM Wednesday 4 May 7:30pm Curve Theatre £10 – £24 Led by Serendipity, Signatures is a platform that provides opportunities to nurture and support undiscovered talent. Working with emerging dancers and choreographers based locally, nationally and internationally, Signatures will showcase excerpts of work in development; thought-provoking, explorative and always innovative, this is a unique opportunity to see rising stars of dance.

The Black British Dance Platform is a collaboration between Serendipity and Dance4, with the ambition to support and nurture dance artists from the African and African Caribbean Diaspora, who are based in England, with a desire to present work internationally and supports the aims of cultivating a sector that is representative of contemporary Britain.

Further artists to be announced.

A Moment – Wakati

Breakin’ Boundaries

A duet layering dance and projected film, this work explores the moments in life that change us. Considering our attitudes, thoughts, experiences from childhood to adulthood and examining how we can find comfort, support and care in our shared experience.

Through Bharatanatyam and breakdance, Breakin' Boundaries is a showcase of British Indian experience. The feeling of belonging to many and to none, fitting stereotypes and trying to find one’s self.

Nantea Dance Company

High Science Jamie Philbert

High Science arrives across the borders of the ‘interiority of sound’ (Ong) which allows the practitioners of Kalinda accessing of their monster (the ability to reveal), the demon (a guardian angel of refuge), the jumbie (shadow as a higher self).

The piece highlights the ever present matricentrality of the sacred grounds of Kalinda as martial tradition or way of life throughout the Black Atlantic.

Shreya Vadnerkar

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YINKA ESI GRAVES AND MAYA TAYLOR Thursday 5 May 7:30pm The Guildhall £18 | £16 Two collaborative solo works, first shared as part of LDIF’s online programmes in 2020 and 2021, come to life through installation and performance with Leicester’s historic Guildhall as a backdrop.

The Disappearing Act

Shape | Shifter

The Disappearing Act is a solo exploration of the ways in which Black women articulate their resistances to negation by Yinka Esi Graves. Graves is particularly interested in methods of camouflage and mimicry that insidiously seep into the intimate realm, asking what the real cost of being viable is in a system that has only ever sought to exploit or at best commodify you.

Inspired by the nineteeth century acrobat and circus performer Olga Brown, depicted in Degas' painting "Miss La la la at the Circus Fernando", La Lala is the embodiment through which Yinka explores this idea of crypsis in The Disappearing Act.

Shape | Shifter is a new work by American choreographer, Maya Taylor, exploring the strain she has often felt to assimilate as a mixedrace woman. The solo interacts with words and music by Cubs the Poet and the trombonist Jeremy Phipps unravels/illuminates Maya’s journey as she works to defy the echo chamber of perceptions that have haunted her from adolescence to womanhood.

Yinka Esi Graves

Image: Yinka Esi Graves. Photograph by Miguel Angel Rosales.

Maya Taylor

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BALLET HISPÁNICO Friday 6 May – Saturday 7 May 7:30pm Curve Theatre £10 - £24 In an evening of works that span Latinx cultures, Ballet Hispánico celebrates their fiftieth anniversary. It is an eclectic fusion of contemporary and Latin dance forms creating the space for a cultural dialogue and an immersive arts experience.

Tiburones

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In Tiburones, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa addresses the discrimination and stereotypes placed upon Latinx culture and the power the media has in portraying these themes by diminishing the voices of Latinx artists.

A celebration of Gustavo Ramírez Sansanoʼs 19 years as a choreographer and the vulnerability, care, and hope that comes with each artistic endeavour. In a display of subtle humour and electric choreography, the movement merges with the playful rhythms found in Pérez Pradoʼs mambo music as Sansano draws from his history and memory to take a joyous look at the past, present, and coming future.

Con Brazos Abiertos Michelle Manzanales explores with humility, nostalgia and humour the iconic Mexican symbols that she was reluctant to embrace as a MexicanAmerican child growing up in Texas.

Image: Ballet Hispánico in Tiburones. Photograph by Paula Lobo.

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MOVING LINES: FIFTY REASONS TO DANCE Following from the offerings in Creating Socially Engaged Art: Can Dance Change The World? (2021), this figurative publication by Patricia Vester transcends lines by questioning and challenging how dance connects us through the intergenerational encounters that have shaped us.

£10 Limited Edition Available from 29 April 2022

It starts here.

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Leicester Museum and Art gallery 53 New Walk Leicester LE1 7EA

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Curve Rutland Street Leicester LE1 3UL

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Let's Dance International Frontiers 2022

Dance in the City

#BlackBoyJoyGone

Launch Performance

Film

Film | Dance Dialogues

Performance

Film

Conference

Networking

LDIF+ Masterclass

LDIF+ Masterclass

Performance

LDIF+ Masterclass

29 April 2022

29 April – 8 May 2022

30 April 2022

30 April 2022

01 May 2022

03 May 2022

03 May 2022

04 May 2022

04 May 2022

04 May 2022

05 May 2022

05 May 2022

Dance Dialogues

Dance Dialogues

07 May 2022

Dance Dialogues

06 May 2022

07 May 2022

LDIF+ Masterclass

06 May 2022

Performance

Yinka Esi Graves and Maya Taylor

Performance | Installation

05 May 2022

06 – 07 May 2022

3.00pm – 5.00pm

Signatures and Black British Dance Platform In Conversation

Dance Dialogues

Conversation and Cocktails with Eduardo Vilaro

Black British Ballet Roundtable

5.00pm – 6.30pm

3.00pm – 4.00pm

7.30pm

4.00pm – 5.00pm

A Wise Monkey Knows Which Tree to Climb: Perspectives on Decolonising Black Dance Thomas Talawa Prestø

Ballet Hispánico: Mixed Repertoire!

10.00am – 2.00pm

Maya Taylor

7.30pm

10.00am – 2.00pm

7.30pm

4.00pm – 6.00pm

10.00am – 2.00pm

5.30pm

10.00am – 5.00pm

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7.30pm

3.30pm – 5.30pm

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John Hunte

Signatures and Black British Dance Platform

Ballet Hispánico

Makeda Thomas

LDIF22 Networking Event

In Situ: Responding to Space, Place, People and Time

Jomba! Film Schowcase

Tabanka Dance Ensemble

Event

Event Type

Date

Manhattan 34

Dialogue Box

Curve Theatre

Dialogue Box

Curve RR1

The Guildhall

Dialogue Box

Curve RR1

Curve Theatre

Curve RR1

Curve RR1

Black Iron Social

Curve RR2 | Livestream

Dialogue Box

Sue Townsend Theatre

Dialogue Box

Online and In Situ

Leicester Museum and Art Gallery

Venue

Free to Members | £10

Free

£10 | £24

Free to Members | £10

£30

£18 | £16

Free

£30

£10 | £24

£20

£30

Delegates and Members

£80 | £70 £60 Early Bird £40 Livestream Pass

Free

£18 | £16

Free to Members | £10

Free

£18 | £16

Tickets