Dance4 Summer 2018

summer 2018

PERFORMANCE

THIS SUMMER DANCE4 IS LAUNCHING AN OUTDOOR SPACE CALLED STUDIO4 IN SNEINTON’S KING EDWARD PARK. STUDIO4 WILL BRING EXCITING NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TO TAKE PART IN A PROGRAMME OF FUN SUMMER ACTIVITIES FOR ALL THE FAMILY.

DANCE4 IN THE PARK – SATURDAY 28 JULY

Photo: Levantes Dance Company

G FEATURIN IN E4 AT DANC K THE PAR

Join us for a FREE, fantastic summer family day in King Edward Park opposite iC4C. The day will be full of exciting experiences for all the family where you will have the chance to explore the park animated by the specially commissioned outdoor performance The Wild Grass. There will be multisport activities for children, interactive walks, dance workshops and bouncy castle fun.

SATURDAY 28 JULY 10AM – 4PM KING EDWARD PARK NOTTINGHAM NG3 2AR FREE Suitable for all

DOG KENNEL HILL PROJECT (UK) The Wild Grass Our local communities have shared ideas about the British obsession with keeping lawns tidy. Inspired by them and modern folk dance, The Wild Grass is a fantastic outdoor spectacle of synchronised lawn mowers where local histories and rituals are revealed.

SATURDAY 28 JULY STARTING AT 11AM, 1PM & 3PM KING EDWARD PARK NOTTINGHAM NG3 2AR FREE Supported using public funding by Arts Council England; produced by Dance4 and supported by Jessie Spencer Trust.

PARTICIPATION

DONATE, SPREAD THE WORD OR TAKE PART IN ONE OF OUR EVENTS TO SUPPORT OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN. To find out more visit www.dance4.co.uk

HOW TO DONATE Text ‘SFOR84 £10’ or £15 (or any other amount) to 70070

Visit Dance4’s JustGiving page.

Call the Dance4 office on 0115 924 2016 and you can pay by credit or debit card.

Send a cheque to DANCE4, 2 DAKEYNE STREET, NOTTINGHAM NG3 2AR

FOR STUDIO4 EVENTS

RUN A MILE FOR STUDIO4

WOMAN:KIND Celebrating Mindful Living

Join the local community to run, walk or toddle a mile around King Edward Park. A partnership between Dance4 and Sneinton Tenants Outreach Programme (STOP TRA), the event is open to any age and ability, and you are invited to get sponsored to run a mile. Fancy dress optional. Tombola and raffle prizes available on the day.

You are invited to an afternoon of mindful meditation and movement with our guest practitioners at iC4C studios. Led by Emma Mills mindfulness expert and author of Inhale.

Exhale. Repeat, come and discover new approaches to connecting mind with body.

SATURDAY 12 MAY FROM 9AM KING EDWARD PARK, NOTTINGHAM NG3 2AR Entry: £2 per person • £3 per family

THURSDAY 14 JUNE 1.15PM – 5PM iC4C, 2 DAKEYNE STREET NOTTINGHAM NG3 2AR Tickets: £35 (Early Bird rate: £30 if booked by FRIDAY 25 MAY)

Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult Suitable for 18+

YOUNG PEOPLE / LEARNING AND SKILLS

ROUTES 2018 Showcasing the variety of progression routes available for young dancers in the East Midlands, the evening will include performances by Royal Ballet’s Primary Steps programme and Dance4’s Centre for Advanced Training students, premiering work by choreographers Tom Dale and Leila McMillan.

DANCE4 NURTURES THE ASPIRING AND TALENTED YOUNG CHOREOGRAPHERS AND DANCERS OF TOMORROW.

SATURDAY 23 JUNE 7PM – 9PM THE SPACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE ARBORETUM STREET NOTTINGHAM NG1 4JB Tickets: £7 (£4 concessions) www.dance4.co.uk Suitable for all

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YOUNG PEOPLE / LEARNING AND SKILLS

Young people aged 11–17 years with exceptional potential in dance are invited to audition for the scheme for the September 2018 intake.

The audition is FREE and it is an opportunity to demonstrate potential by taking part in a practical contemporary dance class and a creative workshop in front of a small selection panel.

Application deadline: FRIDAY 29 JUNE 12PM SUNDAY 1 JULY 10AM – 5PM iC4C, 2 DAKEYNE STREET NOTTINGHAM NG3 2AR

END OF YEAR PERFORMANCE 2017/18 A fantastic opportunity to see work from the Dance4 CAT students and celebrate their achievements. The performance will include work choreographed

by Tom Dale and Leila McMillan in addition to work created by the students.

FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 6PM – 7.30PM NOTTINGHAM LAKESIDE ARTS NG7 2RD FREE but booking is essential www.dance4.co.uk

JUMP START Jump Start is a creative dance programme for children aged 7–11 years, designed for them to develop confidence, have fun and channel energy into creativity.

Jump Start is part of Dance4’s Centre for Advanced Training’s development programme.

MONDAYS DURING TERM TIME 4.15PM – 5.15PM Weekly payment: £3 per session (£1.50 concessions) Termly payment: £27 (get one class free)

MAIL CAT@DANCE4.CO.UK OR PHONE 0115 924 2016.

Photo: Anthony Hopwood

AUDITION

PERFORMANCES / SHARINGS

DINIS MACHADO (SE / PT) BARCO Dance Collection Photo: Anders Mattsson

BARCO Dance Collection is a series of short solos choreographed by artists including Robbie Synge (UK), Dan Daw (UK) and Lucy Suggate (UK).

Dinis has invited choreographers to think about the possibility that the space where dance happens is not the room we are in, but within the body itself, and to create short solos with this approach for Dinis as a dancer. He will navigate through an evening of continuous dance where accuracy and embodiment are in continuous negotiation.

Presented in partnership with Attenborough Arts Centre.

THURSDAY 12 JULY 3PM – 7PM ATTENBOROUGH ARTS CENTRE LEICESTER LE1 7HA FREE, audiences can come and go www.dance4.co.uk Suitable for all Produced by BARCO and coproduced by Weld, Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte, METAL, Dance4 and Critical Path. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England; and

by Konstnärsnämnden, Kulturrådet and DGArtes.

DINIS MACHADO (SE / PT) CONSUBSTANTIATION A queer drag performance, CONSUBSTANTIATION creates an imaginary world of both gender and sexual ‘in-betweenness’ and their embodiment: a human body approaching an object-like gender.

The show is populated with glittery costumes hacking the body with geometrical objects and materials; where stylised choreographies give place to uncanny movement patterns; and where pop songs give place to blurry identity narratives sang as a dodecaphonic opera.

Presented in partnership with Backlit Gallery.

THURSDAY 19 JULY 7PM – 8.30PM BACKLIT GALLERY, ASHLEY STREET NOTTINGHAM NG3 1JG Tickets: £10 (£8 concession) www.dance4.co.uk Suitable for 16+

Photo: Isabel Ortiz

Produced by BARCO and coproduced by Weld, METAL, Dance4 and CND Centre National de la Danse. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England; and by Konstnärsnämnden, Kulturrådet and Stockholmstad.

PERFORMANCES / SHARINGS

MATTHIAS SPERLING (UK) Loop Atlas II & IV Consider the possibility of experiencing movement, with both playfulness and seriousness, as a kind of conjuring through ‘looping’: rhythmically repeating and gradually reshaping movement. Two pieces from the Loop Atlas series are presented as part of the group exhibition Pursuits of Happiness.

LOOP ATLAS II A durational live solo performance presented within the exhibition.

SATURDAY 19 MAY 3PM – 5PM LOOP ATLAS IV Watch and move in a physical dialogue with Matthias’ filmed performance.

SATURDAY 19 MAY – SUNDAY 3 JUNE 12PM – 5PM

Photo: David Oates

THE GALLERY, DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY LEICESTER LE2 7PT FREE, audiences can come and go www.dance4.co.uk Suitable for all Originally commissioned by Siobhan Davies Dance.

JAMES BATCHELOR (AUS) HYPERSPACE Open Studio Performance

Photo: Morgan Hickinbotham

The son of a theoretical physicist, Australian choreographer James Batchelor has always been curious about infinite space and our attempts to calculate the incalculable. Looking inside the body, even the smallest bits of matter are an unfathomable multitude. An open studio performance, HYPERSPACE is the result of a collaboration between James and photographer and composer Morgan Hickinbotham.

The open studio performance includes a conversation with the artist.

SUNDAY 8 JULY 11AM – 1PM iC4C, 2 DAKEYNE STREET NOTTINGHAM NG3 2AR Tickets: £5 www.dance4.co.uk Suitable for 18+

SUNDAYS at iC4C

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENTS A CHANCE FOR DANCE ARTISTS AND PERFORMANCE-MAKERS TO SHARE WORKS-INPROGRESS AND DISCUSS THEIR PROJECTS WITH YOU.

DANNI SPOONER (UK) Sunday Supplement An informal sharing of Danni’s current work based around gender identity discussing books that have informed her research. Presented as part of Derby Book Festival.

Suitable for all

EMMA LEWIS-JONES (UK) Soft Edges Soft Edges crosses the borders between you and I, ground and sky, indoors and out, us and them, flesh and air. A work-in-progress performance created about the body outdoors.

SUNDAY 10 JUNE 11AM – 1PM iC4C, 2 DAKEYNE STREET NOTTINGHAM NG3 2AR FREE but booking required www.dance4.co.uk Suitable for all Produced and commissioned by Dance4, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

SALLY DOUGHTY (UK), DINIS MACHADO (SE / PT) & KIMBERLEY HARVEY (UK) Score Sunday Join the next Score Sunday events hosted by Sally Doughty and guest choreographers and dance artists Dinis Machado and Kimberley Harvey.

Score Sunday explores the process, rationale and challenges involved in how artists across different art forms use scores to generate choreographic material for performance. The day includes a practical workshop to develop your understanding of how to create your own score, sharing of performance works and discussion.

DINIS MACHADO: SUNDAY 15 JULY 11.30AM – 4PM KIMBERLEY HARVEY: SUNDAY 18 NOVEMBER 11.30AM – 4PM iC4C, 2 DAKEYNE STREET NOTTINGHAM NG3 2AR Tickets: £15 per session • £25 for two sessions www.dance4.co.uk Suitable for Artists 18+ D/deaf audiences will have access to a BSL interpreter

Photo: Roswitha Chesher

SUNDAY 3 JUNE 11AM – 12PM DÉDA, CHAPEL STREET DERBY DE1 3GU Tickets: £3 www.deda.uk.com

WORKSHOPS at iC4C

EMMA LEWIS-JONES (UK) Walkshops: Market. Path. Park

BAKANI PICK-UP (UK) Improvisation Workshop

How do we read our surroundings?

Join these special journeys in the urban landscape of Nottingham’s City Centre to (re)discover your environment in an entirely new way, enabling you to reflect and connect with your body in familiar and changing contexts. The social group walks explore different themes and you are welcome to attend all three.

Dance4 Graduate Artist Bakani Pick-Up will take up residencies in Utrecht, the Netherlands and at AMATA, Falmouth University. Following these experiences he will lead a practical workshop on improvisation technique for choreography. All money raised from ticket sales will go towards the For Studio4 campaign.

PATH: SATURDAY 19 MAY 10.30AM – 12.30PM

SUNDAY 24 JUNE 10AM – 3.30PM iC4C, 2 DAKEYNE STREET, NOTTINGHAM NG3 2AR Tickets: £12 (£8 concession) • www.dance4.co.uk Suitable for Artists 18+

MARKET: SATURDAY 26 MAY 10.30AM – 12.30PM PARK: SATURDAY 2 JUNE 10.30AM – 12.30PM Meet at iC4C, NOTTINGHAM NG3 2AR Tickets: £10 per walkshop (£5 concessions) £20 for all three walkshops (£10 concessions) www.dance4.co.uk Suitable for all • Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult Produced and commissioned by Dance4, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

JAMES BATCHELOR (AUS) Morning Class Professional dancers are welcome to join daily classes led by Australian choreographer James Batchelor.

TUESDAY 26 – THURSDAY 28 JUNE 9AM – 10AM TUESDAY 3 – THURSDAY 5 JULY 9AM – 10AM iC4C, 2 DAKEYNE STREET, NOTTINGHAM NG3 2AR Tickets: £5 • www.dance4.co.uk Suitable for Artists 18+

Using the bodily and visceral qualities of clay, we will think about how its physicality can move and instruct our bodies into an instinctual movement practice. Looking at how the clay can be a vessel or body to express and to explore modes of protest and expression, the workshop will draw on methodologies from Florence’s performance work RITE: on this pliant body we slip our WOW! SATURDAY 30 JUNE 10AM – 1PM iC4C, 2 DAKEYNE STREET NOTTINGHAM NG3 2AR Tickets: £15 • www.dance4.co.uk Suitable for 16+ No dance experience needed

Photo: Anne Tetzlaff

FLORENCE PEAKE (UK) Workshop

NOTTINGHAM HIGHLIGHTS

José Agudo / Silk Road Photo: Vipul Sangoi

NOTTINGHAM DANCE HIGHLIGHTS Presented in partnership with Nottingham Lakeside Arts and Dance4.

DYBWIKDANS (NO) The Princess & The Pea A charming and beautifully quirky dance theatre show of this favourite Hans Christian Andersen story.

Part of Wheee! Festival.

MONDAY 28 & TUESDAY 29 MAY 11.30AM, 1.30PM & 3.30PM NOTTINGHAM LAKESIDE ARTS NG7 2RD www.lakesidearts.co.uk Suitable for ages 3–5

JOSÉ AGUDO (ES / UK) Silk Road

NILIMA DEVI (UK) Plurality of Abhinaya

In collaboration with classical Indian dancer Mavin Khoo, José weaves his Flamenco roots with a contemporary style in this universal and personal story of East meets West, as strong and delicate as silk itself.

A new collaboration exploring Abhinaya (the art of expression) through the classical and creative vocabulary of Kathak and Bharatnatyam.

TUESDAY 5 JUNE 7.30PM NOTTINGHAM LAKESIDE ARTS NG7 2RD www.lakesidearts.co.uk Suitable for all

TUESDAY 3 JULY 7.30PM NOTTINGHAM LAKESIDE ARTS NG7 2RD www.lakesidearts.co.uk Suitable for 12+

Dance4 has a strategic role in bringing artists and communities together in Nottingham and across the East Midlands collaborating with a range of partners, including Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall (www.trch.co.uk) and Nottingham Playhouse (www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk).

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