Dance in Leeds - Spring/Summer 2010

DanceLeeds Spring / Summer 2010

the best of what’s on in

and around Yorkshire

Yorkshire Dance is proud to present the Dance in Leeds Spring / Summer 2010 brochure, and to play a pivotal role in nurturing and presenting the very best in professional dance...

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Dancing: the highest intelligence in the freest body ... and to offer a wealth of opportunity for anyone and everyone to dance.

Classes, Courses & Workshops: everything from ballet to breakdance, ballroom to Bollywood – for all abilities. Call 0113 243 8765 for current brochures.

Community & Learning: a range of outreach projects, including free classes for adults with learning disabilities, older people and parents with young children.

Residencies: free or subsidised studio space for dance artists to research, develop and create work.

Professional Development: technique classes, a diverse programme of masterclasses and workshops with leading professionals, a monthly improvisation event, intensive choreographic workshops, and a bi-monthly network meeting for dance professionals.

Free e-mail list: information on auditions, funding, workshops, jobs, study opportunities, and lots more.

Youth Dance: we have partnered with Youth Dance England to help deliver a national youth dance network to increase access, raise standards and improve progression routes for children and young people in our region.

Choreographers and Composers – a perfect match?

Sat 27 Feb, 6.30pm Leeds College of Music Presented by Yorkshire Dance with Leeds College of Music

A unique chance to see new work created following last year’s Choreographers & Composers Exchange by Beth Cassani and Dave Kane, with dancers Riccardo Meneghini and Vanessa Grasse.

Afterwards, find out about the collaborative processes used through a Q&A session with the artists and contributions by course leader and composer, Matteo Fargion.

Ends 7.30pm

For more information contact 0113 243 8765 or admin@yorkshiredance.com 3 St Peter’s Buildings, St Peter’s Square, Leeds LS9 8AH

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DanceLeeds Spring / Summer 2010

the best of what’s on in

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PCI Choreographic Platform Three Years in the Making

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Rannel Theatre Company Flhip Flhop

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Junction 25 From Where I Am Standing

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Verve 10 Verve 10

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East Midlands Children’s Theatre Consortium Telling Tales

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Sarah Spanton Red Beast

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Northern Ballet Theatre As Time Goes By

National Dance Network Dance3

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Northern Ballet Theatre Romeo & Juliet

Instant Dissidence She’s Lost Control

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Yorkshire Dance & Youth Dance England Fresh 2010

Demon Barber Roadshow Time Gentlemen Please

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NSCD Graduate / Postgraduate Performance Companies

Slanjayvah Danza Crazy Joanna / Blind Passion

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NSCD Student Showcase / Graduation

Refresh Theatre Company Alice

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MotionManual DanceMakers & Hyb

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Dance in Yorkshire

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PCI Choreographic Platform

Three Years in the Making ___________________________________ stage@leeds Sat 23 Jan

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CONTEMPORARY DANCE STUDENTS PCI Choreographic Platform Three Years in the Making stage@leeds at University of Leeds Sat 23 Jan, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Box Office 0113 343 8730 Tickets £8.50, concessions £6.50 Three Years in the Making is a sharing of the choreographic work created by 3rd Year Dance students from the School of Performance and Cultural Industries Dance students in association with Leeds University Union Contemporary Dance Society.

Created entirely from each individual choreographer’s vision and using an ensemble company, the show promises an eclectic mix of pieces capturing the diverse perspectives of the individual students’ final choreographic practice.

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Rannel Theatre Company

Flhip Flhop – Everything Happens on the Break ____________________________________ stage@leeds Thu 28 Jan

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HIP-HOP COMEDY THEATRE Rannel Theatre Company & makin projects present Flhip Flhop – Everything Happens on the Break stage@leeds at University of Leeds Thu 28 Jan, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 343 8730 Tickets £10.00, concessions £8.00 Putting a fresh new twist on Hip-Hop theatre, Rannel Theatre Company bring their acclaimed work Flhip Flhop – Everything Happens on the Break back to theatres this Spring.

Life can be really boring, especially when you’re a decorator with time on your hands and beats in your head. But when your mate’s into the same sounds as you are, work gets a bit funkier.

This crazy pair of painters escape the monotony of their dull jobs by taking refuge in hip-hop, MC-ing and beatbox, mixing it up but usually ending up just mixed up!

Rannel’s must-see new show combines witty dialogue and intricate choreography to create an energetic and hilarious comedy for all ages.

“Wonderfully fresh and fine comic actors... superb funky moves and breaking. A comedic gem.”  Scotsman “Rannel Theatre Company throw down an hour of genuinely breathtaking physical comic theatre.This is a genuinely laugh-outloud funny show, skilfully executed with razor sharp timing and intrinsic hip hop skills.”  The List

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Junction 25

From Where I Am Standing ____________________________________ stage@leeds Sat 30 Jan

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DANCE THEATRE Junction 25 From Where I Am Standing stage@leeds at University of Leeds Sat 30 Jan, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 343 8730 Tickets £8.00, concessions £6.00 Group Bookings: 1 free ticket with every group of 10 The art of parenting is to teach the art of living...

From Where I Am Standing is a tender, funny and exhilarating exploration of family dynamics from Glasgow’s acclaimed company of teenagers, Junction 25, performed alongside their own parents.

Junction 25 is led by artists Tashi Gore and Jess Thorpe and based at Glasgow’s Tramway, forming an integral part of the venue’s participatory programme.

Over the past few years, the company has created and performed a number of pieces including NO ID (2008), Dirty Words (2007) and Elegant Variation (2006) which won rave reviews and toured nationally to Imaginate’s WYSIWYG and Promote YT’s NFYT. From Where I Am Standing has been performed at the New Territories Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe.

“Extraordinary and deeply moving... one of the best pieces I’ve seen anywhere” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian This tour is supported by the Scottish Arts Council and is a Tramway Education Project.

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Northern School of Contemporary Dance presents

Verve 10 ___________________________________

The Riley Theatre at Northern School of Contemporary Dance Fri 19 Feb, Sat 20 Feb, Wed 7 Jul

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CONTEMPORARY Verve 10 The postgraduate performance company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance The Riley Theatre at Northern School of Contemporary Dance Fri 19 Feb, 7.30pm – Preview Sat 20 Feb, 7.30pm – Premiere Wed 7 Jul, 7.30pm – Final performance Box Office 0113 219 3018 Tickets £6.50, concessions £4.50 Energetic, thought provoking contemporary dance performed by some of Europe’s most talented young dancers.

“One of the most enjoyable evenings of dance that I’ve been to.”

Audience Member, The Riley Theatre, Leeds An invigorating mixed bill of new dance works created by leading international choreographers. The variety of choreographic styles and ideas will appeal to all, whilst the phenomenal strength and energy of the dancers will impress and inspire.

Verve, the award winning postgraduate performance company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, features dancers fresh from intensive technical training at some of Europe’s leading conservatoires, who will go on to work with some of the UK’s most highly regarded dance companies.

Featuring work by Laïla Diallo, Luis Lara Malvacías, Michael Schumacher, Kathinka Walter and David Zambrano.

www.nscd.ac.uk/verve www.youtube.com/northernschool

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Northern Ballet Theatre

As Time Goes By ____________________________________ Leeds Grand Theatre Tue 23 – Thu 25 Feb

photo © Merlin Hendy

BALLET Northern Ballet Theatre As Time Goes By Leeds Grand Theatre Tue 23 – Thu 25 Feb, 7.30pm with Thu 2.30pm matinée Box Office 0844 848 2715 Book securely online www.leedsgrandtheatre.com Tickets £8.50 – £32.00, discounts available As Time Goes By is an opportunity to see the Company perform a rich variety of work by an array of talented choreographers.

Title piece As Time Goes By conjures up an era of classic glamour as the dancers perform stylish choreography to a selection of timeless songs including Always and Sophisticated Swing. Leeds jazz sensation Peter Grant will sing live.

Returning by popular demand Mark Godden’s breathtaking Angels in the Architecture is inspired by the lives and times of the Shaker people. Simple yet highly moving, “every step’s a delight,” Sunday Express, 2009.

Completing the programme is a selection of exciting short pieces including Ossein by multi-award winning choreographer Wayne McGregor; a new piece, Powerhouse Rhumba, by NBT’s Artistic Director David Nixon, set to Powerhouse by Australian composer Graham Koehne; Petipa’s world famous Grand pas de deux from Don Quixote, set to Ludwig Minkus’ score; and NBT Ballet Master and former principal dancer, Daniel de Andrade, premières Glass Canon set to music by Scottish musicians Moishe’s Bagel.

All music played live by the Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra.

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Northern Ballet Theatre

Romeo & Juliet ____________________________________ Leeds Grand Theatre Sat 27 Feb – Sat 6 Mar

photos © Richard Farley

BALLET Northern Ballet Theatre Romeo & Juliet Leeds Grand Theatre Sat 27 Feb – Sat 6 Mar, 7.30pm with Thu & Sat 2.30pm matinées Box Office 0844 848 2715 Book securely online www.leedsgrandtheatre.com Tickets £8.50 – £32.00, discounts available Northern Ballet Theatre returns with one of its best loved ballets, the stunning Romeo & Juliet. This classic adaptation of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy is a perfect blend of classical ballet, drama and live music, for which the company is renowned.

NBT’s production of this ultimate tale of forbidden love is romantic, heartbreaking and dramatic – from the balcony scene to the young lovers’ devastating and untimely deaths.

Lez Brotherston’s sumptuous costumes and marble sets, along with Prokofiev’s timeless score played live by the NBT Orchestra, makes Romeo & Juliet an unforgettable and moving theatrical experience.

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Yorkshire Dance & Youth Dance England

Fresh 2010 ____________________________________ West Yorkshire Playhouse Wed 10 Mar

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YOUTH DANCE Yorkshire Dance & Youth Dance England Fresh 2010 a part of U. Dance West Yorkshire Playhouse Wed 10 Mar, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 213 7700 Book securely online www.wyp.org.uk Tickets £8 (discounts and groups of 5+ £2 off) A sensational showcase of dance performed by young people aged 11-19. Anything could happen – street dance, bharatanatyam, contemporary dance – in an evening of fierce competition.

Fresh 2010 is a showcase for the finest youth dance groups from Yorkshire and the Humber, and a celebration of the achievements of the region’s young dancers.

The groups are competing to dazzle an elite panel, who will select one group to represent Yorkshire at the prestigious U.Dance England 2010.

U.Dance England 2010 sees Youth Dance England returning to the West Midlands for a fantastic weekend event culminating in an extraordinary showcase of dance performances by young people from across England on Sun 4 Jul at the Birmingham Hippodrome.

www.yorkshiredance.com www.yde.org.uk

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Northern School of Contemporary Dance presents

Graduate / Postgraduate Performance Companies ____________________________________ The Riley Theatre at Northern School of Contemporary Dance Mar – Jun

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CONTEMPORARY Graduate / Postgraduate Performance Companies The Riley Theatre at Northern School of Contemporary Dance Box Office 0113 219 3018 Tickets £6.50, concessions £4.50 Be amongst the first to catch emerging dance artists performing with some of Europe’s leading conservatoire and university contemporary dance companies. mapdance University of Chichester Sat 20 Mar, 7.30pm Dance works by Shobana Jeyasingh, Matthias Sperling, Gregory Maqoma, Colin Poole and Keira Martin – a programme that offers a mixture of dance theatre, punchy choreography, and intriguing humour.

Royal Conservatoire Artesis University College of Antwerp, Belgium Sat 1 May, 7.30pm An exclusive performance from Belgium’s Royal Conservatoire.

The programme will showcase work from several European choreographers and will be preceded by excerpts from the Verve 10 programme.

EDge London Contemporary Dance School Sat 5 Jun, 7.30pm Ten exceptional dancers on the cusp of their professional careers. Work specially created by choreographers Wally Cardona (USA), Frauke Requardt (Germany), Rick Nodine (USA), Darren Ellis, Lucy Suggate and Nicholas Quinn.

The Space Cadets Scottish School of Contemporary Dance Sat 19 Jun, 7.30pm Always brave and new, a company of twenty dancers and a programme of new commissions from Sara Blanc, Martin Robinson and Pete Shenton (New Art Club).

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Northern School of Contemporary Dance

Student Showcase / Graduation ____________________________________ The Riley Theatre at Northern School of Contemporary Dance Tue 23 – Fri 26 Mar / Thu 8 Jul

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CONTEMPORARY Northern School of Contemporary Dance The Riley Theatre at Northern School of Contemporary Dance Box Office 0113 219 3018 Tickets £6.50, concessions £4.50 Student Showcase Tue 23 – Fri 26 Mar, 7.30pm Performed by the students of NSCD’s BPA (Hons) Contemporary Dance degree course, the Student Showcase is a spectacular performance. Students in their final and second year perform four diverse and exclusive works created by professional choreographers including Simon Birch and Debbie Johnson, whilst first years undertake their own choreographic explorations. Famed for their strength and intensity the students promise to present a riveting and irresistible evening of fresh new work.

Graduation Thu 8 Jul, 7.30pm The zenith of their dance career to date – graduating students present contemporary dance works by visiting professional choreographers as well as the year’s best student choreography, selected from graduates of the BPA (Hons) and PGDip in Contemporary Dance and the PGDip/MA in Choreography. An unmissable opportunity to experience the talents of the next generation of dance artists as we bid them farewell and wish them the best of luck in their future careers as dance artists.

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East Midlands Children’s Theatre Consortium

Telling Tales ____________________________________ The Carriageworks Sat 27 Mar

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DANCE THEATRE FOR CHILDREN East Midlands Children’s Theatre Consortium Telling Tales New dance theatre for children aged 4+ and families The Carriageworks Sat 27 Mar, 2.00pm Box Office 0113 224 3801 Book securely online www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk Tickets £9.00, concessions £6.00, family £28.00 A playful introduction to dance, Telling Tales takes a fresh look at two well-loved children’s stories, alongside two new dance pieces.

Look out for a mischievous version of the famous The Hare and the Tortoise story; a dressing-up game involving a squabble over the biggest overcoat you’ve ever seen; and a speed version of The Golden Goose involving only 2 dancers but a cast of thousands. In the finale, Sea of Clothes, shirts and skirts take on a dancing life of their own!

A first project from East Midlands Children’s Theatre Consortium of Lakeside Arts Centre, Déda and Spark Children’s Arts Festival, Telling Tales was created by two acclaimed international choreographers of work for children and young people – Enrique Cabrera (Aracaladanza) and Hélène Blackburn (Cas Public).

50 minutes including question and answer session with the dancers.

“My daughter and her friend came... and I laughed and clapped as much as them!” Lakeside audience member Telling Tales is funded by Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts

www.lakesidearts.org.uk/Children-and-YoungPeople/Telling-Tales-Project.html

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Yorkshire Dance presents Grotesqueries 1 Sarah Spanton

Red Beast ____________________________________ Yorkshire Dance Fri 23 Apr

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CONTEMPORARY / VISUAL ART Yorkshire Dance presents Grotesqueries 1

Sarah Spanton Red Beast

Yorkshire Dance Fri 23 Apr, 2.00pm, 4.00pm, 6.00pm & 8.00pm Box Office 0113 243 8765 Tickets £9.00, concessions £7.00 A quietly provocative exploration of perceptions of female body hair.

An evocative visual and physical discourse on the grotesque, the disgusting, the body outside cultural conventions.

This is a subtly disturbing and contemplative experience; an immersive journey to meet Spanton as Red Beast. Lying in wait, she is the tale... and she tells the tale...

Red Beast is a tightly woven collection of impressions – of woman as fairytale, as feral, as half-woman-half-beast, as surreal, as a child, as trapped, as part of us, as part of nature, as transgressive, as abandoned, as afraid, as fearless.

Red Beast is a guided journey through live performance, video installation, image-text exhibition and an opportunity to contribute to an artist’s book – gifted to each participant.

Grotesqueries: Yorkshire Dance is proud to present these bold new works in which two of Yorkshire’s leading female artists challenge our perceptions of beauty and ugliness through performance.

See pages 28 & 29 for Grotesqueries 2: Instant Dissidence’s She’s Lost Control

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National Dance Network presents

Dance3 ____________________________________ The Riley Theatre at Northern School of Contemporary Dance Sat 24 Apr

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CONTEMPORARY National Dance Network presents Dance3 Tanja Råman, Tom Dale, Freddie Opoku-Addaie The Riley Theatre at Northern School of Contemporary Dance Sat 24 Apr, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 219 3018 Tickets £10.00, concessions £6.00 with post-show discussion A triple bill of new work from the next generation of dancemakers.

Experience dance in a new dimension – three fresh, bite sized performances showcasing the best of a new wave of professional choreographers and their collaborators in one evening. Three super talented artists let their imaginations run riot creating compelling and varied performances mixing physical brilliance, music and film.

Featuring work by Tanja Råman + Dbini Industries, Tom Dale and Freddie OpokuAddaie; accompanied by A Blank Canvas, a foyer installation by Heather Eddington’s State of Flux dancefilm company, blending dance, film and animation.

Dance3 is a new small scale touring initiative from the National Dance Network touring three sets of triple bills throughout the UK in 2010.

www.dance3.org NATIONAL DANCE NETWORK

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Yorkshire Dance presents Grotesqueries 2 Instant Dissidence

She’s Lost Control ____________________________________ Yorkshire Dance Fri 30 Apr

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CONTEMPORARY Yorkshire Dance presents Grotesqueries 2

Instant Dissidence She’s Lost Control

Yorkshire Dance Fri 30 Apr, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 243 8765 Tickets £9.00, concessions £7.00 Contains footage of epileptic seizures and may contain nudity. Suitable for ages 16+

An immersive dance performance installation lasting an hour, looking at epilepsy and the control behaviours involved in avoiding epileptic seizures, created by award-winning choreographer Rita Marcalo.

She’s Lost Control is the second in a trilogy exploring the relationship between dance, epilepsy and drug research. It addresses Marcalo’s own experience as an epilepsy sufferer and that of other well known sufferers such as Joy Division’s singer Ian Curtis. It concerns itself with the healthy body, the body which is not in an epileptic state, and the measures to keep the body in that state.

The first in the trilogy, Involuntary Dances – “well-conceived, witty and thought-provoking,” Allan Sutherland, The Guardian – explored the opposite – the epileptic body, the body in a state of illness, and the behaviours that might provoke the condition.

Grotesqueries: Yorkshire Dance is proud to present these bold new works in which two of Yorkshire’s leading female artists challenge our perceptions of beauty and ugliness through performance.

See pages 24 & 25 for Grotesqueries 1: Sarah Spanton’s Red Beast Supported by Arts Council England, CIDA, Bradford Playhouse,Yorkshire Dance, Theatre in the Mill and Dance Digital.

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Demon Barber Roadshow

Time Gentlemen Please ____________________________________ The Carriageworks Sat 15 May

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DANCE THEATRE Demon Barber Roadshow Time Gentlemen Please The Carriageworks Sat 15 May, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 224 3801 Book securely online www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk Tickets £10.00, concessions £8.00 In 2001 The Demon Barbers, winners of Best Live Act at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2009, brought together some of England’s most exciting young traditional dancers to create their high energy spectacular The Demon Barber Roadshow.

Used to pushing the boundaries of English traditions they now take a further step and invite three young hip hop dancers for a night out at their local pub, The Fighting Cocks. Clog, Rapper* and Morris meet B-boying, Popping and Krump in this humorous and unmissable visual feast. Think Riverdance with a false moustache, Stomp with bells on and both sitting in the front seat of a Bugatti!

“Check them out for proof that England’s exciting, phwoar-inducing, evolving dance, song and instrumental traditions are thriving, live and very kicking.” f’Roots “One of the best live bands I’ve ever seen. If you get a chance to see them – don’t miss it – they are brilliant.” Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2 * Not that kind of rapper... Rapper Sword is a form of traditional dance from Northumbria, first performed by miners on Tyneside.

Supported by Arts Council England & co-produced with Yorkshire Dance

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Slanjayvah Danza

Crazy Joanna / Blind Passion – Live Cut ____________________________________ stage@leeds Fri 21 May

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CONTEMPORARY Slanjayvah Danza Crazy Joanna / Blind Passion – Live Cut stage@leeds at University of Leeds Fri 21 May, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 343 8730 Tickets £8.50, concessions £6.50 An evening of works including the brand new Crazy Joanna, a socially conscientious piece recounting the anguished escape of a woman trapped in abusive relationships.

Crazy Joanna explores the dark side of passion. Taking the viewer on a journey through history, it discloses the torment of emotionally abused women through the ages, arriving at present time. Crazy Joanna is a dance and film integration piece following the tormented life of medieval Spanish Queen Juana la Loca, through the backstreets of Buenos Aires at the birth of the Tango – to a neighbourhood near you.

Blind Passion – Live Cut Devised through a passion for dance and the body as a work of art in itself, blindfolded, the dancers show great trust and honesty towards each other to tell their tale. Through intricate contact work sprinkled with Tango influences, the dancers and choreography move smoothly, subtly becoming more revealing and dynamic, challenging the audience with intrigue and question.

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Refresh Theatre Company

Alice ____________________________________ The Carriageworks Sat 5 Jun

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DANCE THEATRE Refresh Theatre Company Alice The Carriageworks Sat 5 Jun, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 224 3801 Book securely online www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk Tickets £10.00, concessions £8.00 Alice is a solo performance that fuses expressive dance, an evocative soundscape and a mysterious mix of multimedia. This exciting new show is a raw and playful search of the soul – a curious detective story where destiny meets chance, time is measured in tea and the self is the main suspect.

What happens if your dreams become too vivid, and your waking hours become ruled by memories of the night?

Follow Alice down the Rabbit hole where fantasy and reality are intertwined. Faced with endless tunnels, which one is Alice brave enough to take?

In pursuit of her white rabbit soul-mate, Alice attempts to unite the different aspects of herself. By examining evidence of her nighttime behaviour Alice can begin her process of understanding and acceptance.

Alice takes the audience on an enchanting adventure of spectacular events and moments of intimacy.

On a journey into the subconscious that could easily be your own, Alice explores the space that occupies our hidden thoughts.

Refresh Theatre uses a collision of different art forms to create an entertaining theatre experience.

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MotionManual

DanceMakers & Hyb – a double bill ____________________________________ Yorkshire Dance Fri 11 & Sat 12 Jun

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CONTEMPORARY MotionManual DanceMakers & Hyb – a double bill Yorkshire Dance Fri 11 & Sat 12 Jun, 7.30pm Box Office 0113 243 8765 Tickets £8.00, concessions £6.00 DanceMakers – a working relationship in 10 acts is a humorous lecture performance, portraying the dancerchoreographer relationship. In ten sequential episodes Dan Watson and Manuela Berndt embark on a journey through audition paranoia, rehearsal scenes and private moments, and experience the great interdependency, common misunderstandings and precarious seduction between the two forces that create the dance.

Hyb is a duet between two opposed individuals gradually mutating into super bodies. The term Hybrid describes a mixture or a combination of previously separate systems of different species and processes, which create a newly compound whole. In this compelling choreography the dancers’ distinctive physicality and movement quality merge to create an innovative form freed from genre and vocabulary, also integrating film, projections and sound.

Choreographer Manuela Berndt is one of The Fourteen, a group of dance artists participating in Yorkshire Dance’s LIFT. Funded by Arts Council England, LIFT is a career mentoring programme enabling Yorkshire Dance to fund two Associated Artists and The Fourteen through a programme of residencies and training.

MotionManual is a Leeds based collective of artists from different performance backgrounds which creates multidisciplinary dance productions and undertakes residencies and international touring throughout Europe and overseas.

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in Sheffield Spring / Summer highlights Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield Tue 26 Jan Bonachela Dance Company The Land of Yes and The Land of No In a new collaboration with composer Ezio Bosso, Rafael Bonachela delves into the world of signs and symbols that rule our everyday lives and spark our hidden memories. “A company with a vivid sense of personality.”

The Times

Crucible Theatre, Sheffield Mon 22 – Wed 24 Mar Les 7 Doigts de la Main Traces

Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield Fri 21 & Sat 22 May Michael Clark Company come, been and gone

Cirque as you’ve never seen it before! “So thrilling it will surely make a whole generation run away and join the circus.” The Guardian

Evolving from Michael Clark’s admiration for the music of rock’s holy trinity, David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, who worked in close proximity during the 1970s, “an outrageously gorgeous piece of modern dance.”

The Observer

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Sheffield Theatres Box Office 0114 249 6000 Book online www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk

photo © Jake Walters

photo © Ione Saizar

Full info for all 11 national & international companies visiting Sheffield and SY Spring10 visit www.danceworks.org.uk

Doncaster Hothouse Festival A four-week feast of the very best comedy, theatre, dance and music. Tue 2 – Tue 30 Mar Wed 24 Mar, 7.00pm Youth Dance Platform in association with Get Active School Sport Partnership & Wayne Sables Project

This platform event will showcase a diverse range of youth dance performances from Doncaster-based dance groups. £5

Thu 25 Mar, 7.30pm This Is Now

by New Art Club Britain’s funniest dance duo – “the Reeves photo © Chris Nash and Mortimer of contemporary dance” – deconstruct the first ever ‘Now’ album, jump headlong into the dark pool of days gone by and come out covered in a filthy 80’s gunk. £8 / £5 01302 342349 www.doncastercivic.co.uk

For up to date listings of dance in Yorkshire visit www.digyorkshire.com

Traces Thu 11 – Sat 13 Feb, 7.30pm with Sat 2.30pm matinée Traces is a high energy, dazzling display of urban acrobatics that combines traditional circus skills with basketball, skateboarding, a mix of street and contemporary dance, traditional theatre, humour and amazing audio visual effects.

“A spectacular delight that will rob you of your breath” The Sunday Times Tickets from £12 – £21.50 WINNER OF OVER 30 INTERNATIONAL THEATRE AWARDS Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake Mon 29 Mar – Sat 3 Apr, 7.30pm with Wed 2pm & Sat 2.30pm matinées When it premiered at Sadler’s Wells in 1995, Matthew Bourne’s triumphant modern

re-interpretation of Swan Lake turned tradition upside down, taking the dance world by storm.

Now firmly crowned as a modern day classic, this iconic production is perhaps best-known for replacing the traditional female corps de ballet with a menacing male ensemble. Matthew Bourne blends dance, humour and spectacle with extravagant, award-winning designs by Lez Brotherston, to create a provocative and powerful Swan Lake for our times.

Tickets from £12.50 – £35

photo © Flavio Colker

The Dance Consortium in association with Dance Umbrella presents

companhia de dança DEBORAH COLKER Fri 7 & Sat 8 May, 8pm

Colker’s work is renowned across the world for the incredible skill and concentration it demands of her Brazilian dancers. Not only do they move with feather light grace and precision, but also with a touch of daring acrobatics and athleticism which leaves audiences astounded and exhilarated. It’s this ability to combine the passionate with the sublime which makes a performance by Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker a truly unforgettable experience.

“Colker is extraordinarily inventive.”

The Sunday Times Tickets from £13.50 – £23.50 01274 432000 booking fees apply

photo © Bill Cooper

For up to date listings of dance in Yorkshire visit www.digyorkshire.com

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Dance events include: Wed 10 Mar, 7.30pm Richmond School dance students (£6)

A Spring & Summer season exploding with dance, drama, music and poetry awaits you! Guided tours of the UK’s most complete Georgian playhouse resume on 6th Feb, Mon – Sat from 10am – 5pm.

Dance Saver! Book for any 2 events and save £4 off the total ticket price.

Box Office 01484 430528 Book Online www.thelbt.org Queen’s Square, HD1 2SP Vincent Dance Theatre: If We Go On Wed 24 Feb: 7.30pm Tickets £12, £10, £8 +concessions £2 off If you had one last dance in you, what shape would it take? Presenting a relentless succession of splintered transactions, where words lose their strength and movement meanders into exhaustion and incoherence. photo © Hugo Glendinning

Fri 21 May, 7.30pm Diamond Cabaret (£5 – £13.50; concessions £4.50 – £11.50) Fri 28 May, 7.30pm Jaleo Flamenco (£6 – £16.50)

Giselle photo © Independent Ballet Wales / Peter Teigen

Call our Box Office on 01748 825252 or visit www.georgiantheatreroyal.co.uk for our theatre brochure and all ticket enquiries.

Fri 14 & Sat 15 May, 7.30pm Independent Ballet Wales Giselle (£6 – £16.50)

Bonachela Dance Company The Land of Yes and The Land of No Wed 24 Mar: 7.30pm Tickets £12, £10, £8 +concessions £2 off This highly physical and emotive work presents an exploration into the human photo © Ione Saizar psyche, the power of imagination and the body’s ability to give physical shape to memory, experience and emotions.

Scottish Dance Theatre: Double Bill Tue 25 May: 7.30pm Tickets £14, £12, £10 +concessions £2 off ONLY YORKSHIRE DATE

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Northern Ballet Theatre Romeo & Juliet Wed 19 – Sat 22 May The Russian State Ballet of Siberia, Giselle Wed 10 Feb, 7.30pm Thu 11 Feb, 2.30pm & 7.30pm The most poignant of all classical ballets – the story of Giselle and her aristocratic but duplicitous lover Albrecht – is a chilling, heartrending tale of love, treachery and forgiveness from beyond the grave. and The Sleeping Beauty Fri 12 Feb, 7.30pm Sat 13 Feb, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Every child’s favourite fairy tale; a classic story of love, innocence, mystery and magic set to Tchaikovsky’s sublime score. A stunning fantasy in which the Lilac Fairy struggles against the evil Carabosse.

This classic adaptation of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy is a perfect blend of classical ballet, drama and live photo © Richard Farley music. The ultimate tale of forbidden love is romantic, heartbreaking and dramatic – from the balcony scene to the young lovers’ devastating and untimely deaths.

Sumptuous costumes and sets, with Prokofiev’s timeless score played live by the NBT Orchestra, make Romeo & Juliet an unforgettable and moving theatrical experience.

Box Office 01482 226655 www.hullcc.gov.uk Kingston Square, Hull, HU1 3HF

2Faced Dance Company Still Breathing Sat 27 Feb, 7.30pm (£10/£8)

National Dance Network presents Dance3 Wed 17 Mar, 7.30pm (£9/£7)

Hanson Street S70 2HZ

A gritty new work exploring the space we occupy. Stunning athleticism set to an electrifying score, this is an hour of unstoppable, seemingly impossible movement.

Three fresh, bite sized performances by a new wave of choreographers.

0845 1800 363 barnsleycivic.co.uk The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs Dancing on your Grave Sat 13 Feb, 7.30pm (£14/£12) A troupe of deceased, downtrodden music hall artistes, The Corpse de Ballet, is stuck on an endless purgatorial tour. A ghoulish, all-singing all-dancing music hall experience.

photo © Lea Anderson

The Civic Barnsley

photo © Chris Nash

4m2, Claire Cunningham & Jose Agudo: engaging physical theatre combining real stories and stunning filmic backdrop. Cabin Fever, Tom Dale: lost in a world of their own, a character’s cabin fever and mental loops produce exhilarating, hypnotic performance. a mind as beautiful, Douglas Thorpe: a blistering, brutal and tender exploration of schizophrenia.

photo © Irven Lewis

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Hull Dance Spring Season 2010 David Toole & Lucy Hind: Extra-Ordinary Wed 5 May, 8.00pm (£8, concessions £4) Acclaimed as an actor and dancer on stage and screen, David Toole’s credits are numerous, his critics adoring, his biggest fan about to partner him in an extraordinary duet.

A most extraordinary journey of self-discovery for them both awaits, in this incredibly funny, moving and soberingly trenchant dance piece.

A duet, written, directed and performed by David Toole and Lucy Hind; one with no legs, one with no clue. www.developmentlab.org.uk

Rosie Kay Dance Company: 5 Soldiers Wed 19 May, 7.30pm £12, concessions £10, groups 10+ £8 A timely, controversial and moving exploration of war in modern times.

A unique collaboration between award winning choreographer photo © Brian Slater Rosie Kay, visual artist David Cotterrell and theatre director Walter Meierjohann. “The real business of war is human, dirty, messy, painful and happening right now.” Rosie Kay www.rosiekay.co.uk Box Office 01482 323638 or www.hulltruck.co.uk Hull Truck, 50 Ferensway, HU2 8LB Hull Dance is a Hull City Council initiative, organised by City Arts in partnership with Hull Truck.

Moves: Festival of Dance Mon 21 - Sat 26 June 2010 Moves Festival of Dance returns in June this year following last year’s hugely successful event that attracted over 2000 people. The week long programme of dance features a host of professional performances from world class dance companies and artists showcasing their work. The festival is the only one of its kind in Wakefield and this year’s promises to present a vibrant cross section of dance styles packed in to one week!

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Vincent Dance Theatre presents If We Go On Box Office 01423 502116 www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk

Fri 19 Mar, 7.30pm £9 – £13 (£2 discount for concessions) The internationally renowned Vincent Dance Theatre returns to Harrogate Theatre with its brand new show, If We Go On. In a relentless succession of splintered transactions, where words lose their strength, music strains to be heard and movement meanders into exhaustion and incoherence, If We Go On asks: If you had one last dance in you, what shape would it take? This is contemporary dance at its finest.

“Brave, intelligent entertainment” The Times New English Contemporary Ballet Wed 16 Jun, 7.30pm £10 – £14 (£2 discount for concessions)

Kala Sangam presents Kala Kahani: Artistic Tales Sat 23 Jan, Sat 27 Feb & Sat 20 Mar, 7.45pm £10 (£8 concessions) Kala Sangam hosts three different evenings showcasing South Asian storytelling, music and dance.

A group of artists will present Asian and English tales through South Asian music and dance. Be prepared to expose the senses to a myriad of storytelling and South Asian arts.

In a sparkling new programme of work by four contrasting choreographers including Ballett Basel’s Richard Wherlock and Strictly Come Dancing’s Craig Revel Horwood, New English Contemporary Ballet brings its stylish fusion of ballet and contemporary dance back to Harrogate in characteristically scintillating style.

“Pure delight... a joy to watch” Dance Europe

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The Riley Theatre Northern School of Contemporary Dance 98 Chapeltown Road, Leeds LS7 4BH Box Office 0113 219 3018

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stage@leeds University of Leeds Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT Box Office 0113 343 8730

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Leeds Grand Theatre & Opera House 46 New Briggate, Leeds LS1 6NZ Box Office 0844 848 2715

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West Yorkshire Playhouse Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UP Box Office 0113 213 7700

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Yorkshire Dance St Peter’s Square, Leeds LS9 8AH Box Office 0113 243 8765

The Carriageworks Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD Box Office 0113 224 3801

Cover photography © Chris Sands, dancer Riccardo Meneghini Map: Andy Edwards Design 0113 242 8350