Juncture 2012

Curated by Charlotte Vincent

Four weeks of experimental performance & practice

Yorkshire Dance, Leeds

8-30 March 2012

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Featuring: Liz Aggiss Wendy Houstoun Eddie Ladd Aurora Lubos Antonia Grove The Two Wrongies New Art Club Charlotte Vincent Claire MacDonald Ruth Ben Tovim / Encounters Vincent Dance Theatre

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Welcome to Juncture 2012!

A warm welcome to Yorkshire Dance’s first ever Juncture, for which we are proudly collaborating with acclaimed artist Charlotte Vincent in the role of curator. With Juncture we hope to re-affirm Yorkshire Dance as a home for experimental and innovative dance practice and we are delighted with the scintillating programme that Charlotte has created for audiences and artists alike. Laugh, create and be moved – and don’t forget to let us know what you think at www.juncturedance.com.

Wieke Eringa CEO & Artistic Director, Yorkshire Dance I am delighted to introduce the first ever Juncture at Yorkshire Dance. Four weeks of residencies, performances, workshops and critical debates, programmed with an emphasis on female-led work and experimental, cross disciplinary practice.

I have invited some of my closest working colleagues to be part of this initial programme – funny, smart women (and a few renegade men), who have something to say and a unique way of saying it.

Their work is surprising, bold and intelligent. They are quiet anarchists, searching for an appropriate language to say what they need to say. They are mature, experienced makers, researchers, producers, writers, performers, dancers, managers, musicians and composers – artists whose work needs to be seen and whose voices need to be heard.

As part of Juncture, seen and heard they will be. Come join us!

© Matthew Simpson

Charlotte Vincent Curator Juncture 2012 Charlotte Vincent is Artistic Director of Vincent Dance Theatre and one half of V&A Artefacts.

Cover image Liz Aggiss © Matthew Andrews

Vincent Dance Theatre Motherland Workshop

Artistic Directors Charlotte Vincent (Vincent Dance Theatre) and Ruth Ben Tovim (Encounters) alongside new and established members of Vincent Dance Theatre are in residence at Yorkshire Dance from 5 - 9 March.

THURSDAY 8 MARCH -

FRIDAY 9 MARCH

10.00am - 1.00pm Yorkshire Dance Admission FREE

The company will explore innovative approaches to community practice and ways of collecting stories from the general public that will contribute towards the making of Motherland, an intergenerational middle scale work touring in autumn 2012. Participants will be involved in road-testing a high quality process of community engagement that shifts how people see the world and their place within it as the company develops a new model for a series of curated events that will form part of their autumn 2012 tour.

Vincent Dance Theatre has been making and touring devised dance theatre work and leading associated programmes of community participation and professional development work since 1994.

Encounters create imaginative spaces and processes for people of all ages and backgrounds to explore their relationship with themselves, each other, where they live and the natural world.

Š Charlotte Vincent

Northern Area Dance Network Meeting

THURSDAY 15 MARCH

Debate

Facilitated by Charlotte Vincent and David Edmunds, with speakers Martin Wilson 1.00pm - 4.30pm (Director, Tin Arts) Matt Fenton (Director, Yorkshire Dance Nuffield Theatre @ Lancaster University) and Victoria Firth (Director, Lawrence Batley Admission FREE Theatre). Funded by Arts Council England, Join us for this second Northern Area Dance Network Meeting to discuss in detail the specific issues facing independent dancers, artistic directors, producers, community practitioners and venue programmers working in the Greater Northern Region (NE England, NW England, Yorkshire and Humberside), and to hear feedback from a series of smaller meetings held in February 2012 involving practitioners from across the North. Tea and Cakes available and free travel bursaries for people wishing to attend from outside Leeds. Contact rachael@departsltd.com if you are interested in attending / require a travel bursary.

FRIDAY

© Andy Woods and Tom Pitts

16 MARCH

6.00pm Yorkshire Dance Admission FREE

BrightFurnace - The Traipse Sharing & discussion

BrightFurnace will share their progress towards the creation of The Traipse, an examination of concepts of Englishness and cultural identity through new explorations of traditional folk dance. Harry Theaker is an independent dance artist and choreographer who has worked with Vincent Dance Theatre, Javier de Frutos, Wayne McGregor and many more. The Traipse is the launch project for his company BrightFurnace, and will tour Yorkshire in March 2012.

SUNDAY

18 MARCH

BrightFurnace / Harry Theaker English Folk Dance Workshop

11.00am - 2.00pm Yorkshire Dance Admission £15.00 Concessions £12.00

Harry Theaker will teach the components of a rapper dance with its intricate and complex figures, sequences and locks. This will lead into structured improvisations though which you will create a new dance, of your own making but rooted in the tradition. You’ll work on your own material and as a team. Swords will be provided. Wear hard-soled shoes and bring your boldness with you as this workshop isn’t for the faint-hearted!

© Bill Best for Vincent Dance Theatre

Antony Dunn Writing Dance

SUNDAY

18 MARCH

Workshop

You’ve made a beautiful, breath-taking new dance work. You’re excited about putting it in 12.00pm - 2.00pm front of some audiences. But how are you going Yorkshire Dance to persuade them to come? Talking about dance isn’t always easy. We’ve all read dance flyers Admission £5.00 that have left us puzzled and perplexed. So how do we avoid falling into the same trap? How can we talk to our audiences in a language they understand?

This informal, practical and occasionally hilarious workshop will explore some creative writing techniques which will help shake up your ideas about writing dance.

Antony Dunn has worked in theatre and dance marketing since 1997.

He is Marketing & Communications Manager of Yorkshire Dance in one life, and a poet, dramatist and creative writing tutor in another.

© Cris Matthews

New Art Club Comedy Dance Workshop

WEDNESDAY 21 MARCH -

THURSDAY

22 MARCH Tom Roden of New Art Club, Britain’s funniest dance duo, will lead a two day workshop for professional artists that draws 10.00am - 5.00pm on the company’s new show, Quiet Act Of Yorkshire Dance Destruction. It will be a practical session that looks at how the physical and spoken elements Admission £60.00 of their work are conceived and executed. It will Concessions £40.00 be challenging, rigorous and funny.

Participants will gain an insight into the creation of New Art Club’s work by exploring some of their devising methods and creating some material of their own. The session is for anyone interested in experimenting with movement, text and comedy.

© Jonty Wilde From ‘The Breakfast Sculpture’ developed in collaboration with artist Mel Brimfield, Paul Higgs and Dinnington Colliery Band for Brimfield’s ‘This Is Performance Art – Performed Sculpture and Dance’ exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

6.00pm - 9.00pm

6.00pm - 8.30pm

6.00pm - 8.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Aurora Lubos - Still Alive

22 MARCH

Admission FREE

23 MARCH

24 MARCH

Installation

Still Alive is an intimate, simple portrait of a performer and mother.

Five rooms, filled with objects and thoughts relating to childhood, motherhood, nature and the female psyche. Capturing authentic, striking glimpses into the life of a woman whose body and face carry a certain tiredness, Still Alive is also a moving portrait of a mind slipping out of time. Viewing Aurora one person at a time, this is an intimate and moving meeting point between performer and viewer, a game between what is alive and what is dead, what moves and what is still, between what has a voice and what is silent...

Aurora Lubos is a Polish performer who has worked extensively with Dance Theatre of Gdansk and with Vincent Dance Theatre.

‘Lubos’s exquisitely pitched performance [is] small but beautiful.’

The Observer

THURSDAY 22 MARCH

V&A Artefacts (Charlotte Vincent & Liz Aggiss) Blurred Vision Performance

Blurred Vision is a scientific exploration on Nothing. No thing. Nothing at all. Nada. Rien.

Yorkshire Dance Niente. Gar nichts. A cocky, clever couple, concerned with comprehensible context, Admission £5.00 conceptual clarity and the simple execution of complex content, V&A Artefacts are searching for something – anything – that can shed light on the questions ‘what on earth are we doing here?’ ‘why are we doing it?’ and perhaps most importantly, ‘when will all this end?’

Measuring time and space as they go, Blurred Vision finds Vincent and Aggiss dodging around dictators, dogma, dickheads and dirt as they earnestly explore the void.

7.00pm

‘Immaculate timing and choreographic precision… the humour is knowing, at times side splittingly funny.

Brave ladies! Take a bow!’

Total Theatre

Wendy Houstoun 50 Acts

THURSDAY 22 MARCH

Performance

A warm, intimate, affecting show, 50 Acts is a spirited retaliation against ageism involving: manifestos, songs, apologies and errors, random acts, small dances and big ideas, ghostly appearances, invisibility, stupidity, inexplicable feats and unexpected turns, techno idiocy and much, much more.

8.00pm Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre Admission £10.00 Concessions £8.00

Wendy Houstoun makes work which is both personal and pertinent to our times.

Having established herself as a performer with DV8 Physical Theatre she has made a series of solo works and collaborated with a number of artists including Nigel Charnock, Rose English, Gary Stevens, David Hinton, Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment.

She brings her own brand of radicalism to 50 Acts: a declaration of intent and a commitment to action.

‘Her work is completely engaging and above all, humorous.’

Cloud Dance Festival 50 Acts is programmed in partnership with Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre as part of Juncture.

THURSDAY 22 MARCH

9.30pm Yorkshire Dance Admission FREE

FRIDAY

23 MARCH

Party at Yorkshire Dance Come and join the many artists involved in Juncture for a drink and a shindig at Yorkshire Dance after Wendy Houstoun’s show, for some live music, a short poetry slam, some rogue sword dancing by BrightFurnace and a bar open until midnight. Featuring live music from folk-rock extravaganza Blackbeard’s Tea Party.

Liz Aggiss Mistressclass Workshop

10.00am - 1.00pm Yorkshire Dance Admission £15.00 Concessions £12.00

This fast-tasking, quick-thinking, performance-making workshop considers content and context, specificity and framing, past histories and lineage. The workshop will make reference to Aggiss’ research, process and choreographic practices, and will invite participants to spread their wings, move outside the box, grapple with the unknown and recover bodies from their libraries.

Participants should bring a selection of uncluttered performance clothes and shoes to wear during the workshop. Expect to talk, critique, show off, move and be moved.

Liz Aggiss is a Brighton-based performer, choreographer, filmmaker, writer, artiste and Professor of Visual Performance at the University of Brighton.

Ceri Brierley, Dave Edmunds, Gwen van Spijk & Lisa Wolfe - What Do Venues Want from Artists?

Debate

FRIDAY

23 MARCH

11.00am - 1.00pm Yorkshire Dance

A range of super-experienced independent Admission £5.00 dance and theatre managers, producers and programmers discuss what venues are looking for when programming new performance work.

How best to describe something that hasn’t been made yet? Is ‘setting up a company’ the best way to support the development and promotion of new work? Can we any longer ecologically and financially justify touring as a way to distribute ideas? And indeed does the dance touring circuit need remodelling? Is the UK touring circuit on its knees?

Aimed at recent graduates and practising professionals, each manager will present a 10 minute provocation for discussion by the panel and the audience.

Ceri Brierley is Communications and Development Manager, Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Dave Edmunds is Director of DEP Arts.

Gwen Van Spijk is Executive Director of Lone Twin & Producer for New Art Club. Lisa Wolfe is producer of performance by non-conformists including Liz Aggiss, Tim Crouch & Sue Maclaine. Chaired by Wieke Eringa (Yorkshire Dance).

Professor Liz Aggiss, Wendy Houstoun, Eddie Ladd, Claire MacDonald, The Two Wrongies & Charlotte Vincent Considerations in Contemporary Performance Practice

2.00pm - 5.00pm Yorkshire Dance Admission FREE

Symposium

A panel of established practitioners and artists discuss the politics and issues involved in making performance work in the contemporary context, including discussion around female humour, gender and sexuality on stage, the ageing body, the inadequacies of the language we use to describe, market and critique work and notions of generation.

When did the first post show discussion get invented? When did the star system for reviews start? When did marketing start changing the copy of the artist? When did the hour-long piece become inevitable?

What is generation and what does it mean to us? What does it mean to get older in performance? How do we work across generations?

How have practices, approaches and ideas been passed down through the generations? How do new generations see the past? How does the transgressive, subversive, ageing, fleshy female body have a relevant place in dance? How do the personal and political collide? How does working outside of England impact on practice? How do women work with humour and sexuality in performance?

This free symposium promises to be a fiery, thought-provoking debate by the UK’s leading female solo artists. It is for practitioners, students, teachers, academics and general public alike. Come, listen and have your say!

FRIDAY

23 MARCH

5.00pm Yorkshire Dance Admission FREE

Yorkshire Dance, Charlotte Vincent & Claire MacDonald Reception / Launch Event We invite you to join us for a glass of wine to celebrate the inaugural Juncture and the launch of The Table website, a new platform developed by Charlotte Vincent & Claire MacDonald, designed to curate, promote, document and disseminate interdisciplinary arts practice by and for experienced female practitioners, working in a range of art forms including dance, theatre and visual art.

© Matthew Simpson

6.30pm Yorkshire Dance Admission £10.00 Concession £8.00

Eddie Ladd Llain Performance

“Llain” is Welsh for “strip of land”. This solo piece combining dance, speech, drawing and video is by Eddie Ladd, whose first language is Welsh as she was born and brought up in the west of Wales. A mile from her home is an airstrip that, during the last decade, has been used for testing drones. It is known that an Israeli defence company is one of those that tests on the site and the piece looks at the connections between Israel, Wales, the West Bank and the wider world.

Eddie Ladd was born and brought up in Wales and makes performances which feature dance, bilingual text, music and new media technologies.

© Keith Morris

Curated by Charlotte Vincent

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Festival Pass £60.00 Concessions £50.00 Allows you into all events marked

for free

Practitioner Pass £80.00 Concessions £65.00 Allows you into all events marked

for free

Both passes are available to buy online, by phone or in person at Yorkshire Dance until Friday 9 March 2012

The Small Print If you buy a Festival Pass or Practitioner Pass, there will be a place reserved for you in each event covered by your pass.

Please ensure that you arrive at least 15 minutes early for the performance or workshop, otherwise we’ll assume you’re not coming to that event and allocate your place to someone waiting for one to become available.

Terms and conditions apply. Subject to availability.

Juncture at a glance Date

Time

Artists

Thur 8

10.00am 1.00pm

Vincent Dance Theatre

Fri 9

10.00am 1.00pm

Vincent Dance Theatre

Thur 15

1.00pm - 4.30pm Charlotte Vincent & David Edmunds

Fri 16

6.00pm

BrightFurnace

Sun 18

11.00am 2.00pm

BrightFurnace

Sun 18

12.00pm 2.00pm

Antony Dunn

Wed 21

10.00am 5.00pm

New Art Club

Thur 22

10.00am 5.00pm

New Art Club

Thur 22

6.00pm - 9.00pm Aurora Lubos

Thur 22

7.00pm

V&A Artefacts (Charlotte Vincent & Liz Aggiss)

Thur 22

8.00pm

Wendy Houstoun

Thur 22

9.30pm

Yorkshire Dance

Fri 23

10.00am 1.00pm

Liz Aggiss

Fri 23

11.00am 1.00pm

Various

Fri 23

2.00pm - 5.00pm Various

Fri 23

5.00pm

Fri 23

6.00pm - 8.30pm Aurora Lubos

Fri 23

6.30pm

Eddie Ladd

Fri 23

8.00pm

Antonia Grove

Fri 23

9.30pm

New Art Club

Sat 24

12.00pm 1.30pm

Wieke Eringa, Yorkshire Dance

Sat 24

2.00pm - 4.00pm The Two Wrongies

Sat 24

6.00pm - 8.00pm Aurora Lubos

Sat 24

6.45pm

Claire MacDonald & Charlotte Vincent

Sat 24

8.00pm

Liz Aggiss

Sat 24

10.00pm

The Two Wrongies

Mon 26 - Fri 30

10.00am 5.00pm

Wendy Houstoun & Charlotte Vincent

Fri 30

5.00pm

The Two Wrongies

Yorkshire Dance, Claire MacDonald & Charlotte Vincent

Event Name

Type

Venue

Motherland

Workshop (day one)

Yorkshire Dance

Motherland

Workshop (day two)

Yorkshire Dance

Northern Area Dance Network Meeting

Debate

Yorkshire Dance

The Traipse

Sharing & discussion

Yorkshire Dance

English Folk Dance

Workshop

Yorkshire Dance

Writing Dance

Workshop

Yorkshire Dance

Comedy Dance

Workshop (day one)

Yorkshire Dance

Comedy Dance

Workshop (day two)

Yorkshire Dance

Still Alive

Installation

Yorkshire Dance

Blurred Vision

Performance

Yorkshire Dance

50 Acts

Performance

Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre

Party at Yorkshire Dance Party

Yorkshire Dance

Mistressclass

Workshop

Yorkshire Dance

What Do Venues Want from Artists?

Debate

Yorkshire Dance

Considerations in Contemporary Performance Practice

Symposium

Yorkshire Dance

Reception / Launch Event

Reception / Launch Yorkshire Dance Event

Still Alive

Installation

Yorkshire Dance

Llain

Performance

Yorkshire Dance

Small Talk

Performance

Yorkshire Dance

Quiet Act of Destruction

Performance

Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre

City of Dance

Tour

Meet at Yorkshire Dance

Comedy Dance

Workshop

Yorkshire Dance

Still Alive

Installation

Yorkshire Dance

Traces of Her

Performance

Yorkshire Dance

Survival Tactics

Performance

Yorkshire Dance

World of Wrong

Performance

Yorkshire Dance

Professional Development Week

Residency Workshop

Yorkshire Dance

Work in progress

Sharing

Yorkshire Dance

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Antonia Grove Small Talk

by Wendy Houstoun

FRIDAY

23 MARCH

Performance

‘A girl should be two things: who and what she wants’, Coco Chanel Don’t miss ‘dance goddess’ Antonia Grove of Probe in this virtuosic display of disguise and derangement, specially created by Wendy Houstoun. Houstoun stands out as one of the most original artists of her generation, with an international reputation for solo work. In her first ever such creation for another protagonist, Houstoun channels her capacity to make lucid and humorous observations on contemporary culture into Small Talk, a screen-test for a B-movie actress embodied by a series of edgy, sexy and unpredictable transformations. Using stand-up singing, sit down talking, monosyllabic dancing and fast talking movement, the metamorphic Grove embraces the chameleon desire to be all things to all people.

8.00pm Yorkshire Dance Admission £10.00 Concessions £8.00

Antonia Grove, Artistic Director of Probe, is well known for creating new contexts for presenting contemporary dance and has an enviable reputation for performances with Rambert, Random, National Theatre, Fabulous Beast and Bonachela Dance Company.

‘So sexy that it should have come with a health warning’ ballet.co.uk

© Matthew Andrews

FRIDAY

23 MARCH

New Art Club Quiet Act of Destruction Performance

9.30pm Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre Admission £10.00 Concessions £8.00

Tom Roden and Pete Shenton, aka New Art Club, are the only men allowed in Charlotte’s performance programme. This is because she agrees that they are ‘Downright funny’ (New York Times).

Recognised as one of the truly original forces in comedy and winners of the Edinburgh Spotlight Best Comedy Show 2010, Quiet Act of Destruction is an energetic and hilarious rampage through the placid Cambridgeshire village of Meldreth.

Against an exhilarating soundtrack, chaos bubbles in the church tea-rooms and revolution leaks from under the post office door. Farm parks and yoghurt become sources of emotional break downs and along the way new rules are created, bent, broken and ignored in the duo’s vain attempt to take control of the situation.

Quiet Act of Destruction is programmed in partnership with Northern Ballet as part of Juncture.

‘A standing ovation... it is a joy to watch’ **** The Scotsman

© Amy Brammall

Wieke Eringa, Yorkshire Dance - City of Dance

SATURDAY 24 MARCH

Tour

Leeds has a hugely active dance community.

Join Wieke Eringa, Director of Yorkshire Dance, as she leads you around some of the key dance organisations in the city.

A rare chance to talk to Janet Smith, the new Principal of Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Sharon Watson, Director of Phoenix Dance Theatre, and prolific Producer David Edmunds from DEP Arts about their respective visions and ambitions. Likely subjects concern training, talent development, production and touring.

12.00pm - 1.30pm Meet at Yorkshire Dance Admission FREE -

Š Lizzie Coombes

SATURDAY 24 MARCH

The Two Wrongies Comedy Dance Workshop

2.00pm - 4.00pm Yorkshire Dance Admission £15.00 Concessions £12.00

Fun Dance Techniques: Find your inner dance idiot with The Two Wrongies’ two-hour dance technique workshop that may include lunging, wafting of material with Dame Judy Scarf movements, horizontal hokey cokey and Barrychin.

The Two Wrongies draw on a wide range of influences from Pina Bausch to The Muppet Show to inform their choreographic work. They will share with participants the processes they use to create new work in this workshop.

Suitable for 16 years + dance practitioners, performers and non dancers. Please wear suitable clothing that allows freedom of movement. (Thonged leotards, headbands and legwarmers are suggested but not required.)

6.45pm Yorkshire Dance Admission £5.00

Claire MacDonald & Charlotte Vincent Traces of Her Performance

In 1983, when Claire MacDonald was 28, she made a show called The Carrier Frequency, with an experimental theatre co-operative called Impact Theatre. In 2000, when Charlotte Vincent was 32, she recreated that show, playing Claire’s role, with an experimental theatre company called Stan’s Café. Carrying with them all their scars and back stories, left with just half remembered phrases and some grainy video footage, Traces of Her is an attempt to make something out of what is remembered and what remains lost to the ruthless passing of time.

Liz Aggiss Survival Tactics

SATURDAY 24 MARCH

Performance

From a glamorous, blonde bombshell in high-heels to a pigeon-toed, bow-legged oddball in big pants - Survival Tactics turns the usual perception of the female stage body on its head. Inspired by Ausdruckstanz, with an unhealthy fascination for grotesque dance and a penchant for British music hall, Liz Aggiss pays homage to her historical mentors (and to herself) through a seamless fusion of text and movement, film and reconstruction.

8.00pm Yorkshire Dance Admission £10.00 Concessions £8.00

Liz Aggiss is a Brighton-based performer, choreographer, film-maker, writer, artiste and Professor of Visual Performance at the University of Brighton.

‘Liz Aggiss wowed us with her Survival Tactics, a bravura volley of agile mischief with ideas and limbs flying in brilliantly ridiculous directions.’

Glasgow Herald

SATURDAY 24 MARCH

The Two Wrongies World of Wrong Performance

10.00pm Yorkshire Dance Admission £10.00 Concessions £8.00

Ready for a right royal wronging? Then enter the world of The Two Wrongies; the double act who dare to do the dirty! It’s dance, it’s comedy, it’s sordid synchronised swimming. ‘It’s so wrong it’s right!’

World of Wrong is a risqué and experimental 60-minute performance that intersperses elements of cabaret with moments that are funny, poignant and daring. It’s dance, it’s comedy, it’s theatre. It’s funny, it’s tongue in cheek, it’s daring. It has some serious bits and some rude bits.

Welcome to the strange and chaotic world of The Two Wrongies. Come with an open mind, sit back, and experience (in no particular order): ‘a delightful, whimsical animation. A glorious physical parody of the male of the species in full-on, hard-on sexual mode.

A beautiful silent dance illusion. An unforgettable display of synchronised swimming on land. Jaunty goodtime-jazz intro complete with exaggerated Groucho-style walk. A pas de deux between giant genitalia. All of this interspersed with voicemails and gigglemongering films about ‘Public Lunging’, blow-up dolls and a dancing chicken.’

The Two Wrongies, Avis Cockbill & Janine Fletcher, celebrate and re-interpret the classic double act in a funny, crude, unrestrained and honest female sort of way, creating work with comic prowess, inspired choreographed moments and a considered visual impact.

A word of caution: their absurdist humour is not for the faint hearted! Contains nudity.

Wendy Houstoun & Charlotte Vincent Professional Development Week Residency Workshop

MONDAY

26 MARCH -

FRIDAY

30 MARCH 10.00am - 5.00pm Yorkshire Dance

Established performance makers Admission £120.00 / teachers Wendy Houstoun and Charlotte Vincent co-lead a week’s residency exploring the tensions and truths involved in collaborative practice, shared leadership and finding authentic, appropriate forms to express an idea.

Working across disciplines and flowing between movement, text, humour and song, this is a playful, experimental, process-driven week for professional level participants, with no pressure of a public sharing at the end of the week! © Kim Johnson

© Oliver Dalby

The Two Wrongies Work in Progress

FRIDAY

30 MARCH

Sharing

Showing of new work created in residence at Yorkshire Dance over five days. Feedback is welcome from the public. Chaired by Charlotte Vincent.

5.00pm Yorkshire Dance Admission FREE

© The Two Wrongies

Yorkshire Dance celebrates its 30th birthday this year.

We’d like to thank you – along with thousands of dance artists, audience members, participants in classes, board members, staff and funders – for playing your crucial role in the life of this dance agency for Yorkshire.

Yorkshire Dance champions the development of dance in Yorkshire. We do so by raising standards, increasing knowledge and understanding and fostering creativity and innovation.

We create opportunities for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to see, make and take part in high quality dance that is rooted in their creativity, in their lives and in their communities, with the power to transform and inspire.

We create opportunities for emerging and established artists and practitioners to research, create and present new contemporary work on the small scale, and in communities, developing their skills, expertise and networks.

We create opportunities for people to experience dance by working with partners in local authorities and the arts, in health and in sport, building a region-wide infrastructure for dance development.

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