Encounters, November 2018

ENCOUNTERS

a 2-day mini-festival of unusual connections Fri 9 & Sat 10 Nov 2018 Watch, Move, Eat, Talk, Share, Connect, Discover

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Encounters Wieke Eringa, Artistic Director of Yorkshire Dance Yorkshire Dance is building a community of activists – from all walks of life – around performances addressing some of the big questions of our age.

Encounters will bring together inspiring dance artists with a diverse crowd to share food, conversation, participation and performance in Leeds. We’re welcoming everyone – those who don’t normally come to performances as well as those who frequently do.

We believe dance can make the world a better place. We know it can create deep connections between different sorts of people drawn together by seeing, and talking about, the kinds of works you’ll experience at Encounters.

We know the challenge is huge, and that Encounters is small, so each edition will focus on a particular element of a bigger theme.

We invite you to join us in sparking new thinking, new conversation and new connectivity.

This mini-festival is the first of its kind for Yorkshire Dance so we’d really appreciate your help spreading the word.

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This Encounters

Pay what you feel

This first Encounters asks how we reach out to people different from us, who we think are ‘other’.

We’re committed to making the festival affordable for everyone.

Robbie Synge’s performance explores the connection between older and younger dancing bodies. TC Howard’s workshop plays with the ways dance can enable new connections between children and grown-ups.

With that in mind we invite you to pay what you feel like paying on the day – so come to everything that takes your fancy.

Booking is essential.

Please give us a ring on 0113 243 8765, tell us which events you’d like to go to, and we’ll book you in!

H2 Dance’s work reflects on how we judge others and deal with tolerance and autonomy, while Rita Marcalo examines the impact of Brexit on her and other Europeans living in the UK. We want to know: What bias do we feel about other people?

How do we deal with it? How do artists making work involve people different from them? What are the challenges and what do they gain?

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Don’t miss out on the Silent Disco on Saturday morning!

Choose your own playlist, and dance! If you’ve never been to a silent disco before, you’re in for a hilarious, groovy treat.

No need to book, just turn up!

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Friday, 2.30pm - 4.00pm

Interactive Talk: Encountering ‘other’

Vanessa Grasse, Hanna and Heidi from H2 Dance, Instant Dissidence and Robbie Synge Duration: 1hr 30

Join us for an interactive conversation about encountering ‘other’s in the making and experiencing of dance.

For many artists, seeking new encounters through dance isn’t new, so we ask: is our current political climate influencing their process of making dance?

What impact does engaging with difference have on the work itself?

What are the challenges that go along with the new learning, insight and inspiration?

What does it offer to audiences and participants?

This talk is suitable for artists, dance students and for any dance enthusiasts.

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How are artists reaching out to people who are different to them in the creation and presentation of professional work? And how does their work allow us to do the same?

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Friday, 5.00pm & 8.30pm (+ post-show talk) Saturday 3.00pm (family version)

Strangers & Others H2 Dance

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Friday Performances Age guidance: 12+ Invited to look, touch, assume and judge, the audience choose how to respond, placing themselves into lines, groups and pairs.

Wearing headphones, the audience are instructed live through a series of choreographed meetings based on looking, creating shapes and movement in the space, sometimes on their own and other times in groups or pairs.

Immersed in light and sound, the space of the studio-theatre frames the questions: who takes responsibility and when do actions have consequences?

Through play and different types of music, the audience are free to choose how to respond to the instructions, together creating a spontaneous choreography.

Things to see

Witnessed only by the choreographers, they use appearance, physicality and behaviour as a guide to negotiate each other as they cooperate in silence.

Saturday Performance Age guidance: 5+

In Strangers & Others, Hanna and Heidi explore socialization, tolerance, autonomy and exposure.

This performance is a creative experience about connecting and observing similarities and differences.

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Friday, 6.00pm - 6.30pm

Welcome to Encounters

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The perfect opportunity to get an under-the-surface experience of the dance on offer and celebrate the launch of our first Encounters mini-festival.

Things to do

A brief welcome and introduction to the Encounters programme, followed by a chance to have a drink and an informal chat with the artists, participants and the Yorkshire Dance team.

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Friday, 7.00pm - 8.00pm Saturday, 4.15pm - 5.15pm

Ensemble

Robbie Synge, Lucy Boyes and Company Duration: 1hr (approx.)

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We hope to take you with us, somewhere real and somewhere live. Somewhere joyful.

We will try.

Having built Ensemble slowly over 5 years, we aim to reflect variety in learning styles and physical ambition, supporting each other and uniting with a joyous group spirit. We made this together and we look forward to sharing with you.

Produced in association with Dance Base and Eden Court and supported by Lyth Arts Centre and Yorkshire Dance.

Things to see

Ensemble is a contemporary dance performance, a gathering and series of interactions between five performers aged 32 - 74.

We share the spotlight on a journey that lays bare our strengths, wobbles and possibilities together.

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Saturday, 9.00am - 5.00pm

One Last Dance An Chéad Damhsa

a film by Instant Dissidence Duration: the film will play on a loop all day

One Last Dance - An Chéad Damhsa is a perambulating dance between Guildford (where Rita lived when she arrived in the UK in 1994) and Cloughjordan (the rural Irish village to which, post-Brexit, she is moving).

She will enter the island of Ireland via Northern Ireland, when the work will shift into its next stage: An Chéad Damhsa (in English, My First Dance).

On reaching Cloughjordan, Rita will finally perform the entire accumulated choreography.

The entire two-month long dance will be captured in this documentary film.

Things to see

As she dances across the UK she will stay with other EU citizens, who will choreograph, walk and dance part of the way with her. As she goes, Rita will perform ever-developing versions of One Last Dance at festivals and venues which have been part of her work in the UK over the past 24 years.

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Saturday 9.45am - 11.00am 11.15am - 12.30pm 1.30pm - 2.45pm

A Family Encounter

workshop with TC Howard Duration: 1hr 15

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Come and join TC Howard for a fun, playful workshop where you get to set and break all the rules!

This workshop will give you a chance to play differently, to explore and to try something that is definitely not just dancing! All ages and experiences welcome.

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Suitable for family groups (minimum one parent / carer and one child) who want to encounter each other in a different way.

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Saturday, 1.30pm - 3.00pm

Turning, Holding, Supporting, Sharing

practical movement workshop with Robbie Synge, Lucy Boyes and Company Duration: 1hr 30

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This joyful and supportive workshop will invite you to explore how you move alone and with others.

Specially aimed at older adults and those younger adults, including novices and professionals, who want to expand their horizons in this field.

Things to do

Based on the development of Ensemble, Robbie will guide you through a series of games and tasks that enable you to meet new people, move together and expand your idea of what is possible.

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Saturday, 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Indoor Picnic Lunch Join the Encounters festival family for a shared indoor picnic lunch.

Yorkshire Dance will provide soup and bread, but please bring anything else you like.

Please be aware that other people may have allergies so we advise that you share your food carefully.

Saturday, 3.00pm - 4.00pm

Afternoon Tea Yorkshire Dance will provide tea, scones and conversation.

This is a chance to sit down and share your thoughts on things you have experienced this weekend.

Things to eat

Join the Encounters festival family for afternoon tea.

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Interactive Talk: Encountering ‘other’ Strangers & Others

by H2 Dance Welcome to Encounters Ensemble by Robbie Synge, Lucy Boyes and Company Strangers & Others

by H2 Dance + post show talk

Saturday 10 November 2018 A Family Encounter with TC Howard Silent Disco Indoor Picnic Lunch Turning, Holding, Supporting, Sharing workshop with Robbie Synge, Lucy Boyes and Company Strangers & Others (family version)

by H2 Dance Afternoon Tea Ensemble by Robbie Synge, Lucy Boyes and Company One Last Dance - An Chéad Damhsa a film by Instant Dissidence

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Fri 8 & Sat 9 Mar 2019

Encounters

a 2-day mini-festival of unusual connections Celebrating women

Coinciding with international women’s day, the second Encounters celebrates work by artists who use dance to explore themes of female empowerment, featuring Zsuzsa Rozsavolgyi (Hungary) and Hannah Buckley (UK).

What does it mean to dance an empowered female body? To take space?

The weekend explores attitudes towards women, bodies, space and other feminist themes.

Join us for two days of performances, workshops, talks and sharing food.

How can dance help individuals, parents and young people meet some of these issues with humour, honesty and frankness?

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If you would like to support our work, either to bring dance out to the wider community or to support the artists of the future, please visit our website to find out more.

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We support local artists to create exciting new works by providing advice, studio space and opportunities to perform to a live audience.

As a charity we rely on donations to make our work possible and we are incredibly grateful to all those who support us.

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