Yorkshire Dance Friday Firsts summer 2016

YORKSHIRE DANCE

FRIDAY FIRSTS

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professional development opportunities, Juncture 2016 and much more...

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Friday Firsts showcases new work by independent choreographers and dance companies working on the small scale.

Each evening has its own distinct theme, and will often be the first chance to see performances by the most promising dance makers from Yorkshire and beyond who seek to experiment, push dance as a form or find a new voice.

Box Office 0113 243 8765 or book securely online www.yorkshiredance.com

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cover photo: Ella Mesma Company’s Ladylike at Friday Firsts #38: This Is Where It’s At © Sara Teresa photo above: Skye Reynolds’ Pitch at Friday Firsts #36: Live Bites © Sara Teresa

Friday Firsts #39

Burst

Friday 6 May, 7.30pm Tickets £8.00, concessions £6.00

Maria Popova, Vliyaniye (Leeds Beckett University) MicroMacro, Rambling’s gonna be the death of me (Verve) Jem Clancy, My Name is Carly (Leeds City College) Flight Effect Dance Company, Moon Eaters (York St John University)

The next generation gets a chance to show us what the future is made of with an evening of mixed performance from some of Yorkshire’s most promising dancers and choreographers.

Showcasing work from students and post-graduates, the evening will demonstrate the diverse talent being nurtured in our higher education institutions, highlighting the students’ wit, charm, and intelligence.

That Ribeiro Company, The Untruthful Story of the Timeless Man Thomas McKeon, Beyond the Flesh Olivia Calder, A Piece of Friendship Brink Dance Company, [Cenobyte] Kathryn Hewison, A Flicker of... (all Northern School of Contemporary Dance)

Olivia Calder, A Piece of Friendship © Paul Guenot; Brink Dance Company [Cenobyte] © Johnny Bartley

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Friday Firsts #40

Bend It

Friday 15 July, 7.30pm Tickets £8.00, concessions £6.00

A night of subversively wonky dance works questioning queerness in movement.

The diverse programme looks to warp expectations, send stereotypes askew and make space for vibrant ambiguity. ___ This is Yorkshire Dance’s third edition of Bend It, following hugely successful events in 2014, curated by our Associate Artist Gary Clarke, and in 2015.

Bend It is our annual celebration of dance and film work that explores gender stereotyping, sexuality and the queer aesthetic.

Amy Bell’s Tombo(y)la at Friday Firsts #38: This Is Where It’s At © Sara Teresa

curated by Gillie Kleiman a festival of contemporary dance

SAVE THE DATE 27 - 30 October 2016

2016

at Yorkshire Dance and other venues around Leeds

We know that everybody dances The community dance movement, folk dance,YouTube dance classes and Strictly all tell us the same thing: everybody dances.

Departing from here, this edition of Juncture collects together artworks where the role of the professional dancer is given to someone else, bringing artists, participants and their shared work into conversation about what happens when the dancing is handed over.

Jo Fong in Quarantine’s Wallflower Š Simon Banham

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What could you give to the

SPIRIT OF JUNCTURE fundraising campaign?

Donate: Give online or in person

SPIRIT OF JUNCTURE is raising funds to stage exceptional dance performances featuring the talents of people of all ages and abilities during our Juncture festival this October.

Advocate: Help us spread the word

Some amazing dance makers, including Sara Lindström, Lucy Suggate, Nicola Conibere and immigrants and animals, will be working with 75 members of the public – young people, older adults – in fact, anyone who’d like to join in. Maybe even you...

Participate: Join our fundraisers

Juncture’s all about what happens when professional dance artists work with non-professionals.

Please help us make this rare opportunity available to the people of Leeds today.

THANK YOU!

To donate online please visit: www.localgiving.org/appeal/spiritofjuncture

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Spirit of Juncture Fundraiser

Open Mic Night

Friday 27 May, 7.30pm The Midnight Bell, Leeds Box Office 0113 243 8765 Or book securely online www.yorkshiredance.com Tickets £5.00 Age guidance: all ages

Snakebox © Sara Teresa

Tickets may be sold on the door subject to availablitiy

Yorkshire Dance is hosting its first ever Open Mic Night event as part of its Spirit of Juncture fundraising campaign – an evening filled with fun, live music and comedy.

The line-up of performers so far includes singer / songwriters Amy Cross, Adam Westley and Emma Hooker, but make sure you follow us on social media to find out as more artists are confirmed!

The evening will be a great experience for everyone and raise funds to stage exceptional dance performances featuring the talents of people of all ages and abilities during our Juncture festival this October.

To donate online please visit: www.localgiving.org/appeal/spiritofjuncture Want to perform at the Open Mic Night?

We’re looking for talented live music artists and comedians to perform throughout the evening in 15-20min sets that will give the public a flavour of the range of undiscovered creative talent in Leeds.

To audition, please book a half hour audition slot with Callum Holt by e-mailing callumholt@yorkshiredance.com with the subject heading Open Mic Night Audition.

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Spirit of Juncture Fundraiser

24 Hour Dance Relay

featuring Little Big Disco Friday 1 July, 5.00pm - Saturday 2 July, 5.00pm

Yorkshire Dance Silent Disco © David Lindsay

Events will be ticketed – details to be announced on the website soon!

As part of Yorkshire Festival’s Big Disco, we’re inviting you to join us – and sponsor us – for 24 hours of non-stop dancing!

A team of three mighty Yorkshire Dance staff (Wieke Eringa, Kirsty Redhead & Hannah Robertshaw) – alongside various dance artists, the young people from our Saturday dance classes and (we hope) you – will keep the place jumping, even through the wee small hours...

Little Big Family Disco 5.30pm - 9.30pm Join us as we kick off with a silent disco for Big Disco-ers looking for a chilled-out, family-friendly environment.

Little Big Late Night Disco 9.00pm - 1.00am If you love dancing but you’re not sure city-centre clubbing is what you want, this is a perfect alternative. Big Disco-ers, drop in on your way home for a final boogie!

Saturday Superstars 9.00am - 3.00pm We hand the dance baton over to our young Saturday Superstars dancers to give a creative twist to their Saturday programmes.

Little Big Family Disco 3.00pm - 5.00pm The family-friendly silent disco is back – from babies raving to grown-ups swaying, everyone’s welcome to join us for the final stretch!

1.00am - 9.00am events will be confirmed soon, so please check our website and social media for details, night-owls!

For details of sponsoring Wieke, Kirsty & Hannah, or giving to the SPIRIT OF JUNCTURE campaign, visit the webpage below...

www.yorkshiredance.com/spirit-of-juncture

Essentials of Dance Marketing a workshop with Antony Dunn Friday 29 April, 2.00pm – 5.00pm Yorkshire Dance, Leeds

© Sara Teresa

Box Office 0113 243 8765 Or book securely online www.yorkshiredance.com Tickets £10.00 Free to members of Yorkshire Dance’s The Collective Plus

You’ve made a beautiful, breath-taking new dance work. Maybe you’re launching a brand new dance company.You’re excited about getting in front of some audiences. But how are you going to persuade them to come?

This workshop will equip you with marketing skills to help raise the profile of your work, your company and yourself.

Pick up tips on identifying audiences, writing good blurbs, using digital and social media, handling the media, understanding your own ‘brand’ and much more.

This informal and occasionally hilarious workshop will feature a mix of practical exercises and conversation, with examples of some truly great – and truly terrible – dance marketing…

This workshop is suitable for people working in any sector of the arts – the principles are all the same. _______ Antony Dunn has worked in dance, theatre and literature marketing since 1997.

He led the communications department of York Theatre Royal to win the TMA Award for Achievement in Marketing 2008, and was appointed Marketing & Communications Manager of Yorkshire Dance later that year.

He is also a poet, creative writing tutor and Artistic Director of Bridlington Poetry Festival.

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Artists’ Takeover Day Thu 26 May, 9.30am - 5.00pm Yorkshire Dance Admission free Making a Song and Dance about...

US Royal Navy Band © chooyutshing

... litter, nowhere to park, public transport, school places, the NHS, dog shit, the patriarchy, my/your boss, not having a job, the media, representation of women (in aforementioned media) how to complain, who to complain to, who’s running this anyway... the illusion of democracy as we debate and rage on social media about the change we want to see, but cannot seem to make.

What to do?

Perhaps, in the words of David Bowie... ‘let’s dance’... because you put your whole self in – or your whole self is out... OK, maybe the Hokey Cokey isn’t ‘what it’s all about’...

No harm in having a go though.

Yorkshire Dance, Irregular Arts and A Quiet Word invite you to a make a song and dance about what gets your goat.

Join us to explore the body in motion, the body in song and the body shaking with rage about what’s wrong with the world. This is an ‘artists takeover day’ where the building is available to support experimentation. The event is free, but you need to be able to take part in the whole day.

This is the start of an investigation into the ways in which making a song and dance about things can change the world.

For more details of the day’s programme, visit: www.yorkshiredance.com/artists-takeover-day To register please send an email with the subject line: ‘Making a Song and Dance’ including your phone contact details and confirmation that you are available for the whole day to: callumholt@yorkshiredance.com The deadline for registration is 9 May 2016 Box Office 0113 243 8765 - book securely online at www.yorkshiredance.com

Sketch 3 Workshop with Peggy Olislaegers Friday 17 June, 10.30am - 3.30pm Yorkshire Dance Admission £10.00 Box Office 0113 243 8765 or book securely online www.yorkshiredance.com Yorkshire Dance is delighted to announce that our Sketch programme is back, once again with the astonishingly talented Peggy Olislaegers.

As a part of this third instalment of Sketch, we are running this introductory workshop to give artists the opportunity to get a flavour of what dramaturgy, and Peggy’s unique approach to it, is all about.

Peggy Olislaegers live-workshopping with Jamaal Burkmar, Sketch 2 © Sara Teresa

This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in applying for the Sketch 3 programme, giving you the chance to get to know Peggy and her way of working.

Sketch is a 6 month development opportunity for dance makers with an interest in developing a new dance idea with a focus on dramaturgical practice. Sketch 3 will run from 5 September 2016 to 3 February 2017.

Application forms for Sketch 3 will be available to download from our website from Friday 3 June.

The deadline for applications to Sketch 3 is Friday 1 July.

Box Office 0113 243 8765 - book securely online at www.yorkshiredance.com

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intensifying artist:audience interaction

Catch Them Two Dance on tour Them Two Dance has embarked upon a journey with Connor and Katherine astride their tandem bicycle to encourage the occurrence of Random Acts of Kindness in Yorkshire. They ask for your help in this series of interactive pop-up duets. They ask you to be kind, to be random, and to help them if they get a puncture. Come along and see performances at: Sat 18 Jun Grassington

Sat 25 Jun Holmfirth

Sun 26 Jun Leeds Waterfront Festival

Sun 3 Jul Hebden Bridge

Sat 9 Jul Barnsley Mayor’s Parade

Sat 30 Jul Harrogate Festival

This work has been co-commissioned by Yorkshire Dance Amplified,The Civic Barnsley & Yorkshire Festival. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England. #RandomTandem | @themtwodance themtwodance.co.uk

Them Two Dance Š Brian Slater

Grace Surman © Gary Winters

Lîla Dance - The Deluge

Grace Surman Research Conversations: Join in!

Join us for National Rural Touring information session

Artist Grace Surman will be developing a new dance film with her daughter Hope following a residency in two libraries in partnership with Spot On Rural Touring.

Yorkshire Dance is hosting a National Rural Touring information session on Wed 1 Jun for artists and producers from across the North. The session will be packed with information about the scheme and their most recent opportunities to apply for your work to be presented in new contexts outside of a black box theatre.

Conversations held during these residencies will inform the development of the film. Come and join Grace at Upholland Library and Euxton Library (Lancs) this spring to share your experiences of parenting and memories of childhood. (Contact Natalie Duffield-Moore at Yorkshire Dance 0113 243 9867 to confirm details.)

Grace will be testing a scratched version of the piece at Battersea Arts Centre supported by Transform Festival on Sat 21 May – tickets available from www.bac.org.uk

You will also have the opportunity to meet programmers from Highlights Rural Touring and Spot On Rural Touring and engage in one to one surgeries if appropriate.

This session is free of charge however booking is essential. Contact natalieduffieldmoore@yorkshiredance.com to book your place today.

Box Office 0113 243 8765 - book securely online at www.yorkshiredance.com

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Gracefool Collective present ProDanceLeeds ProDanceLeeds is an artist-led programme of professional level contemporary classes for dancers.

After a very successful Arts Council England-supported pilot of the scheme, we are pleased to announce that we have further funding from ACE to run classes 5 days a week, bringing you the best of the contemporary dance world.

Previous teachers have included Gary Clarke, Amy Bell,Yael Flexer, Jorge Crecis, Azzurra Ardovini, Phil Sanger, Anthony Middleton, Eleesha Drennan, Jo Fong, Tim Casson, Joss Arnott and Kristina and Sadé Alleyne.

Over the next year we will welcome some excellent new teachers, as well as some brilliant returning artists. We will also hold specialised workshops for dancers to delve into the techniques and styles.

For more information visit www.prodanceleeds.com or contact prodanceleeds@gmail.com Twitter: @ProDanceLeeds

Contemporary Class with Rita Marcalo Summer term 2016 Tuesdays, 19 Apr - 19 Jul £6.50, concessions £5.50 6.30pm - 8.00pm, Advanced for professionals, dance students and those with advanced ability 8.00pm - 9.30pm Beginners / Intermediate for people with a good basic level ability wanting to try a higher level With a focus on risk taking, individuality and non-linear movement, teacher Rita Marcalo will encourage you to embrace her way of moving in this weekly class. With an attempt to enable participants to work against their common learned dance movement patterns and find new ways to develop, Rita creates a safe and fun environment to explore new ways of thinking and moving.

It is taught on two levels to enable complete beginners to get acquainted with basic principles of contemporary dance, at the same time as allowing people with some experience to develop further.

Box Office 0113 243 8765 - book securely online at www.yorkshiredance.com

Yorkshire Dance invites you to...

a conversation on quality in youth dance performance & choreography Fri 23 Sep 2016, 2pm – 4pm Yorkshire Dance, Leeds 3 St Peter’s Buildings, St Peter’s Square, LS9 8AH

RSVP hannahrobertshaw@yorkshiredance.com This interactive, free session will provide an opportunity to discuss and explore what quality looks like in youth dance performance and choreography.

As part of our ongoing development for the regional youth dance showcase, Fresh, we are opening up a conversation and we would like to invite artists, group leaders, teachers and decision-makers to join us. photo: Dance United Yorkshire Performance Company at Fresh 2015 © Brian Slater

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Join The Collective... two new, improved memberships for dance artists at Yorkshire Dance Standard • Up to 50 hours’ free studio space per year • E-bulletins • Free equipment hire • One-to-one advice session • Residency opportunities • Discounts and offers on training, events, conferences and performances

Plus £100 / concessions £60 per year All the benefits of Standard, plus...

• Unlimited free Standby Space • Three one-to-one advice sessions • Opportunity to curate a performance, workshop or event with a £1000 budget • Free professional contemporary class • 3hr training session on lighting & sound or marketing • One facilitated Critical Response Process feedback session

For more detailed description of these benefits, visit www.yorkshiredance.com/professional/the-collective

Hannah Buckley’s Woman with Eggs, Friday Firsts #27: Live Bites © Sara Teresa

£50 / concessions £30 per year

Finding Yorkshire Dance Yorkshire Dance 3 St Peter’s Buildings St Peter’s Square Leeds, LS9 8AH

Yorkshire Dance is in the cultural quarter of Leeds city centre, opposite the BBC and Leeds College of Music, next to Northern Ballet & Phoenix Dance Theatre, over the road from the bus station and 15 minutes’ walk from the train station.

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