dans voor jong publiek

Er beweegt wat in Engeland, vooral dan toch op dansvlak! 

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Engeland, was dat niet het land van de lange traditie aan teksttheater, klassiekers en repertoire? Maar, laten we eerlijk wezen, veel minder van dans voor jong publiek?

Laten we eerlijk blijven, dat is serieus veranderd. Al een aantal jaar zien we meer en vooral mooie dansvoorstellingen voor jong publiek uit Engeland, leren we nieuwe choreografen en makers kennen als Takeshi Matsumoto, Neve Harrington, Anders Duckworth, Xenia Aidonopoulou, Rosie Heafford, e.a.

Hoe veranderde het landschap van Engelse dans voor een jong publiek de afgelopen jaren? Wat heeft deze strategische ontwikkeling aangestuurd en hoe ontwikkelt dat werk een publiek thuis en over de hele wereld?

Toeval was het zeker niet. Zo ondersteunt het project Little Big Dance, dat als een partnership van DanceEast, Take Art en Yorkshire Dance in 2019 opgestart werd, op een structurele manier dansmakers om bepaalde skills verder te verdiepen en ervaringen op te bouwen opdat er een kwalitatief en divers danslandschap ontwikkeld kan worden.

We nodigen enkele inspiratoren uit, bevlogen mensen die de ontwikkeling van dans voor een jong publiek ondersteunen. Deze ochtend is ook een ideaal moment om de artiesten te ontmoeten die dit jaar werk presenteren op het festival en degenen die momenteel nieuw danswerk ontwikkelen.

De sessie wordt ingeleid door Gerhard Verfaillie, artistiek directeur Krokusfestival en geleid door Claire Summerfield, Tandem Works.

programma

• Inleiding tot de dans voor een jong publiek in Engeland
  
  
• Presentaties over belangrijke nationale strategische projecten door Cath James, artistiek directeur South East Dance, Lucy Baylis hoofd creatieve programma's DanceEast en Christina Elliot hoofdprogrammering en productie, The Place, over:
  • MOKO-dans
  • Little Big Dance
  • Shape It/Rural Touring Dance-initiatief
  • StreamDANCE
    
    
• Presentaties van kunstenaars op Krokusfestival
  • Takeshi Matsumoto
  • J Neve Harrington
  • Anders Duckworth
  • Xenia Aidonopoulou
    
    
• Samenwerking en verbinding - discussie en tijd voor vragen

wie is wie?

Cath James, South East Dance

Cath has had a career in dance for over 40 years, with a wealth of experience as a performing artist, a producer and a leader. Currently Artistic Director at South East Dance, Cath works closely with Rachel Gibson, Executive Director to lead the team to set and deliver the organisation’s vision, and sustainability. Cath oversees the development and maintenance of South East Dance’s strategic partnerships and networks both nationally and internationally. 

Cath was previously Director of Dance at Take Art in Somerset, and producer for bgroup, a dance company based in the UK and directed by Jerwood Award-winning choreographer Ben Wright. Her performing career began in Australia with Expressions Dance Theatre (now Australasian Dance Collective) and Dance North (Townsville) before moving to the UK to become a leading dancer at Rambert Dance Company under the direction of Richard Alston. She was a founding member of Siobhan Davies Company, and on retiring from fulltime performance, went on to become their Company and Tour manager and finally Head of Special Projects before leaving to join Take Art.

She has curated independent dance festivals for the Royal Opera House Clore Studio Programme and Southbank Centre and written articles for international dance magazines. Cath co-created the UK’s first dance information and directory website danceservice.co.uk in 1994. 

Christina Elliot, The Place

Christina Elliot is Head of Programming & Producing at The Place, London’s creative powerhouse for dance development, which has been leading the way in dance training, creation and performance for over 50 years. The Place is a dance ecosystem unlike any other in the world, home to London Contemporary Dance School, an extensive theatre and artist development programme, education projects, a range of classes and courses and a nationwide touring programme. 

Christina oversees the programmes with artists & audiences and has worked closely on the development of the new producing & touring programme. Prior to working at The Place, Christina was a producer at Fuel, a pioneering producing organisation based in London.

Lucy Bayliss, DanceEast

Lucy has been working in the arts sector for the last 20 years, across dance participation, programming ,and training, and is passionate about arts engagement and access for people across life stages and abilities. She leads the Creative Team at DanceEast, which programmes, commissions and delivers the offer at the Jerwood DanceHouse in Ipswich and across the East of England, including programming events and festivals. Lucy also supports a number of cultural placemaking initiatives, and commissioning and education partnerships. 

A particular focus for DanceEast over the past ten years has been growing a regular audience base, with a consistent focus on work for children, young people and families. This includes leading MOKO Dance, and partnering on Little Big Dance and STREAMDance, as well as investing in a series of high profile commissions. including Akram Khan’s Chotto Desh and Chotto Xenos, Arthur Pita’s The Little Match Girl, and Protein Dance’s The Little Prince.

As DanceEast’s lead on project and partnership development, Lucy works across the cultural sector and in voluntary roles as Trust Governor for Chantry Academy,  Industry Champion for Nesta’s Policy and Evidence Centre, and a Board Member of Locus, the parent company for the Business Improvement District in Ipswich. Lucy joined the Clore Fellowship as the 2019/20 Dance Fellow, supported by the Linbury Trust and the Clore Duffield Foundation (Clore16Lucy is also DanceEast’s lead for new technology, developing work with Augmented and Mixed Reality, Volumetric Capture and 5G connectivity.  

Claire Summerfield, Tandem Works

Tandem Works has supported artists to create and present dance at some of the leading international festivals and venues including Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, Lincoln Centre, Education (NY), Sadler’s Wells (London), Belfast International Children’s Festival, Tanzmesse (Germany), IPAY, March on! (Singapore), Krokusfestival (Belgium) and Xintiandi Festival (Shanghai). 

Our artists are some of the leaders within their specialisms, and have won the Oxford Samuel Becket Theatre Trust Award (mars.tarrab), the Total Theatre Award for Innovation and Experimentation (Rachel Mars), Best Production, Theatre and Technology Awards (Tom Dale Company), the Arts Foundation Children’s Theatre Shortlist Award (Second Hand Dance) and been presented as part of the prestigious British Council Edinburgh Fringe Showcase (Tom Dale Company ) and Horizon Showcase (Rachel Mars & Takeshi Matsumoto). 

Our current portfolio includes: Second Hand Dance, Rachel Mars, New Art Club, Anatomical, Takeshi Matsumoto and Neve Harrington. Claire is a Deputy Chair of PYA England, sits on the Assitej UK board, and through her role as Co-Director of Second Hand Dance acts as an Artistic Advisor for Sadler’s Wells Family Programme.