Brought to you by the same group of dancers responsible for ProDance Leeds, Gracefool Collective (geddit?) is a dance theatre company created by 4 relatively recent dance graduates and their work ‘This Really Is Too Much’ has just finished a 4 week run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The company tell us this much about […]
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Scottish Dance Theatre return to Article19 with the slightly off the wall ‘Process Day’ a creation by Israeli dance maker Sharon Eyal performed at this years Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In the wide world of dance it’s hard to be different but Ms Eyal’s pieces fit the description with there relentless, almost hypnotic repetition and pace […]
Having graduated from NSCD in Leeds just three short years ago choreographer and dancer Heather Walrond is embarking on the full dance company experience featuring her own works “The Rising ” and “Coalescence”. In-between the enormous administrative burden of running a company on your own Ms Walrond is travelling the world, making work, booking tours […]
Tribe\\ Company is a brand new group created by Victoria Fox, a former dancer with Jasmin Vardimon Company and Candoco Dance Company among others. After a few years away from the wide world of dance Ms Fox has returned to create and tour her own work. ‘Still I Rise’ is a full length piece inspired […]
Autin Dance Theatre return to Article19 with their new work ‘A Positive Life’ created by French, UK based dance maker Johnny Autin. The work is an interactive piece that looks at, among other things, issues surrounding sexual health. ‘A Positive Life’ doesn’t take place in traditional theatre venues instead the audience mingle among the performers […]
New to Article19 we have 201 Dance Company led by dance maker Andrea Walker and their work ‘Smother’, a piece that finished a nationwide tour following rave reviews at the Edinburgh festival fringe last year. The work is based on a very personal story of a relationship break up experience by Mr Walker. The company […]
Perhaps the greatest challenge facing dance makers, leaving aside funding and touring, is getting into the studio for the very first time as you start to build to ideas for your new piece. That challenge is amplified when you are creating a solo work on yourself. Mathieu Geffre, formerly a dancer with National Dance Company […]
Dance maker Rosie Heafford and her company Second Hand Dance take to the stage with a work aimed at the younger generation and the ongoing battle, for many, of choosing not only what clothes to wear but how to put them on. The company says this much about ‘Getting Dressed’; Getting Dressed is a work […]
The process of creating a new dance work from scratch is, to say the least, a bit of an endeavour. You start with nothing and then, usually over a period of months, you develop the simple kernel of an idea into a finished piece and even then you’re not down because of all the honing. […]
The latest works from 2Faced Dance Company feature a triple bill from three female dance makers. ‘From Above’ by the company AD Tamsin Fitzgerald, ‘Fallen Angel’ by Lenka Vagnerova and ‘The Other’ by Rebecca Evans combined into a tour called ‘RUN’. A gritty and explosive triple bill from the award winning and physically adventurous 2Faced […]