Let’s visit some brand new work from Israeli dance maker Hagit Yakira with her quartet of dancers and their two pieces ‘Air Hunger’ and ‘Free Falling’ based on the choreographer’s experiences working in dance therapy. For many years now I wanted to create a piece that somehow presents different anxieties I became familiar with while […]
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Let’s visit some brand new work from Israeli dance maker Hagit Yakira with her quartet of dancers and their two pieces ‘Air Hunger’ and ‘Free Falling’ based on the choreographer’s experiences working in dance therapy. For many years now I wanted to create a piece that somehow presents different anxieties I became familiar with while […]
Manchester based Company Chameleon are back on tour with a new work by company AD Kevin Turner ‘Witness’, a piece that explores Mr Turner’s own struggles with bi-polar disorder and how it affected not only him but all of those around him. “Witness the main piece in this double-bill, turns the spotlight on mental health […]
Kristina and Sadé Alleyne are two relatively unique professional dancers. Graduates of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance they have been working as professionals for many years with a wide range of dance companies, most recently Akram Khan Company. Now though they are branching out into their own choreographic work with ‘A Night’s Game’. We […]
It’s not often that you get to feature contemporary dance from Lithuania but here we are with one such company in the shape of Aura Dance Theatre, a company that has been creating works since 1980, that’s 36 years folks. The particular theme of this double bill is based on the very Lithuanian concept of […]
For many years the provision of professional dance classes on a regular basis has vexed even the most well established dance organisations. Step forward five recent dance graduates Sarah Maria Cook, Kate Cox, Sofia Edstrand, Rachel Fullegar and Rebecca Holmberg, all from NSCD, and problem, almost, solved. ProDance Leeds provides, at the moment, two very […]
Earlier this year Article19 was commissioned by Norwegian dance company Panta Rei Danseteater to make a short film about a project they had been involved since 2011 in Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania. Funded by the European Union and the Norwegian Embassy the project run by MUDA Africa (MUDA is short for music and dance) […]
Verve are 10 years old, apparently, and for this outing of the post graduate company, from Northern School of Contemporary Dance, of 12 dancers they are performing work by Anton Lachky, Renaud Wiser, Efrosini Protopapa and Athina Vahla. We caught up with the company at their final show for this tour at The Riley. This […]
Norwegian dance company Panta Rei Danseteater, late last year, conducted a little experiment whereby three dance makers created two pieces with the same name based on the same idea, featuring three male dancers and two musicians, to see what the outcome was. That outcome can be seen in ‘Lullaby’ parts one and two created by […]
Back in the 1980s there was a period of trouble and lots of it when the Conservative government of the day, led by one Margaret Thatcher, decided that coal mining was an industry in need of some serious meddling, along with the unions that handled the miners who worked in the pits (as they were […]