SHIFT
nottdance morning class
10am- 12.00noon
Quantum Matrix Dance Academy
Old Knowes Factory
St Anns Hill Road
Nottingham, NG3 4GP
Parking: Free parking off the road
£4.00 per session /£28.00 for 8 sessions booked at same time
SHIFT is Dance4's continuing professional development programme offering a range of training opportunities, including? workshops, classes and performance platforms.
During nottdance, two inspirational and experienced artists are coming to deliver daily class. Classes will happen every day, except Sunday, at the same studio.
Class with Ben Wright
Friday 12 - Tuesday 16 October
Ben regularly teaches company and professional daily classes. After a career as a performer, he now works primarily as an independent choreographer. Ben has recently performed with Frantic Assembly and Stan Won't Dance. He has also worked for Adventures in Motion Pictures, Ricochet Dance Company, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Richard Alston and Amanda Miller. His class begins quietly, exploring alignment and structural awareness, then progresses through both formal and improvised exercises towards complex phrases and improvised structures. He frequently uses imagery to exemplify ideas and encourages the use of touch and partnering during the class.
Class with Isabel Mortimer
Wednesday 17 – Saturday 21 October
Isabel has been performing professionally for the past 22 years with several companies amongst which London Contemporary Dance Theatre and Matthew Bourne's New Adventures. She has taught extensively to companies including LCDT, Adventures In Motion Pictures, Rambert Dance Company, Random Dance Company and The Cholmondeleys. She now teaches at Greenwich Dance Agency ( London ) and The Place and focuses on coaching and mentoring professional dancers. Isabel's class begins with a Cunningham-based warm up and progresses to dynamic movement sequences building up over the 4 sessions informed by her varied performance experience.
Booking:
Please call the festival information line: 0115 941 0773
Places are limited so please book in advance. You can book and pay for each session separately or for all the sessions at once at a discounted price.
SHIFT
nottdance workshops & Artists Forum
A great chance to engage with the practice and processes of some of the artists coming to nottdance07. Not to be missed!
Thinking on your feet
Open workshop - for all ages & abilities (under 16's must be accompanied by an adult)
Saturday 13 October
2 – 4pm
Dance4 studio
Free
The three artists behind the project Open City: Nottingham ? will lead this session. The aim is to encourage you to develop greater understanding of your own way of walking, and get an insight into the processes behind the project.
Hungarian traditional dance
Open workshop - for all ages & abilities (under 16's must be accompanied by an adult)
Sunday 14 October
New time: 12.30pm - 2.30pm
Dance4 studio
£4.00 / £2.00 Conc.
Members of Eszter Salamon's company, performing at Lakeside Arts Centre invite you to join them in this introduction to Hungarian traditional dance. This is part of the Folk Symposium .
Goat Island
Professional workshop
Thursday 18 October
10am – 4pm
Bonington Gallery
£20.00 / £15.00 Conc.
Goat Island 's performance work is a series of responses: to the exercises we give ourselves, to our surroundings, to the events of the world, but mostly, to each other. Consequently, the idea of response has become very important to the culture of Goat Island 's teaching. This practice destabilizes the boundaries between critical and creative modes in order to enrich them both.
The Goat Island workshop aims to provide an opportunity for artists to work and study together in a structured, creative environment. Participants are invited from the visual arts, live and performance art, music, dance, and theatre. The emphasis of the workshop is on the development and encouragement of new theory and practice in art/performance.
Artists Forum
A monthly meeting offering an opportunity for discussion, networking and sharing of practice
Meet Theresa Beattie, Dance4's SHIFT consultant
Friday 19 October
7pm
Sandfield Theatre
Free
After initiating and leading the community and education department at Sadler's Wells Theatre, Theresa moved to the South Bank Centre producing interdisciplinary projects and latterly as Dance Producer. During ten years as Director of Artist Development at The Place, she created many new opportunities for dance artists through targeted programmes of support including Associate Artist, Choreographer in Residence schemes and research programmes. She currently works as a consultant with clients including The Royal Opera House, Akademi, Association of National Dance Agencies and Arts Council England.
Stupid Men
Professional Improvisation workshop
Sunday 21 October
10am - 1pm
Dance4 studio
£10.00 / £8.00 Conc.
One of the performers of Nigel Charnock's Stupid Men , Mike Winter will lead a session focusing on improvisation for dancers. Mike works extensively as an independent dancer and choreographer throughout Europe . He is currently based in Switzerland dancing for Philippe Saire & Nicole Seiler companies.
Workshop Booking...
Please call the festival information line 0115 941 0773.
All workshops should be paid for 2 weeks prior to the workshop taking place. If there are still places within the last 2 weeks, participants will be asked to pay at time of booking. A full refund can be offered if cancelled 2 weeks prior to the workshop date, however if a participant cancels less than 2 weeks before the workshop happens, Dance4 will not offer a refund.
Gisèle Vienne: a learning & interpretation programme
We are planning a series of workshops with several universities around the country, to engage creatively with the process of French artist Gisèle Vienne and the collaborators behind Kindertotenlieder , the piece presented at nottdance07. This programme of workshops will take place after the festival and aims to give interpretative and creative tools to young artists studying at university level, working in the areas of visual art, performance, scenography and choreography. Dance4 is interested in engaging young makers with the ideas, processes and conceptual journeys of artists that push boundaries and challenge our perceptions. This programme will be documented and findings/outcomes will be shared with you via our website after nottdance07.
