SHIFT Classes
Open level 5pm - 6.20pm: This friendly open level class is suitable to people ages 14+ with a basic understanding of contemporary dance. The class gives you an introduction to contemporary movement technique as well as develops fundamental skills required to advance.
Advanced level 6.30pm - 8pm: This class is ideal for students or for those of you with two or more years experience within a professional environment. This class is a faster paced session that provides challenging contemporary movement combinations.
Recent graduates remember you can attend the first six-week block at a reduced rate. January-February
“Fantastic! It had a great flow, nice to meet dancers in the region. Finally feel part of a network” Participant of SHIFT summer class
Contemporary technique
Clarendon College / Nottingham
£21.00 for 6 week block / £4.00 per session
Winter
06 February- Kayla Dougen
13 February- Esther Anderson - at College Street
20 February- No class
27 February- TBC
05 March - Matthias Sperling
12 March - Krista Vuori
19 March - Krista Vuori
Regional Class listings
Northampton
Thursdays 6.00 – 7.00pm
Professional Technique Class
Isham Studios / University of Northampton / Northampton
Cost: £50.00 per term (10 weeks)/ £6.00 per class.
17 & 24 January: Rohanna Halls
31 January: Gabriele Reuter
07 February - 06 March (Half term on 21st Feb): Hofesh Shechter with Elias Lazandis
13 March - 27 March: Hanna Gillgren
Contact Tina Heeley to book a place or for further information on 01604 233122 or email theeley@northamptonshire.gov.uk
Leicester
Wednesdays 6.45 - 8.15 pm
Growing Ground Advanced contemporary dance class
Abbey Park Campus / Leicester College / Leicester
£4.00 / £3.00
16 January - 05 March (no class 13th February): Louise Katerega
Lincoln
Monday s, 9.30 – 11.00am
Professional class
04, 11, 18, 25 February: Anya Ison Wallace (ballet / contemporary)
The Dance House / Horncastle
03, 10, 17, 24, 31 March: Katie Green (contemporary)
Imp Art / Lincoln|
Derby
Mondays. 6.00 - 7.00pm / 8.00 - 9.00pm - 25 February (5 weeks course)
Pilates
Derby Dance Centre / Derby
Katherine McKenzie
Tuesdays, 6.00 - 7.00pm/ 8.00 - 9.00pm
Contemporary Class
Derby Dance Centre / Derby
Elizabeth Foster
Tuesdays, 6.15 - 7.45pm
Yoga: Ashtanga
Derby Dance Centre / Derby
Clare Brooksbank
Thursdays, 7.00 - 8.30pm
Yoga: Iyengar
Derby Dance Centre / Derby
Andrew Hall
SHIFT Workshops
Saturday 23 February
11am - 4pm
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company
£20.00 / £15.00 Conc.
Isham Studio / The University of Northampton / Northants.
Open Level - This friendly open level workshop is suitable to people with a basic understanding of dance as well as those with many years of experience wanting to be re inspired.
We have teamed up with Northants Dance to host a day workshop with Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company. We invite you to take part in a special workshop to complement the performance of Faultline and Exit No Exit at The Castle, Wellingborough on Tuesday 11 March.
This workshop is a great opportunity to explore Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company’s physical and intricate repertory with company dancers. A contemporary and Bharata Natyam warm-up will be followed with rep and creative exercises to uncover Shobana Jeyasingh’s choreographic processes. The repertory itself is drawn from contemporary, BN and martial arts influences, and as such is fast, punchy and technical.
Northants Dance will be offering reduced rates at £12.00 / £8.00 Conc. to anyone living in the Northamptonshire area. These can be booked through Dance4, just quote Northants bursary.
SHIFT Intensive
Sustaining Practice Summer Intensive
We were exceptionally pleased with the success of Sustaining Practice 2007. The four day intensive attracted artists and practitioners from the region and further a field. We would like to thank everyone involved for making this event possible and we look forward to planning Sustaining Practice 2008 in the near future.
SHIFT Improvisation
We think improvisation is a key tool for artists and practitioners. Over the last six months we have been curating a programme of improvisation sessions with some of the best facilitators in the sector, we’ve also been talking to local practitioners about how we can develop this part of SHIFT.
To help us do this we have invited Miriam Keye, an artist currently based in Leicester, to support us in the initial stages of shaping this aspect of the SHIFT programme. Miriam has a keen interest and strong experience in this area, having recently returned from an extended period of time at Earthdance. With all this in mind, we have a new focus for you to take advantage of.
Open Space
Saturday 09 / Sunday 10 February 11.00-4.00pm
Dance4 studio
£Free
Open level
Facilitated by Miriam Keye with special guest Anne-Marie Culhane.
Open Space is your chance to come to our studio, meet with like-minded people, explore ideas, collaborate and learn from one another. We open up our dance space for an entire weekend for you to come together and explore aspects of improvisation.
Following on from the improv session in December, Miriam Keye, an artist many of you probably know already, formerly based in Leicester now in Cumbria, is supporting us in the initial stages of shaping this aspect of SHIFT. Miriam has a keen interest and strong experience in this area.
For this weekend artist and performer Anne-Marie Culhane will join Miriam during the day. This is a great opportunity to work with yet another experienced artist open to your questions and suggestions.
Anne-Marie is an artist, performer and creative catalyst working in response to specific environments and landscapes in urban and rural areas and wider ecological issues. Her work is rooted in a collaborative, sustainable and interdisciplinary approach.
www.amculhane.co.uk- <http://www.amculhane.co.uk-/>
Evening Jam with Live music!
Saturday 09 February 7.00-9.00pm
Dance4 Studio
£Free- voluntary contribution welcome
David Keye and Adam Farrah, two wonderful local musicians invited by Miriam, will join us at the end of the day to play live for this improv jam session. A great way to quick start our first Open Space event! And to take part if you are busy during the day.
There is no need to register for this event, just come along. And if you have any question or suggestion feel free to get in touch.
Rachel Krische
Saturday 15 March 11.00am-2.00pm
Lakeside Arts Centre, PAWS studio, Nottingham
£4.00
Advanced Level
Rachel is a dance artist who has worked with a variety of companies including Adventures In Motion Pictures, La Ribot, Vincent Dance Theatre, Wendy Houstoun, Colin Poole and Akram Khan. Rachel won the Jerwood Choreography Award in 2003 and formed the performance project Two dancers with Anna Williams in 2004. She is a qualified Yoga teacher, which forms a solid foundation for her work. This workshop will be followed by a sharing of Rachel’s work with Deborah Hay on the Solo Performance Commissioning Project (SPCP). Full details at www.deborahhay.com/spcp.html
Katie Green
Saturday 19 April 10.00am-1.00pm
Dance4 Studio
£4.00
Open Level
Katie's improvisation/devising workshop will be in three stages. First all participants will be encouraged to warm-up through exploration of a specific idea from Katie's current work e.g. story-telling, memories, manipulation. Then, working individually or in small groups you’ll develop short phrases of movement. Finally you’ll feedback on the work in progress, share your devised phrases and structure them choreographically.
Open Space
Saturday 10 May and Sunday 11 May 11.00am-4.00pm
Saturday 10 May 11.00am-1.00pm
Dance4 Studio
£Free
Gabriele Reuter is in residence at Dance4 throughout May. She has offered to kick start the weekend by leading a free, 2-hour improvisation session on the Saturday morning. After that, the space and time is yours to explore, collaborate and work as you wish
SHIFT Artist Froum
More events coming soon....
SHIFT Graduate Programme
Watch this space… We will be working closely with the regions universities to create a unique graduate programme specifically tailored to meet your needs. Some of the ideas we have come up with so far are apprenticeships, graduates linking with national networks, specific graduate workshops including Open Doors, Information advice and support on some of those everyday basics like building a CV and 1-2-1 sessions with a member of the Dance4 team and lots more to help you bridge the gap between education and the professional dance industry.
If you would like to find out more then why not join up for the Artists Forum at The Art Organisation on Saturday 15 December (see details under Artists Forum’s) or our regular contemporary class at Clarendon College. (see details under SHIFT classes)
SHIFT Associate Artists
Rebecca Hart
" I have over 10 years experience working as a dance teacher, advisor, choreographer, peroformer and examiner in dance.
Recently I have been conducting research and developed creative practice that explores the relationship between dance and mathmatics, including investigating the links between the choreographic form and mathmatical concepts. A project called '1st Equation' brought together some of these ideas in a new dance piece and series of workshops in schools and the community. I am currently developing this performance piece for platform events with a view to touring it around the east midlands.
I am very keen to develop my choreographic practice as an associate to Dance4 in particular as I live in Nottingham and I am committed to creating work for the region. Dance4 will provide me with an inspiring and supportive environment in which I can continue to question, develop and promote my work.”
Matthias Sperling
“It’s a real pleasure to be joining Dance4 as Associate Artist. After working with Random Dance for a number of years, I’m now developing my own choreographic work, and Dance4’s focus on questioning choreographic practice makes it a brilliant and challenging environment in which to do that.
I’m originally from Canada and have been based in London since 1997. Over the past year I’ve become an increasingly frequent visitor to the East Midlands region for a series of exciting projects. Most recently, Dance4 presented the premiere of my newest work, Riff, at nottdance07. Created in part at Dance4’s studio, this solo explores the idea of sampling movement and choreography, aiming to create an original work entirely out of sampled material. Earlier this year, I also worked with secondary school students in Nottingham to create a site-specific performance celebrating the re-opening of Old Market Square, inspired by an encounter with Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner.
My varied past experience includes working with companies including Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures and Kerry Nicholls Dance Company, as well as a wide range of teaching experience and work on the films Billy Elliot and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. After meeting through the Jerwood Bank Project 2006, Siobhan Davies generously agreed to mentor me in my creative work and I’m very excited to be participating in a creation with her in 2009.
I look forward to deepening my association with Dance4 and the many exciting strands of activity happening in the region. My plans include creating and performing new work, engaging in exchanges with other East Midlands-based artists and initiating creative projects with schools and communities in the region”
Shane Shambhu
“I’m a British-Indian dancer, actor and choreographer based in the East Midlands. I have worked on individual projects with an array of artists, as well as performing with numerous companies including: Shobana Jeyasingh and Complicité. I was very proud to be awarded the Bonnie Bird Choreography Award in 2006.
I create work using theatre and an individual contemporary style of Bharatanatyam resulting in a unique, physically and emotionally engaging Dance Theatre style. In my time as Associate Artist at Dance4 I hope that I can develop support from schools, colleges, community venues and other professional artists in the region by raising awareness of the British-Asian identity, of my work. I am also aiming to increase the profile of my work, with the aspiration of my choreographic work being seen nationally and internationally.”
Katie Green
“After reading English at Cambridge, I graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2006, winning the Pyramid Award for Contemporary Dance. I formed green bean dance with the support of the award and I now work in London and the East Midlands.
I regularly perform and teach in learning environments from primary school to professional level and continue to choreograph work for theatres and site-specific projects. I have been nominated for the New Trends prize at the Burgos International Choreography Competition (2007), and green bean dance was most recently invited to perform in Touch Wood at The Place (London) in September 2007. Forthcoming projects include a choreographic commission for the Bloomsbury Festival, and performances of The Faerie Queene at the Lilian Baylis Theatre with Cilgwyn Theatre Company in December 2007.
During my time at Dance4, I hope to develop working relationships within the region in which I grew up. I want to spend time in Nottingham creating new live dance work and collaborating with local artists. I am also looking forward to engaging with the SHIFT community in classes, workshops, open rehearsals, and work in progress ‘sharings’. As a result of this opportunity for sharing and collaboration, I will also be putting together a show for the Edinburgh Fringe 2008, with a view to touring the work across regional venues in 2008.”
