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Fri 21 and Sat 22 May | University of Glasgow
Confirmed plenary speakers are Dr. Dominic Paterson (Department of History of Art, University of Glasgow) and Dr. Simon Murray (Department of Theatre Studies, University of Glasgow).‘The Arts’ as an umbre...
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Artistic Director Morag Deyes, who usually writes your d-mail PRO chat, is interviewing and teaching all day so I'm here to give you my take on what's been happening and what's coming up for you. She’ll be back, fresh from Dublin Dance Festival, t...
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Ken Swift will be working with experienced Hip Hop dancers and teachers from across the UK teaching the foundations and original forms of B Boying through high level training.The course will consist of dance technique classes, lectures on street dance his...
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Good day to you, Here at the Base we’re feeling a lot of love to the kindness of d-mail readers who wrote in offering us free pianos for our studios. We’re delighted to say that a van has been ordered and our new instrument will be here by the end of ...
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3-day course in 'Choreopoetry' presented by Jonzi D
A bodycurrents dance project event at Eden Court, Inverness
Monday 24 May, 12.00-18.00Tuesday 25 May, 10.00-16.00Wednesday 26 May, 10.00-16.00 Subsidised cost = £40 for the three days 10 places are av...
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Today I’m mostly intrigued by invisibility. Yes children of the night, I’ve finally lost it!
Or have I? Maybe I just can't see it!?
What I’m noticing is what is absent from work/art/life is the most telling about the work/art/life itself.I was jet...
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Good day to you,Are you living in a box? In a cardboard box? No? Well, not content with living in a zoo for two weeks during the festival, Janis Claxton has now moved her company into a massive Perspex box in the Dance Base foyer. No, she’s not trying a...
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Been a wee while since I brought you news of where we are with Outreach. Quite possibly the seasons have moved from winter to spring, back to winter, and onto spring again………with any luck summer is just around the corner. But ahead of taking flight ...
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Good day to you,With May Day under our belts it must be nearly summer? It’s about this time of year that I realise that shorts are soon going to be at the front of the wardrobe choices and it’s time to get in shape for the beach. I’m not much of a r...
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I still feel (re)fresh(ed) from the Freeday Previews last week, as they were SO diverse. Well done to Linda Skakel and her Triba Flamenca, who are subverting flamenco in a really interesting and creatively inspiring way, and to Laura Hope Steckler who mad...
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Tuesday 27 April 2010
This last week has been filled with Mark Morris-ness and why not? I realised when I was waiting for the lights to go down in readiness for his masterpiece L'allegro that I could happily know without doubt that it would be glorious...
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Good day to you,
Well the big news from inside of the Base this week is that our darling Marketing Officer Nicola Kenny is moving on to pastures new with a fantastic new job in Dundee. It’s a mixture of sadness and pride for me as Nicola has been here ...
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During the Easter Break, the Dance Base Outreach Team and Pilton Video ran a Dance Film Project with young people from various areas around Edinburgh and the Lothians.
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Tuesday 20 April 2010
Hello from a busier than ever Dance Base, erupting with explosive energy…where we have had auditions for bursaries today and realise with a sinking heart that we need three times as much money than we have to fund everyone that ...
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Good day to you,
The summer term has gotten off to a great start with lots of people enrolling for courses meaning the atmosphere in classes is great. If you haven't enrolled yet, or have and want more, there's still time: you can book in until this comi...
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Fri 23 Apr | 11.00 am - midnight | £6
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art
Linder: The Darktown Cakewalk - Celebrated from the House of FAME
Produced by Sorcha Dallas.
A new 13-hour performance work by radical feminist, artist and musician Li...
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Be part of the future of Black British dance with this unique research project. What are the needs of black choreographers in the UK? What does the sector aspire to achieve in the 21st century? And what do we need to put into place now to make it h...
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Ola mein petit amici, and I’m going all Eurolingo thinking about the potential bursary recipients who are auditioning on April 20 (tell any graduates near you) and whether we can find a way to connect them with European dance houses who may also have ...
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Ola mein petit amici, and I’m going all Eurolingo thinking about the potential bursary recipients who are auditioning on April 20 (tell any graduates near you) and whether we can find a way to connect them with European dance houses who may also have ...
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Welcome one, welcome all! It’s time for a new term, a fresh start and some summer dancing fun. Welcome to the new faces at the Base this week; check out the welcome guide and ask us any questions. First impressions count and we hope to give you a good o...
