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Dance Base supports professional dancers by providing studio space for them to develop ideas and choreography. During these residencies artists/companies teach classes for other professionals. Residencies culminate in a Friday studio showing; the FREEDAY PREVIEW.
RESIDENCY 9 - 13 Jan
Rosalind Masson
Quartet (work in progress)
During this residency, Rosalind will be working on part of Quartet - a performance research project with Jack Webb and mentored by Daniel Squire. Invited to this residency is musician Jer Reid. After working together for various improvised public performances including Family Day at Tramway, Winter Cycle at Stereo and at Kindl Brauerei in Berlin, they will use the residency to develop specific aspects of their practice together.
There will be a public scratch performance of Quartet at The Arches in Glasgow on Fri 13 Jan, after the Dance Base studio sharing.
For more about the project, please visit rosalind.masson.moonfruit.com
Free Company Class: Tue 10 Jan, 10.00 – 11.30
Notice the intelligence of your body as we become aware of ourselves and each other, leading to enjoyment and pleasure in dancing.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 13 Jan, 16.00
RESIDENCY 9 Jan - 3 Feb
Errol White Company
iam
Errol White Company will explore, in detail, a long-held interest in the concept of memory; how, subconsciously, we manipulate and distort truth and, fundamentally, how this affects the outcome of our personal history. The intention is to create an abstract piece that conveys the themes within the complexities of 'memory'.
Free Company Classes: Thu 12, 19, 26 Jan & 2 Feb, 10.00 – 11.30
A focus on skeletal alignment, articulate placement and core stability, facilitating a neutral and controlled understanding of the body's physicality in performance
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 3 Feb, 17.00
RESIDENCY 16 - 20 Jan & 26 - 30 Mar
Room 2 Manoeuvre
SQUISH
Success, in its various forms, is important to each and every human being... but at what cost? Based on the game of squash, and told through a medium of dance and theatre, this solo piece explores what drives us towards our goals and what we inevitably lose during this journey. For this residency, R2M will delve deeper into both the existing choreographic and thematic elements for this next developmental stage, while also investigating new possibilities that can be introduced.
Free Company Class: Tue 17 Jan & Thu 29 Mar 10.00 – 11.30
Class will consist of floor exercises moving to standing and then inverting, finishing with sequences incorporating class material.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showings: Fri 20 Jan, 16.00 & Fri 30 Mar 17.00
RESIDENCY 23 - 27 Jan
Alan Greig Dance Theatre/ Grant Smeaton Presents
Do you Nomi? (Stage 2)
As part of a three-week development project taking place in Glasgow and Edinburgh, seminal Scottish choreographer Alan Greig and Herald Angel Award-winning theatre director and performer Grant Smeaton will work together with dancers and actors in a further exploration of the life of unique and iconic 80s avant garde performer Klaus Nomi. Interweaving Nomi’s unique voice and personality with dance, dialogue and humour, the story will be told of an exceptional New York artist whose talent was cut short when he became one of the first high-profile celebrities to die from the then new and much misunderstood Aids. This residency is the second stage of creative development, leading to full production and tour.
Free Company Class: Tue 24 Jan, 10.00 – 11.30
A Nikolais/Cunningham warm-up class, led by Alan Greig, which will incorporate improvisational tasks.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 27 Jan, 16.00
RESIDENCY 30 Jan - 3 Feb
Conflux
PITCH
Welcome to Conflux’s first PITCH event of 2012.
To start the New Year, Conflux will be holding its quarterly week of professional development events in Edinburgh, and in collaboration with its partner, Dance Base.
Masterclasses, lab events and talks will be taking place at venues across Edinburgh, with our headline residency and afternoon of scratch performances being held in Dance Base.
Note: Scratch presentations will be held at 15.45 on Fri 3 Feb. The presentations are of course free, but places should be reserved in advance by emailing
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Conflux: promoting street arts, physical theatre and circus in Scotland.
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Free Company Class: Tue 31 Jan, 10.00 – 11.30
Details about Conflux’s company class will be available shortly in the Pitch section of conflux.co.uk
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 3 Feb, 15.45
RESIDENCY 6 - 10 Feb
The Lighthouse Project
Speaking of Life
For this residency Pamela Day, the Lighthouse Dancers and guests will be exploring physical and symbolic expression inspired by faith and the inner dialogue.
Free Company Class: Tue 7 Feb, 10.00 – 11.30
A contemporary technique class with a creative element.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 10 Feb, 16.00
RESIDENCY 13 - 17 Feb
Dougie Hudson
Vertical Adventure
Exploring the simple idea of extracting dance moves into the open aspects of the dimensional planes set by gravity.
(SPACE – the body in – Horizontal/Vertical/Depth)
(TIME – the changes – Movement – Music).
An adventure with the boundaries of traditional dance. Not with traditional boundaries of culture and style necessarily, but with our physiological design and gravity and the overwhelming physical alignment with balance and gravity. Using West African traditional dance as a vertical starting point, exploring how it exists in the other planes. With live and pre-recorded music.
“Mental block? Just turn it on its head!”
Free Company Class: Tue 14 Feb, 10.00 – 11.30
From linear style to village circle - world montage dance. Traditional Guinean dance choreography with solo option. High-energy, jumping workout for all, in bare feet.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 17 Feb, 16.00
RESIDENCY 20 - 24 Feb
Michael Sherin
The Shame Chronicles
My Retrieval residency last year unearthed a rich seam of material which I want to explore in this residency to develop The Shame Chronicles. Using movement, text and live music provided by David Maxwell, this is the beginning of a work of fractured storytelling which explores themes of denial, loss and resolution.
Free Company Class: Tue 21 Feb, 10.00 – 11.30
A workshop which explores the creation of text using movement as a starting point and vice versa.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 24 Feb, 16.00
RESIDENCY 20 - 24 Feb
Iona Kewney
Imposter
Time will be spent investigating new intentions in movement and the notion of ‘otherworldliness’ that oscillates round us.
Postures of society and alienation.
Phenomena.
The human UFO has landed and it is searching different ways of existence and communication.
A second and more dangerous innocence...
Free Company Class: Thu 23 Feb, 10.00 – 11.30
Sporting and stretching into movement possibilities.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 24 Feb, 17.00
RESIDENCY 27 Feb - 2 Mar
Gemma Williams
(new work)
This collaborative project is an immersive experiment: dancers Gemma Williams and Janine Wyse will work with audio-visual artist Morven Innes to explore themes of free will, control and unity.
Using movement, technology, storytelling and instinct we hope to create a space where social order is deconstructed and rebuilt, in order to examine what divides and bonds us.
Free Company Class: Thu 1 Mar, 10.00 – 11.30
Class with begin with structured, floor-based work, focusing the mind and body to explore movement possibilities, resulting in a group improvisational score.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 2 Mar, 17.00
RESIDENCY 5 - 16 Mar
Magnetic North
Rough Mix
Take 6 artists, mix for 2 weeks and see the results.
Led by Artistic Director Nicholas Bone, Rough Mix is an opportunity for practitioners from a variety of disciplines to spend time together talking, exploring and creating. Each practitioner works on a project in collaboration with the others and you can follow the process on the blog at www.magneticnorth.co.uk.
Magnetic North is a theatre company that creates stylish, articulate and individual work; it promotes dialogue between artists and has created Rough Mix in order to facilitate the fast-track development of new projects and to encourage collaboration, boldness and innovation among artists. Recent work includes the highly acclaimed Walden and Pass the Spoon, both of which developed from previous editions of Rough Mix.
Rough Mix is supported by Creative Scotland’s Creative Futures scheme
Free Company Class: Tue 6, 13 & Thu 8,15 Mar 10.00-11.30
Viewpoints-based class – suitable for anyone interested in exploring this technique
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 16 Mar, 17.00
RESIDENCY 19 - 23 Mar
Plutôt la Vie
The Architect and The Emperor of Assyria
Plutôt la Vie begins to explore Fernando Arrabal’s play The Architect & The Emperor of Assyria, a brutal theatrical fable of civilisation and savagery. Involving the integration of voice, physical theatre and a Bouffon style of play, Plutôt la Vie will bring together a group of creative artists including Lisette Boxman, Ian Cameron, Tim Licata, Lucien MacDougall and Al Seed in a creative laboratory to explore, explode and bring to life Arrabal’s surreal masterpiece.
Free Company Class: Thu 22 Mar 10.00-11.30
Class will focus on the Feldenkrais® Method of Awareness Through Movement, for performers to access a state of creative playfulness and spontaneity (no previous experience necessary).
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 23 Mar, 17.00
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