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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 16 - 27 APR
Mr Criticulous vs Ultimate Dancer
The performance critic vs The critical performer
The performance critic vs The critical performer (working title) is a collaboration between performance critic Gareth K Vile and choreographer Louise Ahl. This collaboration derives from a mutual understanding and application of critical thinking as an artistic commitment. We aim through this project to research and develop a criticality that feeds on theory as well as an urge to communicate this with an inclusive approach.
Our collaboration wants to explore the critic’s role within the context of dance and the choreographer’s role within the context of criticism. We will come together in the studio to question one another’s professional authority and investigate how our respective roles can inform and nurture our working strategies.
Free Company Classes: Tue 17 & 24 Apr, 10.00 – 11.30
This will be a release-based class focusing on a series of meridian stretches and floor-based partner-work.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 27 Apr, 16.00
RESIDENCY 16 - 20 APR
Matthew Hawkins
[new work]
Following solo research in Aberdeen, inhabiting unsung, wayward spots in the city centre, the arising moves will be imported here. Hence this current hub plays host to an emerging brew of video documentation and organised newness; this time involving a choice half-dozen dancers.
Supported by Creative Scotland
[image: Maria Falconer]
Free Company Class: Thu 19 Apr, 10.00 – 11.30
Reflecting Matthew’s chosen training mode, this session is informed by Cunningham technique. Hence: broad freestanding content; spinal focus; eventual jumping.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 20 Apr, 17.00
RESIDENCY 23 APR - 4 MAY
Skye Reynolds
Installation
Together with her dance and music collaborators, Skye will explore ways to create a dance and technology installation in which both performers and audience can interact. The results will be presented as a public showing at the Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival, May 2012.
Research will continue into use of the Nintendo Wii as a remote sound device worn by the dancers to sculpt a sonic environment. The Wii’s potential as a compositional tool will be further developed through programming to influence the choreographic shape of this emerging work.
All are welcome at the FREEDAY PREVIEW, and as development of these ideas is aimed primarily at young people/families,
please bring along your young folk if possible!
UPDATE: The company will be performing at the National Museum of Scotland on Wednesday 9 May at 12.05 and 16.05. It's FREE to attend and kids are welcome.
Supported by Imaginate, Dance Base, North Edinburgh Arts, and pARTners
[image: Maria Falconer]
Free Company Classes: Thu 26 Apr & 3 May, 10.00 – 11.30
This will be a Pilates class designed as a workout for those who are experienced in Pilates practice.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 3 May, 17.00
RESIDENCY 7 - 11 MAY
Freshmess
[new work]
Hip hop culture has such a negative image – violence, exploitation of women, vandalism, and bad language to name but a few. Hip hop to Allan Irvine is about creativity, sharing and crossing borders.
In this residency, Allan will work on developing choreography, using traditional elements such as graffiti black book drawings and rap lyrics to create movement that will challenge the dancers’ ideas of what hip hop dance is. He also hopes to step out of his comfort zone and work around themes such as the responsibility of role models and family.
Free Company Class: Tue 8 May, 10.00 – 11.30
Class will be fun and informal with smooth, flowing combinations and sharp, on-beat sequences in a mixture of contemporary and street styles.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 11 May, 16.00
RESIDENCY 7 - 11 MAY
Jean Abreu Company
[new work]
Brazilian-born dancer and choreographer Jean Abreu will use this residency as research and development for a trilogy of solos that he wishes to present in the next few years.
The first solo that will come out of this trilogy is BLOOD (working title), which will be based on a collection of pictures called The Fundamental Pictures, created by visual artists Gilbert & George. It will use motion capture technology and animation by Mirko Arcese (Italy) with music by Paul Wolinski of 65daysofstatic.
Jean will be working with locally-based artist Daniel Aing and holding open rehearsals for discussions with other artists and the public about the process.
Supported by Bath Spa University, Dance Digital, Dance Base, The Hat Factory, and Arts Council England East
[image: © Rachel Cherry]
Free Company Class: Thu 10 May, 10.00 – 11.30
Exploring Jean’s choreographic techniques and movement vocabulary, which combine contemporary western dance styles with elements of capoeira and Latin dance.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 11 May, 17.00
RESIDENCY 14 - 25 MAY
Heels Over Head Dance Theatre/Christine Bovill
De Bruxelles à Amsterdam... Via Edinburgh [working title]
Blurring the boundaries between music, theatre and dance, Agathe Girard (HHDT) and Christine Bovill are joining forces, joined by Steinvor Palsson (co-choreographer) and John Yule (director), to create a piece where the movement becomes a voice and the voice is truly embodied.
Part-Scottish, part-French, but with Jacques Brel in the centre of it all. It is a celebration of the man, the performer, his ideas and his music. Exploring ways of bringing a French-singing Brel closer to an English-speaking audience, let the movement become another voice and bring you directly to the underlying emotions – bringing new meaning to the Auld Alliance!
Free Company Classes: Tue 15 & 22 May, 10.00 – 11.30
Contemporary class. You will be led through various exercises, moving in and out of the floor, and encouraged to find your own movement and rhythm.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 25 May, 16.00
RESIDENCY 14 - 25 MAY
Rob Heaslip
Strange Attractors
Research and development to study forgotten movement patterns and structures with the aim to further explore folk dance idioms. Rob Heaslip will be working with members of max.IMEALLdance to build upon material and create signature movement styles in order to develop and use them in future periods, towards the creation of new works.
Rob’s creative principles will be used in collaboration with film artist Marie Lidén. Combined, they will explore possibilities, both in common and in difference, working towards ways to merge the two - looking at how recovered forgotten movement patterns can be relevant in the study and creation of movement addressing modern social and scientific themes.
Supported by Creative Scotland and Dance Ireland
[image: Paul Gilling]
Free Company Classes: Thu 17 & 24 May, 10.00 – 11.30
Energetic movement using material and the process relevant to the residency, including repertoire direct from the project.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 25 May, 17.00
RESIDENCY 28 MAY - 1 JUN
Peggy Hackney
Body, Space and You
Peggy Hackney returns to Edinburgh from California for a second dynamic residency introducing her unique development of the Laban material and its specific application to developing articulate, expressive dancers, choreographers and performers of all kinds. Her themes this year include exploring your own ‘Movement Signature’ in Space and how this may be perceived by others; and using clear Spatial Intent to enhance your body’s internal connections and communication.
There are bursary places available to Scottish-based dancers: for information and application forms please contact
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Supported by PRIMA and Dance Base
Free Company Class: Thu 31 May, 10.00 – 11.30
Class will emphasise challenging yourself in off-vertical spatial clarity, while also employing a wide variety of dynamic energy. Open to anyone with some experience of technique classes
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 1 Jun, 17.00
RESIDENCY 4 - 8 JUN
Rosemary Butcher
After Kaprow
After Kaprow represents a continuation of two of Butcher’s more recent works, as well as being continuous with her overall aesthetic trajectory, which emphasises the situation of bodies and their intensive movement qualities in site-specific contexts.
After Kaprow develops and extends some of the ideas contained in the work Lapped, Translated Lines (premiered at Sadler’s Wells in 2010); namely the extension of performative context via a dialogue with architectural form and the possibilities afforded by a juxtaposition of performance with film and the idiomatic potential of the filmic.
Free Company Class: Tue 5 Jun, 10.00 – 11.30
Working with the body within movement improvisation structures and specific notation, the class will focus on strategies for translating the physical experience.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 8 Jun, 16.00
RESIDENCY 4 - 8 JUN
Dance Movement Psychotherapy MSc Graduates from QMU
[new work]
After demanding training, the time has come to take off, not without first taking the time to reflect on the journey and share valuable experiences with the wider community. This residency will be about graduates from the MSc in Dance Movement Psychotherapy at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, celebrating the completion of their studies. It will also be about informing people about the discipline and showcasing some of the work done during the period of their academic and clinical experience.
Free Company Class: Thu 7 Jun, 10.00 – 11.30
No dance experience needed. We will focus on different uses of movement within a psychotherapeutic context.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 8 Jun, 17.00
RESIDENCY 11 - 22 JUN
Marc Brew Company
[new work]
A new work by director/choreographer Marc Brew in response to Samuel Beckett’s famous stage play Happy Days.
Marc Brew Company in collaboration with performing artist Caroline Bowditch, musician/composer John Kielty, and designer Andy Hamer will create a new work we hope to present as part of the Dance Base Festival Fringe 2012.
Wrestling with themes of loneliness and extreme optimism in the face of utter hopelessness, the work will investigate the relationship between two characters in contrast to their surrounding world, through the context of dance theatre.
Supported by Creative Scotland and venue partners Dance Base and Dundee Rep.
[image: Tiago D'Oliviera]
Free Company Classes: Thu 14 & 21 Jun, 10.00 – 11.30
Release-based contemporary technique class using improvisation and set material. Focus on continuing energy flow, length, line, placement and adaptation. Marc teaches inclusively, ensuring his class work is accessible to all.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 22 Jun, 17.00
RESIDENCY 25 - 29 JUN
Sue Hawksley/Roddy Simpson/Freya Jeffs
[new work]
A new collaboration between choreographer Sue Hawksley (artistic director of articulate animal), filmmaker Roddy Simpson, and dancer Freya Jeffs, exploring themes of dining, dancing, waiting, menus and messages. During this residency, they will work on choreographic and video material together with the development of software for a screen dance feast to be savoured on an iPad interactive user-interface.
Free Company Class: Thu 28 Jun, 10.00 – 11.30
Draws on Cunningham techniques and release principles, with a focus on dynamic alignment, awareness, ease and integrity in movement.
FREEDAY PREVIEW studio showing: Fri 29 Jun, 17.00
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