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Dance Bytes: Work in Progress
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Friday 27th November 2009
Performances at 5.30pm & 8pm
The Studio at Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff
Tickets £8 (includes a drink after the performance)
Box office 029 2030 4400
Dance Bytes, Welsh Independent Dance's unique choreographic development scheme, provides choreographers with the opportunity to create work through three stages of development, enabling exploration and experimentation.
Work in Progress is the second stage and gives the audience the opportunity to discuss the presented works with the artists during a post-show talk.
Background:
Welsh Independent Dance launched its annual choreographic development programme in April 1998 to support and facilitate the creation of new choreographic work. It provides successful applicants with three stages of development; Presentations, Work in Progress and New Work. The successful programme has grown over the years and has helped to build a number of careers including Tanja Råman, Mr & Mrs Clark, Sandra Harnisch-Lacey and Eddie Ladd.
The ‘Presentations’ stage of Dance Bytes took place on 3rd & 4th October 2009 in Chapters main theatre. Jessie Brett; Eleanor Brown & Kim Noble; Etta Ermini; Batel Magen; Jo Shapland; Joe Wild & Angharad Matthews shared their choreographic ideas to a sell out audience on both nights.
Following an evaluation session with the Dance Bytes panel made up of WID Board Member Janet Fieldsend, Independent Dance Artist Sandra Harnisch-Lacey and Programmer Judi Hughes the following four projects were selected. WID would like to congratulate Jessie Brett; Eleanor Brown & Kim Noble; Jo Shapland and Joe Wild & Angharad Matthews who will be going on to the next stage ‘Work in Progress’ showing in the Chapter studio on Friday 27th November.
Tickets are £8 which includes a complimentary drink. We hope that you will join us to see the work and engage with the artists at the post show talk.
Jessie Brett
Jessie Brett trained at London Contemporary Dance School and has since been regularly performing and choreographing in Wales and London. Her passion for collaboration and improvisation has given her the impetus to develop her choreographic skills and she is delighted to have this opportunity to be part of Dance Bytes. The piece she is working on is inspired by the revolutionary photographer Tina Modotti who lived, loved and worked in Mexico in The 1920’s. Collaborating with a composer and writer Jessie is exploring how one person’s extraordinary life can connect and resonate with our own lives more than 80 years on.
Jo Shapland
Dance for Neanderthal is an immediate, intuitive and gut-felt response to a drawn musical score. Generating material by improvising outdoors (e.g. on a pebble beach, in woodland), we then retreat indoors to embody the abstract marks that are Simon Thorne’s precisely drawn Neanderthal score. The choreography sculpts movement and stillness to connect at heart level with something elemental and timeless.
Multi-disciplinary artist, choreographer and performer, Jo Shapland, has over twenty years professional dance and performance devising experience. Her work is challenging and experimental, incorporating live physical performance, sonic and visual art installation and video under the umbrella name Man Troi.
Kim Noble and Eleanor Brown
After meeting at WID New Graduates Showcase last year Kim Noble (trained at NSCD) and Eleanor Brown (studied at UWIC and currently completing an MA in Choreography at Middlesex University) started developing their unique choreographic voice together. Their work that is currently being developed for Dance Bytes looks at how we as individuals react and deal with the changes that we are presented with. Striving to create an affinity with the audience Kim and Eleanor candidly expose themselves as they explore the inimitable dynamic of their relationship with each other, the environment and the audience.
Joe Wild and Angharad Matthews
A collaboration between Joe Wild and Angharad Matthews takes the form of a design led choreography. Starting with a research of the hidden and the exposed, they enter the
non-space of internet communication. In this fabricated cyber world they are able to reinvent themselves continuously, allowing their projected selves to mutate. In the safety of the non-physical environment the private becomes public, intimacy gets turned inside out and boundaries are blurred between imagination and fact. If this is an attempt to discover a purity of human existence, it has only unleashed the beast.
Dance Bytes 09/10 Critique Award
WID is continuing its initiative to support critical discourse and encourage greater audience participation through its critique award. All audience members are invited to submit a written critique of Dance Bytes ‘Work in Progress'. The winner will receive a commission of £150 to review Dance Bytes ‘New Work’ at Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre on 16th & 17th March 2010.
“Dance Bytes has been vital for my professional development. I see it as a lifeline to my creative future. I can’t be thankful enough”. Roberta Jean.
“Dance Bytes improved my choreographic practice and provided me with a platform to present my work and begin to create networks within the Welsh dance sector”.
Tanja Råman
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