May News!

Dear All,

The sun is shining... we have baby foxes living in the derelict space below us... AND we have some wonderful May news to share! What a wonderful start to a week. As usual here is a brief summary of content so you can pick and choose what to read:

1. London Dance International 2010 – Here come the Women!

2. Ecovenue

3. Members Showings: Joe Moran, Justin Allen and Maddy Wynne Jones

4. Members Workshops: Jean Abreu, Leila Mcmillan and Tempered Body

5. Paradise Gardens Festival

6. A Sneaky Peak at June!

We hope to see you at Chisenhale for some of these events!

Bryony and the Team x


1) London Dance International 2010 – Here come the Women!

This year London Dance International (LDI) is celebrating female dance artists whose work challenges and extends the boundaries of dance and performance.

Dance has always been a collaborative art form and increasingly artists working in theatre, live art and performance are interested in incorporating dance into their practice. For 2010 LDI wants to offer a platform to explore what this means for dance in a practical, discursive and playful way.

Ruth Zaporah and Ivana Muller will each lead an intensive weeklong workshop and alongside this 3 UK based dance artists will curate a short residency to feed or invigorate their personal artistic process. Frauke Requardt, Wendy Houstoun and Fin Walker, have each responded to the open brief differently.


Ivana Muller - Monday 19 July – Friday 23 July
10:30am – 5pm @ Chisenhale Dance Space
Cost \ £150 (£125 Conc) for 5 days

Ruth Zaporah - Monday 21 June – Friday 25 June
10am – 3pm @ Greenwich Dance
Cost \ £150 (£125 Conc) for 5 days

TALK: What is it about dance?
An afternoon exploring the movements between dance, theatre, performance on Sunday 18 July @ Independent Dance at Siobhan Davies Studios1pm – 5:30pm for £5

To find out more, to get involved with the resident artist projects and to book visit www.greenwichdance,org.uk or call 0208 293 9741

2) Ecovenue

Chisenhale Dance Space has been selected by the Theatre’s Trust to be one of the first ten London venues to go through the Ecovenue scheme.

Ecovenue is a European Regional Development Fund-backed initiative of The Theatres Trust, aiming to improve the environmental sustainability of 48 performing arts spaces across London. By proactively monitoring energy /water use and waste diversion, and through the development of environmental policies, procurement strategies and Display Energy Certificates, Ecovenue aims to help contribute to the Mayor of London’s target to reduce London’s carbon emissions by 60% from 1990 levels by 2025.

We are extremely excited about this as it gives us a chance to make some positive and long lasting changes, we will keep you updated on how we are doing from time to time!

Click here to see the article featuring us in The Stage


3) Members Showings: Joe Moran, Justin Allen and Maddy Wynne Jones
 
We have three chances to see members work coming up at Chisenhale in the next month, they are all free so come along whenever you wish! To check out members biogs please click here

Open to Change
Joe Moran
Friday 4 June, 7.30pm
FREE
Dancer and choreographer Joe Moran presents Open to Change, an informal performance evening featuring a new solo for dancer Katye Coe with live projection and film. Open to Change is a persistent deliberation on the presence and politics of difference within the constraint and formalism of choreographic repetition. Projected film and video include works by visual artist Magali Reus, Joe Moran in collaboration with Jane Barnwell and Roberto Napoletani and Swedish musicians The Knife. Open to Change is a co-produced with Chisenhale Dance Space and is supported through CDS’s members support programme

One-Man Stage Piece

Justin Allen
New work-in-progress Friday 18th June, 6.30pm 
"Funny, surprising and deeply moving" Remote Goat
FREE

Taking the architecture of a studio theatre and the conventions of a theatre show as its starting-point, One-Man Stage Piece invites both artist and audience to ask themselves a simple question: what am I doing here? Delicately poised between humour and uneasiness through the vulnerability of a man alone on stage, One-Man Stage Piece attempts to bridge the gap established by the architecture and conventions of theatre. One-Man Stage Piece is being developed through a series of showings around the UK and is supported by Chisenhale Dance Space. NOTE: this performance is starting early to allow people to see the England world cup match starting 7.30pm!


Body of Work
Maddy Wynne Jones, with her company Tempered Body
Sunday 27th June, 6pm
FREE
Maddy and her company will present a showing of the newly devised piece “Body of Work”. The showing is the culmination of an intensive period of research and development, exploring the epidemic of body anxiety and how it is transferred transgenerationally. The piece explores the increasing global pressure to design and perfect our bodies as they become less where we live from and more what we can personally manufacture. “Body of Work” is co-produced by Chisenhale Dance Space.  www.temperedbody.com
4) Members Workshops:  Jean Abreu Dance Company, Tempered Body and Leila Mcmillan

We have three workshops from Chisenhale Members being held here at the space in the coming weeks, see below on how to book onto them! To check out members biogs please click here

Jean Abreu Dance Contemporary Workshop - Inside 



Fiercely evocative, highly charged and intensely physical; INSIDE; the latest work from dancer/Choreographer Jean Abreu invites you to push your own boundaries this Summer as Jean Abreu Dance launches its first education pack beginning with this very special summer intensive, 5 day residency at Chisenhale Dance Space.

The Workshop will provide knowledge and insight into Jeans Choreographic process and movement technique, and will see the students learning repertory from the show 'INSIDE', encouraging the students to look deeper inside for the answers. The week will end with a sharing and you will leave with a videoed piece of your own choreography based on Jeans work.

The workshop is limited to 20 places so please email to secure your place.


Monday June 28th - Friday July 2nd 2010.
2pm - 6pm

Price: £140


BOOK and INFO insideworkshop@yahoo.co.uk

Leila Mcmillan Workshop – Flying Low

This year Leila was 1 of 50 artists chosen to be a part of the 50 days of Flying Low and Passing Through training with David Zambrano in Costa Rica, which certified her in the techniques. In early July she will hold a half-day taster workshop. This workshop will be a taste of Leila’s development of the Flying Low technique, created by David Zambrano and it will into a one week intensive in Flying Low and Passing Through (Improvisation) on 16-20th August. This workshop focuses mainly on the dancer’s relationship with the floor using Zambrano’s concept of sending and gathering.
Sunday 4th July
10-12pm
Level – Advanced/Professional
No Booking Required – First Come First Served



Tempered Body Dance Company Workshop – The Choreographic Process

Tempered Body Dance Company are embarking on a period of research and development for a new piece, and as a part of this are offering an intensive, two day, exploratory workshop that delves into the choreographic process. The workshop will be lead by artistic director of Tempered Body, Maddy Wynne-Jones, and the company members, as the role of both choreographer and dancer will be investigated. We will examine various facets of the choreographic process such as initial stimulus, story and movement arc, movement vocabulary and variation.. Following the workshop on the second day, participants will have the opportunity to watch a showing of the new Tempered Body piece.

Saturday 5th June 10-5pm and Sunday 6th June 2-6pm
Cost: £40
BOOK and INFO admin@temperedbody.com

5) Paradise Gardens Festival

Chisenhale Dance Space was asked to curate some of the dance activity for the upcoming Paradise Gardens Festival in Victoria Park. Among other things: On Sunday the 20th of June between from 1-4pm in the Electro Ballroom Tent we will have a showcase of work from emerging artists that form part of the Artist Led Group En Suite here at Chisenhale.

• Rhiannon Faith O’Brien Dance Theatre

• Sparklemotion

• Hunt & Darton

• Maddy Wynne Jones and Tempered Body Dance Company

• PLUS GUESTS!

This event is free so come on down for an ice lolly and a dance we’ll be the team in the purple and silver Chisenhale T shirts!

www.paradisegardens.org.uk

6) Sneaky Peak at June!

Among many other things, next month’s newsletter will launch!

The Housewarming Residency application process – for those who want some free space in June!

AND

Sewing you Shadow by Lucy Cash  – a co-production between Big Dance, Chisenhale Dance Space, Artsadmin and the V&A Museum of Childhood!

So keep your eyes peeled!

Until Next Time… Goodbye!