Sunny August News!
Dear All,
I hope you are all enjoying the summer sun! We have had a lovely August so far here in the office; as usual we have been busy planning and fundraising but we have also enjoyed having our Housewarming Artists inhabiting our studios, as well as the company of Simon Vincenzi and a group of 15 artists for a week as part of the LDI Summer School. We have also successfully recruited a new Administrator since the last newsletter; Lauren Davis will arrive on the 8th of September.
So here comes the news...
1) Work-in-Progress Showing: Housewarming Residency Artist Tom Marshman
2) Homelands Dance Festival: Artists Announced
3) Call for participants!
4) Classes at Chisenhale
5) Members AGM 15/9/09
6) Studio Hire
Enjoy the rest of the holidays, we hope to see you at the space soon!
Bryony, Ana and the Team
1) Work-in-Progress Showing: Housewarming Residency Artist Tom Marshman
Tom is in the small studio, night and day, from 24th August to the 6th September 2009.
Tom would like to invite you to a work in progress showing of his new piece Suffering Images [working title] on the 4th September @ 7:30pm at CDS. Tom has been exploring the two unlikely subjects of The Passion (the last hours of Jesus Christ) and Pole Dancing. These ideas have been the itch that he couldn't scratch for far too long. Throughout this time he plans to explore the power of the enduring image of the crucifixion and its movement possibilities. Tom plans to recreate images of endurance using the pole dancing pole and personal narratives.
To book a place for Tom's work in progress showing please call the office as spaces are limited: 020 8981 6617
2) Homelands Dance Festival: Artists Announced
Homelands is our new, yearly festival, funded by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Arts and Events fund. The festival seeks to use dance as a tool to celebrate the diverse heritage, vibrant communities and rich history of our home borough as well as showcase the amazing dance work that happens within the space on a daily basis. The festival will engage the local community and artists alike with talks, taster sessions, videos and performances whist celebrating the richness of our borough East-End style with bingo, bunting and plenty of tea and cake fun! We have selected three artists to commission via application.
Each artist, through a series of collaborative workshops, will create a piece of work with a community group within the borough to be shown at the Homelands Dance Festival on the weekend of the 7th and 8th November 2009...
Joseph Mercier's project Age Gap will work with an intergenerational group of gay men from Tower Hamlets. This project will use contemporary dance to celebrate all the different stages of gay life and get men of all ages talking and moving together to create a dance-piece. If you wish to sign up to be part of this group please call the office 020 8981 6617 or see below for more information.
Athina Vahla's project Fight Club will see her and a team of dancers join forces with a local boxing club to create a piece of work in collaboration. The project is inspired by the rituals of boxing, the similarities between boxing and dance and seeks to begin to allow the artist to create a new dance-sport vocabulary as part of an ongoing process.
Yael Loewenstein's project Voices of Change will see her teamed with a community of elders from the borough. She will create solos and duets that tell the stories of these individuals, voicing both challenge and delight in the evolving landscape of the locality. The project will present a reflection of how citizens have absorbed, cultured and responded to an evolving community.
We will keep you posted on these projects along the way... SAVE THE FESTIVAL DATE 7th and 8th of November!
3) Call for Participants!
Age Gap - A dance project for gay men aged 16 to 116: A chance to learn dance, perform and meet new people.
Age Gap is an exciting opportunity to create a dance piece with Canadian choreographer Joseph Mercier and perform it at The Homelands Dance Festival 2009.
The project is for any and all gay men regardless of previous experience or abilities: maybe you’ve just come out to your parents, or maybe you remember when homosexuality was illegal; maybe you’re doing your A-levels, or maybe you’ve just retired; maybe your favourite will always be Sinatra, or maybe Lady Gaga is more your thing! Wherever you’re at, Age Gap hopes to celebrate all the different stages of gay life and get men of all ages talking and moving together.
There is no cost to participate in the project, but you must live or work in the Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Age Gap will meet at Chisenhale Dance Space on the following dates:
Meet & Greet: 22/9/09 6:30pm
Workshops: 29/9/09 – 02/11/09
Performance: 8/11/09
*you must be available for all of the above dates
For more information or to register please contact: bryony@chisenhaledancespace.co.uk or call 020 8981 6617
4) Classes at Chisenhale
We have plenty of classes to keep you FIT this autumn term...
Pilates – Beginners and Intermediate
Mondays and Thursday 7:30pm from 7th September
Ballet for Adults - Beginners and Intermediate
Monday (begins: 12th October) 5.30 – 7.00pm
Since graduating from Rambert School in 1999, Allan Mortensen has worked as a contemporary dancer in Denmark working with both Danish and international choreographers including former Royal Danish Ballet Principal Eske Holm and Craig Revel Horwood. Allen is introducing an Adult Ballet Class to Chisenhale in the autumn term. £6 per class.
African Contemporary – professional dancers
Wednesdays 7:30-9pm. Starting 16th of September. £5 per class
Chisenhale Dance Space has teamed up with Vocab Dance to deliver challenging, intense, dynamic, fun and fast paced classes in African Contemporary Dance on a Wednesday evening. Learn VOCAB DANCE's movement vocabulary; an eclectic and exhilarating style that blends contemporary dance techniques Afro-Jazz dance and physical expression.
Tempered Body Dance: Weekend Workshop
29th and 30th of August, 10:00 – 15:00
Jose Campos, in collaboration with Tempered Body Dance Company Chisenhale’s Resident Company, will be leading an exciting, intensive weekend workshop lab at Chisenhale Dance Space. The weekend will culminate in an informal showing of the material created. Jose has a unique and powerful movement quality, and his approach to creating material is both innovative and inspiring. Workshop Cost: £75
To register for any of these classes please contact the office: 020 8981 6617 and we will put you in contact with the teacher!
5) Members AGM 15/9/09
Just a quick reminder for all Chisenhale Dance Space Members:
AGM
Tuesday 15th September 2009
6-9pm @ CDS
An agenda will be winging its way to you this week! From 6-7pm we will have some food (so please bring something with you for the buffet) then from 7-9pm we will discuss the benefits that the membership should bring artists, CDS's mission statement, future projects and plans and of course... go over the accounts!
6) Studio Hire
Just a quick reminder that we still have the most affordable, homely and original studio spaces to hire in London, so why not book one out!
Main Studio: Studio theatre. 10m x 12.5m (3.30m high)
Size: Medium
Sprung with a dance floor.
£12/Hour (rehearsal, research)
£18/Hour (classes, workshops)
£25/Hour + £15 for a technician plus £100 deposit (Performances)
Studio 23: 6.2m x 8m (3.3m high)
Size: Small
Sprung with a dance floor.
£8/Hour (rehearsal, research)
£12/Hour (classes, workshops)
Facilities:
Changing rooms, heating, kitchen, lighting rig in main studio, natural light, shower, stereo system, telephone, toilets. Tea and coffee making facilities, Green Room. Chisenhale Dance Space regrets that access is by stairs only at present.
Opening times: Mon Sun, 10am to 9pm
Contact: Chisenhale Dance Space
64 - 84 Chisenhale Road, Bow E3
Tel: 020 8981 6617
Email: mail@chisenhaledancespace.co.uk
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