Festival Special!
Dear All,
I hope this email finds you well. Here at Chisenhale Dance Space we are starting to wrap up warm for the winter months! We have a few bits of Autumn news for you and other useful things to pass on...
Chisenhale News:
1) Homelands Dance Festival @ CDS 7th - 8th November 2009
2) Somali Week Festival - CDS Commissioned work!
3) Space Hire - we're still the cheapest in London!
4) Members News
5) Volunteers needed for Festival!
Other useful things:
6) Big Dance - register online for info now!
7) ADvANCE - East London Dance - Artist Support Seminars
8) IDMN - 1-2-1 advice sessions with independent dance manager's!
We hope to see you at our Homelands Festival!
Best Wishes
Bryony, Ana and the Team
1) Homelands Dance Festival, Saturday 7th - Sunday 8th November 2009
Homelands is an ingenious little Dance festival happening at Chisenhale Dance Space this Autumn! For one chilly November weekend we are opening our mysterious purple doors and inviting you to bask in the warmth of all things Dance!
Saturday: Taster workshops in EVERYTHING from Pilates and Swing to Street Dance and Ballroom, performances from local troupes and professionals, talks from leading artists, speed networking, live music, silly games, bingo, bric-a-brac, knitting, bunting and plenty of good old fashioned East End Tea and cake party fun! 4pm -7:30pm - FAMILY FRIENDLY
Sunday: Performances and talks from: Hunt and Darton/Sparkle Motion/Tempered Body Dance/Joseph Mercier/Yael Loewenstein/Athina Vahla/Jenny Edbrooke/Tim Jeeves/The Sugar Dandies plus many more AND lots of local dance troupes from our wonderful home borough of Tower Hamlets including the Old Ford Housing Line Dancers and the East End W.I.! 4-9pm with a little shindig after to dance and be merry!
Click here to download our e-flyer chocabloc with information
Contact us to book your free day or weekend pass or keep your eye on our website for further info! We will send a programme out to all of those registered nearer the event so you can decide what you want to come along for! food and drink will be available all day! info@chisenhaledancespace.co.uk or 0208 981 6617
2) Somali Week Festival – introducing our commissioned work
One of the Homeland Festival Commissions was awarded to KAYD, the producers of the annual Somali Week Festival in Bethnal Green. KAYD and Chisenhale have co-commissioned a piece of work for the festival and we are delighted to announce this partnership and the exciting piece of work it has produced:
‘Baqayo Roged’ is a drama produced by Abdirahman Yusuf Arten and features UK based Somali actors. This one-act play deals with some of the core principles of the Somali Week Festival namely: gender, equality and tolerance. CDS are providing the group studio space to make the work and access to a movement artist to allow the actors to explore the piece through new means.
After the play there will be a short discussion of the issues raised by the writer with Abdallah Haaij, Ali Ahmed Rabi Seenyo, and Su’ad Armiye, Beeldaaje, Baarleeh. There will be also a performance from the Aar Band.
We hope to see some CDS regulars at this event, to celebrate this very exciting collaboration made possible by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
“Baqayo Roged” (One-act play) Wednesday, 28th October 2009
6-10pm | Fee £5 on the door. Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, London, E2 6HG
3) Space 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: 10m x 12.5m (3.30m high)
£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)
£8/Hour (rehearsal, research)
£12/Hour (classes, workshops)
Facilities:
Changing rooms, 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
Click here to see photos and for more info
4) Members!
The next Membership Social is on the 8th of November just before the Homelands Festival opens... an email will be winging its way to you shortly!
The AGM minutes have been sent out, please contact Bryony Kimmings bryony@chisenhaledancespace.co.uk if you would like more information or a copy of the 08/10 accounts. Many thanks for the Skill Set forms we have received back, we are still awaiting quite a few so please send these asap... They will help us understand a little more about what our members want and need as well as allow us to offer commission support, workshops and project work as and when relevant.
5) Volunters needed for Homelands
We are looking for volunteers to help us run our festival in early November. If you are over 18, keen to help out and get some experience working in a busy dance event environment please email us on info@chisenhaledancespace.co.uk with the subject line "Homelands Volunteers" and we will get back to you!
6) Big Dance is on the 3rd – 11th July 2010 – SAVE THE DATE!
Chisenhale will be getting involved with dance events in our home borough of Tower Hamlets, there will be commissioned works, outdoor events and workshops across London that week and the 6 weeks leading up to the Big Week so much more on this to follow.
Big Dance will be launching some small grants, join-in opportunties and various other exciting ways to get involved over the coming months... So to keep up-to-date register on the website
7) ADvANCE
East London Dance are putting on a programme of artist support seminars, 1-2-1 sessions and collaboratuion workshops during autumn and spring, this oppritnuity if for dance artists and choreographers from East London (our lovely general manager will be leading one of the seminars too so there’s even more reason to sign up!). Contact East London Dance for more information http://www.eastlondondance.org/ or click here
8) IDMN - 1-2-1 advice sessions with independent dance manager's!
IDMN 1:1 sessions for independent artists, managers and producers
The Independent Dance Manager’s Network is now delivering face-to-face or telephone 1:1 sessions for independent artists,
producers or managers.
1:1 specialist areas include:
Life Coaching
Career Development
Company Development
Project Development
Marketing
Tourbooking
Fundraising
Company Management
Project Management
Managers: June Gamble, Tim Tubbs, Charlotte Cunningham, Eckhard Thiemann, Gwen Van Spijk and Sarah Trist
These sessions are not free, but the visit is heavily subsidised. Visit the IDMN website for more information
See you soon!
