Archived Events

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2011

    mapdance

    mapdance 2011 Spring

    mapdance 2011

    Thu 10 Mar 2011
    7.30pm
    Full £10 / Conc £6 / Schools & Colleges £5
    Age: 12+

    Celebrating its 5th year, mapdance is one of the leading postgraduate dance companies in the UK. Recruiting dancers nationally and internationally mapdance commissions new repertoire from renown and upcoming contemporary choreographers and directors. This year the company has commissioned works by Rose English, Yaara Dolev (The Tel-Aviv Dance Company), Ben Duke (Lost Dog) & Darren Ellis (RADC & Random) as well as restaging Gregory Maqoma’s powerful work Zola Station. Ranging in style and emotion, mapdance’s programme offers a diverse and refreshing mixture of dance theatre, lyrical choreography, punchy physicality and intriguing humour. It is a mixed bill that offers something for everyone.

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    “Inches from its audience, the troupe radiated energy. A sharp and pithy
    showcase…rare to find and thrilling to watch”
    Lisa Wolfe, Total Theatre 2009

    www.mapdance.org

    Photo credit: Chris Nash
  • Archived Events/ Spring 2011

    Lîla Dance

    Lila Dance 2011 Spring

    In Our Blood

    Thu 10 Feb 2011
    7:30pm
    Full £10 / Conc £6 / Schools & Colleges £5
    Age 14+

    Inspired by the potential of dance to communicate the most intangible and emotional of human experiences, Lîla Dance present three stunning works: A Readiness, Tracker and Here, still Here, Still. Propelling the work forward in all three pieces is Lîla’s ability to combine intense dynamic physicality with raw emotional sensitivity, which in turn draws audiences into their journey and the world created on stage.

    Identified as a company to watch, Lîla Dance have garnered impressive reviews following performances at Resolution! at The Place – from this came an invitation to take part in The Place’s renowned Choreodrome programme. They have also been mentored by Hofesh Shechter and are an associate company of The Point, Eastleigh.

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    Presented on the evening will be a short curtain-raiser by West Sussex Youth Dance Company and an additional piece choreographed by Lîla Dance and performed by students from Chichester College.

    www.liladance.co.uk

    Photo credit: James Rowbotham
  • Archived Events/ Spring 2011

    Verve

    Verve 11

    Thu 3 Mar 2011
    7.30pm
    Full £10 / Conc £6 / Schools & Colleges £5
    Age: 12+

    Verve 2011 has worked with choreographers Debora Johnson, Charles Linehan, Peter Mika, Thomas Noone and Ben Wright to create an evening of energetic, thought provoking contemporary dance performed by some of Europe’s most talented young dancers.

    An invigorating mixed bill of new dance works created by leading international choreographers. The variety of choreographic styles and ideas will appeal to all, whilst the phenomenal strength and energy of the dancers will impress and inspire.

    Verve, the award winning postgraduate performance company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, features dancers fresh from intensive technical training at some of Europe’s leading conservatoires, who will go on to work with some of the UK’s most highly regarded dance companies.

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    “One of the most enjoyable evenings of dance that I’ve been to.”
    Audience Member, The Riley Theatre, Leeds

    www.nscd.ac.uk/verve

    Photo credit: Brian Slater
  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2010

    Yael Flexer, Nic Sandiland / Dance & Digital Works

    Yael Flexer - The Living Room

    The Living Room

    Date: Thu 30 Sep
    Time: 7:30pm
    Ticket Prices: Full £10 | Conc £6 | Schools & Colleges £5
    Suitable ages: 14+

    The Living Room is an intimate dance set in what appears to be the bare bones of a living or rehearsal room. The performers interfere or seemingly assist each other’s ‘solo moment’ together inhabiting an imagined domestic space.

    Yael Flexer’s distinctive choreography effortlessly weaves wry humour and informal banter with dance that is fast paced and emotionally driven. Music is by Nye Parry and cellist Karni Postel, who also plays live; lighting by Michael Mannion and dramaturgy by live artist Gary Stevens.

    Yael Flexer (Formerly Bedlam Dance Company) and Nic Sandiland create live works for stage as well as site-specific and gallery based digital installations. The company has been creating touring productions for the past 15 years alongside live and digital commissions for among others, Woking Dance Festival, The South Bank Centre and Sadler’s Wells.

    “dance that is unforced, unaffected, charming and smart” – Time out
    www.yaelflexer.com

    Nic Sandiland’s latest digital installation Gravity Shift is also being shown at The Otter Gallery, University of Chichester, from 29th September to 26th October. Drawing on technology usually associated to flight simulators and using projected images, this project seeks to challenge the notion that the pull of gravity on the human body is absolute and can only act in a fixed downwards projection.

    www.nicsandiland.com

    IMAGE :  Chris Nash
  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2010

    Gregory Maqoma & Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

    Southern Bound Comfort – UK PREVIEW

    Date: Fri 1 October
    Time: 7:30pm
    Ticket Prices: Full £12 | Conc £10
    Suitable 14+

    Please note this performance is taking place at the Point in Eastleigh
    Book tickets from The Point Box Office: 023 8065 2333 / www.thepointeastleigh.co.uk

    Created / Co-produced: Théâtre de la Ville- Paris, co-commissioned by The ShowRoom, University of Chichester and developed and created with the support of The Point, Eastleigh

    Southern Bound Comfort joins two stunning duets that have been developed from a long-standing friendship between dance artists Gregory Maqoma, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Shanell Winlock. Accompanied on stage by three live musicians, the two duets, performed by Maqoma and Winlock, draw on, unite and create a shared language between the cultural heritage of European, South African and South Asian traditions.

    The evening previews Bound, a brand new work by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui centering on the cultural backgrounds of the performers and considers the ways in which we are bound to each other and to our heritage, ourselves and our desires. The second duet will be Gregory Maqoma’s widely acclaimed Southern Comfort. Originally presented in 2001, and re-created for the Svapnagata Festival at the Sadler’s Wells (curated by Akram Khan), it is a humorous yet moving work exposes what defines us and the physical and emotional connexions we build with the people and space around us.

    www.vuyani.co.za

    To book call The ShowRoom: 01243 816000

    IMAGE: John Hogg