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  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2015

    elledanse – CANCELLED

    elle-danse

    TBC

    Thu 10 Dec | 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+

    CANCELLATION – Elle Danse – 10/12/2015

    Hello all,
    I am sorry to say that this Thursday’s Elle Danse performance has been cancelled due to some unforeseen circumstances. If you have paid for a ticket via the online store you will be refunded. If you have any questions please contact me at showroom@chi.ac.uk.
    Once again I am sorry for the inconvenience. This is the first time this has happened with a professional performance in the ShowRoom programme, but sometimes things are just out of our control.
    All the best, Andy Roberts, ShowRoom Theatre Director.

    Company elledanse was established in 2007 as a semi- professional dance company with focus on contemporary dance, physical theatre and performing art.

    Artistic director is the acclaimed and award winning choreographer Šarka Ondrišova, who created several productions for the Company. Besides the resident Company members Ondrišova invites to cooperation Slovak and international dancers, choreographers and artists. Company was touring on festivals in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Israel, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Austria.

    Repertoire of the Company consists of physical contemporary performance Hold your Breath and Paved Life, dynamic Quadrans, site – specific project The Danube Within Us, multigenre performance Youmake ReMake, symbolic and pure Score Drops and others. Members of Company work full time jobs or study, dancing is dominating part of their private life. In their work life they are professors, lawyers, teachers and doctors.

    elledanse are visiting the ShowRoom in collaboration with the University of Chichester, Dance Department exchange programme.

    The work is still being made; therefore we are unable to provide any information on the performances content.

    www.elledanse.sk/en

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2015

    Lîla Dance

    lila-dance

    The Deluge

    Thu 22 Oct | 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 15+

    First there was a loud crack in the city, and then a shudder out to sea.

    Four people arrive in the safehouse. With only the clothes on their back, they find themselves asking what had been lost, and what was there left to lose? But in those darkest hours they start to understand how these strangers, and the contents of a mysterious unclaimed bag, might offer them all the hope they need as the sea returns.

    In this intimate and immersive dance experience 4 lives are given an emotional counterpoint by a supporting community cast, an evocative soundtrack, fearless physicality, and new writing.

    www.liladance.co.uk

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2015

    Tavaziva Dance

    travaziva dance

    AfriCarmen

    Thu 8 Oct 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 15+

    Tavaziva’s AFRICARMEN is a sumptuous and evocative dance production loosely based on Georges Bizet’s popular opera Carmen.

    Through a synthesis of ballet, contemporary and African dance, Bawren Tavaziva’s powerful choreography is performed by a cast of outstanding dancers.

    Played out through the entanglement of desire, deceit and corruption in a township of oil-laden Equatorial Guinea, lingering ancestral voices are at work here amongst the dreams of a better life.

    With a new score composed and arranged by Fayyaz Virji of the acclaimed Warriors International, AfriCarmen is Bawren Tavaziva’s most ambitious work to date.

    Tavaziva’s previous show was rated ★★★★★ and described by press and audiences as:

    “A contemporary African masterpiece – amazing, sublime, truly inspirational”

    www.tavazivadance.com

     

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2015

    Transitions Dance Company

    Transitions Dance Company

    2015

    Thu 30 Apr | 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+

    In 2015, eleven of the best young dancers from across the world tour a triple bill of progressive dance works, featuring new commissions from three world-class choreographers.

    With a highly-energised and technically-challenging vocabulary, Bawren Tavaziva makes both pure, abstract work and dance theatre work accompanied by his own musical compositions; Zoi Dimitriou works with keen attention to space and tone, creating works which often have a personal and emotional signature; and Miguel Pereira surprises and subverts expectations with his unique take on performance and the body.

    The individuality and flair of the Transitions performers alongside the expert artistry of the choreographers makes this year’s tour unmissable. Book now to see the future stars of contemporary dance.

    www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/transitions-dance-company

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2015

    Mapdance

    MapDance 2015

    2015

    Thu 23 Apr | 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+

    The University of Chichester’s MA performance company, mapdance is an established company of young, dynamic dancers recruited nationally and internationally.

    Performing diverse repertoire by renowned and upcoming contemporary choreographers, this year’s commissions include new works by Jonathan Burrows, Rick Nodine, Lila Dance and Ofra Odel as well as a recreation by Kerry Nicholls.

    The mixed repertory offers a refreshing mixture of dance theatre, intricate and questioning choreography, fast-paced athleticism and wry humour.

    “mapdance is very much one of the leading players in terms of graduate performance of contemporary dance … it transcended what we may perceive to be student dance and held its own in terms of disciplined, focussed and innovative work from a very accomplished young ensemble.”
    Adrian Berry, Director of Jackson’s Lane, London.

    www.mapdance.org
  • Archived Events/ Spring 2015

    Hagit Yakira dance

    Hagit Dance

    …in the middle with you

    Thu 5 Mar | 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+

    …in the middle with you is a poignant piece of contemporary dance delving into the very nature of human experience. At times heart-warmingly light and playful, at times stark and deeply entrancing, the choreography moves us in very personal ways. Live music and a cast of five dancers lure us in with personal stories of love, friendship, loss and life, energy and physicality to travel to a more muted and abstract experience that becomes highly intimate. Uplifting and inspiring …in the middle with you makes an emotional poem of the everyday life.

    Hagit Yakira dance is produced by Spin Arts Management and supported by Arts Council England, Laban Theatre, Independent Dance and Greenwich Dance.

    “Her choreography is lined throughout with a warmth and intimacy that radiates into the audience drawing us into these engaging dancers’ eclectic episodes of activity”
    Graham Watts in London Dance.

    www.hagityakira.com
  • Archived Events/ Spring 2015

    3fall Dance

    3fall dance

    2015

    Thu 12 Feb | 7.30pm | Full £8 | Conc £5 | Age 14+

    3Fall are working with three highly-acclaimed choreographers. Stuart Waters, a Northern School of Contemporary Dance graduate, returns to working with 3Fall with an extremely energetic work that will push the dancers to their physical boundaries. Detta Howe, founder of Ginger Dance Company, has taken an improvisational approach to her piece. Water into Water explores her key interests; presence and awareness in performance. Howe states that “this work allows the dancers the freedom to experience themselves in motion”.

    The premise of the work is informed by ideas surrounding water and the self.” Howe’s quirky piece will be performed to the music of Doris Day, promising a thrilling and unpredictable performance.

    Our third choreographer, Ceyda Tanc is working with 3Fall for a second year, re-creating her piece Volta. This piece explores her keen interest in Turkish folk dance.

    BOOK NOW
    www.3falldancecompany.weebly.com