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  • Archived Events/ Spring 2020

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    Mapdance 2019/20

    THU 5 MAR 2020 | Full £12 Conc £8 | 7.30pm |AGE 16 +

    mapdance 2020 offers an enticingly varied set of exciting new works by renowned and upcoming international contemporary choreographers. The gratifying roster of new artists this year includes Gary Clarke, Ceyda Tanc and Noa Shadur plus the revival of Inside the Animal by Jose Agudo from the 2018 tour.

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    mapdance, the University of Chichester’s MA touring company, is an established group of dynamic young dancers recruited and touring nationally and internationally. Their diverse repertoire offers audiences a refreshing mixture of gritty dance-theatre, wry humour, and both intricate and questioning choreography. It is a programme that will appeal to both seasoned dance viewers and audiences new to dance.

    ‘… leaping and turning in zesty spurts with an insouciance that leaves nothing to chance’

    Donald Hutera (2016)

    ‘Agudo’s Inside The Animal delved even deeper into the existential swamp with a contemplation on reflexes and instincts that truly underscored how little human nature has changed during the so-called ascent of Man.’           

    Miles Hedley (2019).

    Image credit – Toni Nandi

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2019

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    2019

    Thu 21 Mar 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 12+

    mapdance is an established exciting company of young, dynamic dancers recruited nationally and internationally. mapdance performs diverse repertoire by renowned and upcoming contemporary choreographers.

    This year the company has commissioned new works by Anthony Missen (Company Chameleon), Didy Veldman, Jose Agudo as well as a re-staging of Liz Aggiss’s History Repeating … created especially for mapdance. The mixed repertory offers a refreshing mixture of dance theatre, intricate lyrical choreography, fast-paced athleticism and wry humour.

    “Leaping and turning in zesty spurts with an insouciance that leaves nothing to chance”
    Donald Hutera (2016)

    Image credits: Rachel Cherry
  • Archived Events/ Spring 2018

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    mapdance 2018

    2018

    Thu 26 Apr | 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 15+

    3fall 2018mapdance offers an enticingly varied set of exciting commissions of new works by renowned and upcoming international contemporary choreographers. The gratifying roster of artists this year includes Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor (Israel), Laila Diallo (UK), Laura Aris Alvarez (Belgium/Spain) & Helen Parlor (UK).

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  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2017

    Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor

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    Two Room Apartment

    THU 12 OCT | Full £10 Conc £6 | 7.30pm | AGE 15 plus

    Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor by gadi dagonTwo Room Apartment brings Sheinfeld & Laor to the stage for a duet that reflects on their relationship as partners in life and as creators. Both personal and political, the work examines boundaries in various contexts: physical borders such as between territories or between two rooms, but also non-physical borders, such as the one between life and performance, and the boundaries that the individual sets for himself. The work uses a simple dance language and a minimalist aesthetic, and explores the notion of life as a framework in which a precise, almost compulsive repetition of customs and behaviours takes place.

    The work suggests a re-imagining of the original performance created by Liat Dror and Nir Ben Gal that premiered in 1987 in Tel-Aviv. It is considered a milestone in the development of independent Israeli choreography.

    Everything is open, accessible. Niv and Oren imbued the work with their intimate relationship and emotions, and the result is fascinating.
    Ora Brafman, Dance Talk

    Image Credit – Gadi Dagon
  • Archived Events/ Spring 2016

    Mapdance 2016

    mapdance 2016

    10th Anniversary

    THU 28 APR | Full £10 Conc £6 | 7.30pm | AGE 13 Plus

    mapdance celebrates its 10th anniversary with an enticingly varied set of exciting commissions of new works and reconstructions by renowned and upcoming international contemporary choreographers.  The gratifyingly varied roster of artists includes Kevin Finan (Motionhouse), the wacky maverick Liz Aggiss, Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer (ilDance- Sweden).

    The company will also restage Richard Alston’s vibrant, evergreen Roughcut (1990) as well as Abi (Lila Dance) Mortimer’s elegant, Leonardo-inspired  Schemes, Dreams and Machines from mapdance’s 2015 tour. The University of Chichester’s MA touring company is an established group of dynamic young dancers recruited nationally and internationally. Their richly diverse repertoire offers audiences a refreshing mixture of gritty dance-theatre, wry humour, and intricate and questioning choreography.

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    Happy birthday, mapdance!

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  • Archived Events/ Spring 2015

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    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.

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