Event Category: Performance
Windows of Displacement by Toussaint To Move
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Issues surrounding migration, home, borders and identity pose some of the biggest questions of our time. Akeim Toussaint Buck addresses these and more in his timely, dance theatre solo show: Windows of Displacement. Through the contextual lens of imperialism, colonialism and global displacement, he weaves a story that speaks to the lived experiences and human… View Article
Making It
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Making It | 5.30-7.00pm Making It features presentations from Ascendance’s performance company (Fuse Dance Collective), Dance United Yorkshire’s Elders Company and Yorkshire Dance’s Company of People alongside a panel discussion. In this session we explore the ambition to create dance work with older adults. We discuss where the lines blur between participatory and professional contexts, what success looks like and how to navigate… View Article
Jérôme Bel
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Jérôme Bel | 7.30-9.30pm One of the most important international dance artists of the past 30 years, French choreographer Jérôme Bel presents a career retrospective he calls “auto-bio-choreo-graphy.” For ecological reasons, Bel no longer travels by plane. Instead, UK-based performer Terry O’Connor of Forced Entertainment plays him, challenging the boundaries between art and interpretation, performance and archive. A blend of… View Article
Wild Hope by TC Howard and Company of People
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Wild Hope by TC Howard and Company of People | 3.30-5.00pm Our wild and untamed Yorkshire landscape, shaped over millennia, with its wide open hills, sweeping moorlands, towering limestone cliffs, valleys, waterfalls and swathes of heather rising from the peat – is a place to feel beautifully insignificant and magnificently connected. Is this where time stands still or is time less easy… View Article
Bird Nerd and the Red List by Marie-Louise Flexen
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Bird Nerd and the Red List by Marie-Louise Flexen | 6.00-7.00pm Come with me, the Bird Nerd, as I encounter the Skylark, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Swifts, and Nightingale — four species of the 73 birds in the UK that are of high conservation concern. Marie-Louise Flexen takes us on a journey into their habitats and behaviours, weaving in… View Article
On the usefulness or futility of looking backwards by Susan Kempster
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On the usefulness or futility of looking backwards by Susan Kempster | 7.30-10.00pm Do you remember when the Sony Walkman happened? Mini, battery-operated cassette players with headphones, which meant you could walk the streets with music playing in your ears. It felt like being in a movie with a soundtrack of your own choosing. Now, it’s no… View Article
SAVE THE DATE | No Dress Code | Scratch Night
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No Dress Codeis our informal scratch night. We welcome you to our studio theatre to watch new dance works-in-progress by dance artists and companies. This is a pay-what -you-can event with a suggested donation of £5.00. Following the performances there will be a chance to share your feedback and insights in a relaxed setting. The… View Article