Mapdance Tour Pack 2016 - tour

10th Anniversary Tour 2016
Touring and Education Information Pack
Booking now for Feb - June 2016
Performances -Workshops -Residencies -Curtain raisers
www.mapdance.org
mapdance - a summary
“Breakneck energy, ironic vulgarity and voracious vitality”
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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 is celebrating its 10th anniversary
with specially commissioned works and reconstructions of repertoire by
Richard Alston (RADC), Liz Aggiss, Kevin Finnan (Motionhouse), and Israel
Aloni/Lee Brummer (ilDance/Sweden), as well as re-staging Schemes
Dreams and Machines by Abi Mortimer (Lila Dance) from the 2015 tour.
The mixed repertory offers a refreshing mixture of dance theatre, intricate
lyrical choreography, fast-paced athleticism and wry humour. It is a
programme that will appeal to both seasoned dance viewers and
audiences new to dance and is of particular relevance to dance
students at GCSE, BTEC and A-level.
In addition to the performance programme, mapdance also offers a
range of educational work including residencies, one-off workshops and
the opportunity for young people to perform alongside the company,
opening the show with a specially created ‘curtain raiser’ – guaranteed
to bring an audience of friends and family.
Contact
For booking, availability, fees and any further information regarding
performances and residencies please contact:
Libby Battaglia
[email protected]
Tel: +44 (0)7867 721 233
mapdance - the details
Celebrating the company’s 10th Anniversary and following an intensive
2015 tour, mapdance, University of Chichester’s MA student performance
company is offering its 2016 production. Touring nationally and
internationally from Feb to June 2016 the company will be commissioning
works from:
Richard Alston (Richard Alston Dance Company)
Liz Aggiss
Kevin Finnan (Motionhouse)
Israel Aloni/Lee Brummer (ilDance/Sweden)
The company will also re-stage Schemes Dreams and Machines by
Abi Mortimer (Lila Dance) from the 2015 tour.
Ranging in style and emotion, mapdance’s programme offers a diverse
and refreshing evening of short dance works. mapdance is jointly
directed by Jerwood Award Winner, Yael Flexer (Flexer & Sandiland),
and Detta Howe. The company adopts a broad approach to dance
making and performance by working with established artists as well as
young choreographers. Past mapdance commissions include works by
British choreographers Nigel Charnock, Shobana Jeyasingh, New Art
Club, Ben Wright, Laila Diallo, Rick Nodine and Jonathan Burrow among
others as well as new work and reconstructions by international
choreographers Lucinda Childs (USA), DedaDance (Germany/Israel),
Ofra Idel (Machol Shalem/Israel) and Gregory Maqoma (South Africa).
The company is keen to work in partnership with venues, festivals and
promoters, creating special events and participatory educational and
performance projects.
The young dancers of mapdance are recruited nationally and
internationally, bringing an invigorating mixture of high quality dance
experience to the company. Over the years the company has included
dancers from Taiwan, Japan, China, Canada, U.S.A., Romania, Estonia,
Cyprus, Italy, Norway, Germany and Malta alongside dancers from
across the United Kingdom. The growing reputation of mapdance has
led to increased competition for places in the 2016 company.
Alongside touring, mapdance also offers tailor-made educational
residencies, delivering one-off workshops, creating dedicated
choreographic projects or making short ‘curtain raisers’ with participants
to complement the touring programme. All workshops and residencies
are led by the members of the company.
Guest Choreographers & Works - 2016
RICHARD ALSTON/ MARTIN LAWRANCE- Roughcut (1990)
Richard Alston’s rehearsal director and associate choreographer Martin
Lawrance will be re-staging Alston’s renowned work Roughcut (1990).
First performed by Rambert Dance Company and later by the Richard
Alston Dance Company in 1999 the work was made to celebrate the
energy and exuberance of Rambert’s young dancers at the time and
has therefore been specially selected to celebrate mapdance’s 10th
anniversary. The throw-away energy of the movement is anchored by a
very specific use of the body’s weight and pull and this emphasis
articulates and syncopates the music’s intricate rhythmic impulses.
Richard Alston choreographed his first work in 1968, as a student of the
newly formed London Contemporary Dance School. In 1972, he formed
the UK’s first independent dance group Strider. In 1975 Alston went to
New York to study at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio and in 1980
became Resident Choreographer with Ballet Rambert, and was Artistic
Director from 1986 until 1992. Alston became Artistic Director of The Place
in 1994 and formed Richard Alston Dance Company in the autumn of
that year. Over the past 20 years he has made over 40 dances for this
company.
Alston is an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy (in Dance) at Surrey University,
and received an Honorary MA from University College Chichester. In
1995 he was named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in
France and in 2001 he received the CBE in the New Year Honours list. In
2008 he received, from the Critics Circle National Dance Awards, the De
Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement.
Martin was born in Leicester. He trained at Coventry Centre for the
Performing Arts and then at London Contemporary Dance School. He
first worked with Richard Alston whilst performing with the postgraduate
performance group 4D. He danced with Richard Alston Dance
Company from 1995 - 2007 having over 25 works created on him. In 2000,
Martin was invited by Meltdown Festival director and composer Scott
Walker to make Thimble Rigging to an original score. In June 2003, Martin
presented a full evening of his work at The Place, and in 2004 Charge
was commissioned for The Place Prize.
Creations for RADC: About Face, Brink, Stealing Poison, Body & Soul, To
Dance and Skylark, Lie of the Land, Other Than I, Madcap, Burning. For
Ballet Black: Pendulum, Captured, Limbo. For Scottish Ballet: Run For It,
Dark Full Ride. For Ballet Manilla: Misfit or Maverick, Rebel.
LIZ AGGISS - Face the Music ...........There May be Trouble Ahead! (2016)
Celebrating the company’s 10th Anniversary, Liz Aggiss completes the
final part of the trilogy for mapdance. It began in 2008 with Don’t Put
Your Daughter on the Stage. It segued in 2014 into Cut with the Kitchen
Knife. This new work for 2016 gathers up momentum to complete
unfinished business, tie up the loose ends and deliver the final blow.
Always expect the unexpected!
For the past 35 years Liz Aggiss has been devising and touring her work
nationally and internationally; from her early days in the 80’s supporting
punk legends The Stranglers with her cabaret troupe The Wild Wigglers,
to her classic solo Grotesque Dancer (1986), to her award winning dance
film Motion Control (2002), to her unconventional performance lecture
Survival Tactics (2010), and cross disciplinary performance The English
Channel (2014). Framed by contextual research that uses the personal
and historical as reference, her performances have a distinctive
expressive, grotesque, British music hall movement style, and integrate
text, film and humour. Her work embodies feminist dance practices and
resists the ‘authority of formal conventions. Liz Aggiss has received
numerous awards, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Brighton and
has an Honorary Doctor from the University of Gothenburg.
KEVIN FINNAN
Kevin Finnan will be making a specially commissioned new work for
mapdance 2016. He is interested in the use of spectacle in movement
and creates work that is dynamically engaging and emotionally driven.
Kevin Finnan is known for his trademark approach that integrates
elements of circus and acrobatics with contact choreography to create
the distinctive style that Motionhouse is renowned for.
Kevin is founder and Artistic Director of Motionhouse and choreographer
and movement director for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012
Paralympic Games. He was made an MBE in 2013 for his services to
dance – a sector he has been contributing to since creating
Motionhouse with Louise Richards in 1988.
Finnan is also renowned for questioning the traditional use of
performance space, with his creation of extraordinary dance spectacles
including his work with JCB diggers and dancers, performances at
heritage sites, on beaches and in disused buildings, outdoor shows and
bespoke events for cultural capital celebrations in Copenhagen and
Marseille-Provence. In 2012 he collaborated with Legs On The Wall for
the large-scale outdoor performance, The Voyage.
Finnan has an MA in Contemporary Performing Arts, a PhD in Theatre
from Warwick University where is also a Research Fellow and is Associate
Artist of Greenwich+Docklands International Festival.
ABI MORTIMER - Schemes, Dreams and Machines (2015)
Inspired by the sketches, inventions, architecture and artistry of Leonardo
da Vinci, Schemes, Dreams and Machines captures the sensation of time
and movement within his paintings and ‘zooms in’ to the details of
individual relationships.
Abi co-founded Lila Dance in 2006, and received arts council funding to
direct 7 works on the company, completing 2 tours including national
and international venues and festivals. She received choreographic
mentorship from Hofesh Shechter and amongst others has danced for
Yael Flexer, Charlie Morrissey and Detta Howe. She has established
collaborations with a range of international artists from various disciplines
including Simona Bertozzi (Italy), Jon Maya (Spain), International
puppetry company Blind Summit and sound artist Robert Jarvis. Abi is a
senior lecturer at The University of Chichester and regularly produces
commissions for participants of all ages and abilities. She is also the
choreographer for the current AQA GCSE set study.
Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer
Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer are international independent
choreographers, dance educators and guest performers. Aloni's broad
eclectic past includes working with choreographers such as Mats Ek, Stijn
Celis and Wim Vandekeybus during his time at Göteborgs Operans
Danskompani and later he joined Sasha Waltz and guests in Berlin on the
creation process of Sacre and Faun.
Brummer has worked with the Bat Dor dance company and Emanuel
Gat Dance company both in Israel. She frequently guest teaches in
companies such as DV8, Australian dance theatre and National dance
company Wales.
Brummer and Aloni are the founders and directors of ilDance, an
international and independent contemporary dance company and
production collective based in Gothenburg, Sweden.
They choreograph and create work both together and individually for
ilDance and for other dance companies around the world. Both find
great inspiration in humanity, psychology and physicality when creating
work, their original and specific moment language enhances the
communicative element in their work.
Publicity
University of Chichester will provide brochure images, A3 posters and A5
leaflets to publicise the touring show along with a press release.
The company will work together with venues on audience development
that is linked to education work.
The company has a dedicated website and Facebook page listing
performances
www.mapdance.org
https://www.facebook.com/mapdance2015?fref=ts
In addition The University of Chichester has both a Facebook and Twitter
feed publicising company performances.
Technical Information
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The company tours with its own lighting and sound technician.
Minimum clear performance space required 8m x 8m.
Get-in on the same day of the performance.
15 people on the road including technician and director
Further technical information can be provided on request
Duration: The performance is approximately 1 hour or 1.15, plus
interval
Fees
Our fees are negotiable but as a guide our performance fee is in the
region of £800. Please call to discuss your requirements.
For the cost of educational work with a performance refer to following
section.
mapdance 2016 Education and Community work
mapdance offers a tailor-made educational programme delivering half
day and full day one-off workshops or longer-term residencies.
Workshops are based on the company repertoire, giving participants an
insight into the choreographic process. Longer-term residencies can
involve creating dedicated choreographic projects or short ‘curtain
raisers’ with participants to complement the touring programme.
All workshops and residencies are led by the members of the company,
enabling participants to also gain an insight into the dancers training
and experience.
Content
The education programme is based on the company’s repertoire and is
particularly suitable for students from year 7 upwards, through Key Stages
3 and 4, further education, to adult groups with dance experience. All
workshops will include contemporary dance technique and creative
tasks based on the ideas and movement style of the performance,
although specific requests for content will be considered. For younger
students the company can offer tailor- made workshops involving
creative ideas that could be based on the Key Stage 1 or 2 curriculums.
Requirements
Participants: Ideally 25, but a maximum of 30 in a session, dressed
suitably.
Space: Clear space with a floor suitable for dance (not carpeted) and a
CD player, ideally with suitable connections for an mp3 player.
Staffing: A member of teaching staff must meet the company and be
present throughout each workshop, plus any specific additional staff
support normally made available for students with special educational
needs.
Workshop Options
Half-Day Workshop: 2 - 2.5 hour session (3 dancers)
This will begin with a thorough warm up followed by a creative workshop
using ideas from one of the pieces of repertory. Students will have the
opportunity to gain a much greater insight into the work of one of the
choreographers whilst developing technical, expressive and
performance skills.
Full Day Workshop: 2 x 2 - 2.5 hour sessions (3-6 dancers)
For a day-long workshop you can choose from:
Option 1: The dancers work with one group of participants for the whole
day. In the morning they will work on an extended technique class. This
will be in a contemporary dance style or could be an exploratory
contact improvisation session. The afternoon will be devoted to exploring
one piece of the repertory.
Option 2: The dancers work with two different groups of participants.
Each group will either undertake a technique/Improvisation/contact
class followed by a brief exploration or phrase of material from the
repertory OR a shorter warm up/technique class followed by repertory
3 Day Residency / Curtain Raiser
(3-6 dancers):
The purpose of a longer residency
experience is to enable participants to
develop further their creative and
choreographic skills. This might culminate in a
whole school performance or a curtain
raiser, opening the show at the start of one of
the company’s local performances. This
choice allows participants to gain a much
greater insight into what it is like to work as a
dancer in a company and performing in a
theatre.
Fees
All our fees are fully negotiable – please call Libby Battaglia to discuss
options. The following is a guide:
Performance & half day workshop £850
Performance & full-day workshop £900
Performance & 3 day residency £1250
Individually priced at:
Performance £800
Half day workshop £200
Full day workshop £325
3 day residency / create curtain raiser £550
Notes
mapdance reserves the right to make additional charges where
particular requirements need considerable additional preparation.
mapdance will also ask for a contribution towards travel costs (and
accommodation if required), when the students are required to travel for
two or three consecutive days for workshops not on performance days
that are more than 50 miles from Chichester.
If the host is able to provide suitable accommodation, the performance
fee will be reduced to £600 (Please contact the company for details of
the number of rooms required).
Contact
For booking, availability, fees and any
further information regarding performances
and residencies please contact:
Libby Battaglia
[email protected]
Tel: +44 (0)7867 721 233