Dance Talk

A round up of pre/post performance talks in conjunction with dance performances around the capital, including some specially scheduled events, seminars and conferences.

London Ballet Circle, Edward Watson
6 September, 7.30pm. Waterstone's Piccadilly, 203-205 Piccadilly, London W1.
Information: info@londonballetcircle.co.uk
Edward Watson, principal with The Royal Ballet, will be the guest of The London Ballet Circle
Cost: £3 for members, £6 for guests
www.londonballetcircle.co.uk

Shoes. Post-show talk
9 September 2010, Sadler's Wells. Box office: 0844 412 4300
Free post performance talk on Thursday 9 September.
British Sign Language interpreted by Wendy Davidson.
Sadler's Wells

London Ballet Circle, Wayne Eagling
13 September, 7.30pm. Waterstone's Piccadilly, 203-205 Piccadilly, London W1
Information: info@londonballetcircle.co.uk
The London Ballet Circle will welcome Wayne Eagling, Artistic Director of English National Ballet, on Monday, September 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Waterstone's Piccadilly.
Cost: £3 for members, £6 for guests
www.londonballetcircle.co.uk

Candoco Open Space
Wednesday 15 September 2010
10am - 4pm
Laban Centre London
www.laban.org
Are you interested in a cultural shift around dance and disability? How can we all work together to promote inclusivity, excellence and best practice in dance?
Please come and join Candoco Dance Company for an open space event - a day of discussions led by your thoughts and priorities in relation to creating a more inclusive dance sector.
Facilitated by Jo Verrent of ADA inc.
This event forms part of Candoco's current nine-month organisational development project which has been supported by Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts.
Attendance at the event is free, but spaces are limited. To find out more, or to reserve a place please email joanne@candoco.co.uk or call +44 207 704 6845.
www.candoco.co.uk

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Post-show talk
16 September. Sadler's Wells. Box office: 0844 412 4300
Free post-show talk in the Sadler's Wells auditorium on Thursday 16 Sep.
Sadler's Wells

Crossing Borders talk series 2010
28 September to 23 November (no session on 26 Oct or 2 Nov)
Tuesdays 7-8:30pm
Independent Dance, Siobhan Davies Studios, 85 St George's Road, SE1
Tel: 020 7091 9650. Email: info@independentdance.co.uk
Independent Dance presents a series of conversations with artists from within and outside dance, whose particular practice has led them in interesting directions beyond geographic or artform boundaries.
Price rate: Concessions - £3 per talk or £15 for full series / Full price - £5 per talk or £20 for full series
28 Sep - What if... Curating Artists - The Moving Image
5 Oct - Barak Marshall *
12 Oct - Lauren Potter and Scott Smith - The Performers' Perspective
19 Oct - Ros Warby *
26 Oct - No Session
2 Nov - No Session
9 Nov - Siobhan Davies in conversation with a collaborator on ROTOR
16 Nov - Scott deLaHunta and Random's Choreographic Thinking Tools Project
23 Nov - Miranda Pennell film-maker and anthropologist Dr Massimiliano Mollona
* Artists performing as part of Dance Umbrella
www.independentdance.co.uk

Russell Maliphant Company, Post-show talk
29 September. Sadler's Wells. Box office: 0844 412 4300
Free post-show talk in the auditorium by Russell Maliphant, Michael Hulls, and Daniel Proietto.
Russell Maliphant presents a new full evening of work titled AfterLight, which contains the solo AfterLight (Part One) - shown at Sadler's Wells in October 2009 as part of In the Spirit of Diaghilev. The 15 minute solo, has now been developed into a full-length piece for three dancers.
Sadler's Wells

Trisha Brown in Focus, A Feeling for Practice
16 October, 1.30pm. Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
Box office: 0844 412 4312. Tickets: £7 (concs 50% off - limited availability)
This year Trisha Brown will give the public an insight into her current artistic preoccupations, which embrace visual art and opera as well as dance. This presentation will expand audiences' appreciation of Brown's achievements and illuminate certain aspects of her working practice.
Dance Umbrella

Candoco Dance Company, Curiosity, Choice, Challenge and Change
For more information or to book a space for any or all of the events contact luke@candoco.co.uk or louise@candoco.co.uk
A series of debates and discussions initiated by Candoco Dance Company as they embark on 9 months of research towards a cultural shift around dance and disability in the UK.
Choice - What do you want to make and where do you put it?
18 October 11am-5.30pm, Southbank Centre
A day for integrated and inclusive dance companies, disabled dancers and artists to discuss the practicalities of creating dance as a product for performance. Exploring issues about the kind of work you make and how this relates to where you can present it. Speakers include: Vicki Balaam - Artistic Director StopGAP Dance Company, Caroline Bowditch - Scottish Dance Theatre's Dance Agent for Change, Kiki Gale - Artistic Director East London Dance, Stine Nilsen - Co-Artistic Director Candoco Dance Company.
Candoco Dance Company

Candoco Dance Company, Curiosity, Choice, Challenge and Change
For more information or to book a space for any or all of the events contact luke@candoco.co.uk or louise@candoco.co.uk
A series of debates and discussions initiated by Candoco Dance Company as they embark on 9 months of research towards a cultural shift around dance and disability in the UK.
Challenge - Progress on the main stage? 18 October 6.30pm-8pm, Southbank Centre
How much progress has there really been on the main stage for disabled dancers, dance artists and choreographers? Speakers include: Caroline Bowditch - Scottish Dance Theatre's Dance Agent for Change, Martin Hargreaves - Dance Theatre Journal, Mat Fraser - Writer & Actor, Eva Martinez - Programmer Dance & Performance Southbank Centre, Betsy Gregory - Artistic Director of Dance Umbrella Festival and Stine Nilsen - Co-Artistic Director Candoco Dance Company
Candoco Dance Company

Choreographers Discuss Their Practice, Spectacular Simplicity
20 October, 4pm. The Place: Founder's Studio
Box office: 0844 412 4312. Tickets: £7 (concs 50% off - limited availability)
Nacera Belaza, Jonathan Burrows, Charles Linehan and Ros Warby in conversation with Rosemary Butcher, Ramsay Burt, Eckhard Thiemann and others.
Discussing minimalism as a choreographic approach rather than style, Spectacular Simplicity explores the reasons and methods which these choreographers use to bring out the essential. The innovations of Trisha Brown and her Judson Dance Theater colleagues (including Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Deborah Hay and David Gordon), form a starting point for the speakers to investigate the role of reduction and elimination in choreographic practice today.
Dance Umbrella

Candoco Dance Company, Curiosity, Choice, Challenge and Change
For more information or to book a space for any or all of the events contact luke@candoco.co.uk or louise@candoco.co.uk
A series of debates and discussions initiated by Candoco Dance Company as they embark on 9 months of research towards a cultural shift around dance and disability in the UK.
Change - Working with Disabled Dancers. 19 November 5pm-7pm, Blue Coat Arts Centre
Join Heidi Latsky's Project GIMP and Candoco Dance Company as they get into the debate about a changing aesthetic and changing preconceptions about who can dance professionally.Where are all the disabled dancers? Where do disabled dancers train? Can disabled dancers be replaced by other disabled or non-disabled dancers? Taking these questions as a starting point, this lively conversation aims to dig a bit deeper into why we don't see more disabled dancers on stage. Speakers include Heidi Latsky and dancers from Project GIMP and Stine Nilsen, Co-Artistic Director Candoco Dance Company
Candoco Dance Company

National Resource Centre for Dance
University of Surrey lists conferences and short courses in the UK and overseas.
www.surrey.ac.uk

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