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Dancelive Festival of Contemporary Dance DanceLive Festival of Contemporary Dance 14th – 25th October 2016 Aberdeen #DanceLive16 dancelivefestival.co.uk EVENTS GUIDE A day-to-day view of the shows throughout DanceLive Friday 14th October Emergence & Sibilo by Scottish Ballet, His Majesty’s Theatre, 7.30pm An Invitation… by Jo Fong, Woodend Barn, 7pm Saturday 15th October Bill & Bobby by Stopgap Dance Company, Bon Accord Shopping Centre, 1pm + 3pm When in Roam by Orphaned Limbs Collective, The Kirk of St Nicholas, 2.30pm THE END by Jack Webb, The Lemon Tree, 7pm Emergence & Sibilo by Scottish Ballet, His Majesty’s Theatre, 7.30pm Sunday 16th October Bill & Bobby by Stopgap Dance Company, Bon Accord Shopping Centre, 12pm + 2pm When in Roam by Orphaned Limbs Collective, The Kirk of St Nicholas, 2.30pm Pitch/You and Me, and You by Skye Reynolds, Rob Heaslip and Laura Murphy (followed by a panel discussion from 8.15pm), The Lemon Tree, 7pm Monday 17th October Experts in Short Trousers by Cultured Mongrel Dance Theatre, The Roof Garden, St Nicholas Shopping Centre, 2pm Grass by Second Hand Dance, Woodend Barn, 12pm + 3pm Tuesday 18th October Experts in Short Trousers by Cultured Mongrel Dance Theatre, Woodend Barn, 12pm + 3pm Plan B for Utopia by Joan Clevillé Dance and Fusion, The Lemon Tree, 7pm Wednesday 19th October Walking the Mat by Citymoves Dance Agency, Aberdeen Health Village, 11am – 3pm If You Want to See Me Once More by Stephen Pelton, The Lemon Tree, 7pm #DanceLive16 dancelivefestival.co.uk T: 01224 641122 Thursday 20th October Approaches to Dance-Making by Citymoves Artists in Residence, Citymoves Studio, 7pm Friday 21st October The Human Clock by Janine Harrington, Bon Accord Shopping Centre, 11am – 4pm Up High by Liminal Dance, Citymoves Studio, 2pm Invisible Lines by Saffy Setohy and Luke Birch, RGU, 3pm + 4pm Leylines by Imogene Newland and Kim Suk-Jun, The Lemon Tree, 7pm Light Field by Saffy Setohy and Bill Thompson, The Kirk of St Nicholas, 8.30pm Saturday 22nd October The Human Clock by Janine Harrington, Bon Accord Shopping Centre, 11am – 4pm Lady Macbeth: Unsex Me Here by Company Chordelia and Solar Bear, The Lemon Tree, 7pm Light Field by Saffy Setohy and Bill Thompson, The Kirk of St Nicholas, 8.30pm Slap and Tickle by Liz Aggiss, Citymoves Studio, 9.30pm Light to Sound Live Session by Bill Thompson, Belmont Filmhouse Café Bar, 10pm Sunday 23rd October The Human Clock by Janine Harrington, Bon Accord Shopping Centre, 12pm – 5pm Exhibition Talkback with Elisabeth Schilling, Belmont Filmhouse Café Bar, 1pm Carry on Dancing PRIME, Quicksilver and Gracenotes, The Lemon Tree, 3pm Monday 24th October Family Matters by KaSt Dance Company, The Lemon Tree, 7pm Tuesday 25th October Triple Bill by Phoenix Dance Theatre, His Majesty’s Theatre, 7.30pm Workshops: The full workshop programme can be found at the end of the brochure. #DanceLive16 dancelivefestival.co.uk T: 01224 641122 DANCELIVE Scotland’s Festival of Contemporary Dance Yellow Satin Shoes, 1960’s © Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums / Aberdeen City Council Welcome to DanceLive 2016! We at Tree, His Majesty’s Theatre and the Kirk of Citymoves Dance Agency are delighted St Nicholas. Hearty thanks go to the sound to present a lively, eclectic mix of dance and Luminate festivals, as we partner on events, performances and insights in a range of events to increase the reach of DanceLive’s 11th year. DanceLive. This year the focus is on Scottish makers We like our audiences to interact, so please and movers including KaSt Dance Company, join us for post-show chats after each Orphaned Limbs Collective and Company Lemon Tree performance. Or enjoy a drink Chordelia. Catch free performances from at our Festival Hub, the Belmont Filmhouse Stopgap and Janine Harrington, and work for bar, where you can take in Elisabeth children from Liminal Dance, Secondhand Schilling’s dance photography exhibition. Dance and Cultured Mongrel Dance Theatre. We look forward to welcoming you to We’ll be opening the Citymoves Studio to what we believe to be a truly diverse and a range of choreographic talents, as well thought-provoking festival. as distinctive performances at The Lemon #DanceLive16 dancelivefestival.co.uk T: 01224 641122 EMERGENCE & SIBILO by Scottish Ballet EXPECT WORLD-CLASS WORK FROM SCOTLAND’S Photo provided by Aberdeen Performing Arts NATIONAL BALLET COMPANY Emergence presents the full company on stage in a Friday 14th October* swarming, insect-like eerie universe with a hypnotic Saturday 15th October electronic score by acclaimed composer Owen His Majesty’s Theatre Belton. Winner of four Dora Movor Awards, this 7.30pm visceral, ambitious piece is the latest offering from choreographer, Crystal Pite. Tickets Sibilo by Sophie Laplane mixes humour with inspiration £19 – £25 from everyday emotions and situations. With original £5 (Student Standby) music by Alex Menzies aka Alex Smoke, the piece demonstrates Laplane’s joyful and unrestricted style in a celebration of the power and versatility of dancers’ *Pre-show talk (6.30pm – 7pm) bodies and of movement in all its forms. Presented in partnership with #DanceLive16 dancelivefestival.co.uk T: 01224 641122 TRIPLE BILL by Phoenix Dance Theatre EXPECT A SHOWCASE OF THREE DIVERSE WORKS TO Photo provided by Aberdeen Performing Arts CELEBRATE PHOENIX’S 35TH BIRTHDAY Come and celebrate 35 years of Phoenix Dance Tuesday 25th October Theatre with three very different works. Shakespeare’s His Majesty’s Theatre timeless themes of desire, duplicity and unrequited love 7.30pm are brought to life in Kate Flatt’s Undivided Loves. Fusing sound, words and dance, Shakespeare’s most intimate, mysterious and radical sonnets are reimagined Tickets to Adriano Adewale’s vibrant and percussive score. £18 – £24 £5 (Student Standby) In contrast, Israeli-born choreographer Itzik Galili reworks his dynamic and dark piece Until.With/Out. Enough, an emotional abstract journey filled with intimacy, athletic power and tension. Presented in partnership with Finally, the quirky and playful Bloom by award-winning choreographer Caroline Finn explores the darkly comic expressions of life and humanity. #DanceLive16 dancelivefestival.co.uk T: 01224 641122 THE END by Jack Webb EXPECT A POWERFUL EXPLORATION OF WHAT Photo by Amy Sinead HAPPENS AT THE END Acclaimed Scottish choreographer Jack Webb and Saturday 15th October a company of three exceptional dancers confront and The Lemon Tree explore the dramatic notion of end points. The end of 7pm the world. The end of life as we know it. The end of good, bad and everything in between. Tickets Extraordinary choreographic style and powerful £11 soundscapes combine for a startlingly thoughtful and £5 (Concessions) compelling experience that looks our very existence straight in the eye. THE END premiered in June this year at Tramway in Glasgow, where Jack is an Associate Artist. Presented in partnership with #DanceLive16 dancelivefestival.co.uk T: 01224 641122 WHEN IN ROAM by Orphaned Limbs Collective EXPECT FRESH AND INNOVATIVE WORK WHICH PUSHES Photo by Galina Walls THE BOUNDARIES When in Roam is a new work by Orphaned Limbs Saturday 15th October Collective which interweaves movement, aerial dance, Sunday 16th October physical theatre, original musical composition and The Kirk of St Nicholas video projection to relate stories of relocation and the 2.30pm impact of living as a roaming being. The project presents how the performers face social Tickets challenges with humour and resilience, presenting £10 cultural discoveries, while co-creating stories with the £5 (Concessions) audience’s own notions of home. Orphaned Limbs Collective is a Scotland-based interdisciplinary artist group founded by choreographer Presented in partnership with Thania Acarón, and Aberdonian composer Ross Whyte. At this venue we advise wearing warm clothing to this event and bringing a rug or blanket. #DanceLive16 dancelivefestival.co.uk T: 01224 641122 PITCH by Skye Reynolds YOU AND ME, AND YOU by Rob Heaslip and Laura Murphy EXPECT A DOUBLE BILL OF FRESH AND EXCITING Photo of Pitch by Lucas Kao CHOREOGRAPHY, EXPLORING HUMAN BEHAVIOUR Pitch is a solo work. A ‘stand up’ dance. It explores Sunday 16th October how to be a woman, how to change the world, and The Lemon Tree how to take a literal and metaphorical stance. Made 7pm in collaboration with Jo Fong and inspired by a conversational form, Pitch exposes a personal story of recognising and becoming, avoiding or taking Tickets action. What remains? What is valid? How can we £11 authentically represent ourselves? £5 (Concessions) You and Me, and You is a new work created and performed by Rob Heaslip and Laura Murphy. Moving Panel discussion following the through a series of misfires and misadventures, performance from 8.15pm the pair of dancers discover that persistence is the Presented in partnership with only inspiration they need. You and Me, and You is accompanied by a live sound score by Irene Buckley and lighting design by Rob Moloney. #DanceLive16 dancelivefestival.co.uk T: 01224 641122 PLAN B FOR UTOPIA by Joan Clevillé Dance EXPECT A JOYFUL FUSION OF THEATRE AND DANCE Photo by Nicole Guarino You have a plan, and then you don’t. You have a Tuesday 18th October dream, and then you wake up. You fall in love, and your The Lemon Tree heart gets broken. The question is: do you pick up the 7pm pieces and try again? Plan B for Utopia is a playful dance theatre work Tickets by Dundee-based company Joan Clevillé Dance. £11 Charismatic performers Solène Weinachter £5 (Concessions) (Scottish Dance Theatre, Gecko) and John Kendall (balletLORENT) explore the notion of utopia and the role that imagination and creativity can play as a driving force for change in our personal and collective lives. Presented in partnership with Fusion, Citymoves’ Youth Dance Company will also perform a new piece, created in residence with Joan Clevillé Dance for DanceLive.
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