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Claire Hicks, Producer at Dance4, invites you to join the team for the 21st anniversary festival, with some ideas on how to make the most of

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Welcome to the 21st Nottdance Festival! There is a buzz across the MEET THE TEAM city and beyond as Dance4, our partner venues and a host of artists from across the world, launch into three weeks of exhilarating dance It takes a dedicated bunch to make Nottdance a reality; with and performance. their dancing shoes definitely on, here they are,

In this second edition of our newspaper you’ll find, along with a full Assistant Producer Linzi Gibbs relaxes to the Highness Sound events listing and all the info you need to book tickets and find the System, Vikki Oldham will bop to cheesy pop, whilst Mat Trivet venues, a week by week insight into some of the approaches, issues prefers the driving rhythm of Soca and Sarah Maguire, Project and content of the different festival activities. We’ve also tried to Co-ordinator, beats her own path to an indie drum. Nottdance include some more images to whet your appetite, and to help you find intern Katie Shipp is a Stealth dancer, Radojka Radulovic funks it your festival spirit some suggestions for ways to spend 48 hours with up, Ben Eagles, Marketing and Events Assistant, favours some- us at Nottdance and in the city. thing to get down and dirty with. When not administrating Robin Grace is a strutting Rock God, no really, and David Bowley drops It seems not so long ago that Dance4’s director Paul and I sat down to in for the loudest and sleekest of Techno. In the marketing team find it, talk about our 21st birthday festival and to share some of the ideas we Sally Hodgson struts her stuff to Northern Soul, Laura-Mae had about how to celebrate. Since then there have been lots of shows Brown jumps around to house, electronica, drum n bass (she to see, artists to talk to, partners to plan with and details to pin down. has been known to dance to a ceilidh band), designers Joff and Ollie can be found to tap a toe to La Revolucion del cuerpo Pt.1 Along the way I’ve had great fun in choosing some brilliant shows for Skinners Owiney Sigoma Mix, from Havana Cultura. The Youth you, including UK premieres by Ali Fekih and Unusual Symptoms. I’ve Dance team flies a different flag Jenny Gilbert-Scott grooves and feed it, been working with artists like Rajni Shah, Wendy Houstoun, Tom Dale moves to progressive metal, Kirsten Jeavons finds RnB twirls and and our ‘super’ associate Matthias Sperling to bring brand new, never enthrals her and CAT manager Hayley Arthur says soul music seen before performances to the festival, as well as Charles Linehan is purr-fect to dance to. Let’s Dance sings David Bowie and our to invite two of his favourite artists (Iztoc Kov ˘ac and Dog Kennel Hill General Manager Rachel Emmett obliges, Chief Executive and Project) to join us. And the whole team have telephoned, emailed, Artisitc Director Paul Russ attempts to throw some shapes to lift it. researched, booked and organised themselves crazy. 80s classics (not all of them hip-hop), and Producer Claire Hicks hopes to flail about wildly in the back room of The Maze soon. So now you get to share this excitement with us, get the chance to see some amazing work and to meet the fantastic artists who make spiritnottingham.com this festival what it is. Here’s a taste of what is going to be a feast of a festival. 4 5

ur first port of call is body and mind relate. Might dance the thoughts and feelings of the Me and The Machine, performance be a unique kind of op- community that have helped to a live art duo based portunity for seeing the embodied make it. Glorious is the third part in Brighton. When mind in action? What approaches of a trilogy that questions cultural OWe Meet Again is, they say, best might support that, and what are identity. Following parts one and described as a ‘wearable film’; an the limitations of it? I’m convinced two; Mr Quiver and Dinner with interactive one-to-one using a pair that wearing lycra and a cape is the America, Glorious is a haunting musi- When We Meet Again from of goggles and a headset to transport first step to finding out.” cal exploring the space between Me and The Machine will be the viewer to a world of memories, identity and country, fear and hope. performed for one person at a forgotten dance, the ocean and an Whilst Matthias’ performance may It is a response to a national feeling a time and lasts approximately invisible friend. be playful, his intent is of course of apprehension about the future ten minutes. There are a serious. Along with many other and a sense that we can’t really limited number of performance Me and The Machine create work choreographers in the festival he is make a difference. slots over two days. inspired by the human experience keen to explore our understand- of self and surroundings, creating ing of the world we live in and to Through Glorious Rajni wanted to Friday 25 February works that play tricks on the mind use the unique qualities of dance create something beautiful and 4pm – 7pm and submerge the audience into to express this. How can the body, accessible, that lots of people could and 8.30pm –11.30pm false realities. The company use the space we place it in and the way be involved in. Musicals, like those technological gadgets as the tool to these things interact help us to gain found in the West End, present Saturday 26 February explore these concepts, to create a different insight into the human utopias, dystopias and everything in 11.30am – 2.30pm an experience of sight, sound, taste and social condition? between in an easily accessible art and 4pm – 7pm and texture in order to immerse form that speaks to everyone. By the viewer so deeply that they walk Colette Sadler’s Musical, contrary using the medium of a musical Rajni Playhouse, Studio the line between audience and to what the name may imply, is not hopes to do just that. To speak to £5 performer. The use of technology a musical at all. In fact it, “maybe the audience, alleviate their fears Book via is integral to the company’s work even more a sound work than a and allow them comfort in the as it provides an environment that dance piece” according to Colette. knowledge that we are all experi- 0115 941 9419 could not be achieved by any other Even though music was the starting encing the same fears and feelings. performance form. point for the work Colette never Saturday 26 February wanted to work with a soundtrack, “I want to explore the sense of Rajni Shah Projects: Glorious When We Meet Again was born more to use music as an inspiration not knowing that pervades Europe Nottingham Arts Theatre, NOT(T) WHAT out of research for the company’s to create a score using sounds cre- today, both the fear and the space 7.30pm earlier works Don’t and Treat Me ated by the performers themselves for hope that has emerged as a £10/£7 Like You Do. The two works inves- and their actions on stage. result of our increased awareness tigate the idea of an onscreen body of climate change, shifts in border Sunday 27 February as an extension of the physical body, Colette cites her interest in the policies and the dramatic impact Me and The Machine will YOU EXPECTED? Don’t by challenging the passive Brittania Music Hall in her home- of the financial collapse. I cannot be sharing a new work-in- role of a film viewer by presenting town of Glasgow as the starting think of a more appropriate or progress: a ‘live movie’ where the viewer is point for Musical. Now a bingo hall, interesting form for this than the Looking Holes: the main and only character, and she first ventured into the Brit- musical, a form that immediately On Ways To Disappear Without Treat Me Like You Do by supplying tania Music Hall after hearing the communicates with a vast number Leaving A Trace disembodied pairs of arms for the machine-like voice of the caller. of people.” Rajni Shah Dance4 Studio, Nottingham bodies of the audience members, Colette became interested in the 12pm – 5pm creating a bridge between reality building’s heritage and history as Created by the community, for Free, no ticket required and fiction, image and physicality. a ‘pleasure palace for the working the community, Glorious will be This idea of extension allows view- classes, that presented an exhibition reinvented for each of its per- Sunday 27 February ers of When We Meet Again to move of exotic, humorous and bizarre formance locations. The preview Colette Sadler: Musical or 21 years Dance4 has through subways and sit by the sea, human and non-human entertain- during Nottdance is the first chance Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside Fdeveloped and programmed all without leaving the safety of the ments’. This Victorian fascination to catch Glorious, before it heads to Arts Centre, Nottingham performance space. with the weird and the wonderfully the Barbican for its official pre- 8pm work by artists from across wacky has evolved into a modern miere in April. £12/£9 the globe; their work has been While Me and The Machine is day obsession, perpetuated by a exploring the connection between never-ending barrage of reality TV A chance to be part of the work Tuesday 1 March complex and creative, playful and what is real and what is not, Dance4 and weekly magazines. itself, to celebrate the performance Double Bill provocative. But where does the Associate Artist Matthias Sperling of the everyday and the special Matthias Sperling & Rachel and dancer Rachel Krische have Colette professes that Musical talents and moments that make the Krische: Superdance inspiration for this work come been delving head first into the is about entertainment and self world what it is? Is this what you CoisCéim Dance Theatre: from? And how do they grow into understanding of the relationship amusement, though not entertain- can expect from the festival? It’s a Swimming With My Mother between body and mind, using the ing per se - so mundane actions good starting point, so welcome to Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside fully formed pieces of dance (or unexpected tool of superpowers. Su- (such as those usually performed the festival, get yourself a ticket and Arts Centre, Nottingham Nottdance)? We spoke to four perdance sees them donning super- whilst on-hold on a call or waiting come and see for yourself. 8pm hero lycra in order to grapple with at a bus stop) become the means £12/£9 of this year’s Nottdance Festival the mind’s role in breathing life into to create a piece of music. Four dance performance and to propose performers presenting Oh! What A Book via Nottingham artists and asked how they have that all performers are superheroes. Beautiful Morning using upside-down Playhouse on 0115 941 9419 or been inspired to create work What might a dancer’s superpower tongues is a nod to this ability to online www.dance4.co.uk. be? Matthias explains, “I’m interest- turn the human body into a fasci- featured in the festival. ed in rethinking my expectations of nating musical instrument. dance and choreography in light of

Superdance, Matthias Sperling and Rachel Krische. Credit Neil Wissink some of the rapidly expanding scien- Ironically, Rajni Shah’s Glorious really tific knowledge about the way that is a musical and one that reflects 7 Anyone who has been in the audience at a Nottdance Festival performance over the past 21 years may well have leaned over to the person sat next to them and whispered “Is this actually dance?”

s its name suggests some of Miguel Pereira’s 8th May 2003, dance and disco from a young age, With such a varied programme there the dance presented within Lakeside Art Centre, a piece that saw creates a wonderfully crafted dance. is something for all appetites during the Nottdance Festival is a performance company sitting His work is idiosyncratic, however the festival. For those of you who not (just) dance. Instead around between matinee and evening you can expect to see moving bodies like your dancers to ‘dance’ one of Ait’s work that stretches the art form, performances. No dance steps. Just in space, with a very particular fluid- the shows mentioned here should DANCING BODY challenges perceptions and asks the conversations. She also remembers ity, musicality and beauty. fit the bill. We hope you find the question “Why can’t this be dance?” It La Ribot’s 40 espontáneos (laughter, shows above intensely exciting, but challenges the common ideas of what laughter and more laughter; on stage) Then, how about French choreog- remember you’ll also find a whole dance might be and experiments with and Jonathon Burrows’ Things I don’t rapher Ali Fekih (our now not-so- host of other ‘not-dance’ events that new forms, for example incorporating know, with a vivid memory of Matteo secret show)? A self-taught street you might like to try. live art, music or visual arts practices. Fargion playing cardboard boxes with dancer, he has developed a dance drum sticks… language based, as with many other This year’s festival embraces ‘new choreographers who perform their movements in dance’ and audiences So is that what the festival does, show own work, on the abilities and limita- will have the chance to view work work that you might not consider tions of his body. Ali contracted polio that is widely acknowledged as dance to be dance? Is there a place for the at a young age and this has led him to and some work that challenges the trained body, the aesthetically beauti- develop a distinctive vocabulary, his classical notions of what dance might ful, the musically in-tune, the recognis- own dance language. be. However the key notion centres able? on the idea that all the work included Ali contributes his latest work in the festival comes from a choreo- As well as more obviously challenging Flamingos to the festival programme. graphic perspective. work, this year’s festival also features His crutches (which he uses to aid TOM DALE COMPANY what some may call ‘proper dance’. movement and which almost instigate - I INFINITE So, the big question. “What is dance?” Maybe not your classical notions of a duet in the work) are long and thin, Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 March The dance world has been debating dance or always where you would delicate but robust; like the legs of 8pm this for years, at least since Trisha expect to see dancers, but skilful the beautifully strange flamingo. Ali Brown pushed the limits of what could choreographers nonetheless, along has created a form that relates to his Thursday 3 and Saturday 5 be considered appropriate movement with beautiful performers, presenting body, inventing his own vocabulary March for choreography with her work from innovative, exciting, magical work. has allowed him to communicate 2pm 1970, Man Walking Down the Side of both intellectually and physically Building (does what it says on the tin). Take UK choreographer Tom Dale through his technique. Throughout Djanogly Art Gallery, Judson Dance Theatre, the maverick for instance. His work I infinite is the work, Ali draws parallels with Lakeside Arts Centre dance collective Trisha was part of at described as a study of the science and the flamingo; moving in a sometimes £7 the time and founders of post-modern artistry of movement. Tom deals with awkward, stilted way, a little crooked dance, called this dance. gravity as a fundamental force with but wonderfully exotic and skillfully ALI FEKIH - FLAMINGOS which we collaborate to move. The striking. Saturday 5 March It is interesting to explore the ideas dancer’s performance is unconven- 8pm around notions of virtuosity and the tional, shifting between robotic isola- Of course, we call this dance. This is Lakeside Arts Centre dancing body. For example, is techni- tion and liquid fluidity, yet his company a trained dancer, using his tools (his £12 / £9 cal skill or a body that moves in a very style is often described as beautiful. body), to move. But does this meet particular way (fluid, graceful, rhythmi- Here Tom manages to create illusions our expectations around virtuosity? STREET MARTIAL cal, interpretive) the defining factor in of automation juxtaposed with flashes Does this fit into these accepted Sunday 6 March terms of what is and isn’t considered of an unworldly, but still natural crea- codes? 2pm dance for many dance enthusiasts? ture, opposing dynamics combine to Shopping Centre, produce movement that looks unreal, Not enough…want more dance? Nottingham Looking back over the previous or as though it has been altered in a You got it! Another example of our Free editions of the Nottdance Festival special effects lab. exciting programme can be seen Rachel Emmett (Dance4’s General during Street Martial, the free public THE GUESTS COMPANY Manager), who has been here for 19 This year’s Nottdance Festival also event showcasing at Westfield’s / YUVAL PICK - SCORE of them, is able to share stories of includes the UK premiere of Score Broadmarsh Shopping Centre in experimental works by Jérˆome Bel, from The Guests Company with Nottingham. Dance4 has brought Wednesday 9 March an artist who Nottdance audiences Israeli choreographer Yuval Pick. The together a whole host of very physi- 8pm had the chance to see first in the UK. work explores the multiplication of cal dancers to liven up your sleepy Lakeside Arts Centre, Jérˆome presented a number of works cultures making up Yuval’s world; Sunday afternoon. Nottingham that felt, particularly at the time, very where being confronted by a number Book your place for free then, challenging and exciting, and which are of languages shaped his approach to Kicking off the performance will be Pay What You Think! significant events in the festival’s his- the body, his physicality and his rela- Nottingham’s very own CDO tory, such as The Last Performance and tions to others and to space. Yuval Capoeira group, the event will also Book via Nottingham Shirtology. Jérˆome is now presented designs the concept of space, territory see previously mentioned Ali Fekih Playhouse on 0115 941 9419 throughout the UK. and borders choreographically, where performing an electrifying street or online www.dance4.co.uk. the choreographic language is made up work, alongside a concoction of

Flamingos, Ali Fekih. Credit Sara Iskander Among countless other memorable of what characterises Israel for Yuval. strong, physical and energy-filled pieces of work, Rachel describes Yuval, who started with Israeli folk- dance and all for free, just turn up. 8 9

0 Acts comes from commentaries cut in from the in my memory, they are part of con- its own track without shape and Wendy’s exploration of outside. Things like, ‘more stillness’, tinuity inside my body; all the same form. It wants to endure something a number of ideas in the ‘more shape’ ‘less trying’, ‘more thing. Somewhere inside my body difficult, it seems to have unlimited last few years, from her stillness’. I’m all and none of them. Inside the desire to do, which I know is not at consideration5 of the position she outer appearance is one continu- all the same as doing. finds herself in as an established In performance these adjustments ous body, inside which I am. They maker in a culture dominated by are often articulated in response are me inside of time, or perhaps And at such an inappropriate the new and the ‘emerging’ and to yesterday’s conditions. What escaping time. They are almost moment in my life I don’t know from the wealth of experience follows is a lurch from one inept memorable because, at their best whether to follow it or tell it to that she brings out of her own performance to another, until after they exist outside memory like the shut up. This makes me realise I am work and the collaborations maybe 25 renditions of inappropri- wordless place of a fall off a ladder not my body. she has been involved in. Here ate choices something settles into or a jump. The word jump is not a we present some of Wendy’s a place of stability. A place where jump and, happily, never will be. I am somewhere else listening to it, reflections on her work, edited maybe what I feel finally meets how not watching it but noticing it. Per- from a larger essay. I appear? Where internal and exter- I am not my body. haps I am beginning to become the nal commentaries find agreement. commentaries I have listened to all A lot of my moving and dancing life This inside out stuff, the word stuff, my life? Perhaps wisdom is the de- is beyond words. As soon as words One thing I have noticed in moving the multiple and singular stuff is all tachment from the body into some start piping up, the body and its and performing is that the more in- beginning to collide with age. With other place. Where, I don’t know. experience has a tendency to slip visible and intangible I feel myself to age something very odd is starting In some ways, it still feels the same out of view and this is, for me, as it be, the more resonant the response to happen. The commentaries are as it ever did. Multiple and singular, should be. from outside is. Is the ultimate aim changing. Or more to the point possibly heading for the delirious, emptiness? Not sure. they are disappearing. There seems wordless freedom of emptiness. My strongest impressions of moving to be an absence of language about coincide with memory and language But I think this stuff has to do with witnessing age in the body. Maybe This article is an edited and shortened disappearing. The briefest of mo- inside and outside and its what the fear? Maybe denial? I’m not sure version of a full length article written ments seem to take a long time and body is always up against. what it is. for Performance Perspectives: A Critical all the other stuff that exists has led Introduction - Pitches & Popat (2011) up to or away from those moments. A SOMEBODY OR A NOBODY? Whatever it is, external commen- - Palgrave The other stuff does, though, con- In dance/theatre pieces I’ve taken taries are thin on the ground and sist very much of language. the role of worker (in the Karen I have a suspicion the discrepancy Silkwood Story), punk, butterfly, is starting to increase the gap be- WHOSE BODY? turtle, cheerleader, Neanderthal, tween how a move feels to do and I learnt very early on in dance train- bar maid, crime victim, clairvoyant, what it looks like. ing that how I feel is not necessarily principal boy, magician’s assistant, how I look and the journey through the back half of a camel, baby, And so this thing I have spent a movement and performance prac- soldier in a war, dancer who fights lifetime working at, balancing the tises has been a process of aligning against injustice, celebrity and inside with the outside, is becoming WENDY HOUSTOUN my own internal perception with drinker. And now and then, a body. redundant and in its place there is - 50 ACTS external commentaries. A journey an encroaching silence. Recently, I of adjustments made in the attempt I have been lifted, caught and have become concerned with how to eradicate discrepancy. dropped, dived into water, fallen I am being perceived. It didn’t even Thursday 3 and Friday 4 March from a ladder, rolled over stones, occur to me before. Didn’t worry 5pm Over time, I have, among other broken through a sheet of sugar me. £10/£7 things, been asked to: Extend my glass, fallen backwards from a high But now, I find myself asking people leg, soften my back, extend my tower, walked on wine glasses, if I look embarrassing when I move. WENDY HOUSTOUN: neck, drop my shoulders, release or danced in unison and collided with If I look like I think I’m younger ON STAGE NOW contract, to think more, think less, the group. Moved alone and now than I am. I did see a review saying SOME BODY take more time or just be still. and then just stood still. I was doing the moves of someone Is contemporary work the half my age but I couldn’t tell if that victim of cool? And when I do move it is pos- I have (by critics and friends) vari- meant I should stop doing them or sible to occupy different places ously been described as louche, re- carry on. Influential artist Wendy Dance4 is proud to be supporting simultaneously. The place where bellious, eccentric, unlikely, a ghost, Houstoun engages in discussion Wendy Houstoun in creating a new internal sensations and private ideas a fighter, honest, irritating, boring, If there are commentaries, they around her new work and being dominate. Ideas like: What if move- likeable, warm, daring, brave, vapid, seem to revolve around the notion an artist today. work 50 Acts that will premiere during ment were a kind of marked dance silly, empty, experienced, clever, of surviving, continuing, persisting; a Nottdance Festival 2011. of memory? What if I moved like a cerebral, casual, bossy, vulnerable, pat on the back for still being alive (I Saturday 5 March bad dancer? versatile, witty, courageous, insin- have a sneaky suspicion women get Nottingham Contemporary cere, powerful, a female Bob Dylan, this more than men). 11.30am – Free Entry Ideas that have nothing to do with a young Lynn Seymour, a brilliant the actions I’m carrying out and renaissance woman and a complete But at the same time, my body is Book via Nottingham which are usually operating from amateur. showing signs of wanting to move Playhouse Box Office on some muscle memory beyond the for its own sake in a way I am 0115 941 9419 or online surprised by. It is showing signs www.dance4.co.uk. 50 Acts, Wendy Houstoun. Credit Hugo Glendinning brain. At the same time, I’m occupy- These multiple actions, roles and ing that other place where exterior observations are all joined not only of wanting to spin a lot. To follow 11 TRIPLE-DECKER 48 DOUBLE-BILL HOURS AT NOTTDANCE

If you’re new to Nottingham make the most of your stay with our mini guide of things to do and places to eat between performances.

FRIDAY 4 MARCH VENUES & LOCATIONS Land in town early evening, just ranges of items for sale by fantastic Nottingham Contemporary Warsaw Diner time to grab at bite to eat at one designer/makers before heading Weekday Cross, Nottingham, 93-95 Derby Road, of the restaurants nestled around back into the city centre for a NG1 2GB Nottingham NG1 5BB the Hockley/Lace Market area. spot of retail therapy or a dash of www.nottinghamcontemporary.org www.warsaw-diner.co.uk Try the Cock & Hoop for gastro skating at the National Indoor Ice grub in cosy pub surroundings, the Arena. Alternatively hop on the Lakeside Arts Centre National Indoor Ice Arena tasty tapas on offer at Iberico or tram to the New Art Exchange for , Bolero Square the deli delights of award-winning stunning photographs by Raghu Rai University Park, Nottingham The Lace Market Deliah. Then take a short stroll to or perhaps take in one of the city’s NG7 2RD Nottingham NG1 1LA Nottingham Contemporary for parks, try the Arboretum for fresh www.lakesidearts.org.uk www.national-ice-centre.com the 8pm performance from Wendy air and feathered friends. The Devil and The Details, Dog Kennel Hill Project. Credit, Benedict Johnson Houstoun. Jump back on the bus to Lakeside 14-18 Broad St, Nottingham, NG1 6DJ SATURDAY 5 MARCH for the 7.30pm show; Ali Fekih’s Nottingham NG1 3AL www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk Early birds might want to grab a Flamingos then the city is yours. For www.broadway.org.uk bit of retail therapy in the Flying the romantically inclined perhaps Arboretum Park Horse Walk (shops include Vivienne a meal for two at The Larder, for Broadmarsh Shopping Centre Nottingham NG1 Westwood boutique) or the the socialite a drink or three at Lister Gate, Nottingham, NG1 7LL www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk Exchange Arcade just across the Broadway Cinema’s bar and then uk.westfield.com/broadmarsh tramtracks. Afterwards, or for the head to Nottingham Playhouse for The Nottingham Park Estate Sydney based artist Alexandra for a range of spaces. The Devil move along it as she battles with ALEXANDRA HARRISON: more leisurely riser, it’s time for the hilarious New Art Club and their New Art Exchange 7A Lenton Rd, The Park, Harrison spent June 2010 with and The Details finds choreogra- something unseen, is it the forces WHAT’S COMING breakfast. Lots of choice here; Jamie Big Bag Of Boom. 39-41 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 1DP Dance4 doing some early work pher Rachel Lopez de la Nieta that drive us to move forward? The Funny and sad at the same time Oliver’s new to Nottingham Jamie’s Nottingham, NG7 6BE www.theparknottingham.co.uk on her next show, and now she giving voice to her inner dictator piece draws on interviews with What’s Coming examines the Italian, the European eatery Edin’s SUNDAY 7 MARCH www.thenewartexchange.org.uk is going to share where that has and exposing with great humour people about their work and ex- body as an analogue entity in the or coffee and pastries at gorgeous No need for an early start but a Jamie’s Italian progressed to. Not a com- the somewhat dark side of being plores purpose, success, fulfillment, continual process of becoming patisserie The Walk. stroll around The Park Estate with Jam Café Middle Pavement, plete, finished performance but a dancer at someone else’s beck collapse and regeneration. Will the outmoded. its wealth of architectural styles is 12 Heathcoat Street, City Centre, Nottingham NG1 7DL a scratch presentation What is and call. performer provide the answers? Catch the talk by Wendy Houstoun sure to blow away any cobwebs or, Nottingham NG1 3AA www.jamiesitalian.com Coming forms the first part of Monday 28 February at 11.30am at Nottingham for those who feel the need, a jog jamcafe.info an evening of dance in develop- DOUBLE BILL The Devil and The Details: A char- Djanogly Theatre, Contemporary before checking along the river. Edin’s ment. DOG KENNEL HILL PROJECT acter based on the uncomfortable Lakeside Arts Centre out the venue’s Goldstein/ Lace Market Hotel Broad Street, & ALEXANDRA HARRISON discovery of her own inner dictator 8pm Collier exhibition or head over to Surely afterwards it’ll be time for 29-31 High Pavement, Nottingham NG1 3AL Dance4 associates Dog Kennel reveals some truths in the working £12/£9 Nottingham Castle for the museum, brunch? How about American pan- Nottingham, NG1 1HE www.carluccios.com Hill Project stack up a double DOG KENNEL HILL PROJECT: relationship between choreogra- art gallery, Robin Hood statue and cakes with lashings of maple syrup www.thefinessecollection.com layer of performance with PEOPLE WORKING PROJECT pher and dancers. Unexpectedly Book via Nottingham fabulous views across the city. served in diner-style booths at the Spirit Nottingham two short pieces drawn from Two pieces of work from this funny, this piece uses references Playhouse Box Office on Warsaw Diner or exquisite eggs Aqua and Café L The newest way to take part in the their People Working Project. collective who like to question from the two World Wars and a 0115 941 9419 or online For lunch hop on a bus to Lakeside benedict at The Lace Market Hotel. University Of Nottingham, Univer- vibrant arts, heritage, bar and Hinterview is a solo by Henrietta what dance actually is, where it live beatbox score and will alter www.dance4.co.uk. Arts Centre on the University of sity Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD restaurant culture of Nottingham. Hale, looking at what it means can happen and who can dance. your expectations of the act of Nottingham campus, where there Then join us at Westfield’s Broad- www.lakesidearts.org.uk/Eat-Play- www.spiritnottingham.com to achieve and struggle at watching theatre; you get to shout, are two choices for tasty bites; marsh Shopping Centre at 2pm for Walk-Shop.html something. Created initially for Hinterview: A single performer, if you want to… Aqua and Café L before you catch Street Martial, for dance to watch The Place Prize competition, a disembodied voice, her path- www.dogkennelhillproject.org the final matinee performance and do. The Larder on Goosegate the piece is to be re-imagined way is lit but she struggles to of Tom Dale Company in the 1st Floor, 16 - 22 Goosegate, Djanogly Gallery. Follow this with Hockley, Nottingham NG1 1FE a quick browse at Lakeside’s craft www.thelarderongoosegate.co.uk cabinets with their totally tempting 12 13

Musical, Colette Sadler. Credit, Raymond Mallentjer 14 15

NARRATIVE

iguel Pereira is a as they looked forward to their to create a collective, En Knap long-standing friend future lives as adults, and the Group (EKG), which supports of both Dance4 ways they have questioned and new choreography in his home AND THE STORY railed against the rules, and social country. Iztok will talk about and our Nottdance MFestival, having performed a norms incumbent on adults. his work, the collaborations of number of times, most recently EKG and the partnership with in 2009 when he told of his early A spirited performance to The filmmaker Sa˘so Podgor˘sek in a Thursday 10 March Dance has, since its earliest incarnations, been childhood in Mozambique. Miguel Cure’s Love Cats might throw conversation chaired by Charles, MIGUEL PEREIRA & has been making even more you back into your own ‘goth’ accompanied by a film screening. FRIENDS used to tell stories. Nowadays though the story friends in Nottingham recently past or a conversation about the Hopkinson’s Gallery, Nottingham might be surprising, be about someone just like during a three-week research importance of a specific pair of So where does the contribution residency mixing sometimes paid trainers may remind you of the of the audience fit within this 7.30pm you or even start somewhere other than the or amateur performers with significance we place upon ritual storytelling? What role can you Book your place for free then, spectators and practitioners, and luck as much as our own take in our storytelling? Well Pay What You Think! beginning. We examine how narrative is used learning their stories of dance. work in making what we want you can take part in the Glorious Friday 11 March in today’s dance. Miguel is interested in the notions happen. What Unusual Symptoms project (page 5) or perhaps UK PREMIERE around the professional dance do with this piece is tell us who you collaborated with Miguel SAMIR AKIKA/UNUSUAL world and the world of those who they are, and in turn ask us what Pereira. If not then there’s the SYMPTOMS - EXTENDED dance for enjoyment; people who makes us who we are, and, how opportunity on the last day of TEENAGE ERA have a profession outside of dance we can be who we want to be. Nottdance to engage with Simon Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside but who participate in dance as a Ellis’ Leaving as he asks his (often Arts Centre, Nottingham hobby and those who have either In comparison, the afternoon unsuspecting) audience, as they £12/£9 a direct or indirect connection of work created and introduced come across one of a series of Please note: contains nudity with the ‘dance world’ by Charles Linehan provides a couples held in a long embrace, different approach to human the question; what’s the story Saturday 12 March here? As an audience member you During this year’s festival Miguel stories. Charles’ own work is MIXED BILL will present some of his ideas non-linear, drawing on recordings can also directly engage with Me CHARLES LINEHAN - relating to this project with those of people’s accounts of their and The Machine’s performance INVENTIONS FOR RADIO 1964 participants he collaborated with dreams and during the work in for one (page 5) and with Tom AND THE FAULT INDEX last autumn. So whose story progress sharing of The Fault Dale Company’s immersive I IZTOK KOVAC˘ - will Miguel tell? Could it be the Index he uses the contrast infinite (page 7). AN INTRODUCTION experiences of swing dancers and unexpected alignments of Nottingham Contemporary Terry and Hayley, perhaps belly unconnected events to celebrate Outside of these events is there 3pm dancer Tatiana or independent a different kind of narrative. a part for you, as an audience £10/£8 artist Nicola? This informal member, to play? We think so! presentation will reveal the Alongside his own work in the Live performance provides, Sunday 13 March process of his work towards a festival Charles has been asked through its proximity and its FREE PUBLIC new piece and to explore the links to choose two artists he thinks very presence, an active role for PERFORMANCE between the professional and audiences may not have yet the ‘spectator’. So right across SIMON ELLIS: LEAVING non-professional dance worlds. encountered. He selected Dog the festival you will find ample Streets of Nottingham Kennel Hill Project (UK) and opportunity to participate in All day If you’ve forgotten to turn off your Iztok Kov ˘ac (Slovenia). story making. Free mobile phones that’s all right with us. If you take pictures use the flash… Dog Kennel Hill Project is a group Sunday 13 March it’s good for our egos…. of accomplished performers who DOUBLE BILL Refrain from looking for any sense now collaborate in creating work DOG KENNEL HILL about this piece Tonight, there’ll be that questions what dance can PROJECT – no naked women on stage be. As well as a double bill in the THE ODD HONESTY CODE Apropos, as the blue stars indicate in first week of the festival they are SILVIA GRIBAUDI – WAIT the program, presenting their take on Homer’s (UK PREMIERE) We are the B-CAST… Odyssey in The Odd Honesty Code, Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside which Charles has chosen for the Arts Centre, Nottingham Extended Teenage Era is an festival. 4pm investigation into the attainment £12/£9 of adulthood, touching on Iztok Kov ˘ac is an established individual performers’ dreams choreographer who, following Book through Nottingham and plans, the things that were a high profile in the 1980 and Playhouse on 0115 941 9419 or online www.dance4.co.uk. Extended Teenage Era, Unusual Symptoms. Credit, Till Botterweck important to them as teenagers 1990s across Europe, has worked 16 17

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George Street, Nottingham NG1 3BE 0115 947 6096 / www.nottingham-theatre.co.uk NEW WORK IN PROGRESS INSTALLATION piece uses references from the two World Wars and world. Dance4 Associate Artist Matthias Sperling 21 ME AND THE MACHINE: a live beatbox score and will alter your expectations returns to Nottdance to present this world premiere LOOKING HOLES of the act of watching theatre; you get to shout, if you with noted performer Rachel Krische. A work in progress of On Ways To Disappear Without want to… www.matthias-sperling.com A Trace. Explore the distance between fiction and www.dogkennelhillproject.org EVENT LISTINGS reality using new technologies. This experience, for one person at a time, asks how responsible you are as a spectator. Sunday 27 February Dance4 Studio, Nottingham 12pm – 5pm – Free, no booking required RECOMMENDED BY DANCE4 Y AND OUR YOUTH PANEL

Dance4’s Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) is a dedicated training programme created in order to nurture and support young people with the NEW ART CLUB: potential, ambition and determination to become BIG BAG OF BOOM professional dance artists. CAT is designed to empower young people to take ownership of their ALEXANDRA HARRISON: WHAT’S COMING Dance4 is delighted to welcome back own learning and development as future artists. Funny and sad at the same time What’s Coming exam- Nottdance Festival favourites New Art CAT provides world-class training during out of ines the body as an analogue entity in the continual COISCÉIM DANCE THEATRE: SWIMMING Club with a show that celebrates the duo’s school hours for young people with potential in process of becoming outmoded. WITH MY MOTHER decade of award-winning shows, the perfect dance aged 11-18 years. Monday 28 February Shared pasts intertwine and build gently like a rising way to mark the Nottdance Festival’s 21st ME AND THE MACHINE: Dog Kennel Hill Project: People Working Project tide. Life stories are told with humour to the sultry edition. Find out more about CAT go to the About Us WHEN WE MEET AGAIN Alexandra Harrison: What’s Coming tones of Nat King Cole. Swimming with my Mother is section at www.dance4.co.uk. A wearable film and one-to-one performance. This Y Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside Arts Centre a beautiful, heartfelt and unsentimental journey into As winners of the Edinburgh Spotlight sensuous experience features you, your invisible COLETTE SADLER: MUSICAL 8pm – £12/£9 (£6 restricted view) the dancing and swimming lives of two extraordinary Best Comedy Award last year, New Art friend, a 3D soundtrack, an old forgotten dance, Musical is all about entertainment and self-amusement, people and a must see for anyone who ever had a Club aims to ensure all its audiences and the ocean, a flavour and me. Invited into a dark- explored with humour through the lens of post-mod- mother! Performed by David Bolger and his mother participants, be they bright eyed or cynical, ened room you, the audience, is gently led through ern dance. Taking elements from historical music hall Madge. are entertained by the possibilities of dance a personal performance, where your own point of theatre the performance presents a tension between Tuesday 1 March and comedy. view is transported to someone else’s – a new body, kitsch and minimalism to develop a musical score in Matthias Sperling & Rachel Krische: Superdance a body through which you will move and encounter a four choreographic movements. CoisCéim Dance Theatre: Swimming With My Mother You’re in for a treat! stranger that perhaps mysteriously you know. www.stammerproductions.com Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside Arts Centre www.meandthemachine.co.uk Sunday 27 February 8pm – £12/£9 (£6 restricted view) New Art Club returns with its latest piece Friday 25 February Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside Arts Centre of genre-defining stand-up dance, as Tom Nottingham Playhouse, Studio 8pm – £12/£9 (£6 restricted view) Roden and Pete Shenton, one of the truly 4pm – 7pm and 8.30pm – 11.30pm – £5 original forces in comedy, bring together Y the most explosive moments from a decade Saturday 26 February DANCE4 AND DMU PRESENT… IMPROVFOUR WORLD PREMIERE of award-winning shows. Nottingham Playhouse, Studio This continuation of Dance4’s Improvisation Series TOM DALE COMPANY: I INFINITE 11.30am - 2.30pm and 4pm – 7pm – £5 brings together an extraordinary group of dance and Set in a white, digitally animated environment, I infinite In Big Bag Of Boom the clever tricks, performance artists who will provide a unique insight is a stark captivating multi-media dance piece created hilarious set pieces and brilliant dances that into the world of dance improvisation. We don’t by Tom Dale where a character locked within finite make up their unique world get teased out know what exactly will happen so we advise you to solutions searches for the infinite. Dale’s movement of their original holes and smashed together EUROPE IN MOTION: MOSAIC IDENTITIES expect the unexpected! There will be an informal looks unreal, or as though it has been altered in a into this combustible new show. The next generation of dance artists, selected by ‘fly-on-the-wall’ discussion with the artists after the special effects lab, it moves between robotic tension some of Europe’s most important dance festivals; performance to reveal process and expose the world and liquid fluidity. This piece is mesmerizing and excit- Relive some classic moments including Springdance (Netherlands), ImageTanz (Austria), of improvisation. ing, melancholic and thought provoking. I infinite is a some inappropriate dancing to Heaven 17, iDANS (Turkey) and Nottdance (UK), share their Monday 28 February collaboration with media artist Barret Hodgson. a wonderfully twisted ensemble game of ideas on the future of dance performance. Expect to Pace 2, De Montfort University, Leicester www.tomdale.org.uk peekaboo, and the hilarious Various Mon- be intrigued and surprised as these artists bring their 1pm – £2 Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 March sters. If you’ve never seen New Art Club exciting new perspectives to the East Midlands. Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre perform before, you’ll enjoy this introduc- Thursday 24 February GABRIELE REUTER: TOURIST 8pm / 2pm matinees on Thursday 3 and Saturday 5 tion to their sublimely elegant stupidity. Europe in Motion: Mosaic Identities 1 LAKESIDE DOUBLE BILL Three performers invade theatres, audiences, impos- March – £7 Drill Hall, Lincoln RAJNI SHAH PROJECTS: GLORIOUS DOG KENNEL HILL PROJECT: sible landscapes and imagined territories with slapstick, What the critics say… 8pm – £7/£5 Join this special preview show before the company PEOPLE WORKING PROJECT loud costumes, impossible magnetisms and large black “If Flight of the Conchords danced rather embarks on a world tour of Glorious; a haunting and Two pieces of work from this collective who like to holes. They do all this with humour and resilience, WENDY HOUSTOUN: 50 ACTS than sang they‘d be a lot like dance duo Friday 25 February unusual new musical that will be completely reinvent- question what dance actually is, where it can happen while finding themselves out of place and unsettled. Who was it said, “Culture is something that is done to New Art Club.” The London Paper Europe in Motion: Mosaic Identities 2 ed for every location. Nottingham-based musicians and who can dance. www.gabrielereuter.de you, Art is what you do back to Culture”? asks Wendy. Embrace Arts, Leicester and the city’s residents work with Rajni Shah and her Tuesday 1 March She’s not sure, but this project is about her wanting to “Expert comic timing.” The Guardian 7.30pm – £7/£5 collaborators to create this event for Nottdance and Hinterview: A single performer, a disembodied voice, Pace 1, De Montfort University, Leicester backchat culture. She’s going to give it a bit of a mouth- the project has included a host of interventions in The her pathway is lit but she struggles to move along it 8pm – £5/£4 ful! Wendy, one of the UK’s leading movement/theatre “Seeing these two, I was almost reminded Saturday 26 February Meadows. Glorious explores the spaces of both fear as she battles with something unseen, is it the forces artists, with 30 years experience as a performance of early days Noel Fielding and Julian Bar- Europe in Motion: Mosaic Identities 3 and hope that have emerged as a result of an increased that drive us to move forward? The piece draws on maker sets about challenging a world devoted to youth ratt.” Three Weeks Nottingham Contemporary awareness towards climate change, shifts in border interviews with people about their work and explores by exploring the status of the (ageing) performer and 1pm – £7/£5 policies and the dramatic impact of the financial col- purpose, success, fulfillment, collapse and regenera- Y pursuing the ambition to persist with a commitment Saturday 5 March lapse. At a time when many people feel disempowered tion. Will the performer provide the answers? LAKESIDE DOUBLE BILL to action. Nottingham Playhouse, Studio and frustrated, this production beautifully embraces a MATTHIAS SPERLING & RACHEL KRISCHE: Thursday 3 and Friday 4 March 10.30pm - £12 / £9 sense of hope in an unknown future. The Devil and The Details: A character based on the SUPERDANCE WORLD PREMIERE Nottingham Contemporary Saturday 26 February uncomfortable discovery of her own inner dictator re- Using their special skills as lycra-clad dance artists, 8pm – £10/£7 Nottingham Arts Theatre veals some truths in the working relationship between Sperling and Krische reveal that all performers are 7.30pm – £10 / £7 choreographer and dancers. Unexpectedly funny, this superheroes and that dance performance can save the ALI FEKIH: FLAMINGOS 23 A man with a story to tell creates a beautiful land- Y scape with which he reveals his extraordinary dance UK PREMIERE TALKS & ASSOCIATED & language. His crutches are long and thin, delicate but SAMIR AKIKA/UNUSUAL SYMPTOMS: EXTENDED robust; like the legs of those beautifully strange birds. TEENAGE ERA PLEASE NOTE: CONTAINS NUDITY DISCUSSIONS OTHER EVENTS A self-taught street dancer, Ali Fekih has developed a The performers of Extended Teenage Era build their choreographicstyle based on the abilities and limita- own live performance space with scissors, tape and tions of his body; he contracted polio at a young age glue; they tell stories about themselves while blending t Dance4 some of the most WENDY HOUSTOUN: MOVING FORWARDS: YUVAL PICK WORKSHOP Saturday 5 March and creating new dance moves with one another important work we do with ON STAGE NOW PRACTICE AS RESEARCH IN DANCE BODY - MATERIAL - SPACE Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside Arts Centre to a soundtrack featuring The Cure, Schubert, Bob Aartists is to talk to them - to Is contemporary work the victim of Investigating current agendas in dance Through choreographic phrases and 7.30pm Marley and Justin Timberlake. The show draws on engage in critical dialogue, to ask ques- cool? practice as research this event includes improvisation tasks, together with vocal £12/£9 breakdance, Latin American and contemporary dance SIMON ELLIS: LEAVING - tions, to listen to their ideas and con- A discussion with influential artist presentations from the following lead- expression work, Yuval will explore the styles and investigates how we become adults through FREE PERFORMANCE cerns, but also just to natter. This year’s Wendy Houstoun, includes footage ers in the field: Prof Sarah Whatley presence of body in space. exploring dreams, future plans and all the rules, regula- Leaving is a long-duration performance involving a festival gives you lots of opportunities and performative acts, Wendy will (University of Coventry), Dr Sita Popat Thursday 10 March Y tions and social categories forced upon us as we grow number of people who perform an elongated and to do the same. discuss performing her latest piece and (University of Leeds), Dr. Simon Ellis Dance4 Studio up. stylised departure. The performance gently ‘tweaks’ what it is to be an artist in the current (University of Roehampton), Dr. Vida Hockley, Nottingham PUBLIC PERFORMANCE STREET MARTIAL www.unusualsymptoms.com the dynamic of Nottingham’s streets and the inciden- Teaming up with the University of climate. Midgelow (University of Northamp- 6pm An open event that brings together innovative physical Friday 11 March tal audience. Travellers, passers by and families saying Northampton we focus on Dance Re- Saturday 5 March ton) and Dr. Jane Bacon (University of To book your places please call the dance and performance, expect boxing, Capoeira and Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside Arts Centre goodbye will have their attention gently disrupted by search as Practice, with a range of UK Nottingham Contemporary Northampton). Dance4 partners the Dance4 office on 0115 941 0773 or email alternative street dance. There will be a diverse range 8pm actions and images that underpin the everyday drama dance academics and artists leading the 11.30am – Free Entry University of Northampton on two col- [email protected] of performances to watch and a variety of workshops £12/£9 (£6 restricted view) of leaving and being left behind. debate (See Moving Forwards) and laborative PhDs and is keen to support on offer so all ages and abilities can get involved. Sunday 13 March De Montfort University’s Cultural the sector’s greater communication and Combined show and workshop ticket £10 Kicking off the performance will be Nottingham’s very Streets of Nottingham Exchanges (Leicester) is our partner MIGUEL PEREIRA & FRIENDS joint working with those in the academic Open to 14 - 19 year olds. own CDO Capoeira group, followed by Ali Fekih, CHARLES LINEHAN MIXED BILL: INVENTIONS All day – Free, no booking required for a discussion after ImprovFour, with Dance4 invites Miguel Pereira (along- world. Nottdance’s mystery performer joining us all the way FOR RADIO 1964 & THE FAULT INDEX open dialogue exposing the processes side some local friends) to share his from France! Keep checking the website for further Both of the pieces within this mixed bill embody Line- of the performers as they improvise. ideas and latest performance research This event coincides with Sensualities, IGLOO: VISITOR acts to be announced and join us in our 360˚ boxing han’s ability to create understated intensity through LAKESIDE DOUBLE BILL Also in Leicester pioneering choreog- with you; the audience. Exploring the a joint exhibition by Jane M Bacon and A newly commissioned installation by ring arena for some powerful but playful, competitive the interaction of movement, light and sound. DOG KENNEL HILL PROJECT: rapher Lea Anderson will join us for a professional and non-professional Vida L Midgelow at Avenue Gallery artists Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli and intensely physical movement, one not to miss! Inventions for Radio 1964 is a disturbing and beautiful THE ODD HONESTY CODE chinwag around the influences of her dance worlds, Miguel seeks to give you (UoN) which closes on (igloo). Sunday 6 March duet piece performed to a score of people reflecting Curated by Charles Linehan film work; and how film influences her an insight into his exciting work with Friday 25 February. Broadmarsh Shopping Centre, Nottingham on their dreams by electronic music pioneer Delia In a makeshift Foley studio four dancers rummage and live practice. Nottingham community members. Inspired by the artists’ travels to the 2pm – Free, no booking required Derbyshire. Site-specific lighting creates an underwa- rampage through a dream landscape, unraveling the And bring your dancing shoes - this Wednesday 23 February snow-driven mountains of the Canadian ter theme as the dancers reach the surface only to be mysteries of a mythical world of rituals, battles and one’s not just about talking! University of Northampton, Rockies, VISITOR is an investigation forced back under into the ocean of dreams yet again intimate human moments. As their strange collection EUROPE IN MOTION: Thursday 10 March Avenue Gallery into the experience of place, figure and Y The Fault Index, performed by three men and one of objects become instruments the dancers tell their MOSAIC IDENTITIES Hopkinson Gallery 1pm landscape, where real and invented pan- woman, explores the tension between unity and stories through live sound, music and text mixed with POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS 7.30pm – Book for free then, www.northampton.ac.uk oramas depict the beauty and strange- THE GUESTS COMPANY – YUVAL PICK: SCORE difference. Three ensemble pieces weave together movement. The work celebrates a constantly shifting The next generation of dance artists, Pay What You Think! This event is free. Places are limited. ness of the natural world. The exhibition UK PREMIERE disparate and independent choreographic elements in perspective between the nonsense and the profound. selected by some of Europe’s most Bookings: plays with different forms of reality, Dance, sounds and recordings feed a game that forms a percussive and spirited tour de force. www.dogkennelhillproject.org important dance festivals; [email protected] bringing exterior virtual space into the a score that models the movement of the dancers’ Springdance (Netherlands), Imag- CHARLES LINEHAN MIXED BILL: physical space of the gallery by employing bodies. Pick creates a mosaic-like performance, which eTanz (Austria), iDANS (Turkey) and INVENTIONS FOR RADIO 1964 & techniques used in video games. demonstrates the richness and the dislocation driven IZTOK KOVAC:˘ AN INTRODUCTION Nottdance (UK), share their ideas on THE FAULT INDEX AND IZTOK AAKASH ODEDRA: Saturday 12 March - Monday 2 May by the multiplication of languages making up his world. Curated by Charles Linehan the future of dance performance. KOVAC:˘ AN INTRODUCTION THE BODY ELECTRIC Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre Hebrew is his native tongue, Yiddish the language Charles Linehan in discussuion with Slovenian artist Following each different triple bill Curated by Charles Linehan John Mark Gowans joins forces with ADMISSION FREE spoken by his father, Arabic a tongue he always heard Iztok Kova˘c, the founder of the international dance of work in progress, fresh ideas and An afternoon with Charles Linehan Akaash to capture his unique blend of spoken, English and French the languages he uses in his group, EnKnapGroup (EKG). Kova˘c, sites his creative hot-foot from the studio developments as he shares some of his own work, Kathak through a video lens; manipulating work. Although he is originally Israeli, choreographer work as being influenced by his experience of growing there will be a discussion between the some of it in development as well as rhythmic time cycles to give a larger than Yuval Pick says he is made up of and influenced by all up in Trbovlje, a heavily industrial and post-socialist artists and audience facilitated by Jane hosting an in conversation event with life representation of Indian classical dance five of these languages. www.theguestscompany.com town in central Slovenia. He brings examples of his Greenfield (UK) and Philip Szporer Iztok Kovac (Slovenia) who will talk in a contemporary context. Wednesday 9 March work to the festival, including a film produced through (CAN) about the work of his collective, and The Guests Company/Yuval Pick: Score collaboration with filmmaker Sa ˘ so Podgor ˘ s ek. Thursday 24 February his collaborations with film artist Saso This film developed with Akademi is part Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside Arts Centre Saturday 12 March Drill Hall, Lincoln Podgorsek. of an evening of Kathak dance performed 8pm – Book for free then, Pay What You Think! Charles Linehan: Inventions for Radio 1964 & Fault Friday 25 February Saturday 12 March by Aakash featuring his own choreogra- Index, plus Charles Linehan curates Iztok Kova˘c Embrace Arts, LeicesterI wasn’t Nottingham Contemporary phy alongside that of leading classical and Nottingham Contemporary Saturday 26 February 3pm – £10/£8 contemporary Kathak exponent Kumudini MIGUEL PEREIRA & FRIENDS 3pm – £10/£8 Nottingham Contemporary Lakhia. Miguel seeks to expose the professional dance world Free with performance ticket (£7/£5) LEA ANDERSON ON SCREEN Thursday 24 February and the world of those who dance for enjoyment. Lea Anderson (MBE) talks about the im- New Art Exchange, Nottingham He’s been exploring ideas around the pressure to pact of filmmakers and other influences 7.30pm create art (a demand that Miguel feels on a regular on her screen work. Award-winning Lea £8/£6 basis) and the practices and lives of amateur dance is recognised internationally for inventive www.nae.org.uk enthusiasts participating in the arts. Miguel would and highly distinctive choreography. She Part of a full programme of Kathak dance like to share his experiences and his ideas with DANCE4 AND DMU PRESENT… has pioneered work in non-theatrical To book call 0115 924 8630 you, the dance people and the no-so-dance people. IMPROVFOUR spaces and other media such as film and Performance and film? Maybe. Discussion? Likely. SILVIA GRIBAUDI: WAIT UK PREMIERE Stay after the improvisation for an video and hosted the Tights, Camera, Ac- Entertainment? Most certainly. There may also be the A one-woman piece which quietly researches the informal ‘fly-on-the-wall’ discussion tion (BBC2) series looking at contempo- opportunity to do a bit of dancing yourself. listening of time. Time as expectation, as transforma- with the artists after the performance rary dance on film. Thursday 10 March tion, as an occasion to receive from the other person to reveal process and expose the world Thursday 3 March Hopkinson Gallery and fromyourself. A time for stopping and listening to of improvisation. Lea Anderson on Screen 7.30pm – Book for free then, Pay What You Think! what is changing in the body. Monday 28 February Clephan Building, Sunday 13 March Pace 2, De Montfort University, De Montfort University, Leicester Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside Arts Centre Leicester 6pm – Free, booking required 4pm – £12/£9 (£6 restricted view) 1pm – £2 for whole event NOTTDANCE FESTIVAL MAP

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