SPRING 19 TIME FORYOU 5 January – 5 April Courses, drop-in classes & workshops for eve ryone Dance Base 14 –16 Grassmarket Edinburgh EH1 2JU 0131 225 5525 dance @dancebase.co.uk dancebase.co.uk @DanceBase DanceBaseScotland @dancebase BOARD Chair Edward A Crozier Members Robert Dawson Scott, Fiona Hendry, Kirstee Macbeth, Ashley Shannon, Cllr Donald Wilson DANCE BASE STAFF Chief Executive (Interim) Matt Roe Patron: HRH Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay KT KG Artistic Director Morag Deyes MBE Artistic Patron: Mark Morris Head of Finance Fiona Dick Finance Officer Stef Skinner Dance Base is a registered charity that encourages and celebrates the potential for dance in everyone. Donations from individuals, Head of Catalyst Bush Hartshorn trusts, foundations and companies are all vital to our work. If you Programme Manager Helen McIntosh would like to support Dance Base, please contact Matt Roe, Projects & Partnerships Manager Emma Stewart-Jones Chief Executive (Interim) on 0131 225 5525. Participation Manager Allan Irvine Dance Base is a Registered Scottish Charity No. SC022512 Programmes Coordinator Charlotte Anderson Dance Artist (Dance for Parkinson’s) Jen Cunningham Dance Base gratefully acknowledges support from: Head of Marketing & Communications John Lyndon Marketing & Communications Officer Emma Lawford Marketing & Communications Officer Lyn Conroy Bookings & Front of House Manager Caroline Mansfield Bookings & Front of House Deputy Managers Linsey McEwan-Smith, Kathryn Miller, Zoë Shaw Duty Manager Mirna Higueras Calvo Bookings & Front of House Assistants Mirna Higueras Calvo, Christina Liddell, Axe Marnie, Pamela Tait, Irina Navolochnaya, Tanya Walters Facilities Manager Barney Strachan Cleaning Operator John Wood Front cover photographer: Amy Sinead Photography Class: Commercial Hip Hop, taught by Jo Richards p21 Photography: Amy Sinead Photography and Claire Fraser Design: Emma Quinn Print: MLG CONTEN TS WELCOME TO SPRING Welcome 3 AT DANCE BASE Professional 4 We hope you had a good break over the festive season and Community 5 / 6 are as excited as we are to get 2019 off to an energetic start. Support Dance Base 7 We’re delighted to announce lots of new classes and additions to our Wellbeing and Workout programme, helping you to stick to How to book 8 / 9 those new year’s resolutions and keep physically and mentally healthy as we come to the end of the winter months and look Access & Inclusion 10 forward to Spring. New classes include Lunchtime Power Yoga, Lunchtime Ballet Lothian Youth 11 Dance Company Stretch, Dance Improvisation and Drop It Like It’s Pop, or why not try out Cuban Salsa now that beginner and improver-level Workshops 12 classes are available to drop in, bring a friend or partner along for some Cuban Salsa times. Dance Bootcamp 13 As well as new classes, we have exciting new workshops including Capoeira, the unique and physically demanding art Ballet 14 / 15 form from Brazil. Our Margaret Morris Movement workshops Celtic 16 / 17 offer an insight into this iconic artist’s dance form, and for those keen to get their sweat on we have another Dance Bootcamp – Contemporary 18 / 19 a whole weekend of high energy dance to boost your fitness levels and try up to 12 different styles of dance. Hip Hop 20 / 21 There is plenty for young dancers, parents and carers to do: our Easter School is as busy as ever with five full days of dance, Jazz 22 / 23 puppetry and percussion for ages 7 to 12, and for the brand new Just for Fun 24 / 25 little ones check out Baby Steps, our specially-designed class for 0 to 12-month movers and their parents and carers. Partner Dances 26 / 27 We’d also like to officially welcome Emma Stewart-Jones to the Dance Base Participation team. Emma has over twenty years’ Tap 28 / 29 experience in dance development and comes to Dance Base from her previous post at Creative Scotland. She is our new Projects and Wellbeing & Workout 30 / 31 Partnerships Manager and will be working on projects such as Dance for Parkinson’s, Step in Time and Everybody Dance Now. World Dances 32 / 33 We are already enjoying Emma’s company and expertise in the office, but you will also catch her in the studios teaching class – Young Dancers 34 / 35 / 36 check out Lunchtime Power Yoga on Fridays! Whatever you choose to come along to you’ll be sure to leave Easter School 37 with a spring in your step! Day Planner 38 / 3 9 Allan Irvine Charlotte Anderson Emma Stewart Jones Participation Manager Programmes Coordinator Projects & Partnerships Manager I page 3 PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMME Welcome to the fresh new year and all the hopes and dreams another year can bring with it. We begin by celebrating the wide and wonderful variety of work being made here in Scotland with our residency programme, welcoming workshops from the fabulous Manipulate Festival, and continuing with the amazing Out of Class improvisation sessions curated by Christine Devaney. PRIME are back in the studio rehearsing a rework of Tarn by Angus Balbernie for an intriguing event we are calling Glimpse , which will take place at the mysterious Scottish Arts Club in Rutland Square in early March. And one of this term’s residencies will create a new work which will premiere at the Storytelling Centre in March. Entitled Hebridean Treasure , it is being choreographed by Shane Shambu, danced by Kirsten Newell, and follows the story of ancient Celtic Christianity on Iona, as written by the Reverend John Phillip Newell. Morag Deyes MBE Artistic Director are Scotland’s first semi-professional dance company for dancers over 60. In Spring 19, they will be in the studio with PRIME choreographer Angus Balbernie to rework their 2015 performance piece, Tarn . This spring will also be the company’s fourth anniversary. primedancecompany I page 4 COMMU NIT Y As a Scottish registered charity, we want to Our Professional Programmes also support get more people dancing across Scotland and showcase the best artistic talent in and believe the benefits of high quality, Scotland, who otherwise wouldn’t have the positive dance experiences should be opportunity to shine. Our wide-ranging available to all. programmes include nurturing emerging talent through our Dancers Emerging We actively celebrate and encourage Bursary Scheme (DEBS), the Dance Base people’s potential for dance regardless Associate Artist scheme, and developing of their age, background or ability; help PRIME, Scotland’s first semi-professional professional artists and creative talent dance company for the over 60s. thrive; and, work tirelessly to ensure dance is protected and nurtured for future Your support can help us continue this generations to enjoy. exciting, vital work. The health and wellbeing benefits of dance are enormous as is the breadth of emerging Please consider donating today. and professional dance talent in Scotland that needs a strong foundation to flourish. > Visit dancebase.co.uk/donate to make an online donation Read more about the extensive work we do through our Current Projects (p6) which > Contact Allan Irvine, Participation annually impact the lives of 3,000 people Manager allan @dancebase.co.uk across Edinburgh’s diverse communities, to learn more about our current including: projects and how you can get involved > Sick and terminally ill children Thank you for your support. > Disabled people > Older people living in residential/day settings > People living with Parkinson’s I page 5 CURRENT P ROJ ECT S Dance for The Royal Hospital for Step in Time Parkinson’s Scotland Children and Young People Dance Base are committed to ensuring The Dance for Parkinson’s Scotland ‘Step by Step’ is a partnership between that dance is accessible to everyone so for programme is a joint initiative managed Dance Base and The Royal Hospital those older adults who can’t make it to our by Dance Base, Scotland's National Centre for Children and Young People. This building, we’ll bring the dance to you. for Dance and Scottish Ballet, Scotland’s programme of work has been delivered ‘Step in Time’ is a project delivered to older National Dance Company, and delivered since September 2016 and works with people in residential/day settings who may in partnership with Parkinson’s UK. vulnerable children and young people or may not have dementia, Alzheimers or by their bedside and in small groups. restricted movement. These specifically Seven Dance for Parkinson’s hubs have tailored creative movement workshops been set up across Scotland, which This dance project focuses on improving well-being, encouraging creative aim to improve flexibility, strength and operate on a weekly basis, and have been well-being. These workshops will be designed especially for those with a expression and spreading happiness throughout the hospital. accompanied by staff training and a bag diagnosis of Parkinson’s and their families of props to continue the fun once the and carers. These sessions are suitable for project finishes. those people with no dance experience and will develop participants’ confidence and creativity, whilst addressing Parkinson’s specific concerns such as balance, flexibility, coordination, gait and social isolation. The sessions include tea/coffee, LGBT Charter of Rights biscuits and a blether! Since 2016, Dance Base has worked with LGBT Youth Scotland toward the Silver Dance for Parkinson’s Scotland is a national Level of the LGBT Charter of Rights as Ignition programme delivered in partnership with: part of the organisation’s journey toward Dance Base, Scottish Ballet, Parkinson’s UK, ever-greater inclusion and equality. We are really excited to be Frantic Eden Court Theatre, Citymoves Dance Agency, Assembly’s Scottish partner for Ignition, His Majesty’s Theatre Aberdeen, The Beacon Art We have now successfully been awarded a free national training programme for Centre, Centre Stage, Shaper/Caper, The Space the Silver LGBT Charter Mark, which is a and Dundee and Angus College.