DANCE AND 22 Apr – 29 Jun SHINE Courses, drop-in classes & workshops for eve ryone SUMMER 19 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 Vice Chair Ashley Shannon Members Robert Dawson Scott, Fiona Hendry, Kirstee Macbeth, Cllr Donald Wilson DANCE BASE STAFF Chief Executive Emma Stewart-Jones Patron: HRH Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay KT KG Artistic Director Morag Deyes MBE Artistic Patron: Mark Morris General Manager Matt Roe Dance Base is a registered charity that encourages and celebrates Head of Finance Fiona Dick the potential for dance in everyone. Donations from individuals, Finance Officer Stef Skinner trusts, foundations and companies are all vital to our work. If you Head of Catalyst Bush Hartshorn would like to support Dance Base, please contact Matt Roe, Programme Manager Helen McIntosh 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: Dance for Parkinson’s Scotland p6 Photography: Amy Sinead Photography Design: Emma Quinn Print: MLG CONTEN TS WELCOME TO SUMMER Welcome 3 AT DANCE BASE Professional 4 As always our Summer term is jam-packed full of classes, Community 5 / 6 workshops, intensive courses and summer schools with exciting new Support Dance Base 7 styles and inspiring teachers galore and everything from Step Dance to Handstands, with Ballroom and Brexit in between! Hires 8 If you’re in to your fancy foot-work Nic Gareiss is certain to light A Creative Century 9 the fire under your feet with his Percussive Dance Lab as part of our programme of workshops this term, or if you feel like flipping How to Book 10 / 11 your world upside-down, come along to our Handstands workshop with specialist Iona Kewney. We are honoured to welcome very Access & Inclusion 12 special guests, world champions and stars of Baby Ballroom , LYDC & 13 Mia Linnik-Holden and Andrei Toader to Dance Base to teach two Summer Dance Ballroom workshops, and, back by popular demand, we have three Intensive more Margaret Morris Movement workshops taking you through the next stages of this iconic choreographer’s work. Workshops 14 / 15 / 16 Dance Base are delighted to host Paragon Music for a full week in Summer Sessions 17 July with Make Music Move, an inclusive dance and live music project. Ballet 18 / 19 We also have an Inclusive Dance workshop with Farah Saleh, based around her performance of Brexit Means Brexit! which will be Celtic 20 / 21 performed at Dance Base this May. Contemporary 22 / 23 Summer Sessions are back with a vengeance this year – come for an intensive week of dance and choose from your favourite styles Jazz 24 / 25 including Ballet, Hip Hop, Jazz, Contemporary, Reggaeton, House or Dance Fit and see how much you develop over the week. Just for Fun 26 / 27 For young dancers looking to dive into a whole week of classes we Partner Dances 28 / 29 have our Summer Dance Intensives for 13 –19 year olds, an excellent Street & Hip Hop 30 / 31 way to improve technique and focus, or Summer School for ages 7–12, an excellent opportunity to let off steam, have a dance, put Tap 32 / 33 on a puppet show and have a go at some stage combat! It’s sure to be an absolute riot. Wellbeing 34 / 35 & Workout As if that wasn’t enough we also have new classes to add to our term-time programme including a new World Dance 6 0+ class and World Dances 36 / 37 our new and improved Street & Hip Hop programme including Old Young Dancers 38 / 39 School Hip Hop and House classes. Youth Dance 40 What with all of our regular classes too, we’re looking forward to seeing you in our busy studios – get ready to dance and shine! Summer School 41 Day Planner 42 / 43 Allan Irvine Charlotte Anderson Participation Manager Programmes Coordinator I page 3 PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMME The great summer programme in our beautiful building offers up (among other things) an amazingly popular Photography Workshop with Maria Falconer. Dance is so inspiring to many photographers and there are some superb professional tricks that Maria will share. On May 18th we have a PRIME TIME day during the Luminate Festival, with classes, film and performances from and with our beloved elder company, PRIME. We are also asking for donations during this day but this is entirely at your discretion… look out for the silent auction with some unique and precious items for your dance and art collection. Don’t forget that our professional programme has residencies for dance artists, with showings on the last day, usually at 4pm and 5pm on Fridays. Please come along and see what they’ve been working on. It’s free and all you have to do is be there! Morag Deyes MBE Artistic Director PRIME TIME! PRIME continue to flourish and grow and this term we invite you to enjoy a day with the company as part of the Luminate Festival. On Saturday 18 May, we will begin by offering you gentle, enjoyable classes in dance and Pilates especially designed for mature bodies. Later on, there will be some wonderful short films from around the world, showing how older dancers are making and performing in the most surprising, poetic and dynamic ways. Then PRIME perform live from their repertoire, inviting special friends to join them. PRIME are Scotland’s first semi-professional dance company for Sat 18 May dancers over 60. They have performed new work and changed Pilates | 13.30 – 14.30 perceptions of dance for many years and we are determined that Jeanine Byrne this will continue to evolve. If you would like to make a donation for their future, there will be opportunities (including a silent Contemporary | 14.45 – 15.45 Steinvor Palsson auction!), but absolutely NO obligation throughout the day. PRIME Performance primedancecompany 19.00 – 20.00 All parts of the day are bookable separately. 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 RO JECT S Dance for LGBT Charter of Rights Intercultural Parkinson’s Scotland Since 2016, Dance Base has worked with Youth Scotland The Dance for Parkinson’s Scotland LGBT Youth Scotland toward the Silver Level Dance Base is pleased to announce a programme is a joint initiative managed by of the LGBT Charter of Rights as part of the new partnership with Intercultural Youth Dance Base, Scotland’s National Centre for organisation’s journey toward ever-greater Scotland who provide specialist support and Dance and Scottish Ballet, Scotland’s inclusion and equality. We have now vital pathways for Scottish multicultural National Dance Company, and delivered successfully been awarded the Silver LGBT young people with a focus on nurturing in partnership with Parkinson’s UK. Charter Mark, which is a significant step in talent. This project provides weekly dance Seven Dance for Parkinson’s hubs have Dance Base’s ongoing workshops at Dance Base in Hip Hop, Afro been set up across Scotland, which operate commitment to Beat and Pantsula and will create a dance on a weekly basis, and have been designed LGBT equality. piece that will be performed as part of the especially for those with a diagnosis of Black History Month in October. Parkinson’s and their families and carers. If you would like to be involved or for further These sessions are suitable for those people information please contact with no dance experience and will develop Everybody Dance Now allan @dancebase.co.uk participants’ confidence and creativity, whilst We are excited to be continuing our work addressing Parkinson’s specific concerns with special schools in Edinburgh by such as balance, flexibility, coordination, gait delivering creative dance projects to and social isolation.