AUTUMN 18 CE LEBRATE! 8 September – 7 December 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 BOARD Chair Edward A Crozier Vice Chair Simon Guest Members Paul Blair, Robert Dawson Scott, Fiona Hendry, Kirstee Macbeth, Elizabeth Mitchell, 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 Participation Manager Allan Irvine would like to support Dance Base, please contact Matt Roe, Chief Executive (Interim) on 0131 225 5525. Programme Manager Helen McIntosh Programmes Coordinator Charlotte Anderson Dance Base is a Registered Scottish Charity No. SC022512 Projects & Partnerships Manager Emma Stewart-Jones Dance Artist (Dance for Parkinson’s) Jen Cunningham Dance Base gratefully acknowledges support from: Great Feats Youth Worker Heather Marshall Head of Marketing & Communications John Lyndon Marketing & Communications Officer Mira Knoche Press & Communications Officer Emma Lawford Press & Communications Officer Lyn Conroy Bookings & Front of House Manager Caroline Mansfield Bookings & Front of House Deputy Managers Dr Guthrie’s Association Linsey McEwan-Smith, Kathryn Miller, Zoë Shaw Bookings & Front of House Assistants Mirna Higueras Calvo, Christina Liddell, Axe Marnie, WCH Trust Pamela Tait for Children Facilities Manager Barney Strachan Cleaning Operator John Wood Front cover photographer: Amy Sinead Photography Class: West African Dance, taught by Raquel Ribes The Russell Trust Photography: Amy Sinead Photography and Maria Falconer Design: Emma Quinn Print: MLG I page 2 CONTEN TS WELCOME TO AUTUMN Welcome 3 AT DANCE BASE Professional 4 As we move into autumn at Dance Base we have plenty going on Community 5 / 6 to keep your energy up and your spirits bright, leaving you ready Support Dance Base 7 to embrace the new season. What better way to keep moving and warm as the cold weather How to book 8 / 9 approaches than by coming to our Dance Bootcamp. Back by popular demand, and a new addition to the autumn term, we Access & Inclusion 10 will be hosting another full 15 hours of dance and 12 different styles over two days. This is a real energy boosting workout and Lothian Youth 11 a great way to try new genres of dance including Afro Cuban, Dance Company Bollywood, hip hop, reggaeton, musical theatre, ballet, Contemporary and more in a fun and lively environment. Workshops 12 / 13 Another definite new style to try this term is West African Dance. Ballet 14 / 15 Hosted by Mixed Roots Scotland, Guinean dance teacher Mohamed Kouyate will be teaching a Dance of Guinea workshop Celtic 16 / 17 that will be sure to keep you buzzing with energy and happiness this term. Contemporary 18 / 19 In the lead up to Christmas, run away from the chaos, don yourself some glass slippers and you shall go to the ball! Hip Hop 20 / 21 Scottish Ballet will be hosting a range of ballet workshops around their production of Cinderella , for 1 0–13 years, Adult Jazz 22 / 23 Intermediate and 60+, come and dance to your heart’s content. Just for Fun 24 / 25 For our younger dancers this term we are introducing Dance Academy P7+ to our programme. A continuation of Mini and Partner Dances 26 / 27 Junior Dance Academy, this class offers young people aged P7+ the opportunity to continue developing their skills in tap, jazz, Tap 28 / 29 ballet and contemporary, and is a great introduction to new styles for young dancers looking to learn. Wellbeing & Workout 30 / 31 Finally, here at Dance Base we are delighted to welcome you all into our studios for Christmas 2018 to show off the moves World Dances 32 / 33 you’ve learnt in the Autumn Term at the Dance Base Christmas Show. Hosted in-house this year we can’t wait to get festive and Young Dancers 34 / 35 / 36 see the talent our community programme has to offer. Whether you are taking part or coming to watch, it’s going to be a Christmas Shows 37 tinsel-tastic extravaganza and we’re very excited to see you there! Come along and join the celebration this term! Day Planner 38 / 3 9 Allan Irvine Charlotte Anderson Participation Manager Programmes Coordinator I page 3 PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMME This autumn is awash with the huge array of dance and movement styles that are used to make performances in Scotland. We have such a varied and wonderful dance community! As always, we keep our doors open for you to come in and check out the residency showings, where you can be intrigued, transformed, delighted, confused and ultimately enlightened as to what dance artists do all day. Some showings offer the chance for comment, others are immersive events... that’s the pleasure of our open studio showings on Fridays; they are as unique as the artists who give them. We also have a new group of dancers being mentored by White and Givan as part of our Dancers Emerging Bursary Scheme (DEBS). They arrive in September and are with us for almost a year of free classes and support in that tricky time between graduation and the tough world of being a professional dancer. If you would like to know more go to dancebase.co.uk/professional/debs -124 Later in the autumn, our fabulous elder company, PRIME, get mysterious – performing in the curious Scottish Arts Club in Edinburgh’s West End. See our website nearer the time for more details of the work we call Glimpse , featuring the talents of Kally Lloyd-Jones (Company Chordelia) and Dance Ihayami. You don’t have to be a professional dancer to attend any of these events – everyone reading this page is welcome to them all. See you soon Morag Deyes MBE Artistic Director AUTUMN SH OWCASE Saturday 13 October See the Autumn 18 Professional Dance brochure for full details. I page 4 COMMUNITY 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. > Young people not in education, employment or training > Young carers > Disabled people > Older people living in care > People living with Parkinson’s I page 5 CURRENT P ROJ ECT S Dance for The Royal Hospital for Parkinson’s Scotland Children and Young People Our child-centred vision, dedicated to In partnership with Scottish Ballet, bringing a sense of ease, well-being we will continue to deliver a weekly and fulfilment within hospital programme of dance workshops experiences at the Royal Sick Kids, for people with Parkinson’s, their Raising the aspirations of young people, spreads immense joy within group caregivers, family members and aged 1 6–25, through an intensive and one-to-one interactions. friends. We are also in the process programme of dance and education. of setting up partnerships in If you know a young person who is not cities around Scotland. Email in full-time work or education, there allan dancebase.co.uk to find @ are places available with Great Feats. out about our upcoming taster Email heather @dancebase.co.uk for LGBT Charter of Rights sessions. more information. Dance Base is working with LGBT Youth Scotland toward the LGBT Charter of Dr Guthrie’s Association Rights as part of the organisation’s journey toward inclusion and equality. The Charter helps to demonstrate The Russell Trust Dance Base’s commitment to LGBT people in our local area and in dance as a cultural sector by supporting WCH Trust for Children them to identify their LGBT rights. lgbtyouth.org.uk/charter-general. A recent element of this work was the Seated Swing Dance Base Safe Space campaign. Ignition Dance keeps older people active and #DBSafeSpace We are really excited to be Frantic alert, both physically and mentally, and Assembly’s Scottish partner for enhances their emotional and social Ignition, a free national training wellbeing. For those older adults who programme for young men aged can’t make it to us, we take dance to care 16 –20. Over the coming year, homes and day centres.