FRIDAYFIRSTS

YORKSHIRE DANCE

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cover photo Lucy Suggate’s Bonedust © Daniel Alonso van Camp

Friday Firsts showcases new work by independent

choreographers and dance companies working on the small scale.

Each evening has its own distinct theme, and will often be

the first chance to see performances by the most promising dance

makers from Yorkshire and beyond who seek to experiment, push

dance as a form or find a new voice.

“Providing support and platforms for my work, Yorkshire Dance

has enabled me to gain beneficial experience and contacts,

preparing me for the advance into industry.”

Sophie Unwin, Yorkshire Dance New Associate

“As a result of attending Friday Firsts we booked Taciturn

dance company from Liverpool. It was great to bring them

to the festival – they were fantastic and had appreciative

audiences for both performances. I’m really glad it was possible

– and it couldn’t have happened if Yorkshire Dance hadn’t

introduced me to the company.”

Kate Beard, Grassington Festival

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Friday Firsts #13

Going Solo

Friday 1 February, 7.30pm

Admission £8.00, concessions £6.00

The acid test of a solo is having

something to say and a unique way of

saying it.

Lucy Suggate’s Bonedust is a Danse

Macabre for the 21st century. Inspired by

medieval images of the dancing skeleton

who personified death and united us all in

a dance, and a healthy curiosity about the

unknown, it asks, “If I no longer have my

body, what will I dance?”

“Suggate’s work is masterful... She achieves an exquisite balance between what

is amusing and what is frightening, and it creates an extraordinary performance.”

Edinburgh Guide

Ultimate Dancer presents Intercourse, a work created in

collaboration with a number of dance critics, which imagines the

relationship and interaction between critic, performer and audience as an

act of sexual intercourse.

Riccardo Meneghini’s Je me souviens is a slowly unfolding last

goodbye to someone who already left – an untangling and unfastening of

thoughts and memories.

“I am not eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most people.” EleanorPerry’s Edith is a portrait of Edith Sitwell, the “high priestess of 20th

century poetry.”

Ultimate Dancer photo © Julia Bauer

#FFGoSolo

photo © Jonathan Turner

#FFDoubleAct

Friday Firsts #14

Double Act

Friday 1 March, 7.30pm

Admission £8.00, concessions £6.00

Curated by Beth Cassani,this evening of work focuses

on the idea of choreography

that is born out of a particular

performance relationship –

the Double Act.

Is a danced duet a type of double

act? Is a double act always

humorous? Is choreography an

implicit part of a double act

relationship?

Some of these partnerships are long-term collaborations. Some have come

together to explore this idea for the first time.

Terrorists of the Heart is a duet by Jules Dorey Richmond and David

Richmond – a meditation on parenthood, ageing, grief and loss, as well as

a political manifesto with some Morris dancing. It has been said that

collaboration is ‘an affair of the mind’. For Jules and David it has been

rather more – not only are they long-term artistic partners, but they’re

married, and parents.

Oliver Bray and Rachel Krische present Ryan – a dance / performance /

singing work featuring a collision of practices, a few ‘experts’, a beautiful

dream and a charity single – God Bless ‘the Movie’.

Further performances to be confirmed.

photo © STAY

Friday Firsts #15

STAY Connected

Friday 5 April, 7.30pm

Tickets £8.00, concessions £6.00

#FFSTAY

The first of many, this is a new

Yorkshire-wide performing artist

showcase of spoken word, dance,

music and theatre for

independent Black, Asian and

Minority Ethnic artists who want

to entertain and provoke,

experiment, question and engage.

This evening brings together a

range of diverse artists and their

audience to have a dialogue about

new work; What moves us? Who

is it for? Where should it go next?

Sustained Theatre ArtistsYorkshire (STAY) exists to

enable the development of quality

performance work, enable artists

to become economic and does so

in the context of the national

Sustained Theatre Network.

STAY Creative Partnership is

working with West Yorkshire

Playhouse, Phoenix Dance Theatre

and Yorkshire Dance to establish a

programme of creative artist

development which will lead to

the opening of new dedicated

making-space and offices at

Yorkshire Dance, autumn 2013.

http://www.facebook.com/stayukTwitter @STAYHub

http://stay-uk.org/

Professional Development

at Yorkshire Dance

James Wilton workshop

for professional dancers

& undergraduates

Sun 20 Jan, 2.00pm - 5.00pm£10

The class draws influence from

flying-low technique, martial arts,

capoeira and breakdancing

focusing on high energy bodily

awareness, and the use of fluidity

to generate power, with an emphasis on using the floor safely and

effectively. Following class, participants will learn the challenging and

dynamic repertoire from Wilton’s work Cave.

James Wilton’s choreographic career began whilst a student at London

Contemporary Dance School, with his work Drift subsequently

commissioned for Scottish Dance Theatre in 2010. His work, TheShortest Day, won Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest. James is also a

BBC Performing Arts Fellow in partnership with Swindon Dance.

www.jameswiltondance.org.uk

James Wilton photo © Jui Wei Hung / Hagit Yakira photo © Lucy Cash

www.yorkshiredance.com/professional/professional-development-at-yorkshire-dance

‘We went to the middle... we got bored’

Improvisation workshop with Hagit Yakira

Fri 25 Jan, 1.00pm - 3.00pmBook at http://hagityakira.eventbrite.co.uk£5.00, Yorkshire Dance Collective £3.00

An exciting opportunity to work with performer,

choreographer and teacher Hagit Yakira. Revel in the sensuous experience

of feeling free whilst moving. Engage in an exploration of memory,

storytelling and tasks that informed the making of Hagit’s current work

through improvisation, creative tasks and vocal elements.

The workshop encourages the playfulness and enjoyment of dancing with

abandon. Suitable for anyone aged 18 or over who likes to move, know

their bodies and embrace the unknown.

There will be a sharing of Hagit’s work-in-progress at 3.30pm.

“Hagit is truly an amazing teacher. The energy throughout the class

is hugely positive and kinetic.” Nick Street, Danceworks member

Hagit graduated from the Music & Dance Academy in Jerusalem and went

on to an MA in European Theatre Dance at Laban Centre, London. She is a

qualified Dance Movement Therapist, and is studying for a PhD in

Choreography at Laban with a focus on autobiography. Her choreographic

practice has already garnered awards: Oh Baby in the Kajaani

Choreography Competition, Finland 2009 (1st Prize) and Somewherebetween a self and an other in the Burgos New York Choreography

Competition (New Dance Trend Category), Spain 2007 (2nd Prize).

www.hagityakira.com

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Yorkshire Dance is in the cultural

quarter of Leeds city centre, opposite the

BBC building and Leeds College of Music,

next to the Northern Ballet / Phoenix

Dance Theatre building, over the road

from Leeds city bus station and 15

minutes’ walk from the train station.

There is limited on-street parking outside

Yorkshire Dance, but there are plenty of

public car parks within easy walking

distance.

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