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Spring 2019

PROFESSIONALDANCE

Welcome to the fresh new year and all the hopes and dreams another year can bringwith it.We begin by celebrating the wide and wonderful variety of work being made here inScotland with our residency programme, welcoming workshops from the fabulousManipulate Festival, and continuing with the amazing Out of Class improvisationsessions 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 mysteriousScottish Arts Club in Rutland Square in early March. And one of this term’s residencies will create a new work which will premiere at theStorytelling Centre in March. Entitled Hebridean Treasure, it is being choreographedby Shane Shambu, danced by Kirsten Newell, and follows the story of ancient CelticChristianity on Iona, as written by the Reverend John Phillip Newell.We at Dance Base are so delighted that our work with LGBT Youth Scotland on theLGBT Charter of Rights has led to the organisation being awarded the Silver CharterMark. So, in recognition of that and following on from the glorious Caledonia Ball aspart of ID.Y Fest in the Autumn Term, we will be hosting a number of celebratoryevents with some wonderful collaborators, to celebrate LGBT History Month inFebruary.

Spring Term 2019

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Dance Base gratefully acknowledges support from:

The University of EdinburghThe Rayne FoundationPaul Hamlyn FoundationThe Leverhulme TrustParkinson’s UKThe RS Macdonald Charitable TrustScottish Ballet

Dance Base 14 –16 Grassmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2JU0131 225 5525 I [email protected] I dancebase.co.uk

BOARDChair Edward ACrozier Vice Chair Simon GuestMembers Paul Blair, Robert Dawson Scott, Fiona Hendry, Kirstee Macbeth, Ashley Shannon, Cllr Donald Wilson

WELCOME

Patron: HRH Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay KT KGArtistic Patron: Mark Morris

Dance Base Associate Artists Martyn Garside, Claricia Parinussa, Luke Pell, Farah Saleh, Robbie Synge

Cover: RANT, a moving image film made in collaboration between Martyn Garside and Owa Barua

Martyn Garside is a Dance Base Associate Artist

Image: Amy Sinead Photography

Morag Deyes MBE, Artistic [email protected]

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Resources/Notice BoardAn extensive library of books, magazines, publicationsand DVDs are available to view or borrow. Receptionstaff will be happy to retrieve items from the archive.Details of classes, residencies, audition notices, jobsand calls for submissions/collaboration are on thenotice board outside the green room.

Green RoomChill out, access the internet and read our selection of national and international dance publications. PCand internet access via free WiFi is available.

Dance News ProA monthly digest of news, events, job opportunities and special offers. Sign up at dancebase.co.uk

Dance Base ReceptionThe well-informed and friendly reception staff are your first port of call for any enquiries. 0131 225 5525 / [email protected]

Pro Studio HireStudio space is available to hire out with the regularprofessional programme at £9 per hour. The DanceBase meeting room may be available for dancecompany board meetings for free. Please contact [email protected] for availabilityand prices.

FundingThe Creative Scotland Professional Development Fundoffers assistance for individual artists working at aprofessional level in Scotland.0845 603 6000 / creativescotland.com

AdviceDance Base staff are here to offer support, advice andadvocacy to the professional community. Morag Deyes,Artistic Director, directs the residency, festival andshowcase programme, and can advise on many areas of professional development and training. Morag is alsohappy to give feedback during the studio process ifrequested 2 – 3 weeks in advance. Bush Hartshorn, Head of Catalyst, is available to advise on professionaldevelopment for dance artists and Partnership ManagerEmma Stewart-Jones is available to advise on fundingapplications. [email protected] / [email protected]@dancebase.co.uk

The Treatment Room at Dance Base Treatments are undertaken by highly qualifiedpractitioners, offered at a reduced rate. To bookcontact the therapist directly. Details available from reception and [email protected]

Valeska Andrews Massage TherapyNO HANDS massage. On-Site Chair.Deep powerful, gentle touch for all. [email protected]

Feldenkrais with Merav IsraelPerformer, movement/dance teacher, choreographer,Feldenkrais Method practitioner.07821 335757 / [email protected]

FASIC Fitness Assessmentand Sports Injuries Centre for Sport & Exercise, The University of Edinburgh Offers discounts of up to 25% when quoting Dance Base Professional Offer.0131 650 2578 / sport.ed.ac.uk

Bill Taylor Sports Injuries Clinic Welcomes dancers and offers a £5 discount on consultations when quoting Dance Base Professional Offer.0131 332 8698

Health for Life Chiropractic Can help with spine/joint injury treatment andpreventative spinal care. Dancers receive 50% off aconsultations – quote Dance Base Professional Offer.0131 477 1728 / healthforlifechiro.co.uk

Dance Base operates an open-door policy to all professionaldancers. These are some of the resources available.

PROSERVICES

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Wednesday9 Jan – 3 Apr

Ballet

ProfessionalDrop-in I 09.30 –11.00 I £4.50

9, 16 & 23 JanMatthew Hawkins

30 Jan & 6 FebLucy Ireland

13, 20 & 27 Feband 6 & 13 MarMark Pace

20 & 27 Mar and 3 AprLucy Ireland

Please see website for furtherinformation about each class.

Contemporary

With Steinvor Palsson I Adv/ProDrop-in I 18.00 –19.30 I £4.50

Focusing on alignment, breath,clarity of movement and musicality,the class moves from standingexercises for working on techniquethrough movement sequences andjumps that explore space, rhythmand shifting dynamics.

Thursday10 Jan – 11 Apr

Company Class

With Resident Companies

Further details on style, class content and requisite experience can be found in the residency sectionof the brochure, or online.

10 Jan 10.00 –11.30Robert Robinson

17 Jan 10.00 –11.30Claricia Parinussa

24 Jan 10.00 –11.30Farah Saleh

31 Jan 10.00 –11.30Jen Cunningham & Suzi Cunningham

7 Feb 10.00 –11.30Jen Wren

14 Feb 10.00 –11.30Lucy Suggate

21 Feb 10.00 –11.30Farah Saleh

7 & 14 Mar 10.00 –11.30Ashanti Harris & Mele Broomes

21 Mar 10.00 –11.30Claricia Parinussa

28 Mar 10.00 –11.30Errol White & Davina Givan

4 Apr 10.00 –11.30Luke Pell

CLASSES

Drop-in classTickets are sold on a first-come,first-served basis. Buy ticketsonline, in person or over the phonefrom one day before the class begins.

Musicians:Atzi Muramatsu, Nik PT,David Robertson, Barney Strachan,Freya Thomsen

Tuesday8 Jan – 9 Apr

Company Class

With Resident Companies

Further details on style, class content and requisite experience can be found in the residencysection of the brochure, or online.

8 Jan 10.00 –11.30Shane Shambhu

15 Jan 10.00 –11.30Luke Pell

22 Jan 10.00 –11.30Melanie Jordan

29 Jan 10.00 –11.30Angus Balbernie & Skye Reynolds& Clive Andrews

19 Feb 10.00 –11.30Tamsyn Russell

26 Feb 10.00 – 11.30Angus Balbernie & Skye Reynolds& Clive Andrews

5 Mar 10.00 –11.30Alice Smith

12 & 19 Mar 10.00 –11.30Martyn Garside

26 Mar 10.00 –11.30Elena Morena Weber

2 Apr 10.00 –11.30Rosalind Masson

9 Apr 10.00 –11.30Bridie Gane

Class LevelsClasses marked Professional aresuitable for professional dancers,graduate students and others whohave undergone intense technicaltraining. Other classes listed on these pages are taught at All Levels or Improvers and are also open tocommunity dancers.

PRO Studio HireStudio space is available to hire outwith the regularprofessional programme forindividual professionaldevelopment at £9 per hour.For availability and prices,please [email protected]

NewsletterSign up to the pronewsletter for allthe latest news,jobs, opportunitiesand performances from the world of pro dance.dancebase.co.uk

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Saturday 5 Jan – 31 Mar

Contemporary

Professional

Drop-in I 11.15 –12.45 I £4.50

5, 12, 19 & 26 Janand 2 FebLucy Suggate

9, 16 & 26 Feb and 2 & 9 MarTamsyn Russell

16, 23 & 30 MarErrol White & Davina Givan

Please see website for furtherinformation about each class.

Sunday 7 Jan – 1 Apr

Out of Class

Programmed by Christine Devaney

Professional

£5 payable in cash on the day

Sun 13 Jan 11.00 –13.00

Sun 24 Feb 11.00 –13.00

Sun 24 Mar 11.00 –13.00

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Aerial HireProfessional Aerial Hire isavailable once an induction has been completed. To book an induction contact:[email protected]

Company showingsImmerse yourself in our free studio showing of the week’sprofessional resident companies at 16.00 or 17.00. Come and supportyour dance community. See the calendar on the back page for dates.

Friday11 Jan – 5 Apr

Classical Ballet

Vincent Hantam

Professional

Drop-in I 09.30 –11.00 I £4.50

This is a general morning classfor professional dancers anddancers with extensiveexperience of classical ballet. This class will invigorate bothyour body and your mind and set you up for the day.

Vogue Sessions

Monthly Open to All Vogue Practicewith the Scottish Chapter of theKiki House of Tea

All Levels I 16+ £3 payable in cash on the day

Sun 13 Jan 14.30 –16.30

Sun 24 Feb 14.30 –16.30

Sun 24 Mar 14.30 –16.30

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Out of ClassProgrammed by Christine Devaney

Sun 13 Jan, Sun 24 Feb, Sun 24 Mar I 11.00 –13.00 £5 payable in cash on the day

Out of Class is for professional dancers and people with movement/dance experience of any technique, who are interested in exploring improvisation.

The sessions are led by experienced dance artists who facilitate ways into dancingintuitively and connecting with others. Building from simple guided scores: initiallyfocusing on the breath and ways of tuning into your own body and dance.

These sessions are playful with a strong focus on the interplay between dance and live music.

Visual artists and writers are also welcome to participate and explore their owndiscipline in relation to the dance and the music.

Voguing is an originally underground dance-based art form that comes from the Ballroomscene, created by the black and latinx LGBT communities in prisons and the Harlem drag balls.

It came into recognisable form by the 60s, and promotes liberation and community buildingthrough performance, self-determination, and House culture. Houses are alternate kinshipsystems that were formed in the Harlem black & latinx LGBT community as support networks,with parents of each House mentoring and guiding their children.

The Kiki House of Tea is an international family and part of the Kiki scene (a subculture ofBallroom) founded by Overall Father Jay Jay Revlon in London, with members across the UK,Europe and Canada.

Our practice is an inclusive and welcoming space for all people who would like to discoverauthentic Ballroom culture and voguing to be able to learn the history & context of this artform,and to learn the foundations of the main voguing styles (Old Way, New Way and Vogue fem), and other Ballroom artforms.

Vogue is a freestyle artform and the Kiki House of Tea members will lead drills and give time for self-led practice for participants to master the basic elements and utilise self-determinationand creative expression to explore and communicate their own identity.

It doesn't matter of you've not danced before or never heard of voguing. This is a safe, no-pressure space for people of all abilities, backgrounds & experiences to discover Ballroom,discover themselves and most importantly to have fun! We'll see you on the floor!

Monthly Open to All Vogue Practice with the Scottish Chapter of The Kiki House of Tea

Sun 13 Jan, Sun 24 Feb, Sun 24 Mar I 14.30 – 16.30

Suitable for all levels I 16+ I £3 payable in cash on the day

The Kiki House of Tea also organises workshops and events.FollowVogue Scotland on Facebook and other social media platformsfor further information.

VOGUESESSIONS

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TO SPEAK OR NOT TO SPEAK? PUPPETS AND WORDS

Sarah Wright & Anna MurphySat 2 – Mon 4 Feb | Various times

Puppeteer and artist director of the Curious School of Puppetry Sarah Wright and writer Anna Maria Murphywill explore how words and narrative can work with puppetry vividly to tell stories.

Participants will focus on and experiment with: How puppets might speak, and the dialogue and poetry theymight use; Voice-over, narration and found-sound; How stories, words and poetry can be the creative genesis for the effective devising of character and scenes, and then disappear; Chorus and choruses.

Sarah and Anna have worked together on numerous occasions, including Kneehigh Theatre Rambles projects, A Very Old Manwith Enormous Wings and The Adventures of Curious Ganz. They continue to experiment withpuppetry and words as dynamic tools for powerful storytelling.

To book:eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-speak-or-not-to-speak-puppets-and-words-with-sarah-wright-anna-murphy-tickets-51578184739

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PUPPET ANIMATION SCOTLAND MANIPULATE VISUAL THEATRE FESTIVAL 2019

Puppet Animation Scotlandis pleased to present theseworkshops as part of its 12th Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival 2019.

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WorkshopsTHINGS ON STRINGS

Frank Soehnle & Alice Therese GottschalkTue 5 – Thu 7 Feb | 09.00 – 17.00

An introduction to the world of string puppets. Alice Therese Gottschalk and Frank Soehnlewill teach how towork with gravity, exploring the possibilities of a simple pendulum in order to feel and understand the basicconcepts and techniques of marionettes. Participants will also learn about the symbiotic relationship betweenform, material and the mechanical.

In its work, Figurentheater Tübingen explores the porous borders between puppetry and other arts. Withtraditional forms of puppet-theatre and techniques of object-and material-theatre, as well as elements ofdrama, fine arts and music, the company aims to develop original, innovative theatrical forms. As part ofManipulate 2019 the ensemble presents its production, Wunderkammer, on Monday 4 February at the Traverse Theatre.

To book:eventbrite.co.uk/e/things-on-strings-with-frank-soehnle-alice-therese-gottschalk-tickets-51578234889

CREATING YOUR UNIVERSE

Sabine Molenaar Fri 8 – Sat 9 Feb | Various times

An intensive workshop for more experienced dancers, exploring the different improvisatory and compositionaltools Sabine Molenaar uses in her own creative process.

How to build your own universe? What personal qualities and layers might create a total experience? Howmight you tell your story through movement which starts purely from an emotion, a thought or a physicalsensation? Using visualisation, breath and movement to connect the mind and body, we will stimulate theimagination, creating a nourishing environment to research different states of mind and physicality. Thisworkshop will stimulate each participant to find their own unique qualities and, through pushing their physicalboundaries, transform both body and mind.

With her company Sandman, Sabine Molenaar creates deeply personal imaginative productions ruled by the associative logic of dreams. The world she creates is intriguing and unusual but always recognizable.Sabine develops her work from a specific state of mind. The body – in which she combines supreme mental,physical and emotional concentration – is her tool and gives her characters and associations profundity andexpressiveness. She connects the concrete and the etheric. The body is the point of departure and compassion:painfully virtuous and mercilessly personal.

To book:eventbrite.co.uk/e/things-on-strings-with-frank-soehnle-alice-therese-gottschalk-tickets-51578234889

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PRIMEFebruary 2019 will be PRIME’s 4th birthday! This wonderful group of dancers is Scotland's first semi-professional company for movers who have more than 60 years of life experience.

Over the past 5 busy years PRIME have worked with some of the UK's leading dance professionals, toured and performed both nationally and internationally, appeared in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to critical acclaim, have performed as part of every Luminate festival, were guests of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay as part of the Scot:lands programme (2017/18) and with every show, were boldly challenging assumptions as towho can dance and what being an elder means in the 21st century.

As a birthday celebration, we are delighted to welcome back Angus Balbernie, who created the companies first full-length work, Tarn, back in 2015. Angus joins us in February to refresh Tarn for the new, evolvingPRIME. Join us on Friday 15 February at 16.00 to see how the work has grown with the company, andwitness Tarn in all its glory as part of:

GlimpseIn March 2019, PRIME will be performing a moving installation as part of a project supported by EdinburghCity Council and Edinburgh Military Tattoo Fund in collaboration with the Scottish Arts Club. Keep any eyeon our website and social media to find out more!

PRIME are Scotland’s first semi-professional dance company for dancers over 60.

In Spring 19, they will be in the studio with choreographer Angus Balbernie to rework their2015 performance piece, Tarn. This spring will also be the company’s fourth anniversary.

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Access & InclusionDance Base is committed to being as accessible and as inclusive as possible, both as a venue andas an organisation.

As part of the professional dance community, we’d love to hear from you. If you’d like to talk to usabout the accessibility of our programme, please contact Helen McIntosh, Programmes [email protected] This could relate to the application process for residencies, access tostudios, participating in the festival programme, or anything else you’d care to discuss.

We have a full access statement on our website, along with information on level access routes toDance Base. Ask us if you’re unsure about anything.

Visit dancebase.co.uk/access or ask at reception for more information.

#DBSafeSpace

As part its ethos of inclusivity and respect, Dance Base aims to challenge discrimination andprejudice, ensuring it is a Safe Space for everyone;we believe dance is for everyone,and everyone can dance.

SAFE SPACE COMMITMENTS

• Let’s be aware of those around us

• Let’s be respectful of each other’s physical and emotional boundaries

• Let’s conduct ourselves in a positive and respectful manner

• Let’s not make assumptions about another person’s gender, preferred pronouns (they/she/he), sexuality, disability, ethnic identity, or life experiences

• Let’s listen to each other

• Let’s communicate respectfully, even when challenged on our behaviour

OUR AIM

To make and keep up Dance Base as a creative, fun,respectful, Safe Space for people of ALL abilities, genders, backgrounds, ages, shapes, and cultures to enjoy.

Dance Base is currently working towards its LGBTYouth Scotland Silver Charter Award; an awardreceived through an organisation’s commitment toimproving services in the workplace, andremoving barriers for people.

SafeSpace

To view our full Safe Space Policy, visitdancebase.co.uk/participation/our-safe-space-commitments

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Dance Base seeks to appoint three AssociateArtists, in addition to continuing to work withexisting Associate Artists Claricia Parinussa, Farah Saleh and Luke Pell. In March 2019,Martyn Garside and Robbie Synge will concludetheir associateships.

The programme will run for an initial period ofone year, commencing 1 April 2019, and as withthe current Associates continuing their time withthe programme, the length of the associateshipcan potentially adapt to the timeline that seemsmost appropriate for an individual artist’s needs.

Each selected artist will be able to access arange of support, including no-cost studio space,project management, fundraising assistance,production support, and other developmentopportunities. A core part of the programme willbe intensive mentoring and coaching from BushHartshorn. The details of each support packagewill be tailored according to the artist’s needs,and the available Dance Base resources. Theassociateships are focused on practical supportand do not include a monetary grant.

This opportunity is open to all artists residentin Scotland, working within the forms of dance,physical theatre, performance art, live art,choreography, and dance film. We wouldespecially welcome applications from artists whoidentify as: LGBTQIA; People of Colour (POC)and/or Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME); or disabled.

The artists will be selected on two basic criteria:

1 Quality of work (subjective, in accordance with the judgement of the selection panel)

2 The expected impact and value the Associateship could have for the selected artists and their work

The programme will be managed by BushHartshorn and supported by Helen McIntosh.

Applications will be read by:Bush Hartshorn – Head of CatalystMorag Deyes – Artistic DirectorHelen McIntosh – Programmes ManagerDance Base Chief Executive (at time of selection)John Lyndon – Head of Marketing & Communications

Interview Panel will be: Bush Hartshorn – Head of CatalystMorag Deyes – Artistic DirectorHelen McIntosh – Programmes Manager

Please complete the application form (or answer the questions in the application formin a medium you find accessible, eg video).Please send the application form and acompleted Equal Opportunities monitoringform by email to [email protected], by 11.00 on Monday 14 January.

Interviews for those selected will be:

First Round Interviews: Tue 22 Jan or Wed 23 Jan

Second Round Interviews:Tue 29 Jan or Wed 30 Jan

If you anticipate any difficulties with any of thepotential dates, please highlight this in yourapplication email.

DANCE BASEASSOCIATE ARTISTCALL OUT

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Catalyst: Artist DevelopmentWorkshops 121 Funding Advice Sessions with Emma Stewart-Jones Wed 16 Jan | Wed 13 Feb | Thu 14 Mar

There will be three slots available per day at 09.30, 11.15 & 14.00 and will be booked on a first come, first served basis.

These one and a half hour funding advice sessions are open to artists who would like to find out moreinformation about Creative Scotland's funding routes, funding from Trusts/Foundations, get feedback on afunding application or to find out about potential venues/partners that might be relevant to your project.

Emma Stewart-Jones is Dance Base’s Projects and Partnerships Manager and has over twenty years’experience in devising creative programmes, managing arts staff, developing policies, and assessing fundingapplications. Previous experience as a dance manager, board advisor, dance programmer for a middle scaletheatre and for the past five years has worked at Creative Scotland.

To book please email [email protected], with your ideal date and timeslot, including a brief outline of what you would like to discuss.

These sessions are aimed at people working in the dance sector and sessions will take place at Dance Base.

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Selected by Artistic Director, Morag Deyes

Throughout the year, Dance Base offers residency opportunities to professional choreographers, companies andindividual artists who want to develop their work. The selection is not highly competitive but we will choose artistswho we believe will make the best use of the facilities we have built for dance and who may also have a positiveimpact on the professional dance community. We offer two strands of residency to support your needs.

EXPLORINGExploring residencies are designed to encourage exploration, research, development and experimentation. There will be an opportunity to share findings with peers and Dance Base visitors and to invite and encouragefeedback.

ARRIVINGThis residency is offered to a choreographer, company or individual who wished to take an already-developed idea to the next stage and premiere their work in a theatre or site-specific space.

Forthcoming residencies | Summer Term 2019 (April – June)

HOW TO APPLYWe invite applications three times a year – we are currently programming for Summer 2019. Deadline forapplications is 17.00 on Monday 21 January 2019. Applications may be submitted by email to Helen McIntosh,ProgrammesManager [email protected]. Please complete the Residency Application document onthe residencies page of the website at dancebase.co.uk/professional

RESIDENCIES

Company class I Thursday 10 January I 10.00 –11.30 A simple ballet class will be provided to which we can focus on the technique and alignment of the body.

Company showing I Friday 11 January I 17.00

RESIDENCY 7 – 11 JANUARY

New Work

BalletWorksThe inspiration for this residency at Dance Base stems from the search forthe balance that is the fine line of personal and shared space. In today'sgrowing society, of which we have little control over, the ability to find muchneeded personal space becomes unconsciously a matter of adaptation orimprovisation. We want to continue questioning this delicate subject to findout how this can affect our relationships and those around us. Do we need tofight for space? Or shall we find solutions to welcome everyone in. EmrecanTanis is a dancer/choreographer with the Helsinki National Ballet. RobertRobinson is Artistic Director of BalletWorks. Pablo von Sternenfels is aformer soloist with Stuttgart Ballet .

Claricia Parinussa is a Dance Base Associate Artist

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Company class I Tuesday 8 January I 10.00 – 11.30

Shane Shambhu leads a unique open class for dancers and actors. He shares his practise that seamlesslymerges his Indian dance background with contemporary dance and theatre techniques widening the potentialfor creative expression and providing a rare experience of different cultural viewpoints to the approach tocreating performance. Participants will practically explore their individual creativity and instincts from aculturally different standpoint and discover a unique culturally-hybrid dance-theatre language that has been developed from the participants’ own creative drive.



Hebridean Treasure: Lost & Found

Shane Shambhu

Shane Shambhu will be working closely with Kirsten Newell to explorethe narrative potential of Bharatanatyam by applying a training

methodology he has been developing. The narrative potential will still maintain the physical prowess of the form butexpand to encompass narrative, express emotionally and communicate a deeper felt meaning by going beyond theabstract. This exploration will stem from a script entitled Hebredean Treasurewritten by John Philip Newell. Thisexploration along with text will be a chance to explore the ways in which Bharatanatyam can be re-invented to tellstories beyond its cultural expectations to connect with other cultures and narratives.

RESIDENCY 14 – 18 JANUARY & 18 – 22 MARCH

the sky was pink

Claricia Parinussa Associate Artist Claricia Parinussa will develop movement and performance research under ongoing project the skywas pink, working solo and in collaboration with invited artists and mentor Lucy Suggate. the sky was pink explores thediasporic body through the notion of a body-schema; an ecology of living and sedimented movement languages,embodied experience, trauma and physical memory. The research currently manifests in performance works, video,writing and conversation. Following Autumn term's ID.Y Fest co-curated with Helen McIntosh; Claricia will host a strandof open conversations through Spring as part of wider inquiries around identity, representation and cultural hierarchiesin the current arts ecology. Please see http://clariciakr.com/In-conversation for further information and how to join inperson or online. I am interested in the ways in which our bodies communicate with us, and the ways in which wecommunicate with each other through the body. In beginning with our own bodies in the processes of dismantling andreconfiguring dominant structures. In collectively re-telling stories, re-presenting images, re-imagining identities andcentring marginalised voices.

Company class I Thursdays 17 January & 21 March I 10.00 –11.30

The morning will follow a daily movement practice through a series of ideas, images and questions drawingon a range of movement forms; working in close relation with sound.

Company showings I Friday 18 January, 17.00 I Friday 22 March, 15.00Supported by Creative Scotland

Company class I Thursday 24 January & Thursday 21 February I 10.00 –11.30

The class "Connect to expand and express" will explore the head connections and movement initiations. Wewill start from small somatic exercises, then move to bigger and dynamic ones, to finish with a dance phrasethat integrates the learnt connections, while adding physical states to each movement.

Performance I Friday 22 February I 18.30 I The Fruitmarket Gallery

Dance Base is delighted to be working in partnership with Associate Artist, Farah Saleh, and The FruitmarketGallery to present her new work, What My Body Can/t Remember, as part of Open Out 2019. The performance isfree, but ticketed. Booking info coming soon on fruitmarket.co.uk and dancebase.co.uk

RESIDENCY 21 – 25 JANUARY AND 18 – 22 FEBRUARY

What My Body Can/t Remember Farah Saleh

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oran What My Body Can/t Remember is the fourth story I aim at archiving in thePalestinian Archive of Gestures. A project I have been developing since 2014,which attempts at archiving hidden stories and gestures in the Palestiniannarrative. In 2002 the Israeli military invaded the West Bank including my cityRamallah. We had to stay home for many months under curfew, which brought

me back to dancing after years of interruption. During this residency I will begin to archive this story and its gesturesby exploring what my body can remember from me dancing under siege and how dancing in a private domestic spacebecame my only mean of physical freedom

RESIDENCY 14 – 18 JANUARY AND 1 – 5 APRIL

Associate Artist – studio days Luke PellAssociate Artist Luke Pell will be in the studio continuing to exploreaspects of his practice concerned with the choreography of people,place and thought including projects he has been developing duringthe associateship so far: Selkie Was A Sea Witch (or...)with KittyFedorec and The Wait of Mountainswith Janice Parker

Company class I Tuesday 15 January and Thursday 4 April I 10.00 –11.30

Join Luke and collaborators in an open playful space for morning preparations that work with words andmovements - words as movements - and the body as landscape, through a series of guided improvisations and rituals that draw on memory and materiality to listen, touch and move, differently.

Company Showing I Friday 5 April I 17.00

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NINO

Tidy CarnageNINO is a solo performance piece of physical theatre withno dialogue. It is a darkly comic performance inspired byone woman’s experience of living in poverty and grapplingwith the benefits system; struggling to get by every day,with not much more than her imagination to keep her going. We never hear her speak, but we see into the absurdityand bleakness of her reality, and the voices that surround her, telling her she’s worth nothing because she has nothing.

Part-clown, part-dance, part-soundscape, we are creating NINO to be a unique and provocative look contemporarypoverty and the UK benefits system. It is inspired by real stories told to us by people who have lived on the lowestincomes in the UK, and what they did and didn’t do to get by.

Tidy Carnage are working on this new piece in preparation for a work in progress performance at Manipulate 2019.Performer – Melanie Jordan, Director – Allie Winton Butler, Sound Designer – Susan Bear.

Company class I Tuesday 22 January I 10.00 –11.30

Clowning. Led by a Gaulier-trained professional, this class will encourage you to unlock your inner ridiculousself. The focus will be on listening to the audience, self/group awareness, embracing failure and getting upafter you fall. Practical techniques to allow the performer to find a natural state of play and discovery, withfocus on comedic timing, devising sketches, and the art of making people laugh.


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RESIDENCY 28 JANUARY – 1 FEBRUARY

Dance Spells

Jen Cunningham and Suzi Cunningham Dance Spells is a project, inspired by the book The Lost Words by Robert McFarlane and Jackie Morris, working towards a performanceexperience that intertwines words, sounds, imagery, bodies and nature.These are the ingredients of our spells, to conjure the natural world into being, to journey into the imagination where everyone can be re-enchanted with curiosity, the magic of nature and the lost worlds of our childhood.

This residency will go deeper into creating characteristics and qualitiesrelating to memories, colours, smells and tones surrounding The LostWords. Rediscovering our own lost words, we will draw upon our sharedlove of humour and embodying nature with the view to inspire people todo the same.

Company class I Thursday 31 January I 10.00 – 11.30

Suzi and Jen will guide exercises and creative tasks to develop embodied movement and sequences based onimagery. (Open to all bodies.)

Company showing I Friday 1 February I 17.00

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Company class I Thursday 7 February I 10.00 –11.30

Class starts with a gentle and grounding approach with a focus on gently warming the body in preparation tomove through a range of fluid dynamics. You can expect a “technical” contemporary dance class with a twist(literally as we incorporate elements of spiral and rebound), use of flamenco arm movements in contemporarysequences and footwork deriving from Scottish and Flamenco styles.

Company showing I Friday 8 February I 17.00Supported by Dance Base, The Work Room, Traditional Arts Forum Scotland and Creative Scotland

RESIDENCY 4 – 8 FEBRUARY

New Work

Slanjayvah Danza Jen Wren and the Slanjayvah Danza team of dancers and musiciansare delighted to be back in residency at Dance Base this Spring.Pushing boundaries in the TRAD and folk arts by reframing themalongside and within a contemporary context we are working tocollaborate and extend our practice of Scottish, Spanish and CelticTRAD dances, music and storytelling. This part of our path is to focuson the Scottish heritage and cultural elements required for the artisticcauldron, providing the Celtic spices required to brew new work thatincludes fierce percussive dance, traditional foot stomping music,tender moments and a good old giggle.

RESIDENCY 28 JANUARY – 1 FEBRUARY & 25 FEBRUARY – 1 MARCH

SO du LO et Clive Andrews To explore the creation of a modular performance-based structure of twosolos and a duet with performers, Clive Andrews and Skye Reynolds, anddirector Angus Balbernie.

Both soloists are involved in research that bridges the deeply personal tothe universal drawing upon embodied history, poetics and a wide range of cultural references.

In the first week we will work with an invited artist group to stimulate our research process. Exploring how groupimprovisation can move from the individual to the group and back, and how this form of field composition can informthe creation of solo work.

In the second week we will refocus and reduce the first week’s activities back towards the specific creation of solo and duet work.

Company class I Tuesdays 29 January & 26 February I 10.00 –11.30

Movement warm-up leading into solo and group improvisation.

Company showing I Friday 1 March I 16.00

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Is It Too Hard To Be(a) Human

Lucy SuggateI live with an overwhelming sense that I am not designedfor life – that I somehow do not possess the equipment toeasily navigate the environment I have found myself in.Can moving, dancing, and thinking simultaneously giveme the power, the agency to redesign myself to makemyself more equipped to deal with the increasingcomplexity of the world around? So I may not bedesigned for life, but maybe I’m designed to dance?

Company class I Thursday 14 February I 10.00 –11.30

The class will look at how we can expand and interrogate the way we move. It will focus on anatomicalawareness and imagination. The class is guided through a mixture of physical, verbal and poetic suggestions and draws from improvisational and somatic movement approaches.



Scene (alone)

Tamsyn Russell During this residency Tamsyn will explore the very beginningstages of developing a solo. Starting with the premise ofcreating new worlds, atmospheres and scenarios, but forever interrupted as a new idea crashes into another. As achoreographer Tamsyn is interested in exploring the complexnature of being human and questioning, challenging andcompelling the audience to reflect on their own world.Through this work I hope to expose private thoughts andideologies and reflect the complexities and idiosyncrasiesthat determine what it is to be human.

Company class I Tuesday 19 February I 10.00 –11.30

Tamsyn teaches a release-based class devised to move the body in an organised and efficient way, focusingon clarity of movement and momentum. Working from a traditional class structure from floor phrases tostanding, gradually building to integrate skills in full-bodied movement phrases. Tamsyn's classes areenergetic and challenging by their emphasis on shifting through the space, swing and dynamics.


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Company class I Thursdays 7 & 14 March I 10.00 –11.30

Ashanti – Drawing from traditional West African and Caribbean dance vocabulary, this class is a conversationbetween the past and the present. Mele – Twist and turn. Lengthen and strengthen. Flex and float. Compress,grind, whine and wave your body.


RESIDENCY 4 – 15 MARCH

Sonic Seance V/DAV/DA present a work in progress of Sonic Seance – a vent of desperation, aprojection of aggression, a calling for support. A story of empowerment. Aspeech of truth. A cocktail of venerability. We have been moulding, shapingand cleaning ourselves to suit the imperialist gaze. The gaze that does notknow or understand but still dominates. Emended in this hypnotic, soundawakening, emotional jerking song of sorts is movement and dance whichwill be presented as choreographic visual concert.

Company: LETITIA PLEIADES – activist, dancer, musician, DJ and artist;PATRICIA PANTHER actress, singer/songwriter and composer; ASHANTIHARRIS – an artist and researcher working with dance, activist,performance and installation; MELE BROOMES – dancer, choreographer,teacher and activist.


Cutting It

Alice Smith & Skye Reynolds During this residency, dance artists Alice Smith and SkyeReynolds wish to develop their new performance projectCutting It through creative collaboration. Cutting It is a one-woman show performed by Alice and directed by Skyein the style of ‘Stand Up Dance’. This piece is currently awork-in-progress – a comical, relatable collection of textand movement exploring Alice’s personal experience as arecent dance graduate. We are interested in the cost ofeducation, female identity and creating an economy of artistvalues, as explored through the lens of a young femaledancer. Our research will explore set material and framesfor scored improvisation, including an interdisciplinary focuson how to shift between language and movement.

Company class I Tuesday 5 March I 10.00 –11.30

Class will comprise of movement and voice-based tasks, leading to improvisation around themes fromthe work.


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Concepts of normality Martyn Garside

Company class I Tuesdays 12 & 19 March I 10.00 –11.30 A guided improvised movement class exploring how our body moves, researching further choices in how we noticeand choose movement of the body in space.


Martyn Garside is a Dance Base Associate Artist

A multi-disciplinary movement-based research projectexploring concepts of normality.


EPISODE #1 – work in progress

Elena Morena Weber & Co.During the residency at Dance Base, I’m taking a research about traces ofmemory towards a new choreographic work. I investigate movement throughimprovisation, where immersion into sound landscapes leads to unknownbody architectures. Movement material I perceive as strong, touching, strikingor surprising is developed further and eventually arranged into a narrative,abstract frame.

The confrontation with my origins is the source of inspiration for my artisticwork. I look into the past with nostalgia; longing and melancholia are moodsthat are very present in my life. They play an important role in designatingbelonging and memory as focal points of my work. elenamorena.com

Company class I Tuesday 26 March I 10.00 –11.30

The class is based on floor work techniques, focusing on endurance and reactivity. For professionals andexperienced movers. Class showreel: vimeo.com/252850723


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Company class I Tuesday 2 April I 10.00 – 11.30

Class begins with attention to alignment before bringing the body into space and learning phrases of material.

Company showing I Friday 5 April I 16.00

RESIDENCY 1 – 5 APRIL

Mus Ro Faclan Ann/Before Words

Rosalind Masson –Anima(L)[us] In this residency Rosalind will finish her latest work Mus Ro FaclanAnn/Before Words. Dance Base has supported this piece from itsconception through to its final realisation. A triptych which weavescontrasting sections: Ocean, Bird and Human. The choreography looksfor space between these elements. Mus Ro Faclan Ann is an attempt towrite or record movement that is in dialogue with a people and place.What can a Gaelic reading of the landscape reveal that otherwiseremains hidden? How can the body serve as a medium to that whichcannot otherwise be expressed in words?

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Worn

White & Givan and DEBS 2018/19 Errol White & Davina Givan are mentors for the 2019 Dancers EmergingBursary Scheme (DEBS) and will be joined by DEBS recipients GregorCampbell, Millie Thomas, Kirsten Walker and Jack Anderson throughoutthis residency week to explore themes around histories etched into andonto the body and how these affect our movement and personhood over time. The DEBS will be encouraged to explorepersonal and shared embodied histories, and the ways we consciously and unwittingly create and renew theirmeaning. The body retains visible marks particular to an event alongside the responses to daily use. Sometimesphysical or psychological injury is internalised, and the body accommodates by stooping, slowing, or tensing inprotection. All of our unique lived experience is continually etched like a geological stratum into our beings, whilst ourbodies themselves are in a constant state of cellular renewal. When dwelled upon these seen and unseen marks cantransport us back to the wounding event, alight with the sensory richness of the remembered experience. Other timeswe are blind to their presence, yet they are still there telling our stories and underscoring our vulnerability.

Company class I Thursday 28 March I 10.00 – 11.30

The principal elements of the class work will focus on skeletal alignment; articulate placement and corestability. Leading the dancers to move fluidly with precision, power and strength facilitating a neutral andcontrolled understanding of the body’s physicality in performance.


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PRO Studio hireStudio space is available to hire out with the regular professionalprogramme for individual professional development at £9 per hour.For availability and prices, please contact [email protected]

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RESIDENCY 8 – 12 APRIL

The Sylph, the Vixen and the Bombshell

Bridie GaneWorking with three different generations of women, wewill be exploring how these narratives might transform ondifferent bodies, and how we can mix and match to createnew ones. Exploring the imagery and physicality of eachnarrative whilst embracing difference and escaping ourperceived limitations of age, physicality and behaviours.

This residency aims to challenge the notions of both self-image and the pressure of rigid expectations. I want toask 'is it possible or desirable for a woman to beeverything expected of her?'

Company class I Tuesday 9 April I 10.00 –11.30

An intergenerational class for dancers 16+. Focusing on warming up and preparing the body for moving, someimprovisation and set sequences. This class welcomes dancers of all ages into the studio to enjoy moving tosome excellent music.

Company showing I Friday 12 April I 16.00

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January Tue 8 10.00 –11.30 Shane Shambhu Company Class p15Thu 10 10.00 –11.30 Robert Robinson Company Class p14Fri 11 16.00 Shane Shambhu Company Showing p15Fri 11 17.00 BalletWorks Company Showing p14Tue 15 10.00 –11.30 Luke Pell Company Class p16Thu 17 10.00 –11.30 Claricia Parinussa Company Class p15Fri 18 17.00 Claricia Parinussa Company Showing p15Tue 22 10.00 –11.30 Melanie Jordan Company Class p17Thu 24 10.00 –11.30 Farah Saleh Company Class p16Fri 25 16.00 Tidy Carnage Company Showing p17Tue 29 10.00 –11.30 Angus Balbernie/Skye Reynolds/Clive Andrews Company Class p18Thu 31 10.00 –11.30 Jen Cunningham and Suzi Cunningham Company Class p17

February Fri 1 17.00 Jen Cunningham and Suzi Cunningham Company Showing p17Thu 7 10.00 –11.30 Jen Wren Company Class p18Fri 8 17.00 Slanjayvah Danza Company Showing p18Thu 14 10.00 –11.30 Lucy Suggate Company Class p19Fri 15 17.00 Lucy Suggate Company Showing p19Fri 15 16.00 PRIME Company Showing p10Tue 19 10.00 –11.30 Tamsyn Russell Company Class p19Thu 21 10.00 –11.30 Farah Saleh Company Class p16Fri 22 16.00 Tamsyn Russell Company Showing p19Fri 22 18.30 Farah Saleh @ The Fruitmarket Gallery Performance p16Tue 26 10.00 –11.30 Angus Balbernie/Skye Reynolds/Clive Andrews Company Class p18

March Fri 1 16.00 Clive Andrews Company Showing p18Tue 5 10.00 –11.30 Alice Smith Company Class p20Thu 7 10.00 –11.30 Ashanti Harris & Mele Broomes Company Class p20Fri 8 16.00 Alice Smith, Skye Reynolds Company Showing p20Tue 12 10.00 –11.30 Martyn Garside Company Class p21Thu 14 10.00 –11.30 Ashanti Harris & Mele Broomes Company Class p20Fri 15 16.00 V/DA Company Showing p20Tue 19 10.00 –11.30 Martyn Garside Company Class p21Thu 21 10.00 –11.30 Claricia Parinussa Company Class p15Fri 22 15.00 Claricia Parinussa Company Showing p15Fri 22 16.00 Martyn Garside Company Showing p21Tue 26 10.00 –11.30 Elena Morena Weber Company Class p21Thu 28 10.00 –11.30 Errol White & Davina Givan Company Class p22Fri 29 16.00 Elena Morena Weber & Co. Company Showing p21Fri 29 17.00 White & Givan and DEBS 2018/19 Company Showing p22

AprilTue 2 10.00 –11.30 Rosalind Masson Company Class p22Thu 4 10.00 –11.30 Luke Pell Company Class p16Fri 5 16.00 Rosalind Masson – Anima(L)[us] Company Showing p22Fri 5 17.00 Luke Pell Company Showing p16Tue 9 10.00 –11.30 Bridie Gane Company Class p23Fri 12 16.00 Bridie Gane Company Showing p23

Company showings Immerse yourself in free studio showings of the week’s professional resident companies at 16.00and 17.00 Afterwards join the companies, meet, discuss, network and wind down into the weekend. See below for date listings.

Spring 2019 PRO FESSION AL DANCE · 2019. 1. 11. · PROSERVICES. 4 dancebase.co.uk Wednesday 9 Jan – 3 Apr Ballet Professional Drop-in I 09.30 – 11.00 I £4.50 9, 16 & 23 Jan

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