Performance Projects
for 2008
Indepen-dance
Performance Company has been invited to perform on Sunday
1st June 08 at the International Congress of Midwives at
the Armadillo, Glasgow. Rehearsals have been scheduled for
the 27th May - 31st May, 10.30 - 3pm daily at the Coupers
Institute, Cathcart, Glasgow.
Exchange Performance
with Amici
We
are planning to take part in another dance exchange performance
with members of Amici Dance Company, which would entail
members of the performance company traveling to London to
work with members of Amici to create a joint performance
project. It is the intention to perform "Forecast"
the piece created for our trip to Milan last year. The performance
will be presented at the Hammersmith Lyric on the 7th &
8th July 08.
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Fund Raising Events
We have planned a fund
raising event which will be a bag pack at ASDA Toryglen
on 20th June, 3pm - 7pm; if you would like to help with
this events please contact us - your support will be greatly
appreciated.
Four
dance events with
themes of the elements
After
the success of last year's seasonal events Indepen-dance
would like to continue the success with another four
events in 07-08 term using the theme of the elements
as inspiration for these events.
Previous
Events
Last
July a group of the Indepen-dance performance group attended
a disability festival in Milan. A new piece was created
to show at the event and before attending the festival the
group rehearsed the piece with choreographer Cheryl McChesney.
It was also performed in the Hidden Garden on the 20th of
June as part of the Scottish Ballet Event.
Choreographic
Lab Events
Between
2006 and 2007, indepen-dance had three new choreographers
working with the company to produce new ideas of ways of
working. These consisted of Alan Greig from the X Factor,
Ditta13 from Germany, and a Spanish dance company from Madrid.
Indepen-dance has confirmed funding from the Scottish Arts
Council to choose one of these choreographers to come back
and run a performance group later in the year.
10th
year Anniversary Exhibition:
We
held an exhibition for 3weeks during August 2006 at The
Tramway which celebrated our 10th year anniversary.
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Performance
Projects:
The
Working Party - The Extra's Opera
Indepen-dance
Dance Company has been invited to take part in a performance
project by The Working Party titled "The Extras Opera".
The rehearsals for the event which will be choreographed
by Jane Simpson and directed By Benno Plassmann. This performance
follows on from a performance project which is happening
in Turin at the end of Frbruary of which 6 members of Indepen-dance
are taking part.
Performance
Dates: 7th - 8th April 2006
Venue:
The Pearce Institute, Govan
Gustav
Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No.5, Glasgow
In Autumn last
year, INDEPEN-DANCE of Glasgow and Orbit of Belfast, for
the third year running, worked on a production based on
Richard Stauss 'Four Last Songs'.
With Royston Maldoom and Janice Parker choreographing, a
goal of one hundred dancers on stage and the accompanyment
of The Orchestra of Scottish Opera this production has been
one to remember
Performance dates:
2nd - 5th Nov, 2005
Venue: The Tramway,
Glasgow
Feb
2001
THE starting point
for this Scottish Opera For All project - choreographed
and co-ordi- nated by Marisa Zanotti - was Puccini's Madame
Butterfly , a work that has, at its core, a reminder of
how easy it is to destroy something beautiful, elusive,
vulnerable. However, Butterfly - an inter-disciplinary performance
involving adults and young people with learning difficulties
- doesn't dwell on the dark tragedy within the narrative,
or even retell the story. Instead, dancers, musicians and
artists have responded to sources that inspired Puccini:
the culture and ceremony of Japan and the image of the butterfly
itself. The result is quite exquisite. A gentle, evocative
celebration of oriental cour- tesies and ceremonial, deli-
cately threaded through with butterfly motifs in both the
artwork and movement.
The Lighthouse
- white- walled, L-shaped, airy - was hung with large, intricate
macrame "wings" inlaid with jewel-bright shapes
that caught the light, dappled the walls with fluttering
mosaics. Moving among these wings, the members oflndepen-dance
- the Glasgow-based integrated dance-theatre company - who
bowed gravely to one another before staging their own tea
ceremony. As the shared bowl passed from hand to hand, a
full moon of white cloth acted as a screen for projected
paint- ings, film footage and collages created in the course
of various workshops. Meanwhile, musicians and singers from
the Orchestra and Chorus of Scottish Opera accompanied the
dance with atmospheric echoes of Puccini's score. We followed
the dancers as - like a line of calligraphy - they flowed
into the far end of the space. There, in whispering clusters,
they breathed the name of Cho-Cho-San . . . although the
final kiss from one dancing couple gave this Butterfly a
happier ending.
Review by Mary Brennan from The
Herald 24/02/2001 |
