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20/01/12
Neon Dance had a one week residency at Dance City
Neon Dance is currently in residency this week at Dance City.
Neon Dance was founded in 2003 and produce visually stunning performance work, combining dance with original music and digital media. Artistic Director, Adrienne Hart, creates a performance experience designed for a varied range of spaces from small theatre venues to large scale festivals.
Neon Dance are using their residency to develop their work with media artist Frieder Weiss as well as working towards their upcoming new production The Intention.
The Intention is a dark dance theatre piece inspired ...
20/01/12
The Flex Dance Company present their first full length work Shake the Tree at Dance City
The Flex Dance Company present their first full length work Shake the Tree at Dance City
The Flex Dance Company is the leading contemporary dance company for people with a learning disability in the North East. They are a company of nine dancers who come together to create, devise and perform new work.
Shake the Tree, their first full length performance, follows George, a young learning disabled man entering adulthood and being faced with choices that need to be made at this pivotal point in his life. The production ...
13/01/12
James Wilton creates work with Northumbria University's Dance: Choreography students
James Wilton has been creating work with Northumbria University BA (Hons) Dance: Choreography third year students this week at Dance City. James has taken the students through an engaging and creative process as they embark on their final semester.
The students have had an exciting and inspirational week with James. Their week has been a mixture of improvisation, body conditioning, and floor work as well as in depth discussions on religion and philosophy.
One third year student said,
He really makes you think of the choices you make as ...
12/01/12
Dance City launch new season of international and local work to excite North East audiences.
Dance City’s new January-July season has been announced and offers an exciting mix of work from across the world and promises to entice audiences once again with high quality dance performances.
Dance City has introduced two new stands to its performance programme from January 2012. The Discover season gives audiences the opportunity to see new and cutting-edge performances at the venue, being amongst the first in the UK to have such an opportunity, and at incredible value with all tickets priced at just £5. The second, the International season, ...
12/01/12
Dance City invests in six new commissioned pieces of dance.
Dance City, Newcastle, is delighted to announce the commissioning of six new pieces of dance in 2012 – 13, investing a total of at least £100,000 in new work.
This new initiative is designed to stimulate, promote and support the creation of six new dance works in the North East. The dance development agency for the North East is awarding £50,000 of its own funds to the commissioning initiative with awards of between £5,000 and £15,000 issued to each successful artist or company. The contribution from Dance City must ...