DANCE RISKS – Yorkshire Dance

A conference exploring professionalism, excellence and the art of community dance.

Leeds, Friday 28 October 2016

£55 if you represent an organisation
£30 if you’re a freelancer
£25 if you’re a student

Lunch and refreshments are included in the price.

Join Yorkshire Dance for a day of debates, practical workshops, talks and performances. How can we place art at the heart of community dance, and what does that mean in practice? How can we define quality within community dance performance; and how can we raise our game to produce work of a higher quality?

Welcome session with Yorkshire Dance and Gillie Kleiman; with Some words to wonder on from Luke Pell and film by Lucy Boyes & Robbie Synge

Morning sessions – choose from:

• Quality and Professionalism in Inclusive Dance with Louise Brown

• Dancing the Everyday with Tim Casson (Casson & Friends)

• Approaching Communities a chaired discussion with Lucy Boyes, Hannah Buckley & Akeim Toussaint Buck

 Performance by Phoenix Youth Academy; with Some words to wonder on from Luke Pell and film and Q&A with Fevered Sleep

Afternoon sessions – choose from:

• Risk-taking with Gifted & Talented Young People with Phoenix Dance Theatre, National Youth Dance Company & National Centres for Advanced Training in Dance

• Men & Girls Dance with Sophie Eustace (Fevered Sleep) & Rose Condo (Lawrence Batley Theatre)

• Finding the Extraordinary in the Everyday with Every Day People

The Gathering with Tim Casson and Some words to wonder on from Luke Pell

Book here.