A
Lyrical Dance Concert
National
Tour
Featuring
Gillie
Kleiman and Eleanor Sikorski
5 NOVEMBER 2014 - 28 FEBRUARY 2015
Tue 24 & Wed 25 February 2015
Newcastle
Northern Stage
Sat 28 February 2015 Berwick The Maltings
Theatre
Can a party be a comedy double act? And can cabaret
also be a gig or an experimental dance performance? Gillie Kleiman, Sara Lindstrom and guest
performer Eleanor Sikorski have all the answers when they tour the UK with A Lyrical Dance Concert from November
until spring 2015.
Number-by-ridiculous-number, Gillie and Eleanor
take lyrics of chart hits by everyone from Mariah Carey to Jay Z and dance them
out – stretching them, turning them, lifting them and throwing them up in the
air. With joyful irreverence and serious
fun, this show insists that pop music belongs to us and it can do what we want
it to do.
A Lyrical Dance Concert is a contemporary dance
performance with DIY glamour. It is in essence a work of reclamation – music,
lyrics and dances are borrowed, and with the help of the audience re-imagined,
to offer opportunities exploring questions of value, responsibility, care and
reverence.
Visual, participatory,
gently political and full of fun, audiences are
advised to get their glad-rags on and experience this mixed-up whirlwind of
glamorous divas, guitar solos and gangster rappers…
Gillie
and Sara, both artists working in dance and choreography, met in an artist’s
exchange in France in 2010. Realising
almost instantly that they shared a love of the twists of language and song
that pop music offers, not to mention a common – and ridiculous – sense of
humour, they set about planting the seeds of the show in Gillie’s bedroom.
“We’re
so excited to be able to meet people across the country with this show. It’s
extra exciting this time around, as our great pal Eleanor Sikorski will be joining
Gillie on stage.”
A Lyrical Dance Concert was created in co-production with
Dance4, with additional support from Dance City, Northern Stage, MDT (Stockholm), and
Konstnärsnämnden (Sweden). It was premiered at Nottdance 2013 in Nottingham, before touring north east England and the East Midlands. The show received its London premiere at Dance Umbrella 2013. Show
development and the 2014/5 tour is supported by public funding by the National
Lottery through Arts Council England, with additional tour support from
Chisenhale Dance Space and Greenwich Dance.
Tour:
Wed 5 Nov, 9pm (doors 8pm), £7/5 Norwich Arts
Centre, 51 St Benedicts St, Norwich NR2 4PG, 01603 660352, www.norwichartscentre.co.uk
Fri 7 Nov, Greenwich Dance, Borough Hall, Royal
Hill, London
SE10 8RE, 8pm
(doors 7.30), £12 /£9, 020 8293 9741, www.greenwichdance.org.uk
Thu 13 & Fri 14 Nov, Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old St, London EC1V 9LT, 7.30pm, £11, 020 7739
6176, www.shoreditchtownhall.com
Sat 15 Nov, Nightingale Theatre at The Basement, 24 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ.
7pm,
£20/£18 (price includes dinner, and double bill ticket with Jonathan Burrows
and Matteo Fargion ‘Body Not Fit For Purpose’) www.nightingaletheatre.co.uk
Wed 19 Nov, Seven Arts, 31(a) Harrogate Road,
Chapel Allerton, Leeds, LS7 3PD,
8pm,
£8/£6
0113 26 26 777, www.sevenleeds.co.uk
Tue 25 Nov, Exeter Phoenix, Gandy St, Exeter, Devon EX4 3LS, 8pm, £10/8, 01392 667080, www.exeterphoenix.org.uk
Tue 24 & Wed 25 Feb, Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE1 7RH, 8pm, £10/8 0191 230 5151
www.northernstage.co.uk
Sat 28 Feb, 8.30pm The Maltings Theatre, Eastern Lane, Berwick-upon-Tweed,
Northumberland TD15 1AJ, £11.50/£10/£7
01289 330 999 www.maltingsberwick.co.uk
On
The Web
Twitter: @GillieKleiman #alyricaldanceconcert
Website: www.alyricaldanceconcert.com
Company
Information:
Choreography, original performance, design: Gillie
Kleiman and Sara Lindström
Performers for 2014/5 tour: Gillie Kleiman and
Eleanor Sikorski
Producer: Beckie Darlington
Additional design: Susie Green
The
Cast & Creatives
Gillie Kleiman is an artist based
in Newcastle
and London. From
Gillie’s practice of dance and choreography emerge artworks that manifest
as performances, texts, and events, presented in contexts associated with
dance, theatre, live art and experimental performance. Gillie is one of a
group of artists who run the esteemed BELLYFLOP Magazine, with which her work
has been presented at Sadler’s Wells and Dance Umbrella. Independently, her
work has been seen at Chelsea Theatre,
SPILL National Platform, Siobhan Davies Studios and many other venues and
festivals internationally. Alongside her performance-making, she works as a
writer, curator, and facilitator, and is a PhD researcher at Roehampton University.
Sara Lindström is an
artist from Sweden. Her
artistic practice is one of dance and choreography in its broadest
manifestations, from live performances to film and site-specific installation
work. With MIKS, a London-based dance company, Sara choreographed and
performed numerous works between 2005-2011 at Greenwich Dance, Laban, and many
more nationally and internationally. Sara has worked extensively as a performer
and choreographer with artist duo Lundahl&Seitl, presenting their work
at BAC,
the Swedish National Theatre, and at the Avignon Festival. Sara’s dance films
have been screened widely, and her current creation will be screened on Swedish
national television. She is the joint artistic director of multi-arts festival
RIK in Norrtälje, Sweden.
Eleanor
Sikorski
Eleanor
Sikorski is a choreographer and performer whose solo work spans dance,
cabaret and comedy. Her latest solos include Big hands, big heart (Dance
Umbrella 2014) and Cake (Sadler's Wells Wildcard 2013). She has ongoing
collaborations with performer Flora Wellesley Wesley, sound composer Alberto
Ruiz Soler and artist Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau. As a dancer she works for choreographers Eva
Recacha, Seke Chimutengwende, Alexandre Achour and Igor & Moreno. Eleanor is also a member of
BELLYFLOP - an artist-led magazine curating and writing about contemporary
dance in Lond
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