Preview: A Lyrical Dance Concert

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

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=My_pfP1pqpc

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

Preview: Sometimes There’s Light across the North East

Moving Dust presents

Sometimes There’s Light

[sometimes there’s dark]

 

Joe Wild - Photo: Roswitha Chesher

Performed in a village hall, an old warehouse, a derelict chapel and the gym of an ex-military barracks, this multi-sensory work uses handheld movable light and contemporary dance to create an intimate meditation on love and loss.

Hosted in a variety of atmospheric, non-traditional spaces across the UK, Sometimes There’s Light [sometimes there’s dark] blends contemporary dance with lyrical text in a sculptural light installation which brings audiences into the heart of the work. Allowing audiences to share space with the five performers and experience dance up close, the work will adapt to each of the spaces across the tour, creating a series of unique, one-off events.

Joe Wild - Photo: Roswitha Chesher

Presented in unusual venues in London and the North East, this cross-artform work draws on the experience of borderlands (between countries and between sea & land) to create a meditation on the fluid boundaries between life and death, and our experience of loss and grieving. Our aim is that engagement with the project will have a lasting effect on people's own encounters with grief, by allowing us more freedom to express our emotional experiences of loss.

Artistic director Kate Sagovsky said, “I spent 6 months on a remote Scottish island where the style and pace of life is very different, and you have left behind many of the assumed norms of the modern world. It seems like life is stripped back to its elemental form: the sea, the sunlight, night and day, good food and the people around you. There was so much laughter, but tears too. It was a place where I could come to terms with lots of pain from loss I had stored up over the years. When I came back to the mainland I wanted to share this experience with other people – to bring them a window of space and a slowing of time to allow reflection on the beauty of life around us, filled as it is both with love and loss, great happiness and great sadness. Most of the text in the show was written on that island and this is my chance to bring a small bit of the island to people around the UK, to allow them to step out of their everyday lives for an hour and engage with something deeper, whatever that might be for them.” 

Joe Wild - 

Photo: Roswitha Chesher

Moving Dust creates experimental performance with an international pool of long-term collaborators. The company’s work spans theatre, dance, installation and large-scale outdoors work, and has been performed at venues and festivals around the UK, including at The Bush, The Arcola (Create Festival); New Wolsey Theatre (Pulse); The Place (Resolution!); and Pleasance Courtyard (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Moving Dust have performed in festivals across the UK but this is the first chance to catch their work in the North East in an entirely new piece which has been commissioned by Dance City to support exciting new work in the North East.

Kate Sagovsky is the artistic director of Moving Dust. She also works as a director, movement director and education practitioner across a wide range of contexts. She has worked at the RSC, National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Barbican, and the Southbank Centre. She has been invited to lead work in Japan, USA and South Africa, and attended by selection both the National Theatre Studio Directors’ Course  and  the  Lincoln  Centre  Theater Directors’ Lab. She was nominated in the Off West End Theatre Awards for ‘Best Choreographer’ in 2011.

On The Web:

Website: www.movingdust.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Moving_Dust

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moving.dust.3?fref=tswww.facebook.com/moving.dust 

Cast and Creatives:

Performed by Charlie Ashwell, Sarah Calver, Simon Carroll Jones, Marc Saad & Joe Wild

Devised by Kate Sagovsky and Charlie Ashwell, Ida Ballerini, Sarah Calver, Simon Carroll Jones, Sara Green, Vincent Manna, Garth McConaghie, Edmund McKay, Jane McLean, Jindeok Park, Marc Saad, Gabriella Schmidt & Joe Wild

Music Composition & Sound Design by Garth McConaghie

Set & Lighting Design, & Production Management by Edmund McKay

Direction, Choreography & Text by Kate Sagovsky

Assistant Director-Choreographer Sara Green

Associate Creative Producer Ida Ballerini

Tour 2014 Produced by DepArts          

Tickets:

Age guidance: 16+

Running time Approx.: 1 hour

Locations: Not performed at a traditional theatre [venue as per location] Venues may be cold so please advise audiences to wrap up warm.

8^th Nov                    Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-Upon-Tweed

                                 The Barracks, The Parade, Berwick-upon-Tweed

TD15 1DF

                                 £12, £10.50, £9 | 8pm

                                 BOX OFFICE: www.maltingsberwick.co.uk

01289 330999

9^th Nov                    Hindmarsh Hall, Alnmouth

                                 Northumberland St, Alnmouth, Northumberland

 NE66 2RZ

                                 £10, £8 | 4pm

                                 BOX OFFICE: http://mdust.bpt.me

11^th – 15^th Nov        Asylum, London

                                 Caroline Garden's Chapel, London SE15 2SQ

                                 £15, £12.50, £10 | 7.30pm (Sat matinee 4pm)

                                 BOX OFFICE: www.ovalhouse.com | 0207 582 7680

22^nd Nov                  Boiler Shop, Newcastle

Stephenson Works, South Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 3PE

                                 £12, £8 | 8pm

                                 BOX OFFICE: www.dancecity.co.uk | 0191 261 0505

Preview: The Lindisfarne Story at Berwick Maltings & Darlington Civic

The Lindisfarne Story

Celebrate the legendary Geordie group in words & music.

'From Whitley Bay to 'frisco Bay'

PROLOGUE by Ray Laidlaw

“I was a member of Lindisfarne from its conception and loved nearly every minute of it. Billy Mitchell and I first met and made music together in our mid-teens when he was guest vocalist for future Lindisfarne members Simon Cowe, Rod Clements and I in our group, Downtown Faction.

We asked Billy to join Downtown Faction in 1968 but he wanted to concentrate on his own band, we kept looking and asked Ray Jackson who agreed and became part of our group just before we changed the name to Brethren. Shortly afterwards Alan Hull completed the line-up and Brethren became Lindisfarne. Billy watched our success from the sidelines and we approached him again in 1972 when Alan Hull was considering quiting touring with Lindisfarne and concentrating on songwriting. That plan didn't materialise and the original group split in two, creating Lindisfarne Mk 2 and Jack the Lad whose members were Rod Clements, Simon Cowe, Billy Mitchell and me.

In the 1980's Billy played in the Lindisfarne offshoot Pacamax with Alan, Rod and I and then following Alan's tragic death in 1995, he joined Rod Clements and I in the Mk 3 version of Lindisfarne which toured for eight years during which we made two studio albums. Billy and I have been bosom buddies since 1966 so he's had the inside track on Lindisfarne from it's formative days till the the Mk 3 retired in 2003.

We tell the Lindisfarne Story through words, music and a fantastic selection of archive songs and pictures, it's a product of fifty years of friendship and musical collaboration that tells the tale of a bunch of Geordie lads who followed their dream and shared a lot of laughs, a few tears, and a barrow load of fantastic music”. (Ray Laidlaw)

Lindisfarne was Tyneside's best-loved band for over thirty years and The Lindisfarne Story is a celebration of the group's music and achievements. The show is devised, written and performed by drummer/founder member Ray Laidlaw, and Billy Mitchell, front man for the final eight years of the group. Ray and Billy perform acoustic versions of Lindisfarne's classic songs and tell the inside story of the group's rise to fame, from Whitley Bay to San Francisco Bay, from Rothbury to Glastonbury. They describe the group's early days on Tyneside in the 1960's hustling for gigs and their rise to fame in the early seventies. The show is illustrated with personal archive photographs and video and describes their worldwide tours, festival successes and TV appearances, their triumphant return home and their unique relationship with Newcastle City Hall, venue for over 130 Lindisfarne performances. Lady Eleanor, Meet Me On The Corner, Fog on the Tyne, Run for Home, all of these songs have a story behind them. Enjoy hearing them again in an intimate venue and discover what was the inspiration behind their composition. You'll hear how the classic songs developed and how Bob Dylan's producer helped Lindisfarne to focus their musical ideas and burst through the glam and manufactured sounds around them to become one of the major British groups of the seventies.

In 2014 the appeal of Lindisfarne is as strong as ever, EMI recently released a 40th anniversary limited edition vinyl version of the certified platinum 'Fog On The Tyne' album. Newcastle City Council unveiled a blue plaque on Newcastle City Hall honouring the life and work of the late Alan Hull, the band's much-missed songwriter and singer and in December 2013, "Ray Jackson’s Lindisfarne" performed several concerts around the North East.

As one of 20 ‘notable and inspiring’ names from Tyneside chosen by the public, Lindisfarne have had their name cast in bronze for a Hollywood-style ‘Hall of Fame’, commemorating their contribution to the North East. The band’s name is immortalised alongsideSir Bobby Robson, Sting, Kathryn Tickell, Alan Shearer and ‘Auf Weidersehen, Pet’ writers, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais along Gateshead Newcastle Quayside.

The Lindisfarne Story has captured the imagination of the fans and media:

'Just a line to thank you all for a fantastic night’s entertainment in Whitley Bay Saturday past. We were a group of 8 and each and every one of us had a fabulous night. After many years front of house in large venues worldwide I doubt I have enjoyed myself more.' (John Tweddle)

'The Lindisfarne Story at the Gala Theatre in Durham last night was fantastic...thank you !' (Mary Douglas)

'Don't miss it!' Sam Wonfor, Newcastle Journal

On The Web

Website: www.lindisfarnestory.co.uk/live-dates.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lindisfarne2014 

The Tour:

2014

4 September: Berwick Maltings, Eastern Ln, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland TD15 1AJ 01289 330999 www.maltingsberwick.co.uk/ 7.30pm  £18.50

6 September: Darlington Civic Theatre  Parkgate Darlington DL1 1RR  Tel: 01325 486 555 www.darlingtoncivic.co.uk/ 7.30pm  £16.50+ £18.50

7 September: Keswick - Theatre By The Lake,Lakeside, Lake Rd, Keswick, Cumbria CA125DJ www.theatrebythelake.com  017687 74411 7.30pm  £18.50  £15

10 September: Buxton Pavilion : St John's Rd, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6BE  01298 23114 www.paviliongardens.co.uk/  7.30pm  £19.50 + Discounts

11 September: Banbury The Mill, Spiceball Park, Spiceball Park Rd, Banbury, Oxfordshire OX16 5QE 01295 279002  8pm £19.oo

12 September: Ilkley Kings Hall 4 Station Rd, Ilkley LS29 8HB 01943 436224 www.bradford- theatres.co.uk/kings-hall  7.30pm  £21+T/F

14 September: Harlow Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Town Centre, Harlow CM20 1LS 01279 431945 www.playhouseharlow.com 7.30pm £19.50