About Shropshire Inclusive Dance
Shropshire Inclusive Dance is a collection of movement artists based in Shropshire dedicated to sharing inclusive dance practice, ideas and events.
Shropshire Inclusive Dance Description
Started in 2012 by Rachel Liggitt and Ray Jacobs, Shropshire Inclusive Dance is a shared space to celebrate dance in Shropshire. We organise workshops, classes, projects and performances in an inclusive environment. As a collective we wish for Shropshire to be a place where dance can thrive and where expertise, ideas, resources and the joy of moving together can be shared.
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Coming to the end of an incredible week working with young carers at The Hive, Shrewsbury. Dream project, dream team, fantastic setting, work that lifts the soul with gorgeous, generous, creative young people.
SiD is all ready for our 2 day dance summer school in Ketley, Telford with a fantastic group of young people. Super excited.
‘Unknown Places’ a newly commissioned ensemble piece choreographed by dance artist Joanna Young was performed by Contact Dance Company, last week at The Hive in Shrewsbury. 13 dancers from Contact Dance Company wove intricate layers of simple evocative movements throughout this 20 minute piece, often collecting, moving, replacing and shifting natural objects such as bamboo, rocks, sticks and plants. A dancer moves slowly within a circle while delicate strands of lavender are precariously balanced on her. [ 394 more words ] http://sidance.live/…/the-premier-of-un known-places-a-new-…/
SiD presents Unknown Places - Tomorrow (Wednesday 20th June) at The Hive in Shrewsbury 1.30pm & 7.30pm. A fabulous show by Contact Dance Company including a national premiere of our new piece 'Unknown Places. For more information https://sidance.live/news/ Image by Ewen Macintyre.
Just three more days before Contact Dance Companys performance of 'Unknown Places' at the Hive in Shrewsbury, we are getting very excited about sharing this beautiful work. For full details visit https://sidance.live/news/
Contact Dance Company presents a collection of dances also featuring a newly commissioned work by choreographer Joanna Young.
The piece will be performed alongside other dances from the company repertoire including its most recent work on film ‘A Bridge Between Us’.
Performance: Wednesday 20th June at The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury SY1 1TE
... Matinee performance 1.30pm Evening performance at 7.30pm
Tickets are £5 adults and children are Free.
Please reserve your tickets by contacting us by phone on 01743 234976 or by emailing officesidance@gmail.com
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Contact Dance Company are excited to present its new ensemble dance piece ‘Unknown Places’ choreographed by Joanna Young. The piece will be performed alongside other dances from the company repertoire alongside its most recent work on film ‘A Bridge Between Us’. An ensemble of 12 dancers have been immersed in the devising process with dance artist Joanna Young. Joanna states… [ 139 more words ] http://sidance.live/…/contact-dance-com pany-presents-unkno…/
Contact Dance Company have been working hard devising their latest ensemble piece 'Unknown Places' with dance artist Joanna Young The ensemble of 12 dancers have been immersed in creating the new work which will have its premiere on Wednesday 20th June at The Hive in Shrewsbury. It will be a special evening with work from the company's repertoire, a film about our duets and of course ' Unknown Places' [ 38 more words ] http://sidance.live/…/contact-dance-com pany-in-rehearsal-f…/
On March 21stand 22nd Contact Dance Company welcomed Mark Storor as our guest artist. On day one, Mark Storor navigated the dancers through an enjoyable, intense and absorbing creative process of making self portraits. The act of making the portraits created a focussed atmosphere that released a feast of surprising images. We saw ourselves and each other in new ways. We talked about and shared our self portraits. [ 126 more words ] http://sidance.live/…/a-two-day-explora tory-workshop-with-…/
‘Ways of Being Together is a series of workshops, discussions and performances facilitated by Jo Fong centred around the idea of of Belonging. A sense of belonging is intimate and powerful, connected, optimistic, unknown and curious making’ Members of Contact dance Company were joined by dancers from around the region to dance under the energising and inspiring guidance of dance artist Jo Fong. [ 220 more words ] http://sidance.live/…/ways-of-being-tog ether-a-two-day-wor…/
Contact dance company sharing the joy of dancing together , because its joyous. Thank you Creative Black Country for giving us the support to make this lovely project happen.
Contact dance company and friends had a wonderful two days dancing with Aya Kobayashi. The workshop was an open space for all our creativity and also challenged us to articulate and express ourselves more deeply through the moving body. It was a space for the joy of moving, expression and laughter. Images by Ewen Macintyre.
Our fourth and final Growing Together guest workshop is tomorrow with Aya. Thank you to Jo Fong, Joanna Young and Mark Storor for delivering our previous 3 workshops - incredible work and beautiful, open and generous artists. It has been an absolute treat.
SiD had a fantastic time on residency in West Wales, with many thanks to 'Maynard Abercych' we shared our dance practise with participants from Pembrokeshire People First and Clynfyw Care Farm. We were proud to present Arty Party's Four Solos in the Wild exhibition in the beautiful 2 Penrhiw where we were staying. Over 60 people visited the exhibition many of whom took part in a gorgeous workshop at Abercych village hall. Over 30 people aged between 6 and 60 embodied so much... of what SiD is all about, celebrating the moving connection between us all. The exhibition presented in the cottage deeply moved many of the visitors. The SiD team were Chloe Shepherd, Mervyn Bradley, Rachel Liggitt and Ray Jacobs. We gained from residing in the beautiful cottage and surroundings in the village of Abercych. Ingredients of the residency included; teamwork, trust, shared cooking, shared laughter, generous hosting from Sterling and Simon and a journey back through the snow.
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Our 2nd guest artist on our Growing Together workshops was the fabulous Jo Fong through her guidance, we had a really creative, playful, open, explorative two days of dancing. We felt fully immersed in dancing and being together. Heres a few pics anyway, crafted by photographer Ewen Macintyre.
Ways of being together in unknown places. Two days of dancing, moving witnessing and exploring with @Joanna Young (Images by Ewen Macintyre)
Ways of being in unknown places. Contact dance company, friends and dancers from around the region gathered for two days of moving, dancing, witnessing and exploring with dance artist Joanna Young. Below are some words and images to share, of our time together (Images by Ewen Macintyre). 'Working with improvisations and scores (creative movement tasks and instructions), open to individual and a group interpretation, the workshop explored how we can navigate, compose and find comfort within the unknown'
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