Queens' College Contemporary Dance Society

Calling all dancers...
Classes this week...beginners / less experienced 14.30 - 16.00 and intermediate / more experienced 16.30 - 18.00 and our new Saturday open level technique class is back 10.30 - 12.00.
Friday classes take place in Fitzpatrick Hall and in Bowett Room on Saturday (above the gym and squash courts opposite Fitzpatrick Hall)
... This week we are delighted to welcome back again guest musician, Henry Green, to accompany all our classes.
Henry is a graduate of Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and has since been playing for classes at Middlesex University, Rambert School and the Royal Ballet School's White Lodge. He plays guitar with effects and is FANTASTIC!
Also we're delighted to welcome back charcoal artist Angela Hinds after her visit to New England to sketch our work with her amazing artistry, here are a few of her sketches.
Come and enjoy! See you tomorrow! £6 employed / £4 students / £2 students at Queens’
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IMPORTANT NOTICE... There will be NO Saturday class for this week only, next week we will resume the Saturday open level technique class but this week there will be NO class on Saturday.
But we still continue TOMORROW with our Friday classes as normal, beginners / less experienced 14.30 - 16.00 and intermediate / more experienced 16.30 - 18.00
... Both classes take place in Fitzpatrick Hall with wonderful live percussion accompaniment from Terry Mann. Charcoal artist Angela Hinds, who regularly and beautifully sketches our classes, is currently visiting New England but will be back with us next week to sketch our work with her amazing artistry.
£6 employed / £4 students / £2 students at Queens’
We look forward to welcoming you to dance at Queens'.
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Nearly the end of another week, come and celebrate with one of our fabulous technique classes.
We continue TOMORROW Friday 25th October, beginners / less experienced 14.30 - 16.00 and intermediate / more experienced 16.30 - 18.00 and remember we have a new Saturday open level technique class 10.30 - 12.00.
All our classes take place in Fitzpatrick Hall this week with wonderful live percussion accompaniment from Terry Mann, charcoal artist Angela Hinds is visiting New England ...for two weeks but will be back with us in November to sketch our work with her amazing artistry.
£6 employed / £4 students / £2 students at Queens’
We look forward to welcoming you to dance at Queens'.
Here's a site map of Queens' for those of you new to us, you will find Fitzpatrick Hall at number 5.
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The first Saturday class of the new term and a cause for celebration!
We are delighted to welcome back guest musician, Henry Green, to accompany our open level class tomorrow 10.30 - 12.00 in Fitzpatrick Hall.
Henry is a graduate of Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and has since been playing for classes at Middlesex University, Rambert School and the Royal Ballet School's White Lodge. He plays guitar with effects and is FANTASTIC!
... Come and enjoy! See you tomorrow!
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At last the moment we've all been waiting for!
Our classes start TOMORROW Friday 18th October, beginners / less experienced 14.30 - 16.00 and intermediate / more experienced 16.30 - 18.00 and our new Saturday open level technique class starts on 19th October 10.30 - 12.00.
All our classes will take place in Fitzpatrick Hall this week with wonderful live percussion accompaniment from Terry Mann and the Friday classes will be sketched by charcoal artist Angela Hinds.
... £6 employed / £4 students / £2 students at Queens’
We look forward to welcoming you to dance at Queens'.
Here's a site map of Queens' for those of you new to us, you will find Fitzpatrick Hall at number 5.
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So very nearly time to start dancing again.
Classes start next week on Friday 18th October, beginners / less experienced 14.30 - 16.00 and intermediate / more experienced 16.30 - 18.00 and our new Saturday open level technique class starts on 19th October 10.30 - 12.00 all in Fitzpatrick Hall with wonderful live percussion accompaniment from Terry Mann and the Friday classes will be sketched by charcoal artist Angela Hinds.
Keep following this page for more updates early next... week.
Looking forward to welcoming you to dance at Queens'.
Dance positions drawn by Carlus Dyer inspired by da Vinci's Vitruvian Man
Site map of Queens' for those of you new to us.
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Can you contain your excitement for just TWO more weeks when we'll be back?
Technique classes start on Friday 18th October, beginners / less experienced 14.30 - 16.00 and intermediate / more experienced 16.30 - 18.00 and our new Saturday open level technique class starts on 19th October 10.30 - 12.00 all in Fitzpatrick Hall with wonderful live percussion accompaniment from Terry Mann and the Friday classes will be sketched by charcoal artist Angela Hinds.
Keep following this ...page for more updates next week.
Looking forward to welcoming you to dance at Queens'.
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The countdown continues...
Classes begin again in just THREE weeks on Friday 18th October, keep your eye on this page for further details next week.
Don't forget this Sunday's fantastic performance at The Heong Gallery, Downing College...COUNTING IN CLOUDS, a response in movement to YOKO ONO SKY PIECES choreographed by Hilary Goodall, the performers include some of our very own QCCDS dancers.
... 29th September three performances at 12.30...14.00...15.00
ENJOY it promises to be a wonderful experience, let's hope the weather's good for this special event!
See you all very soon!
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The countdown has begun!
Summer is almost over and autumn is around the corner, come and join us to celebrate the return of our regular contemporary technique classes.
Our full range of classes recommences on Friday 18th October, only four weeks away. Keep watching this page for regular updates on what we have planned for the new term.
... See you all soon!
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From a new friend...
Sam Tannenbaum, going into his third year reading Music at St John’s College.
"I am contacting to ask if any of your contemporary dance students at Queens' College may be interested in getting involved in the Cambridge University Opera Society’s Michaelmas production of Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s ‘The Last Hotel’ in Queens Fitzpatrick Hall in late November, a modern opera written in 2015 which combines elements of theatre with opera and multimedia ...elements. One of the four roles is for a silent character who remains on stage for the majority of the show and which the plot revolves around. I would like to cast a more experienced dancer in the role as I want to really explore the character’s communication through movement and dance, which I envision as contrasting moments of deathly stillness with more unsettling and impulsive dancing.
I wonder if any dancers who are staying on next year may be interested in getting involved in a unique and completely singular musical production, and who would want to explore a fascinating silent character (one of only four characters in the entire show!) and work on developing dance and movement with workshops throughout Michaelmas term next year, please do let me know."
You can contact Sam on, tannenbaumsamuel@googlemail.com
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From our very good friends at Infusion Physical Theatre...
Save the Date July 4th, 2019 Infusion's Counter Trafficking Show: Just Sex
... Dear Friends,
This summer we’re pleased to be combining forces with the Cambridge Centre of Applied Research in Human Trafficking (CCARHT) in the fight against sexual exploitation. Under their umbrella we will officially be touring our Somebody's Daughter Project as Just Sex: A Counter Trafficking Show. We will be presenting our work in conjunction with CCARHT’s annual summer symposium (which we highly recommend as well, look them up!). The show is open to the general public.
Thursday 4th July, 2019 7:45pm St Andrew Street Baptist Church Cambridge CB2 3AR Suggested donation £12 per ticket, through Eventbrite
We will also be taking the show across the channel, to perform the show in Paris, July 19th, details TBA!
Please come and join us to show your support. Help us confront and end modern slavery!
Keep moving!
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From our friends at Siobhan Davies Studios...
CHOREOGRAPHY FOR THE OUTDOORS Tuesdays 11 June - 16 July, 7pm-9pm £140 / £112 concessions
... How do spaces inform how choreography is made? How can choreographers animate everyday spaces? Can we change how the public interact with spaces?
https://siobhandavies.com/…/choreograph y-course-charlotte-…/
In this 6 week course choreographer, facilitator and occasional performer Charlotte Spencer will invite participants to consider the role of choreography in the outdoors and to rethink their relationships with each other and the world around them. Charlotte will use a series of practical tasks and choreographic experiences to encourage you to experiment with where performances happen and how they are encountered by an audience.
Classes will take place in both Siobhan Davies Studios and at landmarks around Southwark, providing you with a unique opportunity not only to learn more about choreography but also to connect with the urban landscape.
As artistic director of Charlotte Spencer Projects, Charlotte works across a range of art forms, predominantly in an outdoor environmental context. Her Walking Stories, an audio walk for parks has toured nationally and internationally since 2013 and Is this a Waste Land?, which invites a reimagining of urban landscapes, was part of Dance Umbrella and Dance International Glasgow in 2017.
To book please call 0207 091 9650 or email reception@siobhandavies.com
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From out very good friend Katie Green. Donate and spread the word far and wide, let's see if we can help...
In our final week of fundraising, please help us realise our aim of engaging 5000 people over the next 2 years through our Imagination Museum: Mayflower 400 project.
Visit our Crowdfunder page here: ...
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From our friends at CUDS...
CUDS have just opened bookings for their workshop with New Adventures on Sunday 12th May, it would be great to get as many people involved as possible as it's such a fantastic opportunity!
Open Swan Lake Workshop with New Adventures... Sunday, May 12, 2019 at 1:00 PM Kelsey Kerridge Sports Centre Dance
https://www.facebook.com/CambridgeUnivers ityDanceSociety/
Enjoy!
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An exciting performance possibility...
Gilbert and Sullivan Society are currently looking for dancers for the Mayweek punts show, which will be Rameau's La naissance d'Osiris.
https://www.camdram.net/vacancies/auditio ns… -
... Performances take place at 13:00 and 18.00 on Fri 21st June 2019 at On Punts on the Cam (St John's) Easter May Week
Rameau's 'La naissance d'Osiris' is a one-act opera depicting Jupiter's announcement of the birth of the god Osiris to a group of Egyptian priests and shepherds.
Clocking in at just 50 minutes, this pastoral opera is full of wonderful passages for singers, dancers and actors. Its short length and spirited music makes it ideal for the busy festivities of May Week, with the opera's setting complemented by the beautiful surroundings of St John's Waterfront.
We are currently looking for dancers for the Mayweek punts show, which will be Rameau's La naissance d'Osiris.
Sounds great...go for it!
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We're still getting wonderful comments about Sprung! 2019 celebrating TWENTY YEARS of Sprung!
Thank you cast, crew, audience and supporters all, you were very much appreciated and we THANK YOU, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU.
We'll be quite quiet for a while as we won't be offering any classes or workshops until October but please do keep following us because from time to time we'll be posting interesting bits and pieces. Here's one for a start...
... https://www.npg.org.uk/w…/only-human-ma rtin-parr/exhibition/
A wonderful exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, have a look if you can!
Thanks to Duncan Grisby for this post's photo of QdancE performing "The Art of the Short Story"
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