23 Feelings in Dance

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010

Friday 6th August: Susan Harvey (Tap Kids). Title: Connect

Tap Kids is a group tap dancers. The group is just under a year old and usually has 14 members ranging in age from 7 -16. Tap Kids are based at the Starlet Dance Studios in Dunfermline.

Saturday 7th August: Anne Marie Hashrup Kristensen. Title: Fall

The piece 'Fall' is choreographed by Anne Marie Kristensen, a Danish student at London Contemporary Dance School. The two dancers, John Ross and Harriet Bailey, have played a big part in the process of creating this duet, in which they are growing up but unfortunately they are growing out of their close friendship as well. Frustration builds as they realise that they need to confront reality.
The piece will be shown on August 7th in the Bedlam Theatre at 7pm.
For more information send an email to rie.kristensen@gmail.com.

Sunday 8th August: Choreographer: Emma Jayne Park. Dancer: Sean Robinson (Black Swan Dance Theatre)

http://www.blackswandance.co.uk/

The Black Swan Theory denotes high impact, hard to predict, and rare events beyond the realm of normal expectations which play a dominant role in changing the course of everyday thought. With the aim of living up to its' namesake Black Swan Dance Theatre was formed by Emma Jayne Park in July 2008 to develop limitless, uncompromising and accessible dance work.

Monday 9th August: Choreographer: Hannah Chalut. Title: Circle of Light

Dancers: Lucy Cobb, Shery Huang, Sophia Roberts

Open Air Dance and Performance was founded in 2001 in the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina, where we performed locally, with the American Dance Festival, and at locations across the east coast. Working in a dancer driven capacity, our projects highlight the role of individual performers, utilizing their unique characteristics to open up the human condition. Refusing to be boxed in by the notion of “dance”, OADAP actively engages spoken word and sound, theatrical devices, found art, visual mediums, and ritual outlines to breathe life in to each work. We have recently relocated to England and invite you to follow us in our deeply moving and joyous performances.

For more information, please contact Hannah: openairhannah@yahoo.com

Tuesday 10th August: Choreographer: Hannah Chalut. Title: Circle of Light

Dancers: Lucy Cobb, Shery Huang, Sophia Roberts

For more information, please contact Hannah: openairhannah@yahoo.com

Wednesday 11th August: Choreographer: Negotiationofspace and Dwayne Simms : Title: Wordup. Dancers: Negotiationofspace and Dwayne Simms

negotiationofspace is the exploration of the nature of twins from the inside out. we are hannah and amy, individual yet always intertwined. our work involves movement and visual art. www.negotiationofspace.net <http://www.negotiationofspace.net>

D’wayne Antony
Is a Dance Artist/ Choreographer
Dwayne trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and graduated in 2010.
He has worked with Tiia Ourilla, Andile Sotiya, and Douglas Thorpe on their Leeds-based summer project; RODA , a collective of professional dancers committed to research and development. In 2009 Dwayne worked with David Hernandez at the Impulstanz Dance Festival in Vienna taking part in “Movement Logic & Elastic Choreography” workshops. He uses Photography. Sculpture. Text and Textiles to ignite his creative processes. Whether collaborating with other art forms or sharing his work in unusual places, D’wayne’s work’s are the bearers of something fresh and engaging for the Audience and sensitizes the whole body. There is an essence of European flavour with his experimental approach to composition, and the way in which he uses the performance space .

Thursday 12th August: Jane Turner

Friday 13th August: Spiral Dance (Video Screening)

Saturday 14th August: Ruth Mills. Tittle: TOGETHER (A solo)

Ruth Mills

“I am a dancer. I make dance, I teach dance, I dance. I am on a mission to get the whole world dancing!”

A former national team gymnast, Ruth went on to train at London Contemporary Dance School. Glasgow born and based Ruth, now teaching master classes and workshops, choreographing and dancing in Scotland and internationally. She has worked with Gilmore Productions, Smallpetitklein Dance Company, Martial Dance, London Dance Ensemble, TAG Theatre Company, The Tron Theatre Glasgow, The Citizens Theatre Glasgow. Currently Artistic Director to Glasgow Community Dance Theatre, resident teacher with Dance House Scotland and Scholar of Dance History and philosophy.

Her passionate commitment to dance for the community is evident in her work with Dance House, Ankur Productions and Maryhill Integration Network. The latter leading to a performance at our Scottish Parliament in 2009.

Ruth teaches professional level master classes and has been guest to The Space (SSCD), RSAMD, GAMTA and Project Y (Scottish Youth Dance Company). An interest in making dance for film led Ruth to train in photography and digital video editing. since collaborating on film and video projects with, Martial Dance, ANKUR Productions, Interdependent Records and independent musicians, dancers and artists.

Committed to dance in all it's forms and for all people.

Contact: ruthmillsdance@live.com

Web: http://ruthmillsdance.blogspot.com/

Sunday 15th August: Sabine Klaus. Title: Back to My Roots

Sabine Klaus Creation Editor has performed internationally for more than ten years starting up on her own while she was still at school. Since then she created her own style out of her Russian ballet education, her adoration for William Forsythe and Butoh due to living in very small student flats. Through her passion of dance she became a Screendance Designer which means she creates video dances for screen and stage as well as hosting the international Media-Arts-And-Dance mailing list and video-blogs dance and technology events worldwide. www.creationeditor.co.uk

Websites:

http://www.creationeditor.co.uk/ (choose screendance)
http://www.creationeditor.co.uk/Neu3.htm
http://vimeo.com/creationeditor
http://www.youtube.com/user/CreationEditor#p/u/13/jiityFM-8X8
http://www.youtube.com/user/CreationEditor#p/u/21/iFhO2GSobVs

Monday 16th August: Choreography: Corinne Jola. Performers: Corinne Jola, Luisa Frei, Larissa Szymanek
Music Composer: Ross Whyte

Title: What’s coming off?

Three female performers are trapped in space, executing unfamiliar routines. Sometimes, we can get a glimpse of their individual movements. What do you see when you watch them? Do you feel what they feel? And, what is the role of the musician in this setting? Inspired by neuroscientific findings on empathy and the audiences’ kinesthetic response, the three performers have been working in collaboration with the musician to create this performance especially for the Fringe event.

Corinne trained independently and at the IWANSON School of Contemporary Dance Munich. She received her MA in Choreography at Laban Trinity College London in 2008. Her other background is cognitive Neuroscience; she is currently working as a post-doctoral research assistant on the spectators response to watching dance (see www.watchingdance.org <http://www.watchingdance.org/> ). Her interest as a choreographer is to awaken the performers’ authentic movement vocabulary and to enhance their sensory awareness to create a strong sense of presence. She has worked with professional dancers but particularly enjoys working with non-trained performers. Her works have been staged in Switzerland and the UK. She has received several funding for her practice as research, such as the Rebekka Skelton Fund (UK) and she has been invited to a number of festivals, such as the ‘TanzTage’ in Olten (Switzerland), ‘Tanz Hoch Zwei’ at TanzFabrik Berlin, or the ‘Deptford X’ festival in London.

Tuesday 17th August: Hagit Yakira and Takeshi Matsumoto. Title: 2B

A piece illustrating a fragmented picture of two people meeting in one place, in an encounter that manifests itself in intimacy, competition, a challenge, tenderness and care.

Hagit Yakira is a choreographer, performer and a dance teacher currently based in London. She graduated from the Music and Dance Academy in Jerusalem, Israel in 1999 and the Laban Centre 2006, London. She is also a qualified Dance Movement Therapist since 2003. In recent years, after years of performing and teaching dance internationally, she has been developing her own choreographic work; creating dance theatre performances. She had won two prizes for her choreographies, first prize in Kajaani choreography competition in Finland and the second prize in Burgos New York competition in Spain. Her works are being performed and received very good reviews around the UK, Europe and Israel in different festival and dance events. Hagit is also is a guest choreographer at The Place and at Laban.

Hagit is creating small scale contemporary dance theatre pieces, with an attempt to create intimate, personal and honest performances. In her work she deals with different aspects of relationships between people and her aim is to develop a personal style which based on collaboration with different artists from various art forms. Her work allow a personal expression of the artists involve in the creation.

Website: www.hagityakira.com and email hagit@hagityakira.com

Takeshi Matsumoto is an actor and performer with a broad experience in performing both for theatre and dance productions. He has experienced various styles of performance such as physical theatre, butoh, Japanese folk dance and Japanese drum, contemporary dance (dancing for Christian Duarte, Azure Barton and Henri Oguike as part of Transition Dance Company at Laban, Darren Johnston for a year production).

He trained as an actor in Japan and as a dancer both in Japan and Laban –London. Takeshi is now studying MA in Dance Movement Therapy.

Photographs by Julia Burstein http://www.juliaburstein.com

Wednesday 18th August: Hagit Yakira and Takeshi Matsumoto

see above

Photographs by Julia Burstein http://www.juliaburstein.com

Thursday 19th August: Nicola London. Title: The Rock

This piece represents a battle of two opposing emotions that can be between two people or a single person. The dancer’s movements relate to an emotional fluctuation in which one dancer is unable to live without the other whilst the other cannot live with the other. They both share moments which relate to these feelings. The situation is useless because one scared of security friendship and closeness pushes the other away whilst the other is scared of being lonely and having no one. This creates a type of push, shove and suspension in the movements, as they both fight to loss their dependence on the other.

Choreographer: Nicola London

Nicola is currently studying for a BA (Hons) Degree in Theatre Dance at London Studio Centre, and is looking forward to going into her third year where she will be going into Intoto the contemporary company. In the future she hopes to expand her knowledge, experience and creativity in choreography as well as physical theatre, design and creative writing. She is fascinated with all aspects of the theatre and is hoping to take an MA in the future to gain greater knowledge in the creative process of performance art.

Dancers: Laura Grover & Hanna Bardall

Laura is currently a second year dance student at the London Studio Centre studying for a BA (Hons) Degree in Theatre Dance. She has performed in many pantomimes and was a finalist in the Miss Dance of Great Britain held in Blackpool. In 2008 she was The Kent and Sussex Modern Champion. In 2009 she performed at the London BT Awards and is very excited to be performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Hanna is currently training at the London Studio Centre, and from September will become a member of Intoto, the school's third year contemporary company. After graduating, Hanna hopes to pursue a career in contemporary dance, with the aim of joining a professional company.

Friday 20th August: Infinite Dance Company. Title: Size Zero

Infinite Dance is a company with the ethos to create a social, political and culturally creative dance platform that is diverse and inclusive. Working and collaborating with various artists and people, Infinite manifests boundless expression through collaboration in digital media and live dance performance. Previous company projects include the study and use of stop motion animation through collaboration with artists in moving image and digital media. Choreographically, Infinite Dance produce work with emotional and moral messages, and aim to inspire a revelation within its audiences.

Infinite Dance is a brand new company started in 2010 by trained contemporary dancers, Amy Rennie and Kayleigh Lush. Both studied BA Dance at Middlesex University specialising in Graham, Humphrey and Release techniques, and have strong backgrounds in community dance choreography.

Saturday 21st August: Infinite Dance Company. Title: Size Zero

Sunday 22nd August: Sabine Klaus Title: Back to My Roots

Websites:

Monday 23rd August: Anthony Middleton. Title: 'Manuum'

Anthony was trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, and has danced works by Russell Maliphant, Paul Roberts, Freddie Opoku-Addaie and is currently a member of the 'BalletBoyz' dance company, whilst also creating works with 'Non Compos Mentis Dance Collective'.

Anthony's Artistic Ideas:

I am most interested in exploring the limits and possibilities of articulation in the body. In addition to this fundamental idea, I am particularly interested with exploring the possibilities of fluidity of movement and energy in movement, including the relationship with the body to the floor. My vocabulary is one that is designed to be very sensual/ textural, and has a strong somatic focus, whilst maintaining emotion and theatricality.

For more information about Anthony's work, and for links to his YouTube channel, click:

http://themiddletoncorpus.tumblr.com/

Tuesday 24th August: Anthony Middleton. Title: 'Manuum'

Wednesday 25th August: Deborah Renzi. Title: Caroleen

Born in Italy in 1987 Debora trained in ballet for 7 years and she graduated in 2010 from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. During her degree she had the opportunity to work with many choreographers and teachers and she developed an interest in exploring the limits of the body in a improvisation context. She is particularly interested in exploring the relationship between movements and emotional impulses. She focuses on the reason behind movements trying to push her boundaries avoiding the interest on the simply aesthetic aspect of dance. She is also interested in the relationship with technology, and in the creation of dance films for a project in Italy.

Thursday 26th August: Isabel Slingerland and Anthony Middleton. Title: Certain People

Isabel Slingerland: Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. Isabel started her training at Codarts Rotterdam Dance Academy, in the Netherlands. Then continued her training at Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School, Denmark, and is now a third year student at Northern School of Contemporary Dance.

Anthony Middleton: Born in Yorkshire in the UK. Anthony trained as a gymnast for 10 years before he started his dance training at Northern School of Contemporary Dance. He also currently is a member of the Ballet Boyz Dance Company, based in London.

Anthony and Isabel create work together under the name Non Compos Mentis Dance Collective

http://www.ncmdancecollective.blogspot.com/

Friday 27th August: Deborah Renzi. Title: Caroleen

Saturday 28th August: Debora Renzi, Anthony Middleton & Isabel Slingland

New Trio created for 23 Feelings in Dance

The deadline for 23 Feelings in Dance has now passed and our team at the Dance Psychology Lab have selected the pieces we will use as part of the Dance Doctor, Dance! show at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2010. For this show we have decided to use mainly live performances. If you have submitted a piece and it has not been selected for Edinburgh 2010 this does not mean that it will not be used for the main "23 Feelings in Dance" project.

The next phase of the "23 Feelings in Dance" project will be to select 23 contrasting pieces from the submissions received and compile them with commentary and interviews for a 90 minute video and potentially for an evening of live and screened dance. This phase of the project will be started in the Autumn of 2010.

The response we received was, literally, overwhelming. We could easily compile several different 90 minute programmes of 23 Feelings in Dance. Indeed, it is our intention to use as many of the submissions as we possibly can.

We would also love to hear from choreographers who would still like to make a submission. We have received a large number of submissions from contemporary choreographers and we would love to see how choreographers from other dance forms also approach the project. We are certainly not excluding contemporary choreographers from making new submissions, we would just like to see other dance forms as well.

Thank you to all those dancers and choreographers who have so far made submissions to the "23 Feelings in Dance" project. We look forward to working with you in the future.

Best wishes

Peter, Tracy & Carine

DEADLINE REMINDER AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Submission Deadline: 11^th June 2010

Additional Information: see bottom of message

Original Call

To be shown as part of the Edinburgh Fringe August 2010

We invite submissions for a series of 23, 3-minute, dance pieces. Each dance piece should be inspired by one of the “feelings” listed below.

You can create your dance piece in any form of dance or physical theatre and it can include any number of dancers of any age. You can create and submit just one dance piece or you can create and submit several pieces.

The brief is simply that the dance piece should be inspired by one of the feelings listed below and it must not be longer than 3

minutes.

The final 23 pieces of dance will be shown (or danced live if you or your dancers are able attend Edinburgh during August) at the Bedlam Theatre as part of the dance production “Dance Doctor, Dance! The Psychology of Dance Show”. The Psychology of Dance Show is a 50 minute interactive show where Dr Peter Lovatt will discuss, amongst other things, the science of how we recognize emotion in dance.

The 23 Feelings in Dance pieces will be used to illustrate the wide range of emotions that can be communicated through an equally wide range of forms of dance. The Psychology of Dance Show runs for 23 nights (from 6^th to 28^th August) and one of the 23 Feelings in Dance pieces will be shown on video or performed by your company each night.

At the end of the Edinburgh run it is hoped that a film will be made of the 23 Feelings in Dance with a commentary and interviews with the choreographers.

Submission information

To register an interest in the project or to discuss your ideas before you create and film your piece contact Peter Lovatt on P.J.Lovatt@herts.ac.uk
Once you have created your piece, film it, and then either post it on YouTube, and send Peter a link to it, or burn the film onto disc and send the disc to Peter at the University of Hertfordshire (address below). Don’t worry too much about the quality of the filming at this stage of the process.
Submissions or expressions of interest must be made by Friday 11^th June 2010.

List of Feelings

Set 1

love, adore, alive, wanted, lustful, worthy, pity, respected, empathy, awed, enthusiastic, zealous, courageous, hate, unloved, abhor, despised, hurt, miserable, pain, lonely, cynical, worthless, impotent, futile, accursed, abandoned, estranged, degraded, humiliated, shocked, panicky, trapped, horrified, afraid, scared, terrified, threatened, infuriated, furious, exhausted

Set 2

enchanted, infatuated, tender, vibrant, independent, capable, proud, gratified, worthy, sympathetic, important, concerned, appreciated, consoled, delighted, eager, optimistic, joyful, hopeful, valiant, brave, brilliant, disgusted, resentful, bitter, detested, fed-up, frustrated, depressed, sick, dissatisfied, fatigued, worn-out, useless, weak, hopeless, forlorn, rejected, guilty, embarrassed, inhibited, bewildered, frightened, anxious, dismayed, apprehensive, disturbed, antagonistic, vengeful, indignant, mad, torn

Set 3

liked, cared for, esteemed, affectionate, fond, excited, patient, strong, inspired, anticipating, amused, yearning, peaceful, determined, pleased, excited, jolly, relieved, glad, adventurous, peaceful, intelligent, suspicious, envious, enmity, aversion, dejected, bored, forlorn, disappointed, wearied, inadequate, ineffectual, helpless, resigned, apathetic, shy, uncomfortable, baffled, confused, nervous, tempted, tense, worried, perplexed, troubled, disdainful, contemptuous, alarmed, annoyed, provoked

Set 4

friendly, benevolent, at-ease, relaxed, comfortable, content, keen, amazed, alert, sure, attractive, approved, untroubled, graceful, turned on, warm, amused, daring, comfortable, smart, interested, unpopular, listless, moody, lethargic, gloomy, dismal, discontented, tired, indifferent, unsure, impatient, dependent, unimportant, regretful, bashful, puzzled, self-conscious, edgy, upset, reluctant, timid, mixed-up, sullen, provoked

Additional Information

Q: Can I pick words from any set?

A: Yes, the words are only divided into sets to make it easier to scan them.

Q: Can I base my work on more than one feeling?

A: Yes, feelings are seldom felt in isolation. However, you should be inspired by a primary feeling. Just to explain, if I was making a piece about PRIDE, as a primary feeling, I would also include representations of the feelings of GUILT and EMBARRASMENT as secondary feelings because whenever I feel PRIDE I feel the other feelings too. You don’t have to represent sets of feelings but you can if you wish.

Q: How do I submit my work?

A: Record your submission and do one of several things/ You can post it on YouTube and send me the link to it. Post it on your own website and send me the link. You can send me a DVD in the post. You can send me a video file over the internet. If you do this be aware that videos often go over email space limits. You can use services like YouSendIt (www.yousendit.com)or other file sending services for free.

Q: I want to dance live but I’m restricted on the dates I can come to Edinburgh.

A: That’s fine. If you give me your availability I’ll work around that. Also, some people have asked if they can perform on a day close to another person. That’s fine as well.

Q: Is there any money involved?

A: NO. I am neither paying you nor am I charging you to show your work. I have already paid to hire the venue and all the fringe fees. If you want to dance your piece live you will just have to pay your own travel and accommodation costs. At the end of the project I will be applying for money from different funding bodies to compile a DVD of the 23 Feelings in Dance, at which point there might be money to pay choreographers.

Q: Does my piece have to be exactly 3 minutes?

A: No, but it cannot be longer than about 3 minutes. Basically, I am giving over 5 minutes of the show to 23 Feelings in Dance. If you’re dancing live then I need about a minute to introduce you and get you on stage, and another minute for you to take your applause and leave the stage. That leaves about 3 minutes, but there is some flexibility.

Q: Why are you doing this?

A: I give a lot of public lectures on the science and psychology of dance. My show at the Edinburgh Fringe is one of those. As part of my work as a University Psychologist I study the way people recognize emotions in dance, and I study how dance makes an audience feel. Typically, when scientists study people’s response to dance they do it by asking people to watch very short representations of people dancing (acting out) a few iconic feelings, such as happy, sad, etc. These short dances look nothing like the kind of dance I see in the real world. So, what I want is to see how real dancers/choreographers/teachers represent feelings through dance. My assumption is that because different forms of dance use different vocabularies, or forms of expression, that the way choreographers choose to express a feeling will be highly varied. I’m interested in this variability and in how audiences react to different feelings represented in different forms of dance.

Q: Can I chat to you about this project?

A: Yes, call me on 07765 250 427 or 0044 7765 250 427 from outside the UK.

Peter

Dr Peter Lovatt
Principal Lecturer & Reader in Psychology
Dance Psychology Lab
School of Psychology
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hatfield
Herts, AL10 9AB

Office: 01707 284608
Mobile: 07765 250 427
Email: P.J.Lovatt@herts.ac.uk

Dr Peter Lovatt

Psychologist & Dancer