“Indepen-dance is a good way to escape everyday life and have fun and meet new people.”

Submerge

This piece will be performed at the Theatre Royal as part of the Go Dance 12 Event on the 15th February. Choreography by Lucy Bennett with additional material from Kelly McCartney Chris Pavia and Neil Price.

Tickets are available from the Theatre Royal box office on 0844 871 7677

Tightrope

Ladies & Gentlemen, Boys & Girls, Children of all ages the circus is about to begin!

Tramway, Glasgow 30th & 31st March 2012

Book tickets: 0845 330 3501 | www.tramway.org

This year’s performance by the Indepen-dance Performance Company will be a collaboration with leading inclusive London-based Amici Dance Theatre Company. Tightrope is a stunning show involving dance, aerial work and circus skills accompanied by an original score of live music and an opera singer.

This amazingly spectacular is a touching story of an old circus company that has stuck together, struggling against the odds to survive, but will this be their final performance?

Flashmob – In Between

To be performed at Arts Care 21st Anniversary Arts in Health Conference in Belfast 16th – 18th May 12

Choreographed by Lena Schillebeeckx

Rehearsal Director: Kelly McCartney
Music by Jer Reid

Performed by Indepen-dance performance company – an inclusive group of dancers – this piece explores the
boundaries between performers and audience, between visibility and invisibility within public spaces or a crowd.In between challenges preconceptions of who is watching who, who is seen as a dancer, what is meant to be a performance (should this be: what performance really is?), what it means to be disabled…

Our sense of position in space is a way of describing social relationships. Our bodies are the reflections of our lives.

– IN BETWEEN –

In between invisibility and hyper-visibility.

In between inside and outside.

In between private and public.

In between known and unknown.

In between bodies and stories.

In between seeing and being seen.

Or just.. in between people

For further information please contact Karen Anderson on karen.anderson@indepen-dance.org.uk

Forecast & Submerge

Scottish Parliment, Wednesday 23rd November 2011, 7pm-7.30pm

Forecast

Choreography by Cheryl McChesney assisted by Claire Reda
Music by SHOOGLENIFTY, Peat Bog Fairies, Michael McGoldrick & David Spillane
Duration: 22 minutes approx

The Indepen-dance performance company take the audience on a journey through weather reflecting seasonal feelings. The simple joy of sunshine, the refreshment brought by spring rain, the electric energy of storms and the peaceful calm of falling snow. All linked by the wind with all its many and changing moods.

Submerge

This piece was commissioned by La Casa Encendida for their programme of Performing Arts and Disabilities Festival Sept 2011 and origonally performed  at the festival. Choreography by Lucy Bennett with additional material from Kelly McCartney Chris Pavia and Neil Price
Music by Jim Pinchen.With thanks to StopGAP Dance Company
Duration: 9 minutes

Dancers Kelly McCartney and Neil Price glide and guide each other across the floor, seemingly to aquaplane to a filmic soundtrack. As the music crescendos the couple dance, dive and dissolve into one and other. In revealing their commitment to each other they discover their underwater dance has become a shimmering reflection of one and other.

 

Whistler  - the journey continues…

Friday 22nd & Saturday 23rd October 2010, Tramway

(guest performances on both nights as well as a pre-show discussion before the Saturday performances)

This enriched version of Indepen-dance’s popular movement piece Whistler came from further collaboration with the choreographers from  StopGap Dance Company and additional choreography from Tom Pritchard.

With a seductive hum and a nonchalant whistle, the Indepen-dance performance ensemble will have you tapping your feet as they draw you into their theatrical slideshow of friendship, journey and life.  Whether new to the piece or already a fan, this witty observation of those individual performers who make Indepen-dance so endearing is a must see for those interested in inclusive dance.

(above images by Brian Hartley)

Pre-show discussion

The pre-show discussion ’How do we develop best practice and quality work in integrated dance?’ was hosted by Scottish Dance Theatre’s, Dance Agent for Change, Caroline Bowditch. Panel members included: Karen Anderson- Indepen-dance, Onil Vizcaino – Asi Somos, Cathy Coombs, Simon Tough, and Leila Bebb -Tan Dance, Jenny Elliot -Orbit Dance, David Toole – Candoco, DV8

Guest  performances

As part of the Indepen- dance commitment to building relationships with inclusive  dance companies and choreographers both nationally and internationally guest performances were:

Splinter, Rob Tannion, StopGap Dance Company

Splinter is an artistic collaboration between choreographer Rob Tannion, artistic director Vicki Balaam and the dancers, driven by Jim Pinchen’s thunderous Japanese soundscape. Thrown into another world, the company wrestle for the balance of delicate humility and creative conflict that honest cohesion demands. Who would you call on when your world turns upside down and will the group subsist or splinter? StopGap Dance Company

 

 

Leftovers, Caroline Bowditch (Dance Agent for Change) & Marc Brew of Scottish Dance Theatre

(image by Tiago d’Oliveira)

Leftovers, was commissioned by DaDa Fest, an international festival which brings together the best of deaf and disability arts. The piece is an eclectic mix of discarded dances carefully gathered from the studio floor – each one with its own potential.  Video of  Leftovers

Me Libro , Asi  Somos, choreography by Onil Vizcaino – Taken from work  Alter Ego

Alter Ego depicts the life and transformation of  it’s characters, their desires and dreams. Me Libro is the climax of  Alter Ego and symbolises the moment when one of the characters liberates himself of his past  to undertake a new life..

Asi Somos is the Dance Theatre Compasny of Assido (asssociation for Down Syndrome)

Forecast – July 2010

To celebrate the the opening of The Briggait  Indepen-dance performed their piece Forecast.

In 2006 Indepen-dance commissioned choreographer Cheryl McChesney to create this dance piece which we have since toured to Milan, London and most recently Wales. We have performed this piece at the Armadillo as part of the International Midwives Conference and the Hidden Garden @Tramway in Glasgow.  “Forecast” takes the dancers on a journey through weather reflecting seasonal feelings. The simple joy of sunshine, the refreshment brought by spring rain, the electric energy of storms and the peaceful calm of falling snow. All linked by the wind with all its many and changing moods. The dances are accompanied to the foot tapping, eclectic collection of Celtic music from Shooglenifty, Peat Bog Fairies, Michael McGoldrick & David Spillane.

Whistler -  November 2009

(Choreography by Lucy Bennett, Sophie Brown and the Indepen-dance dancers)

Indepen-dance continued to expand its portfolio of original and innovative work in this collaboration with internationally acclaimed StopGAP Dance Company, UK. This exciting double bill premiered at Tramway in Glasgow (see above for new performance dates)

With a seductive hum and a nonchalant whistle Indepen-dance will draw you into its theatrical slideshow and have you tapping your feet along in time. Indepen-dance’s new work “Whistler” is a witty observation of those individual performers who make Indepen-dance so endearing.

This exciting commission with StopGAP Dance Company represents a new development in the company’s ambitions to expand its repertoire by forging new partnerships with similar highly respected companies in the UK.

Guest performance of Portfolio Collection by StopGap Dance Company was billed alongside Whistler.

 

For details of more past performances have a look in our performance archive

 

 

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