DANCE ART FOUNDATION NEWS
12.02.10
Dance Art Foundation Artistic Director Joe Moran continues to tour of his adaptation of At Once, the new solo by iconoclastic
American choreographer Deborah Hay. Moran performs At Once in Roehampton in February, Athens in March and Toronto in April.
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05.02.10
Dance Art Foundation present the compelling new solo Behind My Back by Katye Coe at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital on Thursday 25 March, 1pm.
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25.01.10
Dance Art Foundation production Stand Your Ground by choreographer
Kirstie Richardson is presented at Sadler’s Wells on Thursday 11 March 2010, part of the Sadler’s Wells/ Youth Dance England Jam Free initiative.
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15.01.10
Dance & Critical Theory Group, convened in 2008 by Dance Art Foundation Artistic Director Joe Moran and independent dance artist Florence Peake, continues in 2010. The self-organising initiative comprises artists concerned with locating their practice within the context of critical theory.
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16.12.09
This month Joe Moran presents a lecture-performance on his adaptation of At Once, the new solo Deborah Hay, at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw.
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4.12.09
Dance Art Foundation Artistic Director Joe Moran previews his adaptation of At Once, the new solo by iconoclastic American choreographer Deborah Hay in Coventry on 10 December 2009.
At Once will be performed along Moran’s new work, Reform, a collaboration with British-Canadian visual artist Shaan Syed, created for a company of 12 dancers from Coventry University.
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30.11.09
Principal supporter of Dance Art Foundation's Breathing Space dance-in-health programme, the True Colours Trust has recently launched a new website detailing the aims and focus of the Trust and highlighting some of the excellent work it is supporting and has funded in the past: True Colours Trust
27.11.09
Dance Art Foundation is very pleased to be embarking upon a new collaboration with Creative Partnerships in 2010. Dance Art Foundation will work with Grove Park Special School over the coming year to create a new dance work that responds to young people's experience of change at a time when the school is moving into a new building and will merge with a neighbouring school. The project investigate 'how creative teaching and learning can impact and change the dynamics of our school'.
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09.10.09
Artistic Director Joe Moran will preview his adaptation of At Once, the new solo by American choreographer Deborah Hay, in Coventry on 10 December 2009. The piece will premiere in Toronto in April 2010 and be presented in the UK later that year.
11.09.09
Associate Curator Kirstie Richardson continues her programming of Breathing Space dance events at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital this December. Upcoming works include the exquisite solo Behind My Back by dance artist Katye Coe.
14.08.09
Dance Art Foundation is very pleased to have been commissioned by Sadler’s Wells and London Youth Dance, in association with Youth Dance England, to be a partner on the Jam Free youth dance project. Performances will take place in February and March 2010 in Enfield and at the Lilian Baylis Studio at Sadler’s Wells.
31.07.09
On 8 August 2009, Artistic Director Joe Moran will present and share practice on dance, health and wellbeing at the inaugural National College for Community Dance Summer School, a major new initiative by the Foundation for Community Dance funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
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24.07.09
Dance Art Foundation is delighted to announce that it has been generously awarded a fourth year of funding from its principle supporter the True Colours Trust, a Sainsbury Family Charitable Trust. This funding will enable Dance Art Foundation to extend the reach of its work with new partnerships and initiatives in 2009-10.
10.07.09
This summer, Artistic Director Joe Moran collaborates with the celebrated American choreographer Stephanie Skura and dancers Manuela Bondavalli (Italy), Katye Coe (UK) and Yvonne Ng (Toronto) on an improvisation project at Container 12 in Italy. Performances will take place on Sunday 19 July in Brescia.
22.06.09
The Great Divide considers the critical tensions in the relationship between dance and the visual arts. Curated by Joe Moran for Dance Art Foundation and chaired by Professor Sarah Whately, the discussion event features an opening provocation by dance artist and writer Lizzy Le Quesne and contributions from artists Eva Karczag, Doran George and Jessica Lerner. The Great Divide is presented on Weds 24 June at the Herbert Art Gallery as part of Summer Dancing Festival 2009.
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12.06.09
Applications are now open for dance artists interested to participate in Dance
Connections, the West Midlands dance-in-health development project. The programme is free for selected participants, with the application deadline on Friday 3 July.
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22.05.09
Dance Art Foundation is very pleased to welcome Richard Coaten to the project team for Dance
Connections, the West Midlands dance-in-health development project. A specialist in dance and dementia, Richard joins Cecilia Macfarlane, Joe Moran and Kirstie Richardson to deliver dance-in-health training and mentoring for local artists this summer.
08.05.09
The indiviudal giving appeal for Artistic Director Joe Moran's participation in the Deborah Hay Solo Performance Commissioning Project has been a success and enabled Dance Art Foundation to reach its target. Many thanks to all supporters!
30.04.09
This summer Dance Art Foundation will embark upon Dance
Connections, the West Midlands dance-in-health development project. Dance Connections is a partnership initiative with the Centre for Media, Arts and Performance (CeMAP), Institute for Creative Enterprises (ICE) and Health, Design and Technology Institute in Coventry.
24.04.09
Dance Art Foundation launches an online appeal for patrons to support Joe Moran's participation in the Solo Performance Commissioning Project with American choreographer Deborah Hay. Read more
17.04.09
Find Your Talent Tower Hamlets has awarded £8000 to a partnership project by Dance Art Foundation and Vital Arts at Royal London Hospital. The award will fund an artist residency that uses dance to support occupational and physiotherapy for children and young people at the hospital.
30.03.09
Artistic Director Joe Moran took part in Jerwood Bank 2008 with Siobhan Davies Dance last Autumn. The online project archive was launched this month; click here to read Joe's blog from the project.
30.03.09
Artistic Director Joe Moran will curate a panel discussion for the 2009 Summer Dancing Festival focused on the critical relationship between dance and the visual arts in the UK and Europe.
27.03.09
Dance Art Foundation has been awarded funding from the Capital FM's Help a London Child initiative for its work taking dance into children's hospices in London.
20.03.09
The Rebecca Skelton Fund has awarded Artistic Director Joe Moran one if its 2009 Awards to work with seminal American choreographer Deborah Hay this autumn.
having begun. Dancer: Lalitaraja
Photography: Andrew Downs