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You Can't Step in the Same River Twice
by Kirstie Richardson
March 2010
You Can’t Step in the Same River Twice is a dance performance by pupils from Grove Park Special School, choreographed by Kirstie Richardson with live music by musician and composer Tim Sanders. The first performance of You Can’t Step in the Same River Twice at Aspire in North London is accompanied by a screening of Changing Places, Changing Me, a documentary of the project by filmmaker Sarah Miles.
You Can’t Step in the Same River Twice explores journeys within a changing world. It looks at ways in which change impacts on our daily life and asks the question 'how do I feel about this?'
Students and teachers at Grove Park Special School have worked with Dance Art Foundation as part of a three year programme as a Creative Partnership’s Change School. This dance project creatively explores young people's experience of change at a time when the school is moving into a new building and merging with a neighbouring school.
Choreography: Kirstie Richardson
Musician and composer: Tim Sanders
Assistant choreographer: Florence Peake
Dancers: Abdul, Anisa, Chantelle, Ella, Hakan, Hussain, Ilwad, Luul, Nasir, Mellissa, Olivia, Pravin, Ryan and Yasir with Jackie, Martina and Saliha.
If you would like to express an interest in attending this event please contact Dance Art Foundation by Friday 19th March:
Email: GPSS@danceartfoundation.com
Or telephone: 020 7377 8454
Please note all tickets requests are subject to availability
Choreographer Kirstie Richardson is a celebrated dancer, educator and dance maker. Her duets, Intimate Contenders and Flowing, and flown, for dancers Joe Moran and Florence Peake have been presented widely (Herald St gallery, Dance Art season; Toynbee Studios, Outsider Dancing). As a dancer, Kirstie performed for numerous internationally recognised choreographers including Bill T Jones (USA) and Gaby Agis (UK), and choreographed and performed in Sarah Miles' film No Place. She has worked extensively with dance, health and disability over the past ten years; most prominently with CandoCo dance company, Graeae, London Metropolitan University and as a Senior Dance Artist on Dance Art Foundation’s Breathing Space programme. Kirstie has also taught widely in further and higher education and as a Freelance Education Officer for Richard Alston Dance Company, English National Ballet and The Circus Space.
You Can't Step in the Same River Twice by Kirstie Richardson is a Dance Art Foundation production, in partnership with Grove Park Special School, a Creative Partnerships Change School, and A New Direction.
Still from documentary Changing Places, Changing Me
Filmmaker: Sarah Miles