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COURAGE- 23 Feelings Dance

Jennifer Blackburn and Margaret Greenwood of Spiral Dance have created a dance for camera piece called 'Courage' for the 23 Feelings in Dance project. The three minute site specific piece explores the themes of fear and journey, leading to courageous acts. 

"We feel that knowledge and acceptance of a fear gives us courage"- Jennifer Blackburn

The piece will be shown at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival.  

STRIDE- Boys Dance Performance

STRIDE is Greater Manchester based dance company for young men developed in partnership with DiGM. The young men have been working with professional dance artists to produce a piece for the Urban Moves festival taking place in Manchester on Friday 23rd July to Sunday 25th July. The company perform in Castlefield on the Sunday at 1.45pm and 3.15pm. 

Let's Dance Folkways


After a successful Folkways project in 2009, Spiral Dance has now been given a grant from the Joint Health Unit Rochdale Aspirations Project. The project aims to bring people together, get people dancing and feeling good. The project aims to raise confidence, and inspire people to take an active role within their community. The project will involve you if you live or work in Falinge, Sparth, Freehold or Kirkholt and involve specific work in these areas, along with opportunities to work together at Touchstones Arts and Heritage Centre. This project is intergenerational and will focus particularly on families. 


If you would like to get involved with this project please contact jennifer@spiraldance.co.uk or call the Spiral Dance office on 01706 644 433.


STRIDE- Boys Dance

Spiral Dance is currently working in partnership with DIGM (Dance Initiative Greater Manchester) to develop a boys dance project in Rochdale. The project will also involve East Manchester and Tameside. The project will involve taster workshop, Company Try Out’s, and the formation of a Boys Youth Dance Company. The group will work with professional dance artists and have the opportunity to work with Company Chameleon and create work for Urban Moves, Manchester’s outdoor dance event, in July 2010. Watch this space for more dates and details.

Company Chameleon are two professional dance artists, Anthony Missen and Kevin Turner, who are establishing a new professional dance company in the area. Both Anthony & Kevin started their dance careers, as members of Trafford Youth Dance and have since gone on to work with a range of professional touring companies from Scottish Dance Theatre, Fin Walker Dance amongst many others. They have now returned to Manchester to establish their new company. Simultaneously to the first phase of STRIDE, DiGM commissioned a new performance work from the company and co-promoted performances by Company Chameleon at the Lowry. They now have presented two sell out performances at the Lowry, a successful season in Edinburgh and have been invited to perform at British Dance Edition, the biennial platform for British professional dance performances.

Want to know more about Community Dance?

Spiral Dance works very closely with Diane Amans. Diane is the founder of Freedom in Dance and one of the leading practitioners in community dance. She is a dance artist whose career has included working in education, managing dance projects in diverse community settings and training staff in arts, health and social care. Diane is the Editor of An Introduction to Community Dance Practice, 2008, which is an introductory text book and practical guide to community dance practice today. Spiral Dance is also very excited to have been included in this publication. Please go to www.palgrave.com for more information.

 

 
 

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