SUMMER INTENSIVE
GROUND TEXTURES & HORIZONS
Directed by Angus Balbernie
with Jane Simpson & Chris Benstead
WORKSHOPS/REHEaRSaLS
Tuesday 1 July - Friday 11 July
PERFORMANCE Saturday 12 July 20.00
CCA, 350 SAUCHIEHALL STREET, GLASGOW
Course Fee: £125 (£75) Funded Place: £200
Dance House are delighted to launch their first SummerIntensive: a two-week feast of training in making and shaping physical performance, built around our popular Choreographic Development Residencies model, which will also offer the unusual angle of all participants engaging with a professional piece being developed “on site”, with the chance to observe,engage with and question performers and director as they‘work-in-progress’.
This Intensive will include training in movement skills, creation and sound performance, providing participants with a comprehensive programme of taught input, radical angles, individual research/mentoring and group performance. During the fortnight students will be offered: an ongoing movement training with live accompaniment; classes in composition and directing; radical satellites with guest tutors offering small explosions of creative intensity; and the chance to develop performance work which will be included in a public performance at the CCA at the end of the Intensive.
An opportunity for professional dance artists and those in full-time dance training to engage in an exceptional summer programme, parts of which will also be open to professional musicians. Numbers will be limited - If you are interested in being involved in this project please send an outline of your dance experience and any enquiries to:professional@dancehouse.org
Angus Balbernie has created and directed over 60 dance and performance pieces in Europe, USA, Canada, South America and South Korea. He teaches directing, composition and choreography in workshops and projects internationally.
He is currently on the staff of the Dance Academy of Arnhem, an associate lecturer at The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance and Dartington College of Arts and Guest Professor of Choreography at The Korean National University of the Arts.
He was a regular guest-artist and teacher at The European Dance Development Centre in Arnhem for ten years. He has been nominated for an Isadora Duncan Award in the USA andthe Kolner Tanz Prize. He is an Associate Artist at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol.
Composer and musician Christopher Benstead has worked intensively in the world of dance and theatre for almost thirty years, creating scores for large and small companies, youth and community groups, radio, television and film throughout the UK, in Europe, America and the Far East. He periodically teaches courses for dancers and for musicians interested in working with dance and is one of the UK’s most distinguished and experienced accompanists. He has produced and recorded a series of CDs titled Music for Dance.
Jane Simpson originally moved to Scotland to join Scottish Ballet Steps Out. She danced for many years with Rotating Dancers, one of Scotland’s most exciting companies in the 80s and is now one of the finest teachers of movement and dance in our colleges. There are not many Scottish actors out there who don’t remember Jane’s dance classes.
Workshops and performance will take place at 'Centre for Contemporary Arts' in Glasgow, www.cca-glasgow.com
