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Focus on: Site specific dance practice
From the editor
It’s 2012, the year of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Cultural Olympiad, and the year that the Big Dance goes UK wide. The Foundation for Community Dance, the Greater London Authority and Arts Council England – with Creative Scotland through Get Scotland Dancing, a Scottish Government games legacy policy – is coordinating the largest festival of people dancing the UK has ever seen. It’s about all dance, all dancers and all dancing and an incredible opportunity to shine the spotlight on dance of all kinds anywhere and everywhere. We are keen that dance comes out of the studio, gymnasium and theatre and onto the streets, and have gathered some examples of site-specific work that we hope inspires you to take part in Big Dance.
The programme starts on 18 May with the Big Dance Schools Pledge, followed by the Big Dance Trail, the Big Dance Week from 7 – 15 July, and runs until the 9 September. For more information contact www.bigdance2012.com or your local Big Dance Hub.
Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance
In this issue
Letting go of filial blame, Donald Hutera finds ‘humanimal’ satisfaction in the Edinburgh Zoo
The focus: site specific dance practice
Luca Silvestrini, Artistic Director of Protein, reveals the inspiration
and making of Crossroads, a site-specific piece in Greenwich
Ella Huhne, Artistic Director, Landance and Anna Golding, Community
Dance Artist, illustrate the opportunities for dance contained in our
landscape
Janis Claxton, Artistic Director, Janis Claxton Dance and the dancing human animals at Edinburgh Zoo
Derek Purnell, General Manager, Tilted Productions, outlines some of the
issues to be taken into account and the benefits that accrue in
undertaking work outdoors
Rosie Kay, Artistic Director, Rosie Kay Dance Company, is inspired by steam railway and makes a dance on and off the rails
Dance and disabled people
Clair Beckett, Community Dance Specialist, at Attik Dance,
describes the development of Attik 360, an integrated group for adults
with physical and learning disabilities based in South West England
Dance, health and wellbeing
By Debbie Lee-Anthony, Senior Lecturer in Choreography & Dance, University of Winchester
International
Dr Sarahleigh Castelyn, Choreographer, Researcher, and Senior
Dance Lecturer at the University of East London, describes Flatfoot’s
work in training dancers
Policy
Hassan Mahamdallie, Senior Officer, Diversity, Arts Council England, argues for bringing the debates about the arts and diversity together
Professional development
Lisa Craddock, Professional Development Manager and Project Lead,
ArtWorks Navigator asks how you want to see strategic organisations working together