You are invited to a warm online welcome session with the People Dancing Higher Education Membership team. Join us to find out what we offer, ask us questions, and enjoy an inspirational chat to start your year, with acclaimed Choreographer and Artistic Director, Luca Silvestrini - PROTEIN, about the importance of community dance in his work.
Whether it’s how you got into dance - through school or a youth group - or whether you want to lead workshops alongside performing, or based on your choreography, or whether it becomes your main income, understanding community dance is essential to surviving and thriving in dance in the UK and its funding systems. Discover the options and opportunities in participatory dance with the People Dancing Higher Education team.
Bookings for this event are now closed.
If you have access requirements then we encourage you to book at least 2 weeks in advance. Any bookings after 18 January with access requirements, may not be fulfilled.
Save these dates for the next sessions - further information available soon:
- Mon 17 Jun 2024 - Help! (For graduating students)
- Wed 30 Oct 2024 - WTH is …. community dance? (For any year group, particularly first-years)
- Tue 12 Nov 2024 - Ready to Launch! (For second, third and post-grad students).
Biography
Luca Silvestrini graduated in Performing Arts at Bologna University. In 1995, he moved to London to complete his dance training at Laban then worked with Maxine Doyle’s First Person, Catherine Seymour Dance Company, Lea Anderson and The Featherstonehaughs, Ruth Segalis’ Rose’s Thoughts, Bock & Vincenzi, Sarah Rubidge, Joanna Portolou and Aletta Collins.
His choreography dates from 1997 when he co-founded Protein. As Artistic Director he is known for idiosyncratic dance theatre work provoked by its deep connections with the everyday.
His personality is stamped on large-scale cross-generational and participatory events, including the world record-breaking Big Dance Class, East London (which won a Visit London Gold Award) and Big World Dance, 2010, both of which took place in Trafalgar Square.
He has created full-length intergenerational productions and presented at conferences about participatory work all over the world. Through Protein’s Real Life Real Dance programme, Luca has created ground-breaking participatory performance opportunities for disadvantaged and disengaged people, including young people in alternative provision schools, hospitals, refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.
Top image: Luca Silvestrini. Photo: Roswitha Chesher. Above image: Luca Silvestrini. Credit: Josh Furness for London Dance Photography.