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ODF MONDAY PRACTICE
October dates at the URC Hall in Summertown
Mon 18 Oct Open Practice 10am - 12
Mon 25 Oct Creative Lab 10am - 12
Please get in touch if you plan to attend as we are still limiting numbers.
Monday Practice sessions will continue in November.
SAVE THE DATES
We will also host a
Creative Lab on Saturday 13th Nov 3pm-5pm and
Opening Moves sharing on Sat 27th Nov 5.30-6.30pm
Please get in touch if you are interesting in sharing work in progress on 27th Nov so we can organise space for rehearsals and plan the event. Email oxford.dance.forum@gmail.com
ODF MEMBERSHIP
If you want to attend these sessions and need to join or renew your ODF membership please read the information on our website and fill out the new membership form
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Saturday 6 November, 10:00am–4.00pm
Body of Water
Workshop with Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
Hosted by Café Reason Butoh Dance Theatre
This workshop takes its inspiration from the photography exhibition Water Lily, portraits of Butoh founder Kazuo Ohno, by Keiko Ikeuchi (at the Oxford Playhouse 15 October to 15 November). It will focus on the idea of the body as a water sac and images of flow, fluidity and liquidity. How can we be moved by the image of water, become water, and inhabit a watery world, observing the movement of fish, water plants, ripples, waves and floating.
Marie-Gabrielle Rotie is an interdisciplinary artist and long-time butoh exponent. She has studied with Ko Murobushi, Kazuo Ohno, Atsushi Takenouchi, Carlotta Ikeda, Masaki Iwana, Natsu Nakajima and Yumiko Yoshioka and many others, and has had a long and successful career in movement-based work, movement direction for theatre and opera, including the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. She is currently working as choreographer for the film ‘The Northman’ (Dir. Robert Eggers).
Mortimer Hall, Old Marston, OX3 0PH
Cost £50 To book: email ayala@cafereason.com. Places limited.
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CPD WORKSHOPS, CLASSES & TRAINING
Space Clarence Mews - Month of Making Nov 1st – Dec 5th
Virtual Meetings and Mentoring with 16 hrs studio time The focus of this programme will be solo maker performers – artists working in and across all performance practices welcome !
Delve, draft, test, question, discard, run with or keep for later. This month offers a place where rawness, roughness and risk are encouraged and where everyone’s work will be respected and supported equally:
- 16 hours of studio time
- 5 x Group Meetings – 3hrs each, facilitated by Caroline
- 2 x 1to1 mentoring sessions with Caroline Salem
- 2x Final work-in-progress sharings for a small invited audience
- Cost of the programme: £350, with option to pay weekly over 5, 10, 20 weeks; £70, £25 or £12.50.
Email Caroline 40cmews@gmail.com to find out more.
The Place - Applications are open for MA Screendance Sep 2022 entry.
This trailblazing MA course examines movement on screen and investigates the possibilities of combining moving image and expanded choreography.
As a practice-led course, it embraces the hybrid nature of dance filmmaking and subjects it to critical investigation. Deadline for applications: Fri 8 April 2022, 12 noon. More info & apply here
South East Dance - Artist Support
Join online/in person meet ups for mid career artists & help to design their new programme of artist support More info
Independent Dance - Autumn Programme
In person and online programme of autumn classes and workshops and including online events (see bottom of newsletter)
Dancers' Career Development - Check out forthcoming FREE online CPD sessions from Dancers' Career Development Skills for Living and Evolve Digital
People Dancing - Perspectives on Practice
Online programme of artist-led events and learning opportunities, discussion and debate, networks and spaces to gather, (re)connect and share. Perspectives on Practice runs throughout 2021. See their website for full list of activities.
Clod Ensemble: Reboot - Autumn Morning Movement
A range of online sessions to start the day led by a range of artists specialising in yoga, meditation, pilates and dance – encouraging us to keep moving, regenerating, flowing and breathing our way through the autumn. Sessions are suitable for everyone, even those who may not consider themselves dancers.
email admin@clodensemble.com
website www.clodensemble.com/whatson/autumn-morning-moveme...
MOTUS Milton Keynes - DANCE IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) with Charlie Morrissey
21st November 10am - 1pm in Milton Keynes
£6 To book email: info@motusdance.co.uk
This workshop is about noticing how being and moving with others can be a huge resource and inspiration for dancing. After the long period of separation that we have experienced during this pandemic, the workshop will re-visit ideas and experiences of proximity and touch, materiality and motion.
We will map out our own bodies through physical explorations in relation to space and other people whilst playing and moving alongside, into, with and through. Read more here
CLASSES & WORKSHOPS in OXFORD
Rivers of Life, Changing Seasons
Sunday 31 Oct 2.00 - 4.00pm in Headington Hill Park in Oxford.
Outdoor movement with Helen Edwards. Movement and stillness in the flow of life in nature. Finding relaxation, pausing for moments of recognition, rhythm, seasonal change and landscape; inner and outer.
Simple exploration of breath, body and free movement in this beautiful park, planted as an arboretum for Headington Hill Hall.
We will be working towards the sunset. Please bring warm clothes, hot drinks, the park is a little hilly so good shoes too. Meet in the car park on Headington Hill just up from St Clements and the junction with Marston Road. Donations £10 for sharing time. Email Helen if you want to attend.
I am also continuing to offer one to one sessions for movement exploration and witnessing for those who find this helpful, do let me know if you are interested.
PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK WITH TEACHERS DIRECTLY IF CLASSES BELOW ARE NOW IN PERSON OR ONLINE/HYBRID AS THINGS ARE CHANGING AT THIS TIME!
NEW Joelle Pappas - Creative Contemporary Dance Class for Adults
With flow and breath, develop the dancer in you! Fridays 19.45 - 21.00 (UK time) at Iffley Church Hall in Oxford. Joëlle Pappas leads a mix of somatic explorations, improvisations, contemporary dance techniques and choreographic tasks. For more details about the class, please email Joëlle: tacautacdance@gmail.com
Susie Crow weekly ballet online/in person classes for a range of levels Ballet in Small Spaces
Ségolène Tarte several weekly ballet classes online and in person Dancing Convolutions
Tingting Yang offers classes in Chinese Dance online for adults and children
Thomas Page Dances Open level release class most Friday evenings at OFS
Justice in Motion continue to offer several weekly contemporary classes
Confluence Collective Cafe/Marhaba and Meeting Points
These Oxford based mixed arts groups continue to meet and share virtually. Share a song, dance or poem or else just sit and listen and watch. You will have to be bring your own food and drink. See their facebook pages for more information CONFLUENCE CAFE/MARHABA and MEETING POINTS
Mini Professionals - new adult dance classes for all levels in North Oxford
See the website: https://www.mpdance.co.uk/adult-dance-classes and follow on Instagram: @mpda_plus
Vicky Rainbow - Certified Nia Blue Belt, Nia Free-dance Instructor and also a mindfulness, movement & meditation teacher. Classes in North Abingdon. Book now for courses starting in November. https://www.soulshine.org.uk/soulshine-dance/
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CALL OUTS & JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Dance Volunteers sought for Dance for Parkinson’s programme
After 18 months online, the Dance for Parkinson’s programme will finally return to in-person sessions (from 8 th November 2021) and they are looking to expand the core team, with space for up to two Dance Volunteers.
Dance for Parkinson’s (run in partnership with English National Ballet and MuMo Creative) is a high quality dance class delivered with live music for people with Parkinson’s, their family and carers. The sessions will run on a Monday afternoon (10-week terms in Autumn, Spring & Summer), and the core team are needed from 12.30-2.45pm. This is an opportunity particularly for anyone interested in working in dance with people living with Parkinson’s, or generally working with older people, to gain experience of the programme and being involved in assisting the effective running of it. Ideally we would like a commitment of minimum 6 sessions per term in order to build relationships with the participants and to be more familiar with the content of the sessions that term. Whilst this is a voluntary role, expenses are paid.
For more details about the programme and/or for expression of interest, please contact Claire Thompson on 07747 475259 / cthompson@oxford.gov.uk
Sanctuary on the Fault Line
A wild, graceful, equitable, grass-roots re-building of the dance sector, in these troubled times, by professional women dancers earth-wide. Any professional women dancer, of any age, genre or place, is warmly welcome.
To learn more about the Sanctuary on the Fault Line wild dances network or contact us to join visit: https://www.ensembledance.org/sanctuariesonthefaultlines
The next monthly online gathering on November 5 at 9am, is open to any new member who has joined by then, info on joining on the webpage above.
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FUNDING SOURCES
Oxford City Council
Business support during covid - some grants have now closed. Check if you / your business is eligible for support here
The grants advice, fundraising guidance and support list on Oxford City Council website has recently been updated and worth checking out.
Arts Council England
National Lottery Project Grants - The fund is open to all individual artists, community and cultural organisations to support arts, museums and libraries projects. This fund is now open. They are keen to support first time applicants.
Who can apply: Individual artists and practitioners, community and cultural organisations, museums and libraries.
What you can apply for: Arts, museums and libraries projects that engage people in England with creativity and culture. Key dates: National Lottery Project Grants is open all the time, there are no deadlines.
Due to high number of applications the turn around time for under £15k grants is now 10 weeks and 16 weeks for over £15K.
Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP)
The fund supports creative practitioners thinking of taking their practice to the next stage to research, have time to create new work, travel, training, develop ideas, network or find mentoring. £18 million of National Lottery funding will be awarded between October 2020 to October 2021, over four rounds.
Funding activity: Research and development opportunities, building new networks, creating new work
Grant range: £2,000 - £10,000
Eligibility: Individual artists and/or creative practitioners. You can find full eligibility criteria in the guidance for applicants. Organisations cannot apply.
Applications for Round 12 open will open on 9th November.
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Sign up here for the Arts Council weekly Arts Jobs and News e-newsletter
South East Dance also offer 1-2-1 artist support and advisory sessions. Book here.
Dance Professionals Fund - The Dancers’ Hardship Fund
Who can apply: Professional dancers. Support given to freelance dancers across genres including ballet, contemporary, Black and Asian dance and hip hop including those with portfolio careers, e.g. choreography, who whose work would normally include employment in the subsidised dance sector. The emergency Arts Council support grants have now ended but you can still apply for support from the Dance Professionals Fund
The Fleabag Support Fund is closed, it will be open again on 1 Nov. Please find more information Here
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LIVE EVENTS & STREAMING/ON DEMAND
Dance Futures Podcast (hosted by Dr Ruth Pethybridge) - Series 2 starting soon, listen to series 1 here
Talking Moves Podcast - new episode with Isaac Ouro-Gnao and Donald Hutera talking about the role of Feedback & Criticism. Listen here
Dance Umbrella Festival is now on until 24 Oct at venues in London and with digital content too. more info
Artist 4 Artists in partnership with The Place and Vision RCL present a mixed live and online festival to provoke and facilitate a reimagining of UK hip hop dance theatre in light of recent politics, events and the global pandemic. Events take place 21-24 Oct. More info
Independent Dance hosted events -
Down to RAW: Deborah Hay – a unique collection of screenings showcasing the work of Deborah Hay from 1968 to the present. Available online until October 17th.
NEUROLIVE SALON 1 with Seke Chimutengwende & Steph McMann Tues 19 Oct 2021, 7-8.30PM
At Siobhan Davies Studios and online, via Zoom. Tickets are FREE, more info and book here. The first NEUROLIVE Salon offers a chance to talk with and hear from the artists who are currently creating the first NEUROLIVE commissioned work.
Dancin' Oxford Autumn Festival selected events (see website for full listing):
Z 2° αlphα - online workshop Sat Oct 16, 12pm - 1.15pm
Interactive dance workshop, led by choreographer Sivan Rubinstein, King’s College London, artist in residence 2019-20, draws on philosophy, dance, music and visual art. Participants are taken on a journey about our planet, in relation to our body and home. more info and book here
Talk About Dance workshop with Miranda Laurence - Part 1: Wed 20th October, 1-4pm online and Part 2: in person in Banbury on Sat 6th November, 1-4pm. We will explore Seeta Patel’s Rite of Spring. More info and book here.
The Rite of Spring will be performed at The Mill on 12 November and will also be preceded by a ‘Dance Audience Club' event led by Miranda, and followed by a post-show session with Seeta.
Digital Body: Ascent October 23rd Online 2pm - 4pm
How does a bird fly? How do humans communicate through dance? Choreographer Alexander Whitley‘s new digital dance film examines these themes and more. Created with scientists from Oxford Flight Lab and young people from Oxford’s Parasol Project. book here
Dance Dialogue October 24th Online 1pm - 2pm
Renewable and Logue are two screen dances created through a digital dance residency – Dance Dialogue – a collaboration between Ballet id (Indonesia) and Marc Brew Company (Scotland). book here
ANTI-BODY Alexander Whitley Dance Company
Tue 26 Oct Live show at the Oxford Playhouse
MATTHEW BOURNE'S THE MIDNIGHT BELL A New Adventures Production
Thu 28 – Sat 30 Oct Live shows at the Oxford Playhouse
DANSOX - Dance as Grace: Paradoxes and Possibilities: Oct 28th and 29th
4pm-6pm at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Book now by emailing both Susan Jones and Marcus Bell as space is limited - social distancing still in operation. Yolande Yorke and Yorke Dance Project continue the Grace project by honouring the work of Sir Rober Cohan, whose ideas on grace Yolande will present. Read more on Oxford Dance writers blog
TORCH - Dante and Dance: Ainsi la Nuit Thursday 4 Nov 2021, 5.00 - 6.30pm Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Oxford
Luc Petton, choreographer, will present a screening of Ainsi la Nuit, his extraordinary ballet for human dancers, birds and animals inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy. The film screening will be followed by a response from Professor Sue Jones and a Q&A. Register here for a ticket to the in person screening. recording will be available online to watch later.
MÓTUS present Jose Agudo's 'Carmen' Live show in Milton Keynes - The Venue on the 4th November at 8pm more info and book tickets here
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