Tandem Ballet (working title)
Invitation for blind & partially sighted dancers to join our R&D workshops
We would like to invite people who are blind and partially sighted and who have had at least some dance training, to work with us on the 2nd stage of R&D, to develop the movement vocabulary for a new touring show for 2013.
Further info here:
http://www.bicycleballet.com/2011/10/tandem-ballet/
We are holding 3 workshop sessions in November to explore further movement and physicality; the potential for training; and to potentially find people who might be interested in being involved in the show in 2013.
Previous Dance experience essential.
Dates & Venues - Drop in Sessions will run from 10am-5pm
Monday 19th November
10am - 5pm
Siobhan Davies Studios
85 St George's Road, London, SE1 6ER
Monday 26th November
10am -5pm
Greenwich Dance, Borough Hall, Royal Hill, SE10 8RE
Tuesday 27th November
10am - 5.00pm
Battersea Sports Centre, Hope Street , SW11 2DA
Depending on numbers, it may be possible to attend more than one session.
Please send expressions of interest, outlining dance experience to:
Veronica.stephens@hotmail.com
Telephone: 07956356407
http://www.bicycleballet.com/2012/10/free-dance-workshops-for-blind-partially-sighted-dancers-london-south-east/
Tandem Ballet - Background
A blind man or woman, pushing a tandem, walks into the performance space. This is the hero/heroine of a new, medium-scale, outdoor dance performance on and around tandems performed by blind, partially sighted and sighted dancers.
The show will follow the hero/heroine on an extraordinary journey - a quest for adventure & knowledge - through real and imagined landscapes, helped or hindered by the incredible people he or she meets along the way.
The new show will build on the imagery, ideas for staging, sound and audio description developed during a research & development phase earlier this year.
Overall, the experience was a journey of discovery for everyone involved: of self-discovery, of meeting new people, of exploring the constraints and freedoms of being blind or partially sighted, and developing the ideas as a group together.
Imagery created evolved from the process of discussion and experimentation and, although underdeveloped, suggested characters and landscapes, and fitted with the notions of journeying, adventure and discovery.
Short Film of the R&D
http://www.bicycleballet.com/2012/09/film-tandem-ballet-research-development/