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Making Connections is a monthly free drop in event for Swindon and SW creatives. Theo Clinkard will lead a 2-hour improvisation workshop focused on movement and text and this will be followed by a networking/informal meet facilitated by the Making Connections team.
Making Connections is a monthly free drop in event for Swindon and SW creatives. Seke Chimutengwende will lead a 2-hour improvisation workshop focused on movement and text and this will be followed by a networking/informal meet facilitated by the Making Connections team.
Making Connections is a monthly free drop in event for Swindon and SW creatives. Marie-Louise Flexen will lead a 2-hour improvisation workshop focused on movement and text and this will be followed by a networking/informal meet facilitated by the Making Connections team.
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Session overview
Making Connections is a monthly free drop in event for Swindon and SW creatives. Yael Flexer will lead a 2-hour improvisation workshop using ideas from her work ‘Acting Our Age’ and this will be followed by a networking/informal meet facilitated by the Making Connections team.
The workshop
We will begin with solo improvisation work on the floor building towards more dynamic duet and group improvisation. Rooted in Yael’s ongoing intergenerational improvisation classes and practice and drawing on ideas from Flexer & Sandiland’s immersive interactive production Imagining Otherwise the workshop focuses on developing a connection to our bodies and each other as a responsive ecology, using imagery, experiential anatomy and playful exploration. Group improvisation will be followed by a short section of simple set exercises. The third part of the workshop will move on to explore improvisational performance scores and may incorporate work with text drawing on Flexer & Sandiland’s production ‘Acting Our Age’.
Yael Flexer
Yael is Co-artistic director of Flexer & Sandiland with digital artist Nic Sandiland. Yael originally formed the company as Choreographer in Residence at The Place Theatre, London. To date she has created 15 full-length productions, touring throughout the UK and internationally. Live and/or digital commissions include works for: Brighton Festival, Brighton Digital Festival, Hull Dance, South East Dance, Sadler’s Wells, Barbican Centre & Birdmask. Current touring productions include the immersive interactive live work Imagining Otherwise & intergenerational Acting Our Age and the touring installations An Elevated Platform and An Obscure Camera. Recent productions and commissions include Curiouser (2020) co-produced with dybwikdans, Norway, movement direction for artist Rita Evans (Towner Gallery), new works and restaging for London Contemporary Dance School, Dance East & Stavanger University, Norway. Flexer & Sandiland run intergenerational classes online and in-studio as partner company at South East Dance, Brighton. Previous company productions include: Disappearing Acts (2016), Weightless (2012-14), The Living Room (2010-2011) and digital works The Hum (2017-2021), Border Control (2022) Weighting (2015-2017), Trip Hazard (2013-ongoing) and Gravity Shift (2010-2017). Commissions as an independent artist include, among others: E-Werk Tanz Festival, Motus Fetival, National Youth Dance Company Scotland, Ludus Dance, Edge, Scottish Dance Theatre, Trinity-Laban, mapdance, Maslool (Israel), Stavanger University (Norway) Encore East, Three Score Dance and numerous youth commissions for C.A.T and independent youth programmes. Yael leads workshops, professional training and mentoring projects in the UK and internationally. A reader in Dance Yael directs mapdance, the University of Chichester’s MA/postgraduate touring company.
Making Connections is a monthly free drop in event for Swindon and SW creatives. Thomas Page will lead a 2-hour improvisation workshop focused on connectivity and this will be followed by a networking/informal meet facilitated by the Making Connections team.
Making Connections is a monthly free drop in event for Swindon and SW creatives. Helen Ganberg and Mark Powell (Prime Theatre) will lead a 2-hour improvisation workshop focused on movement and text and this will be followed by a networking/informal meet facilitated by the Making Connections team.
Neon’s Adrienne Hart has been commissioned to work with Centre for Advanced Training students at The Place to create a new dance work for their summer showcase.
Neon Dance in partnership with Prime Theatre present a 20-minute live improvised event at Swindon Central Library, featuring musician and composer Barry Ganberg (Rambert Dance School), dancers from the Swindon Centre for Advanced Training course and Neon Dance. £2 entry. All ages welcome.
Join Adrienne Hart, Artistic Director of Neon Dance, for a Q&A discussing her career to date alongside dancer Jason Yip. £2 per person and open to 14 - 25 year olds. Those who have attended the Jason Yip or Adrienne Hart workshop on this day previous to the Q&A will not need to pay for tickets to this event.
Join Adrienne Hart, Artistic Director of Neon Dance, for an hour-long workshop that explores movement and working with props. This workshop is open to anyone aged 16 - 25 and costs £2 to attend.
Thrive 2024, offered by Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, is a professional development programme for early career dance and music artists. Neon will deliver a 3-hour workshop focused on its dance and music collaborative practice.
Neon’s Adrienne Hart will be working with students from the Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) programme at The Place in London creating a new work for their summer showcase.
Image by Miles Hart Photography
Neon Dance presents a stunning and unique contemporary dance performance set to the backdrop of Johann Jóhannsson’s 16mm black and white film, with narration from Tilda Swinton and original score composed by Jóhannsson and Yair Elazar Glotman. During Rewire 2024’s opening night the score will be performed live by Yair Elazar Glotman, Viktor Orri Árnason, Else Torp, and Echo Collective string quartet (Margaret Hermant - violin; Neil Leiter - viola; Charlotte Danhier- cello; Jaroslaw Mroz - bassat) at Koninklijke Schouwburg.
Join us at the National Gallery in London to celebrate Piano Day 2024, curated by Sofia Ilyas founder of FLOAT. Pioneer of Afrorave Toya Delazy will perform alongside contemporary dancer Fukiko Takase of Neon Dance as part of the event, which is free to attend.
In a truly future-facing project, we've been designing robots for live performance! You can see a showcase of this work at a special robotic installation themed on nature during our week-long Mechanical Bloom lab in Swindon.
During the week, we’ll be hosting an informative talk with the Mechanical Bloom lab creative team on Monday 12 Feb at 11am.
The conversation will feature Neon’s Artistic Director and Choreographer, Adrienne Hart, along with some top robot experts - Hemma Philamore (Bristol Robotics Lab) and Helen Manchester (University of Bristol).
A fun and informative talk, you’ll find out everything about our exciting joint research project designing robots for live performance.
Yes, you’ll get to interact with the robots! Plus discover the secrets to how they're made. See you there.
In a truly future-facing project, we've been designing robots for live performance!
Join us for a robotic installation themed on nature at a week-long Mechanical Bloom lab in Swindon. Meet and interact with our robots and learn all about how they work, thanks to our expert partners Bristol Robotics Lab. Plus share your own ideas on what you think the robots should do!
We’ll be at Unit 127 (next to Dune) in Swindon’s Designer Outlet Sunday to Thursday (opening times below). Plus, we have a free Mechanical Bloom talk on Monday at 11am to find out more from the creative team behind the project.
Just drop in - no need to book.
Sunday 11 Feb: 11am - 4pm, Monday 12 - Wednesday 14 Feb: 10am - 4pm, Thursday 15 Feb: 11am - 4pm
Concept: Adrienne Hart & Ana Rajcevic (Neon Dance), with Hemma Philamore (Bristol Robotics Lab, University of Bristol). Robotics & Telepresence: Hemma Philamore, Alix Partridge & Calum Gillespie (Bristol Robotics Lab, University of Bristol). Visual Design: Ana Rajcevic in collaboration Alix Partridge, Charlie Hope & Star Holdon
Neon Dance presents a stunning and unique contemporary dance performance set to the backdrop of Johann Jóhannsson’s 16mm black and white film, with narration from Tilda Swinton and original score composed by Jóhannsson and Yair Elazar Glotman.
Neon Dance presents a stunning and unique contemporary dance performance set to the backdrop of Johann Jóhannsson’s 16mm black and white film, with narration from Tilda Swinton and original score composed by Jóhannsson and Yair Elazar Glotman who will provide a live immersive audio experience.
Join Neon’s Adrienne Hart for a professional level class at Swindon Dance this December! Expect a fast-pace, technically demanding class influenced by elements of Release, Cunningham and Flying Low. Exercises warm and challenge the body, leading to longer movement phases reminiscent of Adrienne’s own movement language with Neon Dance.
Neon’s Artistic Director Adrienne Hart will talk about her 3 year research project with Bristol Robotics Lab, exploring how robots can be used to help more people access cultural experiences including dance. Open to anyone 18+.
Join Adrienne Hart (Neon Dance), Hemma Philamore (Bristol Robotics Lab) and Helen Manchester (University of Bristol) for a 1.5 hour workshop where we introduce robotic technologies for human interaction. We invite participants to imagine robots of the future and how they might support more people to enjoy and participate in live performance! Part of a joint research venture between Neon Dance, Bristol Robotics Lab and the University of Bristol, you'll get to play with bio-inspired robots, explore tele-operating robots and inform future designs by this creative team. No previous experience required.
Join Adrienne Hart (Neon Dance), Hemma Philamore (Bristol Robotics Lab) and Helen Manchester (University of Bristol) for a 1.5 hour workshop where we introduce robotic technologies for human interaction. We invite participants to imagine robots of the future and how they might support more people to enjoy and participate in live performance! Part of a joint research venture between Neon Dance, Bristol Robotics Lab and the University of Bristol, you'll get to play with bio-inspired robots, explore tele-operating robots and inform future designs by this creative team. No previous experience required.
Join Neon Dance for a Last and First Men Costume and Image Exhibition at Swindon Central Library. Opening hours Monday - Friday 10am - 5.30pm Saturday 10am - 4pm Sunday closed.
Based on the ground-breaking 1930 novel by Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (2020) concluded the beautiful career of the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. Neon Dance presents a contemporary dance work set to the backdrop of Johann Jóhannsson’s 16mm black and white film, with parts of the narration from Tilda Swinton and original score composed by Jóhannsson and Yair Elazar Glotman.
Join Neon Dance for a one-off book group to discuss the ground-breaking 1930 sci-fi novel Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon. Thoughts and ideas shared during the Reading Group will feed into the creation of a brand new contemporary dance performance inspired by the book! Open to anyone 16+.
Neon Dance presents Prehension Blooms, an interactive contemporary dance show that incorporates world-class performers, immersive sound design and music and the latest in AI robotic technology.
Neon Dance presents Prehension Blooms, an interactive contemporary dance show that incorporates world-class performers, immersive sound design and music and the latest in AI robotic technology.
Neon Dance presents Prehension Blooms, an interactive contemporary dance show that incorporates world-class performers, immersive sound design and music and the latest in AI robotic technology.
Neon Dance presents Prehension Blooms, an interactive contemporary dance show that incorporates world-class performers, immersive sound design and music and the latest in AI robotic technology.
Join us during our residency in the Reading Room at Wellcome Collection in London in partnership with The Place and learn more about the robots featured in Neon’s new work Prehension Blooms.
Join Neon Dance and Bristol Robotics Lab as we share the process behind the creation of bio-inspired robots for new work Prehension Blooms. Free event, no booking required. Both in person and online.
Join Neon Dance and Bristol Robotics Lab for an hour-long Dance and Robotics workshop where you will meet a series of bio-inspired robots in the making named ‘hōki-mon’ (broom/rake monsters). Workshops are available to book 11am and 2pm daily.
Learn to dance with robots!
Neon Dance will deliver a 90-minute workshop open to dancers and non-dancers. Workshop participants will see how their movement can directly influence Bristol Robotics Lab designed robots and their input will inform the making of a robot community, which features in the new Neon Dance production ‘Prehension Blooms’. The workshop will be led by Hemma Philamore (Bristol Robotics Lab) and Neon Dance choreographer Adrienne Hart.
