Cascade Dance was founded in December 2006 by Middlesex university graduates Ricia Coleman and Samantha Stringell.
Discovering a lack of contemporary dance culture within Tunbridge Wells they decided to create a company that would reflect its growing success in places like London and Brighton.
Their experience and knowledge throughout years of dance education and training has given them a platform from which to launch Cascade Dance with an innovative and creative approach.
Hagit Yakira recently participated in Burgos-New York dance competition and came second place in the New Trend dance category.
She also took part in a choreographer show case at the Edinburgh fringe
festival, where her dance piece, ‘Somewhere between a self and an
other’ received very good reviews and was mentioned as one of the best
works of the night.
Hagit is now performing with her new works around London, the UK and Israel.
ijad dance company creates innovative and dynamic concepts within dance, moving with the times and developing work where there are no limits between dance, space, film and technology.
The company's work raises the profile of dance culture, using multimedia, film and technology. And the results? Highly-defined signature performances, the originality of which challenges audiences' expectation of dance.
Kayley Hughes and Laura Newman are recent graduates of dance from
Liverpool John Moores University. Each studied within the area of
Choreography and Performance and became members of JMUpstart Dance
Company. Both Laura and Kay are interested within all aspects of
performance and creating works that draw upon internal and external
physicality’s. Kay and Laura have actively been involved in many site
specific performances and are enthusiastic towards fusing and merging
other disciplines within dance.
Lina began her dance training in Sweden and continued her studies at Laban, London. After she finished, she remained London-based & has taken part in various projects, ranging from baroque dance and short film to installations.
Most recently Lina performed with ‘The Rare Theatrical’, an ensemble mixing opera, music, acting and dance, which gave her a special interest in collaborations with different forms of expression. She is currently working with Cloud Dance while exploring other dance projects.
Martial Dance is more than a dance company; it is a movement language
that is born from the physical realities of the body rather than
mentalities that divide society today. Integrating elements from formal
dance techniques and social dance styles, with a variety of martial
arts disciplines, Martial Dance is a movement democracy that embraces
individuality and originality and the choreography never ceases to
surprise and delight audiences.
Doesn’t just kick-ass, it boots pre-conceptions about what dance is off the radar
The Herald on Martial Dance (Fringe 07)
MOxie BrAwL was formed in 2006 at The Space in Dundee by Sarah Blanc
and Katie and Finn Miller as we wanted to create a space where we as
dancers/artists/video makers could find a common ground and create
work. We had very successful residency at Dance Base in Edinburgh and
the work we began to create there we developed for our first show at
the Space Syudio Theatre in November 2006. where we premiered three new
works. “Iv Never Seen a Cat Live 9 lives”, a group piece by
choreographed by Sarah Blanc, ‘Dance My Daisy Up!’, a dance film by
Finn Miller. ‘Saltwater’, a duet by Katie Miller.
In 2007 we invited Angus Balbernie to choreograph on the mOxie where we
created a quartet and performed at The Space, Dundee and at Dance Base
Studio Theatre in Edinburgh as a works in Progress which we will be
finishing in early 2009.
Pair Dance (formerly Pair Co.) was founded by Harriet Macauley and Richard Leonard in 2005 and appointed company residence at The Thanet, London 2006. Past performances have included Resolution!, Connect Festival, Choreodrome, and they were finalists in last year's Competition of International Choreography held in Burgos, Spain.
Piece By Piece Company was founded in 2006 by theatre artist Berit
Kuennecke and dancer/choreographer Despina Mavrou. The company attempts
to deal with current issues affecting women in society, through dance,
theatre and multimedia. Our first project, Do You Sell Yourself At Work?
(2007) performed at Brighton Festival Fringe 2007, looked at working
life and raunch culture and explored situations experienced daily by
millions of working women worldwide. Serious questions were raised
whilst retaining a lighthearted, occasionally comic tempo. With How Far Are You Willing To Go?,
the now expanded company will deal with more universal issues affecting
women, still keeping the light, humorous tone which is bound to become
the company’s trademark.
rancidance has invited Tony Mills to choreograph on Olivia Vella and John Henney, who is currently studying at the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance.
After completing a BA in Applied Music at the University of
Strathclyde, I went on to gain a first class Honours Degree in Dance
and Theatre performance from Bird College. Having specialized in
choreography for my dissertation year, this has been a route I have
been pursuing on and off since graduating last year.
Whilst working as a performer with the small theatre company
animate:SPACE upon graduation, I was also applying for many
choreographic and contemporary dance festivals. After becoming
runner-up for a bursary awarded to emerging choreographers by Sadlers
Wells and East London Dance around Christmas, I was then put in touch
with Enigma Dance Festival in Guildford, for which I created a piece
for in March of this year.
ROKIT DANCE is formed of three girls who have all worked professionally in the contemporary and commercial world of dance.
They are now collaborating as a trio and are enjoying exploring their own funky contemporary style. They have a combined interest in developing a unique but accessible approach to choreography and performance.
RWA has been established for 3 years and we are based in East London.We
have performed our short pieces nationwide and deliver workshops to
integrated classes in schools and community groups.We both have
contemporary dance backgrounds and we met at a community dance class at
Stratford Circus.We are supported by East London Dance and as older
dancers, and a fully integrated company,we are keen to show our work to
a wider audience.
Photo credit: RWA in Dancing Days:An East London Dance event as part of Centre(St)Age. Photo: Nick Gurney
Mikkel Buda Svak was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he studied the
modern dance techniques of Jose Limon and Lester Horton, New Dance
techniques and Contact Improvisation. Mikkel is autodidact in Lighting
Design and Technical Theatre, and alongside his dance training worked
with a number of leading theatre companies in Denmark as a lighting
technician. In 1998 he moved to London where he trained at the Rambert
School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, and graduated in 2001. He then
formed NMO Dance Company, which has since become S-V-A-K.
Scarlett Perdereau is a performer & emerging choreographer based in London. She trained in dance and drama in London and Paris. Since the start of her career in 2002 she has been working internationally in various performance styles: contemporary and physical theatre, opera, site-specific and film.
Her training, past and ongoing, embraces a wide range of dance techniques from Ballet to Modern and Contemporary, and movement disciplines such as Yoga, Pilates and Butoh. Feeding from her experience in both dance and drama, she has been choreographing and developing her own style of contemporary dance since 2005.
Sezdrenah Dance Theatre is an emerging company formed in 2007, based in
London, whose founders are 2003 graduates of DeMontfort University
(University of Bedfordshire). Their aim is to entertain, educate and
promote performance as an expressive art form and to create
opportunities for performers to showcase themselves and their work.
Sezdrenah Dance Theatre is focused on producing performances that touch
your senses and bring flavor back to the contemporary stage, and to
bring theatre goers and non theatre goers together as an audience.
Spiltmilk Dance was formed in 2006 by Sarah
Devlin and Adele Wragg whilst completing their studies at CoventryUniversity and the company is now
based between Sheffield and Birmingham.
Their debut piece ‘5 Dances’ has been performed at a number of national dance
platforms and after recently receiving support from the National Lottery
through Arts Council England, has undergone an extensive revision process. In
July 2008, the revised version of ‘5 Dances’ was performed as part of Buxton
Festival Fringe receiving great acclaim from both audiences and critics.
The Taciturn dancers have performed with a number of leading companies,
including DV8, Common Ground and M6 Theatre Company. Their
international experience has involved work with the Migrant Body
Project and Canadian choreographer Estelle Clareton. All the dancers
have a wealth of experience in dance education, teaching for companies
such as Ludus Dance, Merseyside Dance Initiative and at institutions
including the Liverpool Community College and John Moores University.
Tempered Body Dance Company is a London-based dance collective, a multi-national nexus of choreographers and performers drawn from the full breadth of the dance spectrum, collaborating with established artists from extra-dance disciplines.
Founded in '07 by Canadian choreographer Magdalene Wynne-Jones, Tempered Body Dance Company aims to harness the creative energy generated by the fusion of diverse individual constituents and channel it toward original, thought-provoking and emotively powerful performance pieces.
The Romantic Revolutionaries are currently rehearsing at Clarence
Mews studios in Hackney where we are taking part in the Summer Creative
Space programme, which is a way of creating work in a supportive and
artistic environment. We have regular sharings at the studios with the
other choreographers and performers giving feedback and observations
about each other’s work.
Rhiannon Brace and Adam Speers Cukrowski met at Aberystwyth University and have continued to
support each other’s work since they graduated; Rhiannon Brace and Nicola
Higgins met at The Place in Euston, London.
An ensemble company, that works through ideas, physicalities and whims
via improvisational structures and individual experience. The Ticket’s
work is informed by ‘dance theatre’…by exposing humour in art; in
existing and past art forms …by enjoying the body as flawed; the body
as gendered… by social dance… by the importance of presentation,
performance, audience… by theatricalities: the stage, the audience, the
framing of performance, the bow, the before and after, the ‘offstage’…
by enjoying all dance forms as valid. Lead and developed by Lexi
Bradburn.
The Ticket Theatre Dance premiered its first full scale piece ‘Cosi fan Tutu’ last year at Siobhan Davies Studios: a little look at Opera through dance and cliché.
Udifydance is both a Performance and educational dance company;
Udifydance provides high quality dance workshops and residencies to
dance institutes, youth companies and professional dance company rep
work.
‘Chris and Chay are creative, reliable and enthusiastic young men’
Jane Bridle, Dance development officer, Isle of Wight