Schools performances in March
Media Release: Lucky local schools invited to plunge into the Undercurrent
Northern Ireland's leading dance theatre company, Echo Echo, will be performing their creative and acclaimed children's show Undercurrent for lucky North West primary schools in The Waterside Theatre this March.
Undercurrent received excellent reviews from audiences at several arts and children's theatre festivals across Ireland last year, including the Imaginosity Children's Museum in Dublin in October 2009.
The performances will take place on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th March at 11am and there are limited tickets left with schools such as St Mary's Primary in Cloughcor and St Cecilia's College attending.
Directed by Prehen dancer and choreographer, Ayesha Mailey, the production is aimed at children of all ages and can still by enjoyed by adults.
The dance and drama spectacle is magical, wacky and full of laugh out loud moments; plunging the audience into an episodic world full of superheroes, Grimm fairytales and friendly blue monsters.
Echo Echo Development Officer, Sarah Young said:
"Undercurrent is a great example of what Echo Echo's work is about- it is bright, playful and imaginative. Importantly, the company is delighted to be able to support several of the performers who recently graduated from the dance degree at Magee.
"We decided to offer two performances for primary schools because dance is now in the revised curriculum and is becoming more and more relevant. Also many of the teachers that we regularly work with have been asking us to do this for a while."
Echo Echo invited primary schools from the Western Education and Library Board to attend two special showings of the production, however it is also open to members of the public and tickets are available at The Waterside Theatre box office on 028 7131 4000.
Undercurrent performances will be on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th March at 11am in The waterside Theatre. Tickets are now only £2.50 per school child. If your school or group is interested in attending, contact Sarah Young, Development Officer on 7134 2266 for full details.
Supported by The Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Studio Performance by Steve Batts and Shahar Dor
Identity Parade
by Steve Batts and Shahar Dor
Sunday 21st February at 6pm
In the Echo Echo Dance Studio
Admission £3
Artistic Director of Echo Echo, Steve Batts will collaborate with Director of Artness, Shahar Dor this February.
The duo will spend a week in Derry exploring and creating- with neither dancer knowing where they will end up or what will happen. Batts and Dor will then perform this material in a movement and image-based theatrical piece in the Echo Echo Dance Studio on Sunday 21st February.
Steve Batts said: " We intend to fall off the edge into the creative unknown. Shahar walks forwards, directly, looking for the edge- brave. Me, I walk backwards looking at the view of where I have been- distracting myself from the knowledge that behind me, sooner or later, is the edge of the chasm where I fully intend to plummet."
Steve and Shahar have worked and performed together periodically since 2000 including projects in Israel with Improbiza and in Ireland with Bed of Roses in Portadown.
Both men have a reputation for fearless improvisation so audiences can expect the unexpected.
'Best' coming to Waterside Theatre
Belfast contemporary dance company Maiden Voyage will bring their new production 'Best' to Waterside Theatre on 25th February 2010. See following press release for information...
Press Release
On the pitch, George Best's dribbles, shimmies, passes and goals were regarded as art in motion. Now a multinational, Belfast-based dance troupe will act out some of Best's greatest moves in homage to the late Manchester United and Northern Ireland footballer. Maiden Voyage are staging a performance on 25th February at the Waterside Theatre in which key moments of Best's life, both on and off the football field, will be laid out in a series of dance moves.
Scottish choreographer and football fanatic Andy Howitt, a self-confessed "football addict" said his dancers would act out key moments from Best's life in 1948, 1958, 1968 and 1978. The performance would take Best from his early days on Belfast's Cregagh estate to Manchester, then the European Cup final against Benfica and finally his life in Los Angeles.
Howitt described the production as a "labour of love. I chose to do this because people can understand it. They think they know the Best story. They think they know the man. For me it's about being able to show a new way of telling the Best story"
Best will be visiting The Waterside Theatre on Thursday 25th February. Telephone the Box Office on 02871 314000 or book online at www.watersidetheatre.com.
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