Undercurrent Autumn Tour
Yay!! Echo Echo's family dance theatre show, Undercurrent will be on tour throughout venues across Northern Ireland and Donegal in October and November.
Visit the tour dates page for all the details.
We hope to see you all there!
Inter-Session Performance Night
Echo Echo invite Derry to enter their world of dance and movement
The 10-strong ensemble from local company, Echo Echo Dance are offering a performance night filled with short dance and physical theatre performances on Tuesday 25th October for Derry audiences to experience their world of movement.
The performance night is called Inter-Session- a cross between the company's previously successful 'Interactions' performance evenings and the monthly open platform of Sunday Sessions.
This night is a collection of original dance pieces created and performed by members of the growing Echo Echo dance ensemble alongside a showing of Artistic Director Steve Batts solo which he performed earlier this year at Dublin Dance Festival.
Audiences- new and existing- are invited to come to Echo Echo's new home and studio on Bishop Street and see what happens when a dancer is given collaborators, time and space to explore and experiment, with the instruction to create exactly what they want.
Echo Echo is considered to be Northern Ireland's leading contemporary dance company, and after several successful Interactions performance evenings in 2010 and 2011, the company hopes that it can continue to attract new audiences to dance.
Artistic Director of Echo Echo, Steve Batts said:
"You will be drawn into the individual creative worlds of each member of Echo Echo and see how they meet and move together. The performances will include solos, duets and group pieces- some serious, some wacky - but I have encouraged everyone to take risks and let their imaginations fly."
Inter-Session is part of the company's Into Contact audience development project which is funded by Legacy Trust UK's Connections programme. The programme has been set up to help build a cultural and sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Connections programme is managed by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Gilly Campbell, Drama and Dance Officer, Arts Council of Northern Ireland said:
"Echo Echo performances always deliver originality and the opportunity to experience the best in contemporary dance. It promises to be a unique and entertaining event that will allow audiences to sample the artform in an accessible way."
Inter-Session will be performed on Tuesday 25th October at 8pm in The Echo Echo Dance Studio at 13 Bishop Street (beside Hendersons Music). Entry is £5 and includes a barefoot disco afterwards.
For more information about the night or company, contact Echo Echo on 028 7130 8883 or visit www.echoechodance.com.
New performance project for over 50s
Body Wisdom returns with a performance project, led by Echo Echo and The Workers Education Association, for people over 50 which involves creating a movement based performance piece to perform in the Millennium Forum Studio in early March 2012.
Are you aged 50+ and interested in dance and movement?
Maybe you are creative in other ways and would like to extend your creativity into another area?
Maybe you just loved to dance when you were younger and are looking for a new opportunity to dance once again. Maybe you have been put off by the idea of having to keep up with the athleticism of younger dancers.
If so, then this is the project for you.
There are places available for new participants. Former experience in dance is not necessary. Also, if you would prefer not to perform, your contribution to the course and process is still valued and important.
Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company has collaborated with The Workers' Educational Association (WEA) over the years to create many wonderful dance projects together. "Body Wisdom" has run successfully over the past three years with a beautiful performance "Mapping Memories" in April this year. We are delighted to announce that "Body Wisdom" - this dance course with a difference - is now extending its programme with new funding from the BBC Performing Arts Fund.
Forget about needing to be young and athletic. In this project the wisdom and experience written into the bones, muscles and sinews of older people is a positive advantage.
The movement style that Steve Batts will use is very relaxed and exploratory. With his support and guidance each participant will follow their own imagination to create movement images related to specific memories of places and landscapes.
The sessions will be accompanied by musician Christopher Norby who will develop a music score to accompany the piece.
This is an opportunity to explore your body, your memories and the links between the two. It will get you in touch with your creative, poetic sensibility and will help you to enjoy your physicality no matter how fit or unfit, able bodied or disabled you consider yourself to be. The idea is to appreciate the depth and wisdom that comes with age and to value the more purposeful, reflective, physical rhythms of those of us who are over 50. The performance piece will be presented in a calm and friendly environment.
Steve Batts says: "I like to work with older people. I am just 50 myself and although I enjoy working with young athletic people, as an older dancer-choreographer I find my heart more often touched by sharing the movement world of people who have age and experience in their bodies. I am very excited about the opportunity to follow up the beautiful Body Wisdom project that I led earlier in 2010 and 2011."
Body Wisdom is funded by the BBC Performing Arts Fund, The Atlantic Philanthropies and Derry City Council.
Starting Friday 21st October 2011
10am- 12pm
In the Echo Echo Dance Studio, Bishop Street Derry-Londonderry
Cost: FREE
Anyone who is interested but would like to know more before committing to the process can call Steve at Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company, on 028 71308883. Otherwise, come along on Friday 21st October at 10am.
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