Making Moves: Choose a Direction
Making Moves 2009
Are you aged 16 or over?
Do you have a passion for performing?
Are you already involved in physical theatre, drama or dance?
Have you ever thought of a career in the performing arts but are unsure of what to expect?
Making Moves could be for you!
Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company in partnership with the University of Ulster is offering you the unique opportunity to work intensively with professional dancers to improve your movement skills and performance technique.
Whether you wish to pursue dance into Higher Education or develop your skills through experience, Making Moves will open your eyes to the professional process of performers, modelled on the practice of Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company.
As the leading contemporary dance company in Northern Ireland, Echo Echo has a strong link with the University of Ulster's Dance degree course at the Magee campus. Both Co-Artistic Directors of the company teach regularly on the course.
Therefore as a bonus for completing the Making Moves summer course you will receive accreditation from the University of Ulster's School of Creative Arts.
The story so far...
The first stage of this course started in November 2008 with 8 free introductory dance sessions in schools across Northern Ireland from Derry to Antrim and Belfast to Strabane. Echo Echo was overwhelmed by the interest from secondary schools. The company hopes to maintain any new links created with them.
The sessions involved warming up exercises, aspects of choreography- how it's created and how to follow it. It also included more creative elements and improvisation before cooling down to finish.
In April, during the Easter holidays, Echo Echo taught a FREE one week course from 10am to 2pm each day. This was an opportunity to get a taste for the work that will be done in the intensive summer course. It was taught by Co-Artistic Director, Steve Batts and dancer Ayesha Mailey. The Easter participants worked extremely hard and for some, it proved to them that they would like to participate in the Summer project.
What happened?
Summer course: Monday 3rd - Friday 21st August 2009 - 10am to 6pm - Costs £50
Of Earth: a performance on Thursday 20th August in The Waterside Theatre, Derry- Londonderry.
The course took place in the Echo Echo Dance Studio, Waterside Theatre and The Foyle Arts Building at the University of Ulster's Magee Campus.
Invited artists from Europe and Ireland taught during these weeks in order to provide an exciting and unique opportunity to learn from various talented and creative artists.
Emily Welther was the lead tutor in August. She is an experienced dancer originally from America who has co-devised and performed in the last three Echo Echo productions- Resonance, Consequences and Ripple Affect.
How to get involved next time...
Echo Echo hopes to do Making Moves again so if you are interested, contact the office to be added to the company's mailing list. You will then be the first to find out!
Funding for the Youth Dance Development Course was provided by the Clore Duffield Foundation through its Clore Performing Arts Awards.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT MAKING MOVES, CONTACT ECHO ECHO ON 028 7134 2266 OR EMAIL INFO@ECHOECHODANCE.COM
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