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Innovations isn’t just a show, it’s an audience experience. An opportunity to explore new ideas and works by established and emerging dance-makers. This platform has developed to champion creative innovation in dance whilst celebrating diversity in artistic practice and exploration.
Innovations strives to provide opportunities to artists at all stages of their career to present their work and ideas to audiences so immerse yourself in an evening of fresh and exciting work right here in the heart of Edinburgh.
Innovations strives to provide opportunities to artists at all stages of their career to present their work and ideas to audiences so immerse yourself in an evening of fresh and exciting work right here in the heart of Edinburgh.
2019 Edinburgh Programme:
"MAmmy" by PAUL michael henry
Created and Performed by:
Paul Michael Henry “A disciplined, creative and unique performer to Scotland and I have not seen his like in |
MAMMY is a solo performance fusing Butoh dance with original music and poetry. It's a paeaen to the Earth Mother, birthed through research into creation myths across cultures; the title is a Scotticism, adapting the Babylonian goddess Mami who created the first human into the more literally matriarchal and childish 'Mammy'. The piece is an apology, a plea, a negotation, both with our human mothers and the larger globe from whom we derive succour. It's an attempt to realise an ecological body, and to achieve interdependence. Mammy daddy help me remember I’m dancing.
ABOUTPaul Michael Henry is a Scottish performance artist, dancer and musician. His work is informed by Butoh dance, punk rock and ritual, and is performed all over the world. Recent projects include a tour of the United States with Laughter at Being Crushed, touring as a Butoh dancer in France and
Japan, the premiere of new performance Mammy at CCA Glasgow, and a new film exploring high rates of male suicide in Scotland and globally called SMITE ME NOW. His themes are political,social & spiritual, dealing with love, neglect of the body, destruction of the environment and atrophy of the soul in consumerist society. www.paulmichaelhenry.com He is also Artistic Director and creator of UNFIX, an evolving and experimental festival platforming ecologically committed performance, dance, music, film and discussion. UNFIX is intended as a contribution to the waking up of the human species to our predicament in an age of climatechange, massive inequality and crazy consumerism. It is based in Glasgow and is ongoing there and in New York City and Tokyo. www.unfixfestival.com |
"Airplane of Flowers" by kate jackson & collaborators
Artistic Director:
Kate Jackson Performed by Abbi Henderson |
Airplane of Flowers worked with new graduate Abbi Henderson as a female
character with sound created by Lee Affren for immersive solo experience. Abbi cooks, speaks, story-tells and dances with emotional impact. She’s a really warm and friendly person and we captured this in the solo. We want the solo to speak to audiences and people who don’t know dance or theatre but who can resonate with the issues we are focusing on in the work. Creating the work so to enable a journey for the audience which embraces the experience of a closer proximity to be heightened and recognises that step of trustthe audience take towards the work. The solo speaks from a female perspective and is a small stand against the storm of violence against women and children in terrorist attacks and the need now in that light to hold tighter to our understanding of community and oneness as folk in unity. The solo celebrates the innocence of life, the great social part of being human that makes us all connected and loved and the ability within in us all to survive and recover. Airplane of Flowers looks at the effects of terrorism, over a year and half of research talking with organisations, charities and communities who support people affected by terrorism the after care that is in place and shift of social consciousness towards embracing the change upon a community or a family or an individual. Its deep stuff from our side and the magic we aim to deliver is through the subject landing with the audience through warmth, humour and emotion. ABOUTKate is a well established Dance Artist based in Warrington andhas worked extensively with Contemporary Dance Theatre companies and choreographers Nationally. Her own work is now at the forefront of her focus and most recently she has been busy with Airplane of Flowers new solo for LEAP festival 2018.
Kate teaches Contemporary Technique and Contemporary Choreography and is also available to create new work on students or youth groups. She teaches Graham Technique hybrid and also yoga. |
"S(HE)" by SANDRO FRANCHINI
Created and Performed by:
Sandro Franchini |
This solo dance piece is an exploration of gender roles in dance, where the male performer express physical dance qualities sometimes on bare feet, and sometimes on heels.
Are they feminine dance movements on a male body, or perhaps “just” movements? Society believe these to be feminine, but can they be perceived differently since expressed by a man? Do these movements objectify, since expressed in a different manner? The performer needs the scrutiny and gaze of the audience to discovery this. But his gaze could be perhaps the one to render the spectator the object. AboutSandro Franchini is a Dancer, Teacher and Choreographer from Italy.
He was born in Turin but trained professionally in Rome at the Roman Ballet School, where he specialised in Modern - Contemporary dance. He continued his training with many professional classes and workshops in Italy and around the world, including few months at the “Broadway Center” and “Steps Dance School” in New York with a different array of teachers and styles. He started his performing career in musical productions of: “Grease”, “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Evita”. He alternated his theatre work with different commercial dance shows and back up dancer on the main Italian channels like “Rai” and “Mediaset”He performed as a feature solo dancer in two major productions: the big French show: “Les Dix Commandments” (The Ten Commandments) that took him to travel Japan, South Korea, Italy, France and also the big production of “Tosca - Amore Disperato” composed by famous singer Lucio Dalla. Since he moved to the UK in 2006, Sandro has performed on various tv shows, theatre productions and dance companies, including“Take That: progress tour 2011”, “Lily Allen” for “The Brit Awards”, “Opening Act with dance/circus company “Incandescence” for “Beyonce” concert in Egypt, “TMobile Heathrow Airport advert”, “The Muppets movie 2014”, “Dance Theatre of Ireland: The Block Party”, “HSBC anniversary in Dubai”, Royal Opera House productions in Covent Garden including: “Rigoletto”, “Falstaff”, “The Magic Flute”, “Manon” and many more, “Glastonbury festival”, Holland Park Opera festival: “The Magic Flute” and “Carmen” - “South Korea arts festival in 2012”, “Incandescence circus and dance company”, “Punch and Judy” : ENO Young Vic London and Geneva Grand Theatre, “The Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014” and more. In 2016 he Choreographed for the Man in Fest, a prestigious performing arts festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In few of this jobs Sandro had a personal input as an assistant choreographer, role that made him grow a passion for teaching and choreographing. In 2015/16 Sandro was a full time Lecturer of Jazz, Commercial and Musical Theatre at the Institute of the Arts Barcelona, IAB. |
"emotions" by Peter twyman
Created and Performed by:
Peter Twyman |
This solo work is a personal, physical exploration through a spectrum of human emotions experienced from anger. Delving into distorted forms of uncertanty, into the mental and physical longing for that one person to be there. Peter's work draws upon personal experiences accompanied by a modern soundtrack of self-expressive song choices which will transport you through his journey.
ABOUTPeter Twyman trained at the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance (Dundee) and Northern School of Contemporary Dance (Leeds) and has since gone on to perform internationally with companies including Scottish Ballet, Scottish Dance Theatre, the Dutch National Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, White Oak Dance Company and Candian Opera Company.
Peter has been a member of staff for the last 10 years at Dance For All Edinburgh delivering RAD Ballet and ISTD Modern & Tap to both the vocational college and dance school students with a significant number of adult dancers participating in his open classes for Ballet and Tap in the evenings. Working with other Edinburgh based organisations and schools including Starlets, Royal High School, and Stewart Melville School. Peter is also a qualified coach and has worked closely with the Kestrel Gymnastics Team. www.petertwymandance.co.uk |
"YOU, ME & THEM" by unearthed dance company
Artistic Director:
Hannah Mason Company Dancers: Celine Martin Ashley Davanna Emma Buchanan Ellie Leask Julie Somerville |
You, Me & Them is an exciting, high octane piece of contemporary dance work by Unearthed Dance Company. The piece explores the ever growing concern of Government Surveillance in society today and in turn society’s reaction to this.
ABOUTUnearthed Dance Company is the name give to the choreographic practice of Hannah Mason. Based in Edinburgh and formed in 2016, Unearthed seek to challenge audience perceptions through high octane, innovative works which look at social, cultural and human behaviour. Hannah was awarded the Merchant Company Enterprise Award in 2016 and has since received funding from The Peter Darrel Trust to continue to push her practice. As a company, Unearthed have performed throughout the Britain at a number of events an platforms; Innovations Contemporary Dance Platform 2016, Go Dance 17 and 18 and Edinburgh Fringe 17 and 18 to name a few.
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"CORP" BY JENNIFER SCOTT DANCE COMPANY
Photo: Chantal Guevara
Artistic Director: Jennifer Taggart Performers: Rebecca Downie, Kazia Edgar Jade Graham, Aleesha McKillop Kate Hartley-Oliver Hope Plenderleith, Danielle Reilly |
Focussing on human strain within the work place; where the load can become so much that having or trying to maintain a healthy work life balance is near impossible.
Where the effort needed is constant - the body and mind cannot always cope with being over burdened... ABOUTJennifer is a choreographer, dancer and teacher who trained at West College Scotland and completed her BA Honours Degree at The Scottish School for Contemporary Dance (The Space). She has been choreographing and performing work all over the UK under the name of Jennifer Scott Dance. Her work has been performed at various venues including Theatre Royal Glasgow, Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Innovations Chester, Circulate and supporting company Fertile Ground, Newcastle. Jennifer also works within the community teaching contemporary and a range of other dance styles to both children and adults as well as people suffering with dementia.
One of her more recent pieces of choreography entitled '1440' which she performed with Clark Wallace received funding from The Peter Darrell Trust and in December 2018 Jennifer also received the Dance Horizons Producers Award for this work. |
"THERE is no excuse" by DANNS-ED Company
Company Directors
Mark Pace & Kevin Stuart Created by Vassia Bouchagiar |
This dance theatre work has been created by choreographer, Vassia Bouchagiar in response to the #NOEXCUSE Campaign aim to encourage us all to take collective responsibility for ending sexual harassment and violence through the medium of dance and physical exploration through movement.
ABOUTDanns Ed is a postgraduate level dance company based at the University of Edinburgh under the direction of Mark Pace and Kevin Stuart. The company provides opportunities to further technical and performance practice in various genres of contemporary and modern/classical ballet. The company also recieves support from the University of Edinburgh Students Union for its development and spaces.
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