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Innovations returns for its Autumn edition of the platform with an international line up of highly physical and exhilarating Contemporary dance. Now in its 9th Edition, Innovations continues to advocate works by choreographers and companies at all stages of their professional careers."
This edition of the platform proudly welcomes performances from: Stefano Neri (Italy) \ Peter Twyman Dance Company (Scotland) \ Lost Movement Company (Netherlands) \ Michele Colturi (Italy) Dance Horizons first established Innovations in 2014 and has produced over 7 editions of the platform, presenting works by more than 17 choreographers from across the UK and overseas. Innovations continues to support and champion contemporary dance work by artists at all stages of their professional career. |
Swapping Shadows \\ Company Concentric
Yanaëlle Thiran in collaboration with Shivaangee Agrawal
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"We dance with the shadows And become more than we are More than we could have been Before we stumbled into the shadow shoes And attempted to submerge ourselves in them" – Kathryn Rock In Swapping Shadows, two dancers attempt to walk in each other’s footsteps. Drawing respectively from bharatanatyam and contemporary techniques, they unveil the complementarity of both dance languages. Sometimes echoing poetic words, sometimes whirling to world music, they transfer movements from one form to the other and one level to the next. Simple steps slide into stylized actions. Floorwork starts a conversation with upright positions. Through tireless journeys across the space, the performers softly conquer their positions and swiftly swap places until they meet in strong, sister-like unisons. Created in London, at The Place’s Resolution Festival, Swapping Shadows travelled to Almada (Portugal) in 2018 and was restaged at Dance Festival Croydon in 2019. Credits:
Costume Design: Akshy Marayen Lighting design: Sally Somerville-Woodiwis Supported by: Elizabeth House Community Centre, The Bhavan and arebyte Gallery. Programme Photo by Madeleine Rose Elliott |
Company Concentric is a London-based circle of collaborators who create playful and poetic dance pieces. Co-founders Shivaangee Agrawal and Yanaëlle Thiran combine skills in bharatanatyam, contemporary dance techniques and choreography. Alongside award-winning pianist Michaella Livadiotis, they are cultivating multicultural, cross-disciplinary conversations. Company Concentric also includes costume designer Akshy Marayen and theatre designer Sally Somerville-Woodiwis. Together, they aspire to create work that resonates beyond text and sound, touches people contactlessly, and sheds light even on the shadows of imagination.
Company Concentric has performed as part of Dance Umbrella (Croydon), International Youth Arts Festival Kingston and Quinzena de Dança de Almada (Portugal). In 2019, they were awarded residencies at Pavilion Dance South West and Rosas Studios (Belgium) where they devised professional dance classes with live piano accompaniment. Their 2020 creation Remainder has been programmed at Resolution and Havering Dance Festival. |
Eye-soothing synchronisation, syncopation, mirroring and the dancers’ personal connection
made Swapping Shadows joyfully easy to watch. – Stephanie Brown (Resolution Reviews 2018)
made Swapping Shadows joyfully easy to watch. – Stephanie Brown (Resolution Reviews 2018)
Mania \\ ME Dance Company
Artistic Director: Marcia Edwards
Performers: Fleur Hall, Guiseppe Macarelli, Melissa Edgar, Holly Gough, Abi Raybould and Sara MacQueen
Performers: Fleur Hall, Guiseppe Macarelli, Melissa Edgar, Holly Gough, Abi Raybould and Sara MacQueen
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Mania revolves around a husband and wife and the disintegration of their day to day lives. The piece examines how working in the rat race, and societies disregard of mental health issues can cause a spiral of neglect; distraught and confused they try to find their place in the world. As things start to unravel between them, the wife gets trapped in her own imaginary world. It explores sexuality, addiction, relationships and vulnerability that are often associated with mental illnesses. It is an engaging piece, in which the audience will reel from moment to moment with the couple – at times enjoying peace and clarity, before their grip on reality slips and the ground falls from beneath them. Some feedback from Birmingham Dance Network's Introducing 2019 was that it was "truly amazing - felt the passion at every part" Credits: Programme Photo by Brian Slater |
ME Dance is a contemporary dance theatre company based in the Black Country under the artistic direction of Marcia Edwards.
The company’s focus is on creating work dealing with social issues in an honest and engaging way. The company's training is based on Graham Technique whilst drawing on other styles such as African, Ballet, Street and Salsa |
"truly amazing - felt the passion within every part" - Birmingham Dance Network's Introducing 2019
a fragile geography: PLACES \\ Daniel Navarro Lorenzo
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What does nature mean to us? What do we remember of nature in the urban landscapes of streets, museums and parks? What will we remember in the future when all nature is artificial? This new dance piece will follow the music into dreams of the synthetic environment. Based on the memory of what nature means to us and what will be remembered in this future fictitious world, where society has tried to recreate a synthetic and artificial nature. My inspiration for the piece comes from living in Singapore for the past three years where there are a lot of 'recreations' of nature, and the superficiality that comes with that. I could see on the streets, museums, or parks that have tried to 'fake' nature in this increasingly urban city. It will be based on the feelings of the loneliness and the darker side of human beings. A character who tries to find nature to become like those who lived before him/her. Just like it is for me, music will be what guides the character through this journey and is what will make him/ her dream and believe in his imaginary world. Credits: Creation of this work has been supported through residencies at Dance Base, Edinburgh. Dance Live, Aberdeen. The Work Room, Glasgow. Programme Photo by Chew Junhong |
Born in Barcelona. After graduating from the professional Conservatoire of Dance of Barcelona, Institut del Teatre in 2010. He has danced with companies such as Frontier Danceland (Singapore), Y-Space (Hong Kong), Nunzio Impellizzeri Dance Company (Switzerland), Simba Dance Ensamble (Norway), Phoenix Dance Theatre (UK), White & Givan (UK), Polish Dance Theatre (Poland), Dantzaz Konpainia (Spain), Compagnie Ballet Junior Epsedanse (France) among others. Daniel has worked with choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Itzik Galili, Jo Strømgren, Lukáš Timulak, Eric Gauthier, Claude Brumachon, Gustavo Ramirez, Shahar Binyamini, Thierry Malandine, Patricia Lent, Errol White, Gabrielle Nankivell, Luke Smiles, Victor Choi-wo Ma and others.
Daniel is an artistic director at Dan Lourenço Dance creating his own productions, externally collaborating with nationals and internationals, such as delivering workshops and choreographing for artists and young companies around the globe.. |
SENSE \\ BDblaq Dance
Rikkai Scott and Ashley Goosey
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Sense is a narrative piece exploring how powerful the human senses become in an individual who is blind. It is supposed that; for example, the awareness of sound becomes heightened. BDblaq Dance a raw emotional and contemporary dance to provoke a ram emotional connection with an audience.
Credits:
Choreographer: Rikkai Scott Co-Choreographer: Ashley Goosey Composer: Jean Pierre |
BDblaq Dance a new UK company creating rhythmic, charismatic and punchy dance. BDblaq Dance was founded by artistic director Rikkai Scott in 2015 as a collective of dance artists known for experimenting tap fusion and traditional forms of hip hip and contemporary dance. BDblaq’s
work crosses theatre performances and outdoor spectacles to challenge and inspire a new audience. |
