DANCING CITY SAT 28 JUNE CANARY WHARF, TOWER HAMLETS
The Awakening
Big Dance’s
Youth Dance Day
Hands Down
StopGap Dance Co
Big Dance
Company Chameleon
Sat 28 June 13:00, 15:10
Sat 28 June 13:00 - 17:00
Cabot Square
FREE Runs approx 20 mins
Jubilee Plaza
FREE – runs continuously
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Choreographed by learning
disabled dance artist Chris
Pavia, The Awakening explores
the anxiety of being stranded.
Four disabled and non-disabled
dancers are trapped in a
mesmerising ritual which has
elements of a dream. As the
dream unfolds, Chris’s hypnotic
choreography absorbs you in a
very personal world.
Last seen at Dancing City with
their fast-paced production of
Tracking, StopGAP returns with
what promises to be yet another
absorbing and pioneering piece of
integrated dance theatre.
I’ve had a lot of experience
doing outdoor arts because
I’ve performed with Stopgap
Dance Company in SPUN
Productions and Tracking both
of which were part of GDIF. I
learnt from this experience that
it’s important to make dance
material actually outside and
not in a studio because we
have to get used to the gravelly
concrete floor, the sun in our
eyes and the wind in our faces.
And the atmosphere of
the outside is different to
working inside. All of these
things change the way we
dance. We also have to think
about the audience and how
they surround the performance.
The dancers can be seen at all
times in the outdoors because
there are no wings.
From lidos to shopping centres,
from parks to palaces, Big
Dance is the UK’s largest festival
of dance participation and
performance. And now, back
again after last year’s dance
extravaganza, Big Dance’s
signature youth event transforms
Jubilee Plaza into a massive
performance playground for
London’s talented young dancers
and youth dance companies.
Wrens Landing
FREE Runs approx 17 mins
Sat 28 June 14:20, 15:40
8
Westferry Circus
FREE Runs approx 20 mins
9
This mesmerising dance duet
by Israeli choreographer Sharon
Fridman receives its UK premiere
at Dancing City.
With stunning contemporary
choreography which plays with
the tradition of the waltz, this
performance emphasises the
smoothness of movement and flow
in a sensual, intensively physical
and lyrical interaction between
two people.
From urban dance to ballet,
kathak to contemporary – an
inspiring afternoon featuring the
brightest young talent in London,
produced by Big Dance.
Laterite
The Man Who
Lost His Buttons
Producciones Imperdibles
Compañía
Sharon Fridman
See page 21 for full show details.
Hands Down
La Mirada
Interior
Thomas Michael