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Easter Workshops & Performances

KDE Dance partners with Dance Woking to deliver Easter happiness. 

During the Easter holidays the team at KDE Dance will be delivering workshops and performances in Woking and Staines in collaboration with Dance Woking and Stanwell Youth Centre working with over 5o young people over two days.

The aim of the sessions are to encourage and inspire all children participating to try new activities and to learn new skills in a safe, lively and disciplined environment. All children will receive a hot meal and also participate in other space related activities throughout the day.

To find out more and to book onto our session on the 13th of April (part of a two day holiday club delivered by Dance Woking (12th as well) visit Dance Woking’s website. Funding from Active Surrey’s Club4 scheme supports the holiday club and whilst it has been set-up to support children on free school means (FSM), there is an option for those not on FSM to also attend and pay a small fee to do so.

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Book Now: Motion Capture and Play workshop with Sussex Dance Network: Brighton: 30/04/23

Have you ever wanted to try motion capture? Well now is your chance.

Aimed at both professionals and experienced dance enthusiasts this workshop programmed in partnership with Sussex Dance Network creates opportunity to discover more about the technology and learn repertoire and creative tasks from our latest work ‘Playscape: How to Build a Galaxy’.

Time will be spent both in and out of the suits and will include:

  • Open improvisations in response to the projected celestial graphics,
  • Learning repertoire from the performed work,
  • Learning how to operate motion capture.

‘Playscape: How to Build a Galaxy’ is supported by Arts Council England National Lottery Funding, the Newhaven Grassroots Arts Award Fund and the Goldsmith Mocap Streamer Virtual Residency.

Details:

  • 10 spaces available in total.
  • Sunday 30th April 2023
  • 9.45am – 12.15pm
  • Octagon Studio, Cardinal Newman Catholic School and Sixth Form College, The Upper Dr, Hove BN3 6ND

Price:

  • £20 for 2.5 hour workshop.

Booking Process:

  1. Email info@sussexdancenetwork.co.uk with the subject: ‘Play’
  2. Wait for an email with payment details and notification of a reserved place.
  3. Complete payment and confirm with SDN.
  4. Wait for an email confirming completed process.

Health and Safety Information:

Motion capture places you in proximity to magnets or components that emit radio waves, which could affect the operation of nearby electronics, including cardiac pacemakers, hearing aids and defibrillators. If you have a pacemaker or other implanted medical device, do not use these devices without first consulting your doctor or the manufacturer of your medical device. We recommend seeing a doctor before engaging in motion capture if you believe you may be at increased risk from radiation, for example if you are pregnant, elderly, have pre-existing binocular vision abnormalities, or suffer from a heart condition or other serious medical condition. 

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‘P.L.A.Y (Working Title) Receives Arts Council England National Lottery Funding

We are delighted to share that we have been awarded @aceagrams funding to research and develop ‘P.L.A.Y (working title).

The project will enable young people to engage in creative play, inspiring their curiosity and guiding them to a restorative state of effortless attention. It will help them to develop better connections with others in their local community and we can’t wait for what comes next!

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DYCP Round 13 Recipient

We are delighted to share that our Artistic Director Katie Dale-Everett has been successful with her Developing Your Creative Practice application to explore the following question: How can I continue to be a leader, whilst not losing my own artistic practice?

This opportunity will enable Katie to explore how to balance her artistic output with her leadership roles and will develop a more sustainable way of working, helping her identify what good growth looks like and where she should invest her creative and leadership energy in future.

You might not know it but Katie has two other companies and collaborates on other people’s projects including verbatim theatre works.

Sussex Dance Network (Artistic Director):
Sussex Dance Network (formerly Brighton) formed in 2018 to create a person-to-person, connected dance scene to elevate and advocate for independent artists and facilitate conversations. It is their ambition that together through collaboration and creative and cultural partnerships they can lead the way to make changes to our sector that will enable longevity and sustainability for artists, dance and wider communities and that they can develop meaningful community powered programmes that impact positively on local communities. Keep up to date here:
@sussex.dance.network

Kabecca Films (Co-Artistic Director):
Kabecca Films was founded by Katie and Rebecca Dale-Everett in 2017 as a platform for collaboration, fusing Katie’s background in cross-genre choreography and Rebecca’s experience of producing award-winning short films. Collectively and independently their work focuses on true experiences of less heard voices, with a particular focus on intergenerational collaborative and female-identifying perspectives. They have been commissioned by The Barbican, funded by Arts Council England and have delivered workshops for The Point, Eastleigh, Brighton and Hove Council and Women Over Fifty Film Festival.
Keep up to date here: @kabeccafilms

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Creative Newhaven Grassroots Arts Awards Recipient

We’re delighted to be one of six Newhaven based arts projects supported through Creative Newhaven’s first ever Grassroots Arts Awards.

We will be using this support to bring our work to young people:

  • Residing at Newhaven Foyer, a modern support housing development providing self catered rooms and self-contained flats with support services to young people aged 16-24 experiencing homelessness.
  • Using the services of Newhaven Youth Centre, including  L.A.S.T (LGBTQ+ And Ally Support Team and young people transitioning between schools. 

These workshops which will respond to the mental health crisis, growing popularity of interactive media and isolation many felt during the pandemic will be community lead and will explore how interacting with dance and technology affects people’s openness to play and improvisation.

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Selection as UK Choreographer for the AHRC Mocap Streamer Residency

We are pleased to now be able to announce that Katie Dale-Everett Dance have been picked as the UK choreographer for a virtual residency at Goldsmiths for the AHRC Mocap Streamer project. Five collaborator teams made up of choreographers and technologists have been formed from applicants across the world, including Argentina, Brazil, India and Thailand.

“Our 2022 programme is an opportunity for dancers, dance companies, and creative technologists to remotely take part in a six-month creative ‘virtual’ residency programme in 2022 – based at Goldsmiths, University of London. We offer a connector programme using a modest bursary structure, to bring together dance groups and digital creatives from diverse international backgrounds for a prolonged period of remote collaborative digital dance work.” – Dan Strutt – Goldsmiths, University of London

This project has brought Artistic Director Katie Dale-Everett together with an accomplished duo of creative technologists from the U.S. Western seaboard, Erin Cuevas and Matt Conway.

“The dancers and creative technologists involved were chosen from 160 applications through a really tough selection process, with an expert panel from tech, dance and academic backgrounds. Dancers were then matched with creative technologists to form our final teams.” – Dan Strutt – Goldsmiths, University of London

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Artistic Director Katie Dale-Everett recognised as an Emerging Cultural Leader in Sussex

We are delighted to share that our Artistic Director Katie Dale-Everett has been recognised as an Emerging Cultural Leader regionally and is one of 12 amazing leaders forming the ‘Regroup ‘n’ Renew’ cohort. Other leaders include Carolynn Bain, (Afrori Books), David Shepherd (Marlborough Productions), Gareth Evans (Carousel) and Jamie Wyld (videoclub).

The focus of R’n’R is on providing space for self-reflection, building entrepreneurial thinking and skills, and catalysing collaborative approaches to addressing shared challenges and ambitions.

Over the next few months, the recognised leaders will take part in Action Learning Sets, 1-2-1 mentoring and creative circles focusing on different aspects of the city’s cultural landscape.

Source_ Culture In Our City

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KDE Dance receives Arts Council England Emergency Response Funding

We are delighted to share that we have been chosen to receive Arts Council England Emergency Response funding during these unprecedented times. A huge thank you to Art Council England National and South East for their support, made possible thanks to National Lottery funding. We will be releasing more information shortly.

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Empa: What are Katie Dale-Everett Dance researching?

Katie Dale-Everett Dance is supported by Arts Council England National Lottery funding and by Studio Wayne McGregor through the Questlab Network Programme to begin early-stage research into a new project entitled Empa.
Born the year the internet became publicly available and living within an increasingly technological society, Artistic Director Katie was interested in the following question:
By utilising technology to exchange presence, senses and embodiment can we reach a similar, less or more empathetic relationship to that of face to face communication? 
Katie’s research is an acknowledgement of the fact that how we perceive people is not necessarily how they feel/see themselves. Working in collaboration with a series of creative technologists for the first time, Katie Dale-Everett Dance is enquiring into how technology can help bridge this gap for the better, increasing intimacy and understanding and enable us to see others and self more truthfully, differently and clearly.
Through research Katie hopes to explore in the moment choreographic decision, action and response, to question vulnerability and openness and explores internal and external in a literal and embodied senses (emotions, inside a mask…).
Empa is likely to be an intimate, promenade installation piece made in 2020.
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Job opportunity: Creative Technologist

We are looking for a Creative Technologist to join the team for our latest project.

  • Must be available to work in London on the following dates: 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th & 15th of November 2019, 10am to 6pm.
  • Must be able to provide their own VR ready desktop/laptop.
  • Must be strong at problem-solving, artistic and experienced at collaborating with other art forms.

Flat fee: £1000 plus accommodation provided on 11th, 12th, 13th & 14th, £12 daily food allowance when staying overnight and contribution to travel expenses.

Download the full job description here

About the project:

Katie Dale-Everett Dance is supported by Arts Council England National Lottery funding and by Studio Wayne McGregor through the Questlab Network Programme to begin early-stage research into their new work ‘Empa’.

‘Empa’ acknowledges the fact that how we perceive people is not necessarily how they feel/see themselves.

We are looking for a creative technologist to join our team for the second week of research, exploring how we may be able to bridge this gap of perception for the better by utilising technology to exchange presence, senses and embodiment. We hope to be able to increase intimacy and understanding and enable people to see others and self more truthfully, differently and clearly. The work focuses on the live exchange of vision through virtual reality in collaboration with movement.

About Katie Dale-Everett Dance:

Katie Dale-Everett Dance’s mission is to harness every opportunity choreography and the digital create for connecting people, spaces and experiences within a world where we believe connection should be nurtured more. Generating unique, modular and tourable amalgamations of choreography, the digital and human interaction, we celebrate, question and excavate the world around us with a desire to creatively realise projects and works that are accessible, informative, relevant, enjoyable and educational for those new to and those who have already found their love of the arts.

How to apply:

Please send the following to katie@katiedale-everettdance.co.uk by Thursday 31st October 2019:

  • CV
  • 2 x references
  • A short expression of interest
  • Evidence of work (video, testimonials, reviews, website link)