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Arts Council England National Lottery Funding Outcome

KDE Dance are pleased to announce that we have been supported by Arts Council England National Lottery funding to carry out a research and development project this Autumn in collaboration with technologists, schools and our local community. Keep in touch to stay up to date on how the project develops!

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KDE Dance Receive Seed Funding From Studio Wayne McGregor

We are delighted to share that we are continuing to be supported by Studio Wayne McGregor who have granted the company seed funding towards a new project combining dance and technology. We will be using this funding to begin research on the following question in Autumn 2019: 

By utilising technology to exchange presence, senses & embodiment can we reach a similar, less or more empathetic relationship to that of face to face communication?

This funding is part of Studio Wayne McGregor’s QuestLab Network project which we were accepted onto during the first cohort in 2018/19. 

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Motus’s Fluid In Flight Commissioned Artists Announced

 

We are pleased to announce that we have been selected by Mótus as 1 of 10 acclaimed UK choreographers to make two new works on schools in Milton Keynes in June/July 2019 culminating in a special evening  celebrating the creative voice of our young people.

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Studio Wayne McGregor’s QuestLab Network Artists Announced

We are over the moon to have been selected as one of Studio Wayne McGregor’s QuestLab Network artists.

QuestLab Network is our three-year artist development initiative, funded by Arts Council England’s Ambition for Excellence to create a new network of dance artists, developers, technologists and commercial organisations, leading to the development and delivery of performance and engagement projects around the country.

Following an open call out, nine dance artists were selected to be part of the programme because they were all open to new ways of thinking, and passionate about technology’s potential to augment artistic creativity and engagement within the arts.

The first QuestLab Network artists for 2018-19: Tony Adigun, Katie Dale-Everett, Rebecca Evans, Nathan Geering, Tom Hobden, Laura Kriefman, James Middleton, Zach Walker and Kerryn Wise.

(words Studio Wayne McGregor website)

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Katie is appointed Brighton Dance Network’s Producer

Artistic Director Katie Dale-Everett has been appointed Brighton Dance Network‘s Producer! She is currently developing an exciting project for 2019 which will help see the network expand it’s reach and deliver new activity.

Brighton Dance Network is an open network of dancers, choreographers, teachers and creative producers who create opportunities around Sussex; including weekly classes, workshops, sharing events, performance and teaching opportunities.

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Thank you Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants

Katie Dale-Everett Dance have just received an Arts Council England Project Grant to research and develop three sections of a new work ‘Virtual You’ alongside the support of multiple partners. The work explores relevant and vital themes around online safety and is being made for 11-16 years, teachers, parents, schools, youth centres and theatres. The project additionally involves collaboration with local schools and young people supporting wellbeing through arts engagement and the creation of research articles. Blending shadow puppetry, projection mapping and audience interaction, this new work adds to the company’s developing exciting, relatable & colourful work.

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Katie Dale-Everett reflects on her Pebble Trust Flourish Bursary

Stepping into new territories is always a nerve racking thing to do and having the opportunity to have two mentoring sessions working with Justine Reeve a dance artist who has extensive experience working in educational settings, developing and devising dance resources and curriculums and producing dance works on and for young people has been immensely valuable in helping me to find my path for development and new perspectives. At a time where the jump start created through the support of organisations including South East Dance has developed multiple new experiences for me to digest and consider, the guidance that this support offered has also helped me consolidate progression decisions for my company.

As an artist currently independently choreographing and producing my work, these sessions taught me the value of sharing and discussing, for sitting down with a coffee and making time to connect with others, the importance of slowing down and taking a breath and most importantly planning thoroughly. From discussing working with producers, learning how to say ‘no’, following your heart rather than your head, connecting with educational settings, writing down company values, creating a three year plan, list making, day set ups and treating myself to a new library of books, I now feel that I am able to see the light more brightly at the end of the tunnel and that I know how to plan the steps needed to get me there.

As well as developing new techniques in planning, these sessions have reminded me to allow time for change and flexibility to happen. Although we did discuss the key ideas of my new work and how to work with my target audience, theses mentoring sessions surprised me in their ability to make me look at my whole working process in a new way, enabling me to learn how to walk before I run in order to keep my car on the road and the waters clear. It is all in the planning!

Library:

1.Show Your Work, Austin Kleon,
2.The Creative Habit : Learn It and Use it for Life, Twyla Tharp
3.The 4-Hour Workweek:  Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, Timothy Feriss

Katie is Artistic Director of Katie Dale-Everett Dance who make cross-genre choreographic works and community projects

Words by Artistic Director Katie Dale-Everett

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OurFutureCity feature a blog post by Artistic Director Katie Dale-Everett!

In October 2017, Our Future City collaborated with South East Dance and Artswork to run the #BeCollective event: Our Digital Wellbeing. Digital/Dance artist, Katie Dale-Everett was amongst them who shared her story of working and volunteering with several arts organisations, within and beyond the city.

My name is Katie Dale-Everett and I am a freelance cross-genre choreographer, teacher and creative arts producer based in the South East. Graduating from Falmouth University with a first class degree in Choreography in 2014, I have been building up a repertoire of choreographic works, teaching opportunities, (working in educational settings or with hard to reach groups) and producing projects that have a positive impact on people’s lives, as well as managing my own dance company Katie Dale-Everett Dance. On Thursday October the 12th 2017 I spoke about my practice at the Our Digital Wellbeing #BeCollective event organised by South East Dance, Our Future City and Artswork and programmed as part of the Brighton Digital Festival. Read on to find out more about what was discussed.

Culture and the arts is something that I have always been interested in growing up, with a particular focus on dance and the impacts that the form can have on health, confidence, interaction and as a way to open up conversation on issues affecting people in my community as well as world-wide. I therefore got involved with South East Dance at a young age, taking part in their Moving Voices project, a large scale youth led volunteering programme for 16-25 year olds across the South East of England whilst still at college. As part of this project I managed the dance stage, workshop area and the South East Dance stall for the TAKEPART Festival of Sport and Physical Activity and received funding to put on a dance extravaganza fundraiser at Komedia Brighton for the Red Cross Society Haiti earthquake appeal (2010).

Since graduating, South East Dance’s support has continued and has been a large contributing factor to helping me to get to where I am in my career today. From coming on board as a Production Partner for Rebecca Dale-Everett and my Ignition Random Acts Network Commission (a scheme for 16-25 year olds who show promising talent in film creation) Digital Tattoo: Artefact 1 (which you can watch here), supporting me through the South East Dance Emerging Artist Programme 2015 – 2016 which included introducing me to working with a dramaturge for the first time and most recently co-programming three of my works: Digital Tattoo: Artefact 1 (film), Digital Tattoo (live dance and projection work) and Conversations About the Digital (audio, participatory work) in the Brighton Digital Festival at The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (see tour trailer here).

So how does the digital fit into my practice? I often call myself a digital dance artist (with my first Arts Council England grant being to develop myself as a digital dance artist), however at this stage in my career I would not call myself technical and I am certainly not incorporating as much digital technology into my work as a lot of other artists (although this is a future interest). At this stage the digital for me in relation to my work means exploring choreographic formats, both in the body and within digital containers and making work that explores and questions privacy, control, the Right to be Forgotten and interaction in our increasingly digitalised society, from the personal story to that of different communities and demographics. One of my earliest worries when beginning to delve into this area was that I was not technical enough, however I was given the following great advice from Ju Row Farr (Blast Theory) whilst taking part in their volunteer scheme (2015): Not having a complete understanding of the technology you work with is where the exciting and unthought of can happen. I am therefore excited about what my future work within these enquires will generate and what I may discover.

2017 was a career progressing year for Katie Dale-Everett Dance, in which I received two lots of Arts Council England National Lottery Funding. These funds were to redevelop two of my works and tour three works for the first time on a small scale tour to new and established, rural and urban venues across the South East and West of England and to carry out a weeks residency at The Point’s Creation Space to begin to research and develop a new work for 11-16 year olds which I am planning to complete this year. I also received Ignition Catalyst funding alongside Rebecca (Kabecca Films) to make a new dance on screen exploring age, memory and dance, which will begin being screened from March 2018 and have more recently been made an Associate Artist of The Point 2018/19. I am therefore very excited about what 2018 may bring and how my journey of exploring the digital, dance and their relationship to my community will develop.

Source_OurFutureCity

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Katie Dale-Everett Dance becomes an Associate Artist of The Point 2018/19

Today The Point, Eastleigh announces its new wave of Associate Artists for 2018/19. The four selected artists, working across contemporary dance, family theatre and circus, will work closely with the venue over a 12 month period of structured support.

The Point’s flagship Associate Artist scheme offers artists and companies – working across all disciplines – the opportunity to work closely with the venue to grow their practice and develop as a professional company or practitioner. The scheme was created to nurture emerging companies and early-career artists, offering mentorship and providing key contacts and performance opportunities, as well as space to develop new work. The venue’s Creative Programme Producer (Dance) Vicki Hargreaves said:

“We were inundated with applications this year, and after some particularly creative interviews we have selected, what we think, are four extremely talented companies to work with and nurture. The Associate Artist programme offers these company’s the support needed to aid them in their company development and future projects and I for one am very excited for the year ahead!”

The Point’s 2018/19 Associate Artists are puppetry company House of Stray Cats, circus artist Grania Pickard, the family focussed Filskit Theatre, and contemporary dance artist Katie Dale-Everett Dance.

Katie said: “I am extremely grateful to The Point for selecting Katie Dale-Everett Dance to become one of their new Associate Artists. It is a dream come true! I am looking forward to working closely with The Point’s community whilst challenging myself as an artist. To work connected to an organisation that chooses to give time and space to support artist’s unique individual pathways for growth and development is very special and I can’t wait to get started.”

The Point’s Associate scheme is one of three core support systems available at the venue, put in place to aid and nurture artists and companies at different stages in their professional careers. The venue works closely with their cohort of Supported Artists and this year welcomes five @HOME artists as part of its NPO four year cycle. Previously the venue has supported Luke Brown, a contemporary dance practitioner who makes and tours his own work and performs with established companies including Frantic Assembly; award-winning cabaret company Milk Presents; and the internationally-renowned Theatre Re.

As Associate Artists for 2018/19, the four selected companies will receive vital mentoring and developmental support from The Point’s creative team including access to the venue’s on-site Creation Space, allowing them time in residence to create new touring work. The four companies will also be involved in community outreach projects, delivering workshops and engaging the wider local residents in the Borough.

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Katie Dale-Everett Dance Supported by DanceEast!

Katie Dale-Everett Dance are excited to share that Phase 2 of research and development for our new piece for 11-14 year olds and their parents and teachers will be taking place at DanceEast in the Easter holidays.

During their time at DanceEast, the company will be working with local young people to explore incorporating younger people within research & development processes, with a particular focus on incorporating an extended cast into the new work.

‘DanceEast are happy to confirm its support of Katie Dale-Everett’s new work for which we have offered her the use of  studio space for the development of the piece. We look forward to continuing to develop a relationship with the company.’

Helen Dawson

Producer (Performances & Events)

How to get involved:

Workshops Information:

Dates: Wednesday 4th to Friday 6th April 2018
(Ideally it would be useful for the young people to commit to all three days, however if you are interested, there is some flexibility on this so please do get in touch with your availability.)

Time: 09.30 – 16.30

Ages: 11-16yrs

Location: DanceEast, Jerwood DanceHouse, Foundry Ln, Ipswich IP4 1DW Price: Free

The sessions will include company class, exploration of the choreographic process, a Q &A with the company, opportunity to give their own experience of using social media and an opportunity to perform to parents and DanceEast staff on the Friday afternoon.

Places are limited and are available on a first-come first-serve basis. To book your place, please email katie@katiedale-everettdance.co.uk with your name, age, contact number and availability.