Katie Dale-Everett Dance
We are so excited to share that we are being supported by Arts Council England National Lottery funding to build more galaxies in 2024.
With this support, we will be exploring how we can develop our motion capture work ‘Playscape: How to Build a Galaxy’ so that it can engage more young people who are not as often involved in scenarios that promote the development of their talent. More details to be announced soon!
📸 by KDE Dance during a workshop with Spun Glass Theatre.
“It is well established that reduced wellbeing in children and young people increases likelihood of poorer wellbeing in adulthood, which may lead to reduced opportunities and outcomes within work, health and relationships.” (Mental Health Foundation, 2022). We hope, for a future where nobody is at risk of this and aim to be part of the conversation, action and impact helping to reduce this.
This is why Artistic Director Katie has become a Mental Health First Aider.
The course by MHFA England taught knowledge and skills for providing first aid to support people who may be experiencing poor mental health.
We commit to keeping up to date on best practice and to being there for our communities, beneficiaries and team.
Thank you to Active Surrey for supporting us to take this course!
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!
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
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:
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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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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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.
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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.