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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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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 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.

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!

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. 

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.

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)

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.

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.