Andy Solway presents 66 Dances, St Mary and St Nicholas Church Littlemore, 2nd-3rd December 2022

66 Dances is a challenge, a taking stock, an artistic collaboration, and a reflection on the world over the past 66 years. On 2nd December, respected Oxford based dance artist and improviser Andy Solway will be 66. Over 2 days in the beautiful setting of Littlemore Church, he will perform 66 dances, supported in this unique event by an amazing, diverse group of dancers, musicians and other collaborators.

Dates: Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd December. The performance runs from 9.00am to 7.00pm each day.

Venue: St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Cowley Road, Littlemore, Oxford, OX4 4PP

Tickets: FREE, but numbers are limited. Reserve your place on Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/66-dances-tickets…

You can donate on the door, or to the Just Giving page. All proceeds will go to Macmillan Cancer Research.
https://www.justgiving.com/page/andrew-solway-66dances-littlemore?utm_source=copyLink&utm_medium=one_page&utm_content=page/andrew-solway-66dances-littlemore&utm_campaign=pfp-share&utm_term=9ccdee8c943341f59d64676639a1d21a

Check out the Facebook event link for further information – https://fb.me/e/2nNOlIKQn

If you can’t attend, why not watch online? 66 Dances live stream:

Friday https://youtu.be/crOS9cOLDy4
Saturday https://youtu.be/ghRbpl4PZtM

 

Jacky Lansley presents About Us, Modern Art Oxford 19th February 2019

A welcome opportunity to see dance in thought-provoking collaboration with other art forms in the beautiful space of Modern Art Oxford (MAO).  ABOUT US is a multimedia performance created by Jacky Lansley with artists from dance, visual art, experimental music and theatre backgrounds. In it interdisciplinary collaboration enables powerful explorations of personal and political struggles around loss, joy, caring and oppression that affect us all.  Inspired by the everyday experiences of the human condition, this performance plays with multiple perspectives – near and far, live and film, inside and outside – to draw the audience into an intimate world of which they are a part, it is a performance about us all.

Jacky Lansley is a choreographer, performance artist and writer who has been practicing for four decades. The artist’s work combines visual and theatrical disciplines and is concerned with space and the site specific; she has made works in many different kinds of indoor and outdoor environments, including the Cornish coastal landscape with which she has had a long-term special relationship. The artist was a founder of two of the UK’s seminal independent dance studios – X6 Dance Space and Chisenhale Dance Space – and in 2002 she moved into her own studio, Dance Research Studio, in London, which has supported the making of more recent works including: Holding Space, View from the Shore, Standing Stones, The Life Class, Guest Suites and ABOUT US. Her book Choreographies: Tracing the Materials of an Ephemeral Art Form was published by Intellect Books in 2017.  Jacky Lansley received the Jane Attenborough Award (2018) for outstanding contribution to dance.

Performance:  Tuesday 19th February 6.30-8.00pm

Venue:  Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP

Tickets:  Available online for MAO here

Read Jacky Lansley’s blog about the work here

 

MUE and friends present Nightfall, Port Meadow 26th July

An atmospheric summer evening performance beckons on Port Meadow this Saturday 26th July, involving some of Oxford’s most interesting performers.  Cross art collaborative trio MUE comprises dancer Macarena Ortuzar, musician Bruno Guastalla and light artist Dariusz Dziala.  In their Butoh influenced programme Nightfall they are joined by guest dancers Paola Esposito and Mirei Yasawa.

Performance:  Saturday 26th July, 8.30-10.00pm

Venue: Port Meadow; end of Aristotle Lane, Oxford

MUE is a dance/music company based in Oxford, a collaboration which started in 2010.

MUE: shedding of skin

MUE writes:  The direction we are following is an attempt at an equal creative partnership, where movement, light and sound can fluidly work towards an animation of the given space.  Our different vantage points, histories and techniques are brought to the space and situation.   Shape and erosion of shape seem to take place as a result.

More information about MUE available here