Dancin’ Oxford Family Fun Week 25th October-2nd November 2014

Half term is upon us… For those of you with families and young friends, a busy programme of enjoyable dance activities for the holiday period has been organised by Dancin’ Oxford.  Family Fun Week, running from Saturday 25th October to Sunday 2nd November, includes something for everyone; from the ever popular Baby Boogie sessions, workshops with dynamic street dance group Body Politic and with inspiring Oxford dancer and teacher Joëlle Pappas, C-12 Dance Theatre in the very entertaining Shhh! and exciting Parkour group Urban Playground both at the Pegasus; even classic dance films Singing in the Rain and Footloose at the Ultimate Picture Palace…
Have a great time!

Download the full programme here

 

Dance Discourse: Dance and Academia colloquium, Merton College, Sunday 2nd March 2014

Dance and Academia: Moving the Boundaries is an Oxford-based project which aims to facilitate dialogue between practitioners and academics in any field who have an interest in any aspect of dance or movement. It aims to be a genuinely interdisciplinary platform where intersections between research and practice in dance can be explored.  To chime with this year’s Dancin’ Oxford Festival, Dance and Academia presents Dance Discourse in Merton College in the heart of Oxford University.

How do we approach meaning in text and movement?  Miranda Laurence has convened an interactive afternoon of exploration in movement and thought, where all attendees will be invited to join the discussion, and where the content of the day may take its own course. To guide participants through this process, three guest facilitators will open up conversations, using starting points from text, poetry, and movement tasks to generate debate, pose questions, and provide some tools for our explorations

 

Alpha and other works: Joe Lott Dance and Ieva Kuniskis at Pegasus in Dancin’ Oxford 2014

Joe Lott Dance, an Oxford-based company of professional dancers, presents a triple bill of exciting and innovative dance as part of the Dancin’ Oxford Festival at the Pegasus Theatre on Wednesday 5th March, including  work from London-based guest choreographer Ieva Kuniskis.  At the heart of the programme is Lott’s new work Alpha, a muscular, athletic and warm-hearted dance and theatre work about being masculine, or not.  Taking inspiration from ‘Machine Man’ films like Robocop and from pagan stories about the nature-loving ‘Green Man’, four dancers kick, waltz, jog and lunge their way through a maze of dating tips, profit margins and protein-shakes.  The company also reprises the much-loved trio Tender which launched Lott’s career in 2012, and guest choreographer Ieva Kuniskis shares her latest work Women’s Tales.  Don’t miss this pleasing, thought-provoking and energising evening of dance and theatre from two up-and-coming UK choreographers.