Rambert School presents Platform, Arts at the Old Fire Station, 26th January 2023

Join the next generation of artists from Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance for a performance like no other.

Platform offers students the freedom to develop their own ideas, push boundaries and find their own unique style.

Don’t miss this chance to see the choreographers of the future display all the creative flair and fearless imagination nurtured at Rambert School.

Date: Thursday 26th January 7.30pm

Venue: Arts at the Old Fire Station, 40 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AQ

Tickets: Standard £13/ Pay more £15/ Pay less £11 – Book online here

Age recommendation: 12 years plus

Please note that the performance includes adult themes, and some flashing/strobe lighting will be in use.

 

DANSOX Summer Schools, Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Oxford 11th-25th July 2022

Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX) hosts no less than three exciting summer intensives this July. International artists, writers, choreographers and guests explore themes of creativity and dance-making in relation to other arts. Alice Oswald and Saju Hari explore epic through different media; Thomas Page Dances develops current research on Commonalities; emerging dancers at Rambert School and the Royal Scottish Conservatoire make new dance narratives by and about women.  Guest lecturers include international dance critic Alastair Macaulay and eminent biographer Lyndall Gordon. Visitors are welcome to drop in at any time to watch the processes unfolding, but do book places for the public sharing events listed below.

Venue: Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Cowley Place, Oxford OX4 1DY

Alice Oswald with Saju Hari and Dancers 11th-14th July

Oxford’s Professor of Poetry Alice Oswald collaborates with internationally renowned contemporary Indian dance and martial arts expert Saju Hari, developing work for the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama All-Night Epic project to come in 2023.

Public Sharing including Q&A: 14th July 5.30pm

Thomas Page Dances: Commonalities 15th-20th July

Thomas Page Dances develops new dance work and discusses the themes of commonality in relation to dance theories, histories and practice.

Public Keynote Guest Lecture given by Alastair Macaulay: ‘Commonalities, Communities, Utopia’ 15th July 11.30am

Public Sharing of the work with Thomas Page Dances including Q&A: 20th July 5.30pm

Deborah Norris, Rambert School and Guests: Women and Choreography 21st-25th July

This exciting choreographic intensive brings together a group of students of the Rambert School and the Royal Scottish Conservatoire in classes and workshops with guest teachers Kate Flatt, Jennifer Jackson and Susie Crow, and to make new work.

Public Keynote Guest Lecture given by Lyndall Gordon: Charlotte Brontë (Villette) 21st July 5.30pm

Public Sharing of Woman-Made! An evening of new short ballets created by women including Q&A

25th July 5.30pm

To book for Keynote Lectures and Public Sharing events please email Professor Sue Jones here

 

Missa Aedes Christi – Christ Church Cathedral Choir and Rambert School at Christ Church Cathedral 21st June 2013

Following last year’s Perpetua,  Cantata Dramatica are once again presenting work at Christ Church Cathedral.  Christ Church Cathedral Choir led by Stephen Darlington join forces with Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance to present Missa Aedes Christi, a new work by composer Francis Grier with choreography by Ross McKim.  The work will be performed as part of Cathedral services on 16th and 19th June as well as in performance on Friday 21st June.