in partnership with The B-Bar
Tour
Routes into Rural Touring Dance
18+
Come and join us at the Barbican to hear about three routes into touring dance in rural communities. We will hear from Beccy Lloyd from Take Art and the Rural Touring Dance Initiative who will provide information about how to get involved in their next open call for touring opportunities in 2024-25, and from two SW dance artists who specialise in making site specific and touring work suitable for rural touring. We'll finish the night with a mixer and time to discuss ideas and see how the team at the Barbican and Take Art can help you develop your ideas further.
Tickets
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About the tour leaders
Beccy Lloyd is the Rural Touring Dance Initiative co-ordinator for the South West region. RTDIis a national project to support dance to tour into rural locations. Their open call for new dance productions and companies interested in rural touring is now open until the 7th September 2023.
Sally Knight is the choreographer and Artistic Director of Cscape Dance A Cornish company specialising in making contemporary dance shows for rural touring and site specific locations.
Suzie West is a Creative born and grown in the South West. As a dance practitioner she has founded SpinDrift Dance Collective, delivering dance community focussed choreographic residencies and developing partnerships in Devon and Cornwall. More recently Suzie has been working in the cultural sector as talent development lead for Barbican Theatre, Cultural Compact Coordinator for Arts Council and Cornwall Council and Co-Director of Hall for Cornwall Youth Dance Company. The latter is still close to her heart and keeps her weekends busy with youth dance projects, alongside being the Creative UK Cornwall Programme manager. Suzie loves performing up close and producing fun, accessible performances for people as a joyous surprise! In the last 5 years this looked like a 100 people strong performance in a china clay museum, a hyper local project performing in every residential street in her village, a Kneehigh commission with a giant door on wheels and cheeky riotous duet about The Thomas Sisters.
Audience guidance / trigger warnings / safe space
Age Guidance: suitable for ages 6+
Emotional / trigger warnings: there is mention of war although in a comedic 'fantasy' setting.
Health warnings: none expected
Barbican Theatre and venues we make use of of are a safe space - safe to be who you are, regardless of race, class, religion, country of origin, immigration status, (dis)ability, age, gender, identity, or sexual orientation.
Tickets
Pay What You Decide
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