DanceXchange announces autumn season line-up
August 22, 2008
DanceXchange is set to launch its new season of performances at The Patrick Centre, Birmingham Hippdrome on Wednesday 24 September. Incorporating contemporary, flamenco, breaking, robotics and African dance, it’s a varied programme of the very highest quality to entice not only dance fans but newcomers too.
The season starts with DanceXchange Associate Artist Rosie Kay and her company performing a physically demanding double bill featuring the thrilling Double Points: K (first seen at International Dance Festival Birmingham in May), and brand new piece Supernova, created for five female dancers (Wed 24 Sept). Named after rare outer space blasts generated by dying stars, this piece promises to be both explosive and beautiful.
Next up, we step back in time with Jasmin Vardimon Company as it presents its retrospective piece Yesterday, a 10th anniversary celebration featuring some of the most breathtaking duets, striking solos and iconic moments from the company’s repertoire (Thurs 9 & Fri 10 Oct). Integrating new material with live video animation, this bold work resounds with Jasmin’s trademark physicality as eight dancers interweave scenes of tenderness with provocative and playful choreography.
Brace yourself for the ride of your life later in October, as 2FaCeD DaNcE Companytakes dance theatre back to basics, showing the extremes that the body can be taken to. With gravity defying moves, acrobatics, break dance, robotics, street and contemporary dance, State of Matter is an hour of intense energy and vibe featuring eight male dancers (Tue 21 & Wed 22 Oct).
November is flamenco time, as Spanish artist Jesús Fernández presents Pura Emoción – a new show expressing the human struggle to overcome the control emotion has over us (Sat 15 Nov). Jesús has won several dance awards in his home country for both performance and choreography, and this show promises to be a fiery evening of Spanish music and dance. There will also be flamenco workshops in dance and singing to accompany this performance, taught by Jesús and local flamenco expert Ana Garcia. For more information call Ana on 0121 240 7828 or visit www.flamenco-birmingham.com.
The season draws to a close with South African dancer/choreographer Vincent Mantsoe performing a new solo work called Ebhofolo, meaning “this madness” (Thurs 4 Dec). Vincent’s choreography draws from and challenges the ideas that surround us daily, the ideas that make us who we are. For this piece he takes inspiration from the structure of traditional African homesteads, built to create space but also to reflect interpersonal relations between the inhabitants and their ancestors. In it, he looks at the ways in which the nature of people is related to their lifestyle, inherited since childbirth.
DanceXchange Autumn 2008 Season
Wednesday 24 September – Thursday 4 December 2008
The Patrick Centre, Birmingham Hippodrome // Hurst Street // Birmingham // B5 4TB
Wed 24 September, 8pm // Rosie Kay Dance Company Double Points: K & Supernova
Thurs 9 & Fri 10 October, 8pm // Jasmin Vardimon Company Yesterday
Tues 21 & Wed 22 October, 8pm // 2FaCeD DaNcE Company State of Matter
Sat 15 November, 8pm // Jesús Fernández Pura Emoción
Thurs 4 December, 8pm // Vincent Mantsoe Ebhofolo
Tickets from £7.50
Ticket sales: 0844 338 5000 // Book online: www.dancexchange.org.uk/shows
(Image: ‘Supernova’ - Brian Slater)
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