AYD, in collaboration with film-maker, Kevin Clifford, have re-worked their performance ‘Flux’, a piece developed by Clair Beckett based on electricity.
Attik Youth Dance:
Attik Youth Dance spent Saturday 17th July dancing across Plymouth. AYD, in collaboration with film-maker, Kevin Clifford, have re-worked their performance ‘Flux’, a piece developed by Clair Beckett based on electricity.
The performers developed their ideas using three spaces across Mount Wise, Tothill Park and Efford. The weather was somewhat indecisive, but the dancers had great fun running in and out of the rain and catching amazing shots! The first group, consisted of Faye Dan, Robin Jones and Katie Wheeler. They had the pleasure of working at Mount Wise and really incorporated their surroundings in to their piece. The dancers were extremely lucky to have permission to roam free on the site, an old MOD base, it was exciting and inspiring and great fun finding all the secret hiding places on site.
The second group, split into a solo section by Zoe Mote and a duet of Lucy Rigler and Harry Scott was based around Tothill Park. The weather held out and the performers worked beautifully within their given settings to manipulate and improvise with their material, including the risky task of performing contact work on steps!
The final dancers, Jess Bennett, Kirstie Eyres and Chelsea-Marie Gall performed in an oversized box, and developed a surreal dreamlike sequence performed under a large pylon! The group really used their imagination to create an Alice in Wonderland inspired performance.
.........and the reason for all this dancing madness .......
In September 2010,this film will be presented to the public. In collaberation with the Plymouth University, the ICCI 360 Film Festival will be hosting a week of film entertainment at the city centre piazza from Monday 13th to Saturday 18th. The festival will present a multitude of innovative multimedia and performance work from international, national and local artists – and this is where we fit in.
Attik dance have a film screening slot, Saturday 18th September at 3.30pm. Look out for the event in Plymouth this September to see all of AYD’s fun and hard work. This day was of course documented in photos, so have a sneaky peak!!
Posted by Clair Becketton July 21 2010
I’m a student at Looe community school and I have been dancing for about 12 years now! I have spent a week’s work experience with Attik and it has been amazing.
I have been all around Plymouth helping out all the practitioners with their weekly classes and projects that they have been doing with the primary schools.
The classes I most enjoyed helping out with were; “Attik 360”, where adults with learning and physical disabilities go to explore dance and rhythm, I also enjoyed going to Woodlands special school to help with Clair and Pippa. I loved working with these classes because I love helping and seeing the adults and children use the dance space and use parts of their bodies they wouldn’t normally use! It brought a flood of tears to my eyes!!!
Thanks Attik for such an amazing opportunity.
Samantha Short x
on July 13 2010
Im a student at Truro College, doing a BTEC in dance and have nearly finished my first year, I am really interested in contemporary based dance and hope to carry this on to university or a dance school.
I have just spent three days on work experience with Attik and this has been such an amazing opportunity to see how they work its been awesome, it has really opened up new windows for me.
One of the classes I went to “Attik 360” was a creative dance class for adults with learning and physical disabilities, this was one of my highlights of the week, being able to dance with them and see them so happy is an amazing feeling, I found myself getting really involved and loved the whole lesson. It has made me think more about what is out there and I hope to volunteer for more similar classes and to get more involved.
I have really enjoyed spending time with the team. They are so lovely and great fun to be with. They are all really passionate and take a lot of pride in what they do individually.
Thanks guys
Megan Ledger xx
on May 26 2010
See the Easter Intensive in Action
The Easter Intensive was great fun and we now have some lovely pictures on our Gallery page in the professional development section
Posted by Emma Hoareon May 18 2010
Attik 360 is the new name for our program of dance for adults with learning and physical disabilities also for friends, family, carers and for anyone to come along and have a dance!
This is an exciting time for Attik 360 as The Clare Milne Trust recently funded these sessions, and we are now awaiting confirmation to move to the brand New Devonport Guild Hall!
We are also lucky to have three workshops over the next few months, thanks to Clare Milne. We will be working next week with Andi Higginson, he will be leading a fun dance workshop, and we will have more practitioners coming in throughout the rest of the year.
Posted by Emma Hoare
on April 30 2010
Attik is running its Easter Intensive all this week and there are lots of aching muscles
The Easter Intensive has been great fun, with a mix of low flying technique, somatic based practice, contact & improvisation work, humphrey/release based work, pilates & A fusion of Body Percussion, African and Samba dance moves.
Posted by Emma Hoareon April 15 2010
We now have video of Fast Forward Dance performing at the Keay Theatre.
Please visit our Gallery page to see Fast Forward Dance performing. We will be adding more videos so please keep checking back.
Posted by Emma Hoareon March 10 2010
Our fantastic new Attik website is now up and running! We’re really pleased with it and hope you will be too. We’ll be updating the site with lots of new information over the next few weeks, so keep checking back to see what’s new.
Also if there is anything you would like to see on the website, let us know on (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and we will see what we can do.
Posted by Attikon March 05 2010