Yorkshire Dance presents an evening of live-directed dance dramaturgy with internationally renowned dramaturg.
Friday Firsts #37: Sketch 2
Friday 5 February, 7.30pm
Tickets £8.00, concessions £6.00
Age guidance: 16+
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On Friday 5 February, Yorkshire Dance will welcome Dutch dramaturg Peggy Olislaegers for the launch of the next set of Friday Firsts performance evenings. Kicking off the spring season will be Sketch 2, an evening of live-directed dance dramaturgy.
Sketch 2 brings together artists from years one and two of Yorkshire Dance’s ongoing artist development programme, Sketch, to reflect, share and focus on the role of a dramaturg in the creation of contemporary performance.
Over the past two years, eight Sketch artists have had the opportunity to work with Peggy Olislaegers. They have been encouraged to question their work and to become their own dramaturgs, exploring the full potential of their ideas.
Peggy Olislaegers has been the artistic and general director of the Dutch Dance Festival since 2010. She is one of the leading mentors for the European projects Act Your Age and Performing Gender and is also working as a dramaturg for, amongst others, Alessandro Sciarroni, Italy and Rambert, London.
Sketch 2 will include the charismatic Peggy Olislaegers live-directing new material: Hannah Buckley’s S/HE, a work-in-progress dance performance about equality influenced by men, women, science fiction and everything in-between; and a short solo extract of Sonder by Jamaal Burkmar (winner of the 2015/16 New Adventures Choreographer Award). Sonder was originally created for six dancers as part of the Sketch 1 programme in 2015.
This exhilarating evening will give a revealing insight into what it’s like for an artist to work with a dramaturg.
Wieke Eringa, Artistic Director of Yorkshire Dance, says, “It’s a privilege for us to work with someone of Peggy’s calibre in this way, and to enable Yorkshire-based dance-makers to spend several days working with her to develop their practice. This Friday Firsts evening offers the audience much more than a taste of what goes on – normally in private – in the studio. It’s a very high-energy, entertaining experience, the like of which is very rarely seen in the UK.”
Friday Firsts is a series of evenings that showcase work by independent choreographers and dance companies working on the small scale. Each evening has its own theme, helping artists experiment and develop their work, as well as providing a fantastic night of wit and thought-provoking entertainment for the audience.
