dave <p>Followng the success of the DEP produced Autumn 08 & Spring 09 seasons DEP is once again working as Artistic Directors / Producers for Hull City Council on the Hull Dance 09 autumn season. The season will run throughout October and November 2009 and DEP has programmed some of the UK's most exciting and emerging dance companies to present work in and around the city during the season. DEP is responsible for producing the season and overseeing all marketing, press, production and technical departments and staff as well as liasing with all venues involved in the season along with all major stakeholders including ACE Yorkshire. The companies that will be performing in the season include: Phoenix Dance Theatre, and Vincent Dance Theatre who will perform if we go on which Hull Dance has co-commissioned and will be presented at the newly open Hull Truck venue</p> <p>DEP will also be working with Hull City Council during this period on a new dance strategy for the region and looking to put funding and resources in place to ensure that Dance remains at the forefront of the city cultural practises.</p> Hull City Council 2008-10-15T20:21:27Z dave 2009-08-15T00:00:00Z dave 2009-12-31T00:00:00Z 5 Hull Dance 09 Autumn Season Artistic Directors / Producers hull-dance-08-autumn-season-hull-city-council active 2010-01-14T12:55:20Z dave dave <p>DEP has been working with Vincent Dance Theatre as International Producers since 2007. As a result of the work that DEP has done on behalf of VDT, the company has performed in Spain and Germany. DEP has also put together a tour in the USA & Canada for the spring of 2010, in addition discussions are also underway with partners in Holland, Belgium and Germany regarding a autumn tour for 2010 of both "Broken Chords" and the new work "If we Go On".</p> Vincent Dance Theatre 2008-10-23T08:04:57Z dave 2007-04-01T00:00:00Z 6 International Producers vincent-dance-theatre active 2009-03-09T10:56:30Z dave http://www.vincentdt.com dave DEP will over the next 12 months be working with a number of Scottish based Dance Artists and Companies. working with Dancebase the dance development agency for Scotland. DEP will be providing bespoke programmes for up to five companies identified by Dancebase and the Scottish Arts Council and will be delivering these programmes directly through out the year. Areas to be covered will include: Producing Development, Artistic Content, Marketing, Positioning within the market place, International Working, Production values. DEP is delighted to be extending its consultancy work into Scotland and is looking forward to what promises to be an interesting and exciting time Dancebase 2009-02-03T14:15:28Z dave 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z 8 Catalyst Dance Consultant catalyst-dancebase active 2009-02-03T14:22:32Z dave dave DEP is delighted to be representing one of the most exciting young talents in European Dance. The Thomas Noone Dance Company is based in Barcelona, Spain with a mission to bring physical, exciting and demanding dance to a wide audience. Since its beginnings in 2001 it has investigated a free style requiring a strong technical ability from its members and researching the manner in which to transmit emotion from the stage to the spectator using the body as its medium. The company has created both large scale productions such as Mur and more intimate shows such as the duos Fútil or Four. TNDC has made one of its missions to commission new music from contemporary composers both from Spain and abroad. Following recent successful performances at the Southbank Centre in London, DEP will be working with TND to put together a UK tour for 2010 as part of a longer term strategy to bring the company to the UK and Ireland on a regular basis. Thomas Noone Dance Company 2009-02-16T19:50:45Z dave 2009-04-01T00:00:00Z 10 UK & Ireland Tour Producers -thomas-noone-dance-company active 2010-01-14T13:09:57Z dave www.thomasnoonedance.com dave Mad Dogs Dance Theatre’s Douglas Thorpe trained at London Contemporary Dance School. He has had a highly acclaimed performance career with Phoenix Dance and RJC Dance spanning twenty years. Currently freelance, Douglas teaches and choreographs regionally and nationally, including Yorkshire Dance, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Northern Ballet Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance and York St John’s University. Douglas is a founder member of RODA, a Leeds-based creative outlet established in 2004 with a focus on research and development, and was Artist in Residence at Yorkshire Dance in 2008. DEP ARTS LTD will be working with Douglas over the next 12 months to develop Mad Dogs Dance Theatre as a company. DEP ARTS will be looking to develop the company's profile nationally and internationally as well as putting together a programme of development for the company. Douglas Thorpe /Mad Dogs Dance Theatre 2009-06-14T20:08:45Z dave 2009-06-14T00:00:00Z 11 Producers -mad-dogs-dance-theatre active 2010-01-14T13:10:17Z dave dave A four year exploration, celebration and evaluation of The Moving Body through culture, with the themes of Olympicism and the UK’s aspirations for London 2012 as the springboard for change. i move, will comprise events, ambience and programmes of activity inspired by the vision of the modern Olympics as the pinnacle of human achievement in culture and sport ; and the Olympic values of body, mind and spirit. Using the 2012 opportunity to supercharge aspirations for positive change, i move will form part of Yorkshire’s Cultural Olympiad programme, with the ambition of : “Enhanced perception of Yorkshire and Humber as outward facing, culturally rich and internationally connected. The Golden opportunity is to make sure the region’s cultural offer of attractions and experiences stimulates people who live here and seduces tourists to visit. The region must be part of the ‘Cultural Olympiad’ complementing activity in London and making our own unique contribution” DEP ARTS LTD, will be working in a Producer capacity on this project, its still early days but more information about what we will be doing will follow in the coming months, it promises to be something not to be missed Arts Council England 2009-06-14T20:09:49Z dave 2009-06-14T00:00:00Z 12 I-Move Associate Producers imtia-arts-council-england active 2010-01-14T13:10:51Z dave dave This project aimed to involve a group of people of all ages and abilities to take part in a high quality mass participation dance movement experience, and excite them about the forthcoming Olympic Games. We recruited dancers of all walks of life to join us for a half day event on Centenary Square in Bradford. We developed a 2 minute dance routine based on 12 sports (diving, swimming, running) with leading contemporary choreographer Luca Silvestrini, which was distributed via the internet, TV, Radio and other media for people to learn before the day. Participants registered before the event as well as on the day to gain ‘their number’ – thereby becoming part of ‘Yorkshire 2,012’. The day was compared by Yorkshire celebrity radio DJ Dan O'Conell and the dance routine included a mass warm up, mass rehearsal and mass performance of the dance. Significant sports personalities from the Yorkshire Olympic team were present on the day and interviewed on stage, including Olympic Bronze medal winner Jill Adkins as well as a number of athletes training for 2012. DEP ARTS LTD produced the whole event and we were responsible for ensuring that all elements came together in advance of the day including press and media, recruitment and also overseeing the event and stage management on the actual day. DEP ARTS LTD also provided all event management and registration staff for the event as well as sourcing all athletes and MC for the event. Yorkshire Dance 2009-06-14T21:00:24Z dave 2009-06-14T00:00:00Z 2009-07-25T00:00:00Z 13 Yorkshire 2,012 Producers yorkshire-2012-yorkshire-dance active 2010-01-14T13:05:05Z dave www.yorkshiredance.com dave Phoenix Dance Theatre is a repertory dance company with a reputation for presenting a broad range of work. Over the last 27 years, from small beginnings in inner-city Leeds, the company has grown to be one of Britain's leading contemporary dance companies and from its home in Leeds tours nationally and internationally, bringing inspiring and entertaining dance to the widest possible audience. Phoenix Dance Theatre’s artistic focus remains the maintenance of excellence in dance through the creation of unique and dynamic work. PDT seeks to retain a diverse company of the highest quality dancers. They provide role models and develop career paths for aspiring young dancers drawn from the communities where Phoenix has traditionally recruited. Artistic Director Sharon Watson is currently creating a new repertory of work for 2011 including works by Aletta Collins, Philip Taylor, Darshan Singh Bhuller, Warren Adams and Isira Makuloluwe DEP is working with Phoenix Dance Theatre on a range of activities which include developing the company's international profile as well as working with Artistic Director Sharon Watson on the commissioning of artists, we will also be putting together the company's UK tour for spring 2011 and beyond. Phoenix Dance Theatre 2009-10-11T10:12:24Z dave 2009-09-11T00:00:00Z dave 14 Producers -phoenix-dance-theatre active 2010-01-14T13:08:12Z dave www.phoenixdancetheatre.com dave Exile and Death is inspired by the life and work of the 17th century master painter, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The idea of creating a full-length work (approximately 75 minutes) stems from short pieces that Darshan has choreographed for Verve, the Northern School of Contemporary Dance group in Leeds and New World School of the Arts in Miami Florida over the last year. Following Darshan’s implementation of these works, this more substantial production and tour is an opportunity to mark the 400th anniversary of Caravaggio’s death and to bring the work to a higher level by working with professional dancers. The work will ‘physicalise’ Caravaggio’s intense and light-infused imagery for the wider dance audience. The Style and Collaborators The format Darshan uses for the piece will include multi-platform visuals and live music. He will be collaborating with composer/performer Barry Guy, graphic designers Kit Monkman and Tom Wexler (KMA) and lighting designer John B. Read. Darshan has a long-standing working relationship with all four of these talented and experienced artists. The stage setting for Exile and Death is simple and bare, and dramatic lighting is used to create the atmosphere and emulate Caravaggio’s stylistic use of chiaroscuro. A subtle combination of film, photography and graphics by KMA is projected onto translucent gauze allowing the characters to be ‘painted into’ locations and scenes. Historians have claimed that Caravaggio's dramatic chiaroscuro style of light and shadow was based on "a whole set of techniques that are the basis of photography". He worked in an early version of a darkroom, illuminating his subjects through a hole in the ceiling and projecting the image onto a canvas using a lens and a mirror. Darshan and KMA will emulate these methods to inform the style and design for the projections. Darshan and KMA are giving further consideration towards exploration of digital media, with a view to sharing the performance across various platforms DEP ARTS LTD will be putting the UK tour together for this project which will take place during spring 2011 with dates already confirmed at Sadlers Wells, The Lowry and Nottingham Playhouse. We will also be looking to put together an international tour of the project for 2012 including dates in North America and Canada. Darshan Singh Bhuller 2010-01-14T13:04:05Z dave 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z 15 Exile & Death Tour Producers exile-death-darshan-singh-bhuller active 2010-01-14T13:04:19Z www.darshansinghbhuller.com