To celebrate the opening of Oxfordshire’s Central Library in the rebuilt Westgate Centre, Oxford then we are inviting dancers to join us to dance in the library on Tue. 19 Dec. (5 - 6pm). This workshop is a REQUIREMENT for everyone dancing AND – if you have little or no experience of contact improvisation please attend a refresher evening on Tue 12 December (details below). Note: we won't be dressing as angels!!

Contact improvisation is a dance which originated in the 1970’s and which has now spread throughout the world. It’s often taught in university dance courses but it’s easy to learn and fun. It’s an improvised dance - a dialogue in movement - which has a fluid and dynamic form, and it’s social dancing; not stage dancing.

Please bring a water bottle and wear loose clothing in which you can move freely.Note: We'll use the MPR (Multi-Purpose Room) on the lower floor of the Club.

For details of this workshop on Facebook see: https://www.facebook.com/events/40341594...
For details of the Refresher on Facebpook see: https://www.facebook.com/events/20098120...

Cost: Free/ Donations welcome.

[Painting: Alessandro Botticelli, The Mystic Nativity, 1500 Photographer: Frans Vandewalle]

This is an introduction/ refresher in dancing contact improvisation. While it's primary intended for those who want to take part in our Library Dance, it's suitable for beginners too.

Contact improvisation is a dance which originated in the 1970’s and which has now spread throughout the world. It’s often taught in university dance courses but it’s easy to learn and fun. It’s an improvised dance - a dialogue in movement - which has a fluid and dynamic form, and it’s social dancing; not stage dancing.

Please bring a water bottle and wear loose clothing in which you can move freely.Note: We'll use the MPR (Multi-Purpose Room) on the lower floor of the Club.

Facebook event for this: https://www.facebook.com/events/20098120...

PEUT-ÊTRE THEATRE

When it starts out ship-shape, there’s only one way for it to go… this dance-theatre show gets all messed up!

As we wriggle our way through the muddle of life we often discover things anew. So why can’t tidiness be exciting for children or chaos joyful for adults? Who said there’s a ‘right way’ anyway?

Inspired by children’s logic when creating order, patterns and systems, this show is a
witty, uplifting journey discovering whether chaos and order can ever live side-by-side…
with plenty of surprises, Tidy Up! is an unforgettable party!

The production was developed in partnership with GOSH Arts, patients and families and the Psychological Services Department at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

For ages 3+

Part of Dancin’ Oxford 2018
Get £1 off every ticket purchased with a festival pass

Stay And Dance! Workshop
At12.15pm & 3.15pm, explore mess & chaos versus the soothing calm of order in a fun 45 minute physical workshop with the company. £2.50 per child

BGROUP & CHINA PLATE
Commissioned by the Rural Touring Dance Initiative,
Warwick Arts Centre and Dance East

The year is 1978, isolated from the mainland, Eric Valentine and Bernard Humphries have been stationed at Echo Point lighthouse, somewhere off the coast of England. The unlikely strangers have just begun to lay down foundations for this odd working relationship when the uncanny occurs.

Point of Echoes is a haunting tale of love, death and monsters, blending the tones of a Wes Anderson movie with the eerie dread of The Twilight Zone.

Renowned international choreographer Ben Wright and musician and writer Stuart Warwick collaborate to bring you bgroup’s most intimate and theatrical production to date.

Age guidance: 14+

Part of Dancin’ Oxford 2018
Get £1 off every ticket purchased with a festival pass

CARU | Arts re Search Annual Conference 2017

"What does it mean to research art / to research through art?"

Date: Sunday, 10th December 2017
Time: 11am - 6pm (Registration starts at 10.15am)
Location: Chakrabarti Lecture Theatre; Gipsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. OX3 0BP

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Kerstin Mey
PVC and Dean, Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster

CARU brings together artists and researchers for yet another day of cross-disciplinary exploration into arts research! The event will consist of an exciting mixture of talks and performances from a variety of creative and academic disciplines, including Fine Art, Live Art, Social Practice, Art History, Anthropology, Education, Science and Technology, to question and debate various areas of arts research, such as themes, material/form, documentation and practice methodology.

Keynote talk: 'Resonances and Discords'
The presentation will explore research in art at the interface to other epistemological systems and approaches. Drawing on case studies, it will explore key strategies and tactical manoeuvres of knowledge making in order to explore the hermeneutics of practice led inquiry in the space of art.

Presentations include:

"The artist in the boardroom: Action research within decision-making spaces"

"Exploring the Art space as fluid cultural site through the immediacy of the performance and its inherent collaborative ethos"

"Chapter 1 (draft): Using text in performance: a range of strategies"

"Memory and identity within Bosnia’s Mass Graves"

"Fermenting conversations"

"Arcade Interface Art Research"

"Making sounds happen is more important than careful listening (with cups)"

"Shadow:Other:myself / photographic research from 2010"

"Un-knowing unknowing in painting as research"

"Developing an artistic epistemology"

Delegate/Attendance fees: £20 (Students £15) - includes lunch & refreshments

Register at: ars2017.eventbrite.co.uk

Café Reason presents a dreamlike series of dance theatre pieces with live music by Oxford contemporary musicians Malcolm Atkins, Bruno Guastalla, and Pete McPhail. For one night only a cabaret evening to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this stunning and original company www.cafereason.com

Audiences: See new dance work and give feedback.

Dancers: Try out your works-in-progress in a safe space.

Apply to perform here: https://oldfirestation.org.uk/whats-on/d...

Following it’s creation on Studio Wayne McGregor’s 2017 FreeSpace Program and first UK Tour, Richard Chappell Dance presents At the end we begin. The company’s dynamic, compelling and first full length work uses T.S. Eliot’s classic series Four Quartets as a point of departure by representing each poem with four arresting and emotionally fuelled quartets of dance, named after each poem.

At the end we begin questions how time’s circular nature affects our understanding of ourselves and inhabits the derelict and sometimes turbulent landscape of Eliot’s poetry. At the end we begin takes four young individuals from a place of being lost to a state of empowerment and acceptance where they have found their own voice by journeying through Eliot’s text.

Whilst combining Chappell’s distinguishable blend of classical ballet, martial arts, improvisation and contact work with three other highly skilled performers, At the end we begin dives into each performer’s unique and diverse skills, such Vogueing and Breaking. With a rich palette of qualities, At the end we begin welcomes audiences into a tenacious and committed world of adrenaline, full-bodied chaos, personal sensitivity and delicate patience.

With dramaturgy by Neus Gil Cortes, a freshly composed score of cello, piano and electronics by Samuel Halland costume design by Hannah Taylor, At the end we begin is Richard Chappell Dance’s most challenging and collaborative work to date.