This event finished on: 19 February 2011
The Place, in partnership with London Youth Dance at Sadler's Wells, has selected six youth dance companies to appear in ReFRESH, a new and exciting youth dance event that will be held on the final night of the biggest platform for new choreographic talent in the UK - Resolution!
The leaders of the youth companies have been challenged to create new work especially for ReFRESH under the guidance of Kerry Nicholls. Kerry has extensive international experience as a performer and teacher, and formed k|n|d|c (kerry nicholls' dance company) in 1999 to promote her own choreographic research.
A unique challenge for the chosen groups is to work with music that has been chosen by the following six choreographers:
Richard Alston, Jasmin Vardimon, Kate Prince, Shobana Jeyasingh, Hofesh Shechter and Wayne McGregor.
A lottery was held to assign the music choices to the following six youth companies:
Kinetic Dance Company
Srishti Yuva Culture
Avant Garde Youth Company
Rouge (City & Islington College)
Excellerate Dance Company (Dagenham Park C of E School)
Tiffin Boys Dance Company (Tiffin School)
Both performances will open with Shift , our resident youth dance company, who will be presenting Dust and Scratches, a new commission by Darren Ellis, artist in residence at DanceEast.
Visit:
- Darren Ellis
- London Youth Dance: Q&A with ReFRESH dancers
- London Youth Dance: ReFRESH
Find out what the youth groups taking part in ReFRESH have to say about their experiences so far