In this email:
- NEWS
- Temporary Closure
- Cultural Recovery Funding
- Percolate 2021 Open Call
- Artist Support
- Stop ?3?.?2 million cuts to Arts & Humanities at University of Roehampton
- WHAT''S ON
- CONTINUOUS Network
- Our classes are going online
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Following the announcement of a second full-scale lockdown throughout November, we have decided to close Siobhan Davies Studios to all public classes and events. During this time the building will still be open to professional bookings, subject to changing circumstances and the availability of our staff.
If you were anticipating joining us for any in-person activities in the next 4 weeks, you will have been contacted by a member of our team regarding your booking. If this is not the case please let us know by emailing contact@siobhandavies.com.
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Cultural Recovery Funding
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Siobhan Davies Studios are thrilled, and very fortunate to be one of more than 1,000 organisations to receive a grant from the DCMS Cultural Recovery Fund. This is part of the government''s ?1.57 billion funding package for the arts in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out more here.
Siobhan Davies Studios and Independent Dance received a grant of ?145,000.
Between now and March next year, this fund will make the following possible:
- ?33,000 committed to delivering our Spring programme including: online choreography courses, eight Percolate awards distributed through an open call, an online version of Next Choreography and the appointment of two producers to work on our CONTINUOUS Network project and some extensive community work for the future.
- ?18,000 to invest in building upgrades and technology. We're investing in various repairs and upgrades to improve the safety of the building post-lockdown. We're also investing in new technology and software that will help us to shift our programme online.
- Over ?7500 invested in the future of our Next Artist Collective including project seed funding and monthly artist-led sessions.
- Over ?16,000 committed to deepen the work we're doing on anti-oppression at our organisation, which includes paying artists and facilitators to help guide the work we're doing on equality at Siobhan Davies Studios.
- Over ?30,000 towards organisational development and sustainability, during this period of transition to a new Artistic Directorship. This includes a budget for coaching, training and consultancy - and Front of House return to work support.
- There is also ?15,500 committed to the work of our NPO consortium partner Independent Dance, including curatorial time, technical support and technical training for teaching artists
We''re very grateful that this grant will make it possible for us to continue supporting artists at our studios and beyond.
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Our Percolate Programme returns!
Percolate offers flexible support to artists. Some funds, some space, the support of our staff. Test a new work, a collaboration or host a talk or screening. It''s up to you. We want to hear about it. This time around we are offering four awards of ?1000 and four of ?500, across two deadlines.
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Deadlines for applying:?
- Thursday 17 December 2020, to select the first 2x ?1000 and 2x ?500 awards?
- Tuesday 2 March 2021, to select the last 2x ?1000 and 2x ?500 awards
Find out more
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Siobhan Davies Studios are continuing to offer dance artists, choreographers and others working in the dance sector support following the Covid-19 lockdown.
We're now offering bookable sessions with specific members of the team. A session may involve speaking directly with one of the team about your work, or alternatively you might request that they spend the time reviewing material (e.g an application, project budget or a digital content plan) and send feedback via email.
Sessions for November have now been released. Find out more.
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Stop ?3?.?2 million cuts to Arts & Humanities at University of Roehampton
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We want to express our solidarity to all fighting the devastating cuts that threaten the Schools of Arts and Humanities at the University of Roehampton. Siobhan Davies Studios are indebted to the Dance programme, which plays a huge role in our community and history. Earlier in October we published a message from Siobhan Davies:?
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"We need creative minds to investigate fresh modes of thinking - and we need them now, in this moment of political and ecological crisis, more than ever.?
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I have been truly delighted and deeply informed by the Dance department at University of Roehampton - its research, its programme and its students. Here is a department that is active in promoting dance as a generator of knowledge far beyond its historic and more predictable image. Here dance is seen and studied in relationship to many other subjects, adding its weight to a broad discourse about human behaviour - questioning how we co-exist, support each other and create spaces for dialogue. A department nurturing performance that is as stimulating as it is joyous to experience.?
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To curtail these programs, to dismiss all they have so far achieved, is absolutely the wrong action and will result in the loss of a generation of thinkers and doers"
Sign the petition
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Satelliser: a dance for the gallery. Drawing: Janine Harrington?
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Satelliser: a durational conversation by Janine Harrington & co-workers
Sunday 15 Nov | 10am - 5pm. Online via Youtube.
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Satelliser: a dance for the gallery - which was due to be performed at BALTIC the weekend of the 14/15 Nov - will be explored as a durational conversation via YouTube - an extension of the online discursive rehearsal process the coworkers have been undertaking since March.?
As each artist has navigated scales of upheaval, dislocation, political turmoil and changing personal circumstances, the processes of being together through conversation have both amplified and challenged what we imagined this work might be and do.
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Spirit Compass One Year On
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A week of activity in October marked one year from the premiere of Lucy Suggate's Spirit Compass at BALTIC. Conversations and texts captured reflections and memories of the experience of the work from a variety of viewpoints. These offer an archive of the work and an understanding of how Spirit Compass as a layered piece spills beyond the performative event.
Our celebration included the release of two conversations with Lucy Suggate, the publication of A Response to Spirit Compass by Gillie Kleiman and a reflective text from Lauren Wright, Programme Director of Siobhan Davies Dance, Spirit Wisdom: Lessons in best practice for presenting dance in galleries from Lucy Suggate's Spirit Compass.
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Creative Contemporary Online. Artist: Laura Doehler.
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Our classes are going online
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Creative Contemporary Dance
Wednesdays, 11 Nov - 16 Dec
6.30 - 8pm. Online, ?8.
Booking coming soon
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These Wednesday night classes develop movement awareness through contemporary technique and vocabulary, as well as improvisational tasks and exploration. For both beginner and intermediate levels to support confident and articulate dancing.
This class will incorporate both live teaching, streamed from Siobhan Davies Studios, and audio content produced by the teacher that you can do at your own pace and in a way that suits the space you have available.
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Children's Creative Contemporary
Infants (2-4 yrs)
Saturdays, 14 Nov - 12 Dec
9.30 - 10.15am. Online, by donation.
Booking coming soon
Join us for a playful introduction to dance and movement. Each Saturday class is designed for little ones and their parent or carer to take their first steps, discovering a love for dance. Our approach is child-centred and child-led.
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Children's Creative Contemporary
Juniors (5-11 yrs)
Saturdays, 14 Nov - 12 Dec
10.30 - 11.30am. Online, by donation.
Booking coming soon
Through energetic, creative tasks our Juniors class enables children to develop their skills and confidence with movement, dance and enjoy an introduction to choreography. Children have the opportunity to think, play, learn and grow through dance.
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