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Place Making Dance

July 28, 2021
in Reflections, Workshops
EncoreEast
Community Practice, Dance, EncoreEast, Jeanette Siddall, Redoubt Harwich, Site-specific dance, Stella Eldon

The dance we made in a day reflected the place we were in. It was inherently risky, being a series of structured improvisations.

Eye Candy – Ballet Rambert Summer online Live Stream

July 22, 2021
in Reviews
EncoreEast
Contemporary Dance, Dance, EncoreEast, Eye Candy, Naked, Rambert

The naked human body surely is endlessly fascinating, often contentious but always beautiful. Looked at for long enough it is quirky, peculiar, and almost surreal but still beautiful

Dance with a Difference

July 9, 2021
in Reflections, Workshops
EncoreEast
Community Practice, Dance, Dance East, Dance for Parkinson's, ENB, EncoreEast, English National Ballet

Anyone and everyone can dance. I've always believed this. All that's needed is the opportunity and appropriate inspiration. There is plenty of both provided by the Dance for Parkinson's

Review of Open Workshop with Edd Arnold and Russell Maliphant

July 1, 2021
in Reviews, Workshops
EncoreEast
Community Practice, Dance, Edd Arnold, EncoreEast, Open workshop, Russell Maliphant, Silent lines

23 June 2021; on Zoom Almost 60 people signed up for the Open Workshop - hurrah! What a powerful demonstration of older dancers’ artistic curiosity and ambition.

EncoreEast Celebrates Their Friend’s Success at the National Dance Awards

June 27, 2021
in News, Reviews
EncoreEast
Alleyne Dance, Arielle Smith, Community Practice, Dana Fouras, Dance, ENB, EncoreEast, Jeanette Siddall, Jolly Folly, Luca Silvestrini, New Adventures, Protein Dance, Richard Alston Dance Company, Russell Maliphant

In a period of few opportunities for live performance or awards ceremonies, EncoreEast is particularly thrilled that some of our special friends were nominated with some winning in their category at the Critic’s Circle National Dance Awards 2021.

Dancing with My Eyes Shut

June 22, 2021
in Reflections, Workshops
EncoreEast
Community Practice, Dance, Edd, Edd Arnold, EncoreEast, Open workshop, Russell Maliphant, Silent lines

As we stood together facing the screen, focusing intently on Edd’s instruction, our arms float up using the breath from beneath them. I feel us move as one connected through space, time and zoom.

A Jolly Outing – a Reunion with theatre

June 14, 2021
in Reflections, Reviews, Workshops
EncoreEast
Arielle Smith, Community Practice, Dance, ENB, EncoreEast, Jolly Folly, New Adventures, Russell Maliphant, Sadler's Wells

On the 12th January 2019 I celebrated my 70th birthday with a surprise outing to Sadler’s Wells to see Mathew Bourne’s production of The Red Shoes. Little did we know then this would be our last theatre outing for 17 months. How fitting, that our first visit to the theatre was to Sadler's Wells to see ENO’s World Premiere of REUNION

Congratulations to Brendan Keaney OBE

June 12, 2021
in News
EncoreEast
Brendan Keaney, Community Practice, Dance, Dance East, EncoreEast, OBE, Queens Honours List

EncoreEast is delighted that Brendan Keaney, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of DanceEast has been awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Reflections from The Sun Inside

June 10, 2021
in Reflections, Workshops
EncoreEast
Community Practice, Dance, EncoreEast, Lockdown, Protein Dance, The Sun Inside

It was spring and the first UK lockdown, life curtailed in many aspects, some minor, some final. Into these times, this project arrived and life got lighter.

On Being a Swan

May 20, 2021
in Reflections, Workshops
EncoreEast
Community Practice, Dance, EncoreEast, Jeanette Siddall, Matthew Bourne, New Adventures, Swan Lake

Matthew Bourne’s swans are male, at times funny, always powerful, make dramatic use of gravity and ultimately vicious. Learning short sections of the repertoire was magical, inspiring and proved the transformative power of dance.