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Moving Appearances: Dance Under Suffolk Skies

March 17, 2022
in Guest
EncoreEast
Community Practice, Dance, Dance East, EncoreEast, Sam Moss, Site-specific dance

What a joy and privilege to work with the dancers of EncoreEast as part of Moving Appearances.

James Wilton Dance – Four Seasons

March 8, 2022
in Reviews
EncoreEast
Contemporary Dance, Dance, EncoreEast, Four Seasons, James Wilton Dance

I love that moment when the audience starts to fill the auditorium. The outside world is brought in clinging to our clothing and in the buzz of conversation. Then the sudden hush where in the silence it is no longer ‘I’ but ‘we’ waiting in anticipation.

Focus – Sharing Ideas from our Ethnographic Research

March 2, 2022
in Reflections, Research
EncoreEast
Community Practice, Dance, Edd Arnold, EncoreEast, Helen Laws, Open workshop, Research, Russell Maliphant, Silent lines

As participant ethnographic research and dancer with EncoreEast I have spent many hours wondering, why? Why do sixteen older adults spend so much emotional and physical energy learning, creating and performing dance.

Inspired by The Hold

December 20, 2021
in Reflections
EncoreEast
Community Practice, Dance, Dance East, EncoreEast, Jeanette Siddall, Site-specific dance, The Hold

The physical aspects of the space generated ideas for sections and indicated a pathway between them. The concept of ‘archive’ is rich with possibilities.

Hofesh Shechter – Political Mother: Unplugged

December 2, 2021
in Reviews
EncoreEast
Contemporary Dance, Dance, EncoreEast, Hofesh shechter, Political Mother

Hofesh Shechter presents a reworking of his masterpiece Political Mother with his new generation of young dancers adding to the original title the word Unplugged.

Once more from the side…

November 4, 2021
in Reflections
EncoreEast
Community Practice, Dance, Edd Arnold, EncoreEast, Focus, Open workshop, Russell Maliphant, Silent lines

Alethia and Edd are the dream team to work with. They are amazing and I feel so privileged to have worked with them both.

Focus… An Exciting Morning

November 1, 2021
in Reflections
EncoreEast
Community Practice, Dance, Edd Arnold, EncoreEast, Focus, Open workshop, Russell Maliphant, Silent lines

Awakening to a beautiful, bright, if chilly morning, the first bright morning for some days and 1st November, British Summer Time is officially over for another year. How do I feel?

Like a Flamingo, secure on either leg…

October 24, 2021
in Reflections
EncoreEast
Alethia Antonia, Community Practice, Dance, DanceEast, Edd Arnold, EncoreEast, Focus, Russell Maliphant, Silent lines

I now have an approach that finds space in my body, to move not just with muscle and levers, but with the whole of my body’s structure. I can see how to use its architecture, extending the ease and range of movement by flowing from, through and out of all the connections and spirals in my body.

EncoreEast Collectively Share the Joy of ‘Focus’

October 7, 2021
in Reflections, Research
EncoreEast
Community Practice, Dance, Edd Arnold, EncoreEast, Helen Laws, Open workshop, Research, Russell Maliphant, Silent lines

Each week EncoreEast share their thoughts, feelings, struggles and joys as we engage with RMDC’s technique and creative process. So, it seems important to write collectively, combining our voices to share our experience of the first two sets of live workshops with Edd Arnold and Alethia Antonia.

Standing on My Feet

September 17, 2021
in Reflections
EncoreEast
Community Practice, Dance, Edd Arnold, EncoreEast, Russell Maliphant, Silent lines

Now more than ever before I am aware of my feet and how important they are and how much I depend on them and they on me.