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Oral Histories Workshop
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, LeicesterInterested in recording your family stories? Join us for an oral history workshop which will explore best practice and offer practical tools and examples on how to record oral histories with family members and preserve these recordings for the future. Members of the Serendipity team will also be present to talk about Unearthed: Forgotten Histories…
Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2023 Launch Dance Inside the Music – World Premiere
Mercure Leicester – The Grand Hotel Granby Pl,, LeicesterSaturday 29 April 7.00pm Mercure Leicester – The Grand Hotel £18 | £16 Concession Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2023 returns with another unique launch event to celebrate International Dance Day (29 April) and International Jazz Day (30 April) and embracing this year’s theme Uncovering the Dance Within: Origins and Authenticity. Commissioned by Serendipity Institute for…
Thomas Prestø Masterclasses and Theory Sessions: SOLD OUT
Sunday 30 April 11.00am – 12.00noon Dialogue Box Monday 1 May 10.00am – 3.00pm Dupont Dance Stage School Wednesday 3 May 10.00am – 12.00noon Curve RR2 Thursday 4 May 10.00am – 2.00pm Dialogue Box Friday 5 May 10.00am – 11.00am Curve RR2 Saturday 6 May 10.00am – 3.00pm Curve RR2 £150 Student Bundle (All Classes)…
Uncovering the Dance Within: Origins and Authenticity Conference: SOLD OUT
Curve RR2 60 Rutland St, Leicester, LeicestershireThe theme for both the festival and conference for Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2023 is Uncovering the Dance Within: Origins and Authenticity, focusing on dance techniques coming out of the African and African Caribbean Diaspora, their connections to geography, location, heritage, history and people. The conference will celebrate artists and practitioners who have reimagined and…
Shamel Pitts Class
Curve RR2 60 Rutland St, Leicester, LeicestershireWednesday 3 May 1.00pm – 3.00pm Curve RR2 2020 Guggenheim Fellow Shamel Pitts is a performance artist, choreographer, conceptual artist, dancer, spoken word artist, and teacher. He began his dance career in Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance and BJM Danse Montreal. Shamel danced with Batsheva Dance Company for 7 years, under the artistic direction of…
Freddy Houndekindo Masterclass: SOLD OUT
Curve RR2 60 Rutland St, Leicester, LeicestershireWednesday 3 May 3.30pm – 5.30pm Curve RR2 This encounter will be the opportunity of a co-creative instant inviting all knowledge, artistry and aesthetic, creating a safe space where non-discriminatory learning and giving can be exercise. During guided practices Freddy Houndekindo will introduce his primary improvisation and composition tools, based on two concepts: the dramatic-performative…
Black British Dance Platform: Closer to My Dreams – Chad Taylor
Orton Square Rutland Street, LeicesterWEDNESDAY 3 MAY 6.45PM ORTON SQUARE Join us at Orton Square for this amazing opening performance to our Signatures and Black British Dance Platform show at The Curve. The journey of two young Black brothers, Chad Taylor and Ziggy Taylor from inner-city Hulme, describing their trials and tribulations to pursue their artistic dreams. Will they…
Monuments of Fem: Hottentot Venus to C**t – Alexandria Davis: SOLD OUT
Dialogue Box Serendipity, 21 Bowling Green Street, LeicesterThis roundtable discussion will explore the history and evolution of movement and performance as a sketch of gender, identity, and orientation. It will evolve into an interactive forum that explores the effort and shape of the body to communicate one's embodied & "divine feminine energy."; It will approach the C-word through the LGBTQ+ ballroom perspective…
Black British Dance Platform in Conversation
Dialogue Box Serendipity, 21 Bowling Green Street, LeicesterAimed at promoters, programmers and producers, this in-conversation is an opportunity to hear more from the artists participating in the Black British Dance Platform. In collaboration with Fabric.
Cameron McKinney Masterclass: SOLD OUT
Curve RR2 60 Rutland St, Leicester, LeicestershireFriday 5 May 11.15am – 1.15pm Curve RR2 This contemporary floorwork-based class will combine the grace of modern with the speed and fluidity of street dance, capoeira, and house dance. The class activates oppositional forces and contrasting sensations to achieve fluid transitions in and out of the floor, focuses on how to move smoothly from…