Routes to the River rehearsals

The Made2Dance crew have been selected for the Big Dance Festival performance, Routes to The River. Made 2 Dance applied to Siobhan Davies Studios and were selected along side 7 other groups and will be performing alongside 100 performers on a site specific trail from Siobhan Davies Studios, through Imperial War Museum and ending at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Roof Gardens.

Siobhan Davies are the host organisation for South London and have been commissioned to put on a performance for part of Big Dance Festival 2014.

We will be performing on Sunday 14th July with various performances happening through out the day. For more information please visit Big Dance Website and Siobhan Davies Website.

The group have been working on their weight barring skills and team work, by passing a wave throughout the circle and by using their weight. They have to work as a team and feel when the weight and need to change the speed and direction of the wave being passed around.

Siobhan Davies - Routes to the River

Just to let you know I put an application in for Made 2 Dance to be part of Routes to the River as part of the Big DanceFestival. I am pleased to say that our application was successful J

Made 2 Dance will be performing  Routes to the River, a Big Dance 2014 event produced by Siobhan Davies Dance and Big Dance hub for South London. 

Routes to the River is a trail of performances in green and urban spaces from Siobhan Davies Studios to the Southbank Centre on Sunday 13th July as part of Big Dance 2014. They will be a varied selection of groups/companies who will be performing alongside Made 2 Dance along the outdoors  trail. Each group will work independently to develop their piece with support from a professional choreographer from Siobhan Davies Dance. Routes to the River is a piece that will find connections between people and the natural world in an urban environment

It’s a fantastic opportunity for Made 2 Dance to learn choreographic skills around site specific work and work alongside other companies and choreographers and to be part of a national festival. We have also decided to integrate both our Old Library Dance group which is now named Bite Back Dance Crew to support Made 2 Dance throughout the process and performance.

Code of Ball

The group this week went over their Code of Conduct that they produced last week. The Code of Conduct covers all aspects of the dance session from Listening to teacher, respecting each other, what to wear to class and how to behave. The code of Conduct also covers the rules for when the group are on the minibus, this includes rules such as not distracting the driver and always wearing a seat belt.

We also discussed the consequences of rule breaking so everyone in the group is clear about what  happens if a rule is broken. We made sure everyone agreed with the rules and we all signed contracts of agreement.
We did this to make sure the dance class is a positive and productive environment where everyone stays respectful and focused.

Back to work in the studio

This week Made 2 Dance are getting straight back to work and beginning their next Arts Award.

As part of their arts award each member will have to lead a warm up, the group practiced this today as each member contributed a movement to the warm up..

Stretching our arms.

Star-jumps!

Can you touch your toes?

The group then did some floor work and talked about how spacing is important in dance.

The group then started rehearsing a narrative dance based on a poem called 'In the Puddles'. 

Learning brand new choreography!

Made 2 Dance were taught about using movements to represent the words of the poem. They will need to use this knowledge to create some of their own interpretations of parts of the poem in the upcoming weeks.

Made 2 dance had a busy evening learning more about leading a warm up, spacing and floor work and even some exciting new choreography!

Wizard of Oz the DVD!

This week the group got the opportunity to watch back their wonderful performance! 
We got the popcorn ready...

...And proceeded to watch the Wizard of OZ , The Diverse performance..

It was great for the group to see what they looked like on stage and how the performance looked from the audience point of view. Everyone really enjoyed the DVD and everyone wants a copy, which is a steal at only £5.00. If you or anyone you know wants a copy please get in contact with Diverse Dance.

The group was then surprised with Certificates to celebrate their amazing performance at Made in Lambeth (see previous post). Their performance was incredible and the group got the whole audience up and dancing!

A well deserved certificate of achievement!

Made in Lambeth was a brilliant experience and the whole group put their all into their performance.

Made in Lambeth

On Saturday 11th January made to dance successfully auditioned for a spot in the Made In Lambeth talent show. Now the pressure is on to get everything perfect for the show on Monday 27 January.

Made In Lambeth has been organised by Se1 united, a youth led organisation focused on positive social change, education and engagement for young people. You can find out more about them at www.se1united.org.uk.

Made to dance are very excited to be part of this project and are incredibly proud to have impressed the audition judges and secured a spot in the talent show!

Rehearsals are going well and everyone is dedicated to putting together another fantastic performance.

Made In Lambeth talent show is being held at The Festival Village, Southbank Centre, London, SE1 8XX. Doors open at 18.30 and the show starts at 19.05. To get your tickets all you need to do is phone Alison on 07905 497 037 or email your requests to madeinlambeth@gmail.com.

Save the date

Made 2 Dance have come back to the dance session with a great energy and focus and each week have been concentrating on thier show. We can finally announce the date YEEEAAAAAAHHHH!!! The how will be on Friday 22nd November and will be taking place at Elm Green School They have a beautiful state of the art Theatre and we everyone is super excited to have a date in the diary. So watch this space for more information