
“Just got the ‘live thing’ shivers. It’s been about a year. Woooop!”
“It felt like we were part of the piece. Loved it.”
“PULL UPPPPP! BRAAAAPPP!!!”
Online Sharing Audience
Shuffle Programmers Pack- download here
Dance Connect Residency
We’re delighted to share that Katy has received a Dance Connect residency through Bristol Dance Futures to collaborate with the brilliant team and community at Knowle West Media Centre.
The residency will explore the synergies between KWMC’s resources , expertise and communities, and new models for audiences to participate in making and enjoying dance performance. We will respond to KWMC’s ambition to find appropriate strategies and synergies to support creative dance work through conversation and testing of ideas around democratic making.
Grounding the residency in wider Shuffle R&D that seeks to expand the traditional ‘learn the section, perform the section’ models of participatory performance, the producer and dance artists will be supported to learn about and experiment with creative technologies for participation and production, while forging new relationships with audiences and creative collaborators.
Over the year we will work with KWMC’s young creatives, KWMC: The Factory makers, and the local community to look at what combinations of mood, movement, music and visuals make us tick.
For more information on Dance Connect and Bristol Dance Futures please click here
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Evoking the heady collectivism and iconography of UK club culture, ‘Shuffle’ is a new, interactive dance work that sees the audience take part as voting club-goers, engaged in a call and response with DJ and dancers. Part performance, part game – will we like what we make together?
Based on the random track selection of an iPod Shuffle and emulating the call and response relationship between the club dance floor and the DJ, Shuffle invites the audience to vote for sections of performance to shuffle or rewind. Three dancers perform hip hop and street dance forms to a dance floor soundtrack, embodying the skill and thrill of a battle improvisation under the direction of renowned choreographer, Lea Anderson (The Cholmondeleys & The Featherstonehaughs). With a repertoire of house dance, popping, waacking, vogue and contemporary, they take the audience on a time-bending trip through a night out, presenting moments whose order and length are selected by the audience.
Touring Autumn 2022.


Credits
Choreography – Lea Anderson with Paris Crossley, Frankie Johnson & Lewis Norman
Dance Artists -Paris Crossley, Frankie Johnson, Lewis Norman
Director – Lea Anderson
Filmmaker – Christopher Lewis-Smith
Filmmaker’s Assistant – Milo Godwin- Coombs
Lighting – Frazer Riches
Musical Director – Steve Blake
Musical Supervisor – Karey Fisher
Music –Get Up, Get Out by Born Dirty featuring Jstlbby courtesy of Mad Decent; Junkle by Markus Wormstorm, Close by Ell Murphy & Tuff Tracks courtesy of Time Is Now
Photography – Ibolya Feher, Esther Lewis-Smith, Mark Simmons
Producer– Katy Noakes, WeStaged
Rehearsal Director – Frankie Johnson
Vote Design – KWMC The Factory
With thanks to R&D Phase one collaborators
Critical Friend- Malcolm Hamilton, Mufti Games
DJ – Mijanou Blech
Dramaturge – Liz Clarke
Design – Ruth Ramsay
Filmmaker – Ryan Francis
Online Sharing Manager – Tim Lo
Funded by Arts Council England National Lottery awards with support from Arnolfini, Artspace Lifespace, Bristol Dance Futures, Knowle West Media Centre, Pavilion Dance South West, and Trinity Community Arts.
