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Learning & Participation / Education Resources / Education & Outreach
Education & Outreach
Quest
Eve
Floored
Dancing Inside
“I was so impressed with the Motionhouse workshop. The dancers were absolutely outstanding! The students were appropriately challenged and the dancers were enthusiastic, approachable, professional and excellent role models... Thank you!"
Nikki Brocklehurst, Holmes Chapel Comprehensive
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Education & Outreach
Over the years we've developed an enviable reputation for delivering excellent education and participatory work.
We believe that there's a fundamental and intrinsic link between the creation of our performance work and the leading of participatory projects. The combination of these elements is essential to our overall programme.
We deliver a wide range of teaching and training projects to all ages and abilities; from FunDance and StreetDance sessions for children and mixed ability contemporary adult classes in our studio, to mainstream school-based teaching.
We also offer more challenging workshops and residencies for skilled dancers and teachers. Our teaching is accessible and inspiring and we build upon each person's capabilities, emphasising a sense of achievement for all.
We also offer a nationally recognised programme of dance education. Our 2005/06 production Perfect is a set piece on the GCSE Dance curriculum in England and Wales and we've developed a series of educational workshops and teaching resources entitled PerfectED to support the study of this piece.
Our 2007/08 show, Driven, also features on the A Level Performance Studies syllabus and we offer workshops to support students and teachers in their study of the work. As well as teaching motifs our dancers provide students and teachers with the knowledge and confidence to create and develop their own work for examination.
Our Artistic and Executive Directors, Kevin and Louise, also regularly deliver seminars, training programmes and act as mentors to enhance national and international programmes of dance education.
One of our current participatory projects is Quest which will see 140 community performers work alongside Motionhouse dancers in The Voyage. The Voyage will be a major outdoor spectacle performance to open the London 2012 Festival in the West Midlands in celebration of the 2012 Games. The Quest performers will be made up of groups from across the West Midlands including: Birmingham Ormiston Academy (BOA), Solihull Youth Dance Company, Stratford College, Nova, Rugby Youth Dance Company, Coventry PAS Youth Dance Group, Playbox Theatre Group and an Adult Performance Group from Motionhouse.
If you live within the West Midlands and you would like to get involved in The Voyage project there are three different ways in which you can participate. These include auditioning to become a Dance Apprentices, joining our Adult Performance Groups and attending our Motionhouse Masterclasses. For more information click here or contact info@motionhouse.co.uk.
You can also see examples of our previous creative participatory performance projects, created for and with young people and different communities by clicking on the list below:
Click here for Dancing Inside
Click here for Floored
Click here for Eve - DMU at Brooksby Melton College
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"Having Motionhouse as our resident performance company raised the bar of professionalism for our students. Not only were their skills stretched and challenged, but Kevin’s level of professional expectation gave them the opportunity to experience real industry demands. Kevin’s approach was extremely generous and genuine which enabled each individual student to make significant developments as both a choreographer and performer.”
Henriette Roberts,
Brooksby Melton College,
De Montfort University,
Eve Project 2010
Education Packs for Perfect, Driven and our most recent production, Scattered are also available online from our shop, which
you can link to here.
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