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"Kevin's level of professional expectation gave our students 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 | Leader of Previous Motionhouse Participation Project
"Despite the profound challenge involved with being in a Motionhouse production there was an exhilaration that I have never before experienced."
Gary Rogers | Previous Motionhouse Participant
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Quest
An Extraordinary Participatory Project Celebrating London 2012
Motionhouse will be creating a major outdoor spectacle to open the London 2012 Festival in the West Midlands. The London 2012 Festival will span the entire country for 12 weeks, celebrating the London 2012 Games from midsummer’s day 21 June, until 09 September 2012.
We will be collaborating with world-renowned aerialists Legs On The Wall from Australia on The Voyage, a vivid, visual and extraordinary performance that will celebrate the courage and imagination that prompts us to embark on journeys in pursuit of our dreams.
An enormous ship will sail into the centre of Victoria Square, Birmingham, docking itself beside the city’s Town Hall from 21 – 24 June 2012. High above the people who gather to look at this marvel, dancers and aerialists appear in the ship’s rigging – the voyage begins. Professional performers will join forces with a huge amateur choir, live musicians and over 140 community performers to transform the Square and tell our story. Audiences will watch the action unfold onboard the ship and be caught up in the atmosphere on the ground, where seagulls swoop and travellers prepare to embark on their journey. The ship sets sail, the Town Hall is transformed by spectacular projected imagery and the city’s skyline becomes a dream of undiscovered worlds.
In the run up to The Voyage we’ll be running an extraordinary participatory project called Quest which offers young people the chance to be part of the London 2012 celebrations. From March 2012 we’ll be creating material with 8 groups from across the West Midlands. The groups will then go on to perform in The Voyage. Our Quest performers include groups from Birmingham Ormiston Academy (BOA), Solihull Youth Dance Company, Stratford College, Nova, Coventry PAS Youth Dance, Playbox Theatre and an Adult Performance Group based in our Spencer Yard studio.
If you live in the West Midlands and you like the sound of The Voyage there are also three ways you too can get involved:
We will create an adult performance group to perform in The Voyage and are looking for enthusiastic and committed people to join. The group will meet weekly to devise material alongside our Motionhouse dancers and will then go onto perform in The Voyage. If you have some dance experience this is for you! We hope the group will include dance teachers and students (age 16+), local dancers and anyone who would like to have this amazing opportunity to perform.
You will meet weekly for a two-hour session at the Motionhouse Studio in Leamington Spa, on Sundays, from March until the end of May. There will then be two additional Saturday rehearsals in June plus dress rehearsals and the performances themselves, which are Thursday 21 June – Sunday 24 June 2012. If you’d like to register your interest in the Quest Performance Group drop us a line by clicking on the link: info@motionhouse.co.uk
We held auditions on the Saturday 04 and Sunday 05 February 2012 for our Dance Apprentice positions. After a very busy day and an incredibly huge standard of auditionees we’re now delighted to be able to announce that George Adams, Luka Owen, Amy Lovelock and Laura Vanhulle will be joining the Motionhouse team as Dance Apprentices, starting from March 2012. They will join a previously auditioned four apprentices from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance; Jade Barton, Joshua Houghton, Tess Letham and Kalliopi-Ioanna Chodrakis (Pollyanna for short). The Dance Apprentices have an extraordinary opportunity to work alongside and be mentored by our dancers and create and perform material for The Voyage, as well as assisting in delivering workshops and supporting the creation of community performance elements. We look forward to them joining our team.
We will also be holding two masterclasses for West Midlands-based professional dancers/performers and dance students/graduates in our studio in Leamington Spa on Saturday 14 and Saturday 21 April 2012.
The sessions will be led by our Artistic Director, Kevin Finnan and some of our company dancers; there will be a small charge. You may attend one or both sessions, which will explore the style, content and context of The Voyage. You must register in advance for our masterclasses as places are limited, do this by clicking on the link info@motionhouse.co.uk
We’ll keep this page up-to-date with information about our Quest projects for The Voyage, but if you do have any questions feel free to call us on +44(0)1926 887 052
Quest has been granted the prestigious London 2012 Inspire mark, the badge of the London 2012 Inspire programme which recognises exceptional and innovative projects inspired by the 2012 Games. |
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