Morning!
 
Well, input to this site is being temporarily disabled from the 14th to the 22nd, so, just time to tell you about our last satellite project. 

Using audio and film source material from the Song Cycle, this dance-based Satellite Project would use the interactive software Isadora (a projection technology which combines live video film with pre-recorded images), to provide a highly accessible branch of the Core Project. Here, poems and lyrics from the Song Cyle would be  shared through speech, projections, dance and  signing. This Satellite Project is designed to be adaptable to different spaces and communites and would offer some opportunities for interactive engagement with the creative material of the Song Cycle. It would also be accessible to people suffering with autism (as loud volume levels are distressing for such people, and in these cases the volume could simply be turned down). 
 
Jane Turner, one of the East's most talented and experienced choreographers would create a dance-based performance work in response to the Song Cycle, which would target institutions and organisations working with people with special needs. Her choreographic method maps the essential dynamics, histories and possibilities of individual bodies and selves to weave multi-textural choreographies that use improvisational and democratic working methods. The Jane Turner Dance Company is extremely experienced in improvisation and the creation of dance-based events using new audio-visual technologies. There will be myriad possibilities to explore, including interaction with audiences, which would be especially relevant in performances in special needs schools. Jane Turner would build on existing, and forge new, connections with other groups and dancers in the East working in this area and build a team including experienced performers combining, for example, sign language and dance. The aim would be to create a multi-layered performance which would be accessible to all.
 
best,
Cheryl