Hannah Sharpe
101 Ludgate Lofts
17 Ludgate Hill
Birmingham B3 1DW
T +44 (0)7971 225436
E info@rosiekay.co.uk
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SIZE OF COMPANY
Up to 8 on the road
SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale
PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Rosie Kay
Company Manager
Hannah Sharpe
ARTISTIC POLICY
Rosie Kay Dance Company (RKDC) produces striking dance work with intelligent and thoughtful content and athletic physicality. ‘One of the more enterprising dance companies in the UK’ (The Times), Rosie Kay Dance Company’s work marries explosive drama with technical precision and is rooted in a desire to push the body to the edge. Critically renowned in the UK, RKDC tours nationally, works in a multi-disciplinary manner and appeals to a broad audience interested in theatre, music and cutting edge dance work.
REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘I rate Rosie Kay as one of the brightest and most enterprising young choreographers currently at work in the UK. Her choreography is definitely rooted in the body, but it also conveys a sharp, sound sense of the theatrical along with a conceptual savvy.’ Donald Hutera, The Times
‘An Everest of synchronicity, timing, defined body lines and stamina. For Kay, this choreographic re-interpretation is a triumph. Catch it if you can.’ **** Mary Brennan, The Herald (Double Points: K)
‘Feisty Rosie Kay has created her latest work, Supernova, for five women dancers, celebrating their grace and power in a patterning of pure dance.’ Judith Mackrell, The Guardian (Supernova)
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
5 Soldiers – The Body is the Frontline A dance theatre work with four male and one female dancers that looks at how the human body is essential to and used in warfare. 5 Soldiers explores the physical training that prepares you for war as well as the possible effects on the body and the injury caused by warfare. (85 mins, 5 on stage, 8 on the road.)
Supernova Taking its name from rare outer space blasts generated by dying stars, this brand new piece will lead you on an explosive journey as five female dancers create a performance of raw beauty. (30 mins, 5 on stage, 8 on the road.)
Double Points: K Growing from a unique collaboration with Emio Greco l PC, choreographer Rosie Kay has created an explosive, sensual and dynamic new duet to a mixed soundtrack inspired by dub step, extreme electro and classical music. (30 mins, 2 on stage, 4 on the road.)
FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Severn Valley Railways Dance Project A huge participatory, site-specific dance work that involves the local community and professional dancers on a journey that follows a preserved steam railway along the Severn Valley. Due to launch autumn 2010 and be performed in a spectacle in summer 2011.
WRAP-AROUND
The company has an excellent track record in high level education work and commitment to the nurture of young people’s talent. Rosie Kay is the course leader for the Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) for the West Midlands UK, and has the highest experience in catering professional work for a younger audience. Each workshop can be delivered to suit the age and experience of the education group, giving insights into the creative process, the issues surrounding the work, the training of a professional dancer and technical training in dance techniques, repertoire, use of voice, theatricality and fitness and health. Education works can end in performance work and short performances to aid performing skills and young peoples’ confidence and team building skills.
The company is always willing to give pre- and post-performance talks and Q&As. The company sees this as a vital part of its performance work and welcomes any opportunity to help build bridges between the audience and the creative artists of the work. This can particularly help with young people and new audiences.
The company is delighted to offer longer residencies in a range of institutions and education and learning situations. Most residencies are 2–7 days, and normally include daily company class, training in creative methods, learning company repertoire and choreographing original works based on the company’s work. These works have then gone on to be presented in theatres as ‘curtain raisers’ before the professional pieces.
Masterclasses are designed to give a deeper insight into the working methods and research practises of choreographer Rosie Kay. Masterclasses can focus on technique for performance, including fitness and stamina work, choreographic methods and research methods for dancers and choreographers.
Rosie Kay is involved in many aspects of the dance world, specialities include: dance education and elite training, dance and disability, research methods in choreography and is involved with research in the UK with Glasgow University and University of Manchester in Kinaesthetic Empathy. Rosie Kay is willing to give talks and be on panels for a wide range of dance and choreography related subjects.
Rosie Kay presents papers on a wide range of subjects, particularly dance in education and its links to the professional demands of a choreographer, research methods for choreography and the importance of proper research methods in professional work, fitness training and stamina in professional dancers and the demands of choreographers and movement and kinaesthetic empathy – its early research processes.
RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Italy (Patisserie), Holland (Double Points: K)
2007 Ireland (The Wild Party)
TOURING AVAILABILITY
5 Soldiers, Supernova and Double Points: K available from April 2010
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