Creative Projects offers a range of arts events from film commissions to professional choreographic workshops to walks that explore the movement in the world around us. The programme offers five strands:
Primary Bank: Working with primary school teachers and pupils
The Making Space: A range of choreographic projects with and for youth dance groups
Artist Development: Supporting professional artists
Creative Explorations: A diverse programme of projects delivered in a range of settings
Workshop programmes: Available to education institutions and arts organisations
Each of these projects aims to extend Siobhan Davies’ areas of enquiry and current work. Creative Projects work with a wide community of people from differing ages and cultural backgrounds, offering programmes which fully engage communities through participation or as audience. The Company works closely with local partner organisations and specialist artists in order to increase the diversity of experiences and expertise offered.
Creative Projects evolved from the Siobhan Davies Dance move to the new studios in Elephant and Castle in 2006. Placed in the playground of Charlotte Sharman primary school the Company was drawn to explore how the two organisations which now shared a site could work together. Primary Bank was the project which came from these early discussions, designed to make links with this Primary School and other local schools and organisations.
Primary Bank explored ways of engaging primary school children through translating conceptual ideas into practical and tangible movement tasks. The discovery of working with this age group has led to an approach which has been adopted throughout each of the Creative Projects programmes embracing ways to observe, explore, experience and discuss dance.
Big Dance
In 2009, Siobhan Davies Dance was named as the Big Dance Hub for south London, providing a programme which works with local authorities to reach seven London Boroughs: Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Merton, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth.
Big Dance festival 2012 features nine days of dance in unusual spaces throughout the UK, and is part of Festival 2012 – the Finale of the Cultural Olympiad.
For more information, or to find out how you can get involved, contact Rachel Attfield, Creative Projects Manager on rachela@siobhandavies.com or phone 020 7091 9650.
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