Happy Lunar New Year! 2024 is the year of the inspiring and ferocious Wood Dragon. Thank you to all those who made our dance and crafter-noon such a fantastic event! Special thanks to Yuyu Rau from New Earth Theatre, who joined us to lead a joyous Chinese Ribbon Dance workshop.
There’s a lot going on at SDS over the next four weeks. Kavina Pound’s Live Archive: Waiting, Relating and Coordinating is happening this Saturday, and we urge you to join us to hear about her inspiring journey into dance. This is also the final week you have to see Shanelle Tali Fergus’ Material Archive: Mum. Edit. More. Read on to find out about Material and Digital Archives from Angel Zinovieff and Adesola Akinleye, launching soon.
Later in March, the current NEXT Choreography cohort will be taking over the building for an interdisciplinary festival to close the six-month course. Meanwhile, the team will be gearing up for our third community performance project FEAR, taking place in summer. Sign up isn’t open yet, but let us know you’re interested here.
Finally, we want to take moment to mark the life of Emma Gladstone, whose funeral took place on Friday 16 February. Emma was Chair of our Board for four and half years, until 2022. She contributed enormously to the organisation, leading with both efficiency and fun. She will be much missed across the dance sector and especially here. Siobhan Davies and our Co-Directors Annie and Kat share some memories of Emma here.