Erased Tapes Records approached Neon's Adrienne Hart at the beginning of the year and asked if she would participate in a new music video for Peter Broderick and David Allred. The finished film directed by Robert Raths with artwork by Peter Liversidge features artists and musicians from around the world. A simple concept with compelling results we think. Enjoy!
Paid Media Intern Call Out
Neon Dance company's Empathy performed at Radialsystem V, Berlin (Dec, 2016)
We're on the look out for a media intern to support our Southwest (UK) Empathy tour.
Working alongside Neon's Artistic Director Adrienne Hart and mentored by Float PR founder Sofia Ilyas, the successful candidate will record and describe Neon’s new production on their own terms, exploring new ways in which to engage their peer group with the performing arts. We're looking for a creative self-starter aged 18 - 25 years old who is based in the Southwest region.
To apply:
Send your CV and a cover letter or a short video (5-minutes max) describing your experience / interest in the role, alongside the below equal opportunities form to:
Ian Abbott - info@neondance.org
Equal Opportunities Form (click to download)
Deadline: 31st January 2017
Fee: £500 Bursary (travel inclusive)
Applicants must be able to commit a minimum 5 days to the project between February – April 2017. This must include 27th March (Exeter Northcott) and 22nd April (The Edge, Bath). All other working days/hours are negotiable.
Museum of Bath at Work - Site Specific collaboration
Neon Dance were invited by Bath Spa University to takeover the fascinating Museum of Bath at Work for a week this November in order to create a new site specific work. Working with second year Bath Spa dance students, Neon's Adrienne Hart work in collaboration with lighting designer Stuart Bailes, composer Sebastian Reynolds and company dance artist Tilly Webber. Manuals for Living and Dying opened on Friday 11th November and received 3 sold out performances, where audiences were guided around the museum and treated to a re-imaging of the space as envisaged by Neon Dance.
“As someone who is very familiar with the spaces it was quite an experience to see the show, which was by turns startling and elegant. ”
Mahajanaka research week at DanceXchange
Neon Dance have been in the studio at DanceXchange, Birmingham this week working alongside Producer / Composer Sebastian Reynolds and renowned Thai dance artist Pichet Klunchun.
In May 2016, with the support of British Council and Arts Council England's Artist International Development Fund, Sebastian Reynolds and Neon Dance choreographer Adrienne Hart travelled to Bangkok to research Thai dance and music traditions within the context of Buddhist Jataka mythology.
The creative duo have since secured funding from Arts Council England, Oxford Dance Forum, Kickstarter and support in kind from SOAS and DanceXchange to invite Pichet Klunchun over to the UK. A research week at Dancexchange enabled the team to work collaboratively to develop a new, bilingual musical and movement based language to tell the story of Mahajanaka, one of the great myths of the ancient world.
Images and a video by Oliver Holms, documenting the making process, coming soon...
Brexit inspired Kosovo play
Neon's Adrienne Hart is currently working out in Pristina where the UK shock brexit vote has become the backdrop for a new tragic comedy; visioning Kosovo as the ideal country to take the UK's place. The brilliant writer Jeton Neziraj delivers a timely and hilarious take on modern day Kosovo. The play opens in Pristina on the 26th September with further dates in Tirana, Zagreb and Belgrade.
Artist Maggie Farmer sketches Neon residency
As part of our recent research residency at Pavilion Dance South West, Bournemouth based artist Maggie Farmer observed and sketched as we explored ideas for new work in the making 'Puzzle Creature'.
This is one of Maggie's artworks, produced ‘in situ’.
Work on 'Puzzle Creature' begins!
We're thrilled to begin work on 'Puzzle Creature' this summer in collaboration with the fashion artist Ana Rajcevic, inspired by Arakawa+Gins. The Funambulist editor Leopold Lambert first introduced Neon's Adrienne Hart to the artists-architects-poets Arakawa and Madeleine Gins. Here's a great introduction to their work:
We start with a residency week at Pavilion Dance South West in August and continue at the Barbican Centre early next year - thanks to support from Arts Council Southwest. We'll keep you posted from the studio!
Neon Dance Audition
Neon Dance are seeking highly skilled male and female dance artists for a recasting of the company's latest evening-length work 'Empathy'. The period of employment will include UK and international touring.
Deadline: 31st August 2016
Dates you will need to be available:
10th - 21st October 2016
27th October 2016
15th November 2016
23rd November 2016
10-11th December 2016
About the company:
Neon Dance creates work for the stage and screen. Since 2004, we have produced a portfolio of bold, playful and risk-taking projects that ignite the public imagination.
Artistically led by Adrienne Hart, our work appears in diverse spaces across the UK – from theatres, festivals and galleries (The Intention (2012), Falling from Trees (2010)) to urban and digital space (Stages (2013), Archived’it (2011)). Collaboration is at the heart of our practice and we work across art form and alongside world-class artists on projects that often engage with contemporary science.
Our growing reputation as a bold and experimental company has helped us secure strong partnerships with Pavilion Dance South West (Dream Artist 2015-17), Sound and Music (Audience Lab 2015-16) and Sadler’s Wells (Adrienne Hart, Summer University 2015-18).
Our dynamic team is committed to presenting ambitious work of the highest quality. In 2016, we premiered Empathy – our first evening-length work. Completing its first showcase tour in March 2016, the production will continue to tour the UK and EU this autumn.
About the work:
What makes our behaviour uniquely human?
Touching and emotionally charged, 'Empathy' reflects on what influences us to emphasise with others. Five dancers jostle for position - folding, lifting and balancing against one another as they navigate through the award winning Numen's beguiling laser light design.
Taking inspiration from the work of psychologist Professor Simon Baron-Cohen (Zero Degrees of Empathy), 'Empathy' is a truly theatrical experience where movement, sound and lighting combine and contribute in equal part.
What we’re looking for:
Highly technical and creatively strong dance artists who enjoy working as part of a collaborative team. We're interested in hearing from experienced dance artists with the ability to learn and retain movement material quickly.
Fee: £500 per rehearsal week plus travel and accommodation. £150 per performance.
To apply:
Please send a CV, headshot and online film links of previous work to: info@neondance.org. A workshop audition will be held in London on Saturday 3rd September and will be by invitation only.
If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact: felicity@neondance.org