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Dateline: 14th July, 2002 Dance Base at the 2002 Fringe Dance Base, in the Grassmarket, is Edinburgh's National Dance Centre, the centre for dance in the Fringe. Dancers from the four corners of the World are converging on Dance Base for a programme of performances, workshops and classes worthy of theunpredictable, fabulous Fringe Festival. Performances include the return of Festival favourite Mika with his dance crew Torotoro,Scotland's principal contemporary company, Scottish Dance Theatre, in director Janet Smiths' funny, beautiful High Land. Don't miss urban dance rebel Robert Hylton, and European choreographic collaborators Colette Sadler and Rosie Kay. Smallpetitklein's director Tommy Small trained in Dundee and returns to the homeland showing TV Dinner. Henry Montes has worked with a hugely impressive list of choreographers including Rosemary Butcher: see his new solo work promising exquisite subtlety. Air Dance Company lift the lid on "modern" dance: it's an eye watering, eye opening experience. Turn up at the same time each day and see a completely different, fascinating dance programme. Classes know no boundaries, reaching all ages, abilities and predilections. Kids can't fail toenjoy crucially cool hip hop giants from Glasgow, Kultyer: only one name in the brilliant teaching crew throughout the Festival. Dancers out of short trousers (over 14 and under 60) will have a ball with the legend that is Mika: experience his classes and workshops in Haka, Hula and Maori funk. Check out Shakti, Oriental sensual goddess and fabulous teacher, and there's daily ballet, jazz, hip hop, latino and contemporary with our top teachers. Daily professional class is with Steinvor Palsson, Kultyer and amazing Hungarian choreographer Yvette Boszik. Sample the choreographic potential in Indian Martial arts techniques with authentic teachers from the Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Academy. Got more funky dance needs? Well get a load of JC Ferrons' Latino Hip Hop masterclass. DANCE BASE 1ST MOVE honey you're a pig (World Premiere) Award winning choreographer Rosie Kay returns for the 4th time to present a new work in association with Dance Base. She is joined by Daniel Yamada, an Austrian dancer currently living in Berlin. Rehearsed and produced in France, this will be a truly European work for the international dance programme. What are they looking at? The absurdity of modern life. Street life. Intimacy with strangers. The thrill of cities. Being alone with the person you love. Loving and hating. Being greedy. Sleeping in. Wanting what you can't have. Being lazy. Perversity. Silly costumes. Not enough money, ever. A 6ft Austrian man in high heels. Dancing possessed. Not moving at all. TV Dinner (Scottish Premiere) Choreographer: Thomas Small 'She's no richt in the heid that lassie fae number 15. Eftir her man left her, she let 'erself go. The daft mare's rottin' a wa like an auld aipple.' Smallpetitklein's brand new 'TV Dinner' tunes into a lonely, fragile female mind with fresh designs and original music by Jamie McCarthy. DANCE BASE 2ND MOVE Subjects in construction Part 1; with love (World Premiere) A Scottish/Spanish collaboration sees Colette Sadler and J.A Saourin performing and choreographing together. They will explore the boundaries between our experience of life, theatre and art. Flottmanhalle (Scottish Premiere) Flottmanhalle is a solo. Its base are the 4 elements: earth, air, water and fire. Like the layers of an onion they peel away to reveal what is underneath, what is being shed and what is unseen. This is a collaboration with composer Bruce Sharp whose sound environment plays with the power of sound to shape perceptions of space and to evoke a sense of memory within the lived experience. Henry Montes grew up in the Bronx, NYC. Henry has toured internationally with the Jonathan Burrows Group, Susanne Linke and continues to perform in the work of Siobhan Davies Dance Company. DANCE BASE 3RD MOVE this is modern
this is modern combines a satirical blend of stand up comedy, physical theatre and dance that will delight audiences whether young or old, dance insiders or first time audiences. Tom and Pete's take on the history of this least understood of art forms is fast, funny and well researched. And on top of all that it isn't afraid to show just how moving and beautiful contemporary dance can be. this is modern has been commissioned by DanceXchange, the National Dance Agency for Birmingham and the West Midlands and Dance Northwest, the National Dance Agency for the North West of England; and funded by North West Arts Board. DANCE BASE 4TH MOVE Two Steps Into Urban Classicism (Scottish Premiere) Robert Hylton Urban Classicism communicates both the excitement and energy of street dance and the eloquence of contemporary technique. To watch Robert Hylton perform is to engage with a beat-poet, jazz musician and dancer rolled into one; the experience is riveting: "a wonderfully gyroscopic, mercurial dancer fuelled by a fresh
fusion of modern and street HIGH LAND 'at turns utterly hilarious and deeply moving' - The Scotsman. 'Gloriously feisty & funny' - The Herald The Company's Artistic Director Janet Smith's critically acclaimed and hugely popular piece takes an irreverent, witty but respectful look at Scottish images (from midges to the Clearances!) Featuring new company members… Voted one of the top 5 dance pieces of 2001 by the Sunday Herald. DANCE BASE 5TH MOVE Mika HAKA Be at the birth of a blockbuster show! Taste an exotic Pacific feast of stirring songs and sensuous dancing. See the amazing face of today's New Zealand. Enjoy the festival's favourite showman Mika and his young and funky dance crew Torotoro. Their hi-energy performance is delivered to a big-beat soundtrack of Maori dance anthems. From the spine-tingling vibe of the welcome chants through to the lingering echoes of the techno haka this is an all-new sharp hybrid of Polynesian and Global culture. Come and enter Mika's unique world where fierce ancient traditions merge with slick new urban styles.
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