BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4188@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181108T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181108T220000 DTSTAMP:20181106T104242Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/leap-2018-cultiv8-workshop-discu ssion-performance/ SUMMARY:Cornerstone: LEAP 2018: Cultiv8: Workshop / Discussion / Performanc e DESCRIPTION:Thursday 8 November\, 10am – 10pm\nMultivenue\, Hope Univers ity Creative Campus.\nTickets:\n£50 – Full Day (includes ticket for The Head Wrap Diaries)\n£8 – Uchenna Dance Workshop\n£35 – Discussion E vent\n£9.50 / £7.50 – Mixed Bill Performance\n\n\nCulitv8 dedicates a whole day to exploring the transformational power of black dance. Speakers \, performers and practitioners will engage\, examine and appreciate the f orm as we debate its importance in our society.  Sharing our cultural und erstanding of how we perceive the world we live in\, we present and expose audiences and participants to culturally diverse dance makers\, protagoni sts\, educationalists\, community activists and producers.\n\nThe Workshop : Uchenna Dance\n10am – 12pm\n A two hour workshop aimed at student/pro fessional dancers\, exploring the cultural origins of the Uchenna signator y blend of dance styles.\n\nThe Discussion: Empowered Pioneering Black Wom en in Dance\n12pm – 4pm\n\nWe are living in world that constantly talks about multi-culture\, but this is not always reflected through the practic e and education of dance development.\n\nOver the years\, MDI has been spe aking to artists and producers\, both emergent and established\, and there is a recurring acknowledgement that the growth of African diasporic pract ices needs to be promoted and celebrated.\n\nMDI is committed to bringing African Peoples’ Dance\, created by national and international artist/co mpanies\, to the city to share their knowledge and skills of African dance and the Diaspora. This is contributing to the development and understandi ng of the form.\n\nCultiv8’s curator Maxine Brown has invited 5 outstand ing speakers to debate this provocation from their own perspectives:\n\nSh aron Watson is the 7th Artistic Director of Phoenix Dance Theatre. Traine d at the London School of Contemporary Dance\, she was one of the first fe male principal dancers invited to join the all-male\, award-winning Phoeni x Dance Company\, touring with the company from 1989 to 1997. Sharon left Phoenix to set up her own company ABCD but returned in 2009 as the new Art istic Director. Since then she has been named ‘Yorkshire Woman of the Ye ar’ in 2016 and acknowledged at the 2017 Northern Power Women Awards as part of the very first ‘Top 50 Power List’ for her commitment to impro ving diversity within the arts.\n\nBeverley Glean MBE is the Founder\, Ch ief Executive Office and Artistic Director of IRIE! dance theatre. Trained at the Laban Centre London\, The Jamaica School of Dance and The Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba\; she has continued her training and developm ent in dance and culture by working alongside artists from West Africa\, E urope\, USA\, and the Caribbean. Beverley has worked in the field of Afric an Peoples’ Dance for over 30 years. IRIE! dance theatre pioneered the m ove towards representing and promoting reggae music and its movement nuanc es on stage. As well as its touring dance theatre company\, it has develop ed a sought-after education and community outreach programme and the only accredited course in African &\; Caribbean Dance in the UK.\n\nJeanefer Jean- Charles is a Mass Movement Director\, Choreographer and Creative C onsultant who delivers large scale performances and training for artists a nd organisations. Her unique creative process brings to life the talents\, strengths and shared stories of local communities and artists\, in inspir ing and unforgettable ways. Embracing her passion for Jazz\, Street and Af rican Dance\, Jeanefer will reveal what inspired her to dedicate her life to empowering others through movement and dance.\n‘I believe everyone sh ould dance. It’s a force that can not only change lives but can change t he world’\n\nCarolene Hinds specializes in Authentic Jazz Dance and as the Artistic Director of the Jiving Lindy Hoppers from 1991 to 2007 she tr avelled worldwide teaching\, performing and training with the masters of t his dance technique. She has choreographed for stage and screen and had th e pleasure of being an assistant choreographer for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics in which Lindy Hop was featured. She has chaired organisations such as ADAD and Spare Tyre Theatre Company and was recentl y appointed to the council of UKAdance. In 2017 she was an integral part o f the team that devised and delivered the first Blackpool International Ca rnival. She serves as a Governor in 2 Blackpool schools where she continue s to promote dance.\n\nOluwatoyin Odunsi is an independent arts venue and festival programmer\, an interdisciplinary arts producer\, tour booker\, theatre director and DJ. She is Artistic Director of Vintage Misfits a Per forming Arts Production Company specializing in bringing unique stories to new audiences\, using current cross artforms such as theatre\, dance\, mu sic\, film\, live art\, comedy and circus.\n\nCultiv8 is an opportunity to come together and participate in this area of work and contribute to the important issues that we hope to reflect in the session. Let’s consider what diversity really means for artists making and presenting work in thes e styles.\n\n\nPerformance: The Cultiv8 Mixed Bill\n6pm – 7pm\n\nSolo pe rformances from a diverse group of women that takes the temperature of Bla ck Dance in the UK today:\n\nClaricia Parinussa\nAnon. [allochtoon]\nbelum : not yet\, not as yet (Behasa Indonesie)\nThis work forms the departure point of a research inquiry into the history of Indonesia under the Nether lands colonial rule. Exploring the effects on the indigenous communities e nlisted in the Dutch military before\, during and after WWII\, the inquiry considers questions of coercion\, oppression\, autonomy and resilience.\n \nNafisah Baba\nInescapable: choreographed by Nafisah Baba.\nNear the pla ce where your feet pass: a collaboration between Laila Diallo and Nafisah Baba.\nNafisah Baba was named BBC Young Dancer 2017 and has worked with P hoenix Dance Theatre as well as developing her own solo practice.\n\nCharl ene Kaliyati\nMARTHA\nAfrican contemporary performance\, the inspiration c oming from the dancer’s mother\, portraying the story of a strong black woman\, with a message of empowering females through dance. The piece util ises autobiographical techniques and draws upon Charlene Kaliyati’s own experiences of overcoming situations.\n\nBOOK TICKETS\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2018/11/Dance-photo-11-1000x563.jpg CATEGORIES:Performance LOCATION:Cornerstone\, Hope Creative Campus\, Shaw Street\, Liverpool\, L6 1HP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.41279;-2.969096 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hope Creative Campus\, Shaw Street\, Liverpool\, L6 1HP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=1 00;X-TITLE=Cornerstone:geo:53.41279,-2.969096 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181028T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR