Tongue-in-Cheek Dance Parade Footage now live!

Check out the footage of the dance parade from Fiery Rockets - and check out the Fiery Rockets blog on the topic at http://www.fieryrockets.wordpress.com/

Perform at Flow! - Brief for Poets and Dancers

Broken Rose Performing Arts and Contact, Manchester

Flow! Co-produced by Broken Rose Performing Arts and Contact, Manchester, will take place in Space 5, at Contact, 9:30pm on Friday 14th October. This event is FREE.

Project Outine

Flow! will bring together dancers and spoken word artists in an extraordinary fusion of movement and words.

In recent years, much slam poetry has begun to sound like MC-ing, and has therefore become associated with the Hip Hop genre of music. With this in mind, it seems appropriate to bring two otherwise polarized sets of artists together; dancers and slam poets.

Similarly, Contact's monthly event Mixed Movement is Manchester's only "open mic night" for dancers. The brainchild of a dancer, theatre artist and poet, DawN Crandell, Mixed Movement gives dancers and musicians a chance to improvise, celebrate and show off their skills. Flow! is heavily influenced by Dawn's show, it being a chance for artists to meet, collaborate with each other, and share their ideas.

Dancers, poets and MCs can apply to perform at Flow! The evening will be split into three sections:

1. A dancer and a poet will be paired up and one will begin, with the other joining in as soon as they are ready. The freestyle will be a conversation between the two artists. Both artists are encouraged to interact with each other during the performance, rather than simply performing side-by-side.



2. A completely freestyled performance for all involved. 1 poet will begin, and all the dancers will freestyle with the poet as and when they feel its appropriate. Gradually, other poets will come in and have their say, until the performance naturally comes to an end (This will be discussed with performers prior to going onstage). Again, all artists should interact with each other during the performance.
   


3. WILDCARD SECTION - Again, a section inspired by Mixed Movement, a dancer and a poet will be pulled out of the audience to freestyle with each other.
   

Flow! is to be launched as part of the Manchester Literature Festival 2011.

Many thanks go to DawN Crandell and Baba Israel for inspiring this opportunity.

To Apply

If you would like to perform either as a dancer, poet or MC at Flow! please send an expression of interest (as below) to brokenroseperformance@googlemail.com. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST:

NAME, DANCER/POET/MC, BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PAST EXPERIENCE

www.brokenrose.eu

www.contactmcr.com

www.manchesterliteraturefestival.com

Fiery Rockets

I want to take this opportunity to thank all of my loyal followers. It's amazing to get this many views on a blog that is just about my life. However, feeling the need for a change, I have now moved to another site, under a different name, Fiery Rockets - www.fieryrockets.wordpress.com

This new vlogging site is for show tours, tattoos, travelling the world and all things performance, and the first video is below. I will still be posting Fiery Rocket videos here, as well as some Broken Rose stuff, so stay tuned if you prefer to stick with one blog site.

Much love.
CC/Fiery Rockets

New Website

www.wix.com/celticcalifornianblo/gemmaconnell

Check it out for my personal portfolio in Production/Project Management/Choreography/Performance.

Will change it for a much more suitable domain name soon. Promise.

Will also get you that long awaited summer blog/vlog soon. PROMISE.

Much Love.
CC.

"Bitten" - Call for Actress

Broken Rose Performing Arts (www.brokenrose.eu) is looking for an actress aged between 18 and 25 to play a confident young woman who suffers from Renfield's Syndrome and has in the past been a victim of domestic abuse. The character is an extremely feisty, emotional woman, and the actress will have to hold the audience's constant attention as much of the play surrounds her monologue.

An extract of Bitten will be performed at the Open Mind event in Manchester (website coming soon) on the 28th October 2011.

This is an unpaid position, but one that will give the candidate valuable experience.

To apply, please email an expression of interest, with a photo and recent CV to brokenroseperformance@googlemail.com