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:
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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