Corali Blog

2012-01-31T08:55:00.001-08:00

I am writing a short update for the Corali Blog. Here is the short update.

On a Wednesday morning there are 14 people that attend the regular classes at Brixton Arts Space we do a warm up then we do a simple routine. Then we work with partners and develop ideas from the video we watched of Pina Bausch. After that we learned the moves altogether, then we split up in different groups to go over the moves ourselves, then we performed it in 2 lines.

On a Wednesday afternoon we have a student from Middlesex University to work with Corali, she’s called Becky and we do different things like warm up walking around the space, doing memory game and then we created a food personality and opposites routine! Then we split up and went over the routine and with different levels and made it bigger. I liked the hot chilli routine, that was good I enjoyed it.

On a Tuesday afternoon or sometimes Wednesday afternoon I come into the Corali Office to volunteer. I sometimes work with Andrea and also sometimes with Sarah. I do different things like doing letters, addressing envelopes, recycling, photocopying, the franking machine, phone calls and doing the Corali Blog, facebook page and typing meeting minutes. I also answer the phone and record the Out of Office message.

I am Starting the Compass Project at Sadler’s Wells. I will be working with choreographers and some of Corali Performers who will be in it. I will be doing Rehearsals and then performing on 23^rd of April 2012. I will be performing on Sadler’s wells main stage. I will be doing stage Rehearsals and Dress Rehearsal’s.

Bethan

update Dec 6th 2011

2011-12-06T03:04:00.000-08:00

We went to Step Launch Event on Monday the 7^th of November. I went with Sarah, Sophie and DJ.

The Performances were good and the talks. I enjoyed watching the Tap Performance it was interesting and it was good and fun and it does makes me laugh. The talks were very interesting and useful. I liked the Puppet Doll thing that was good and it was very funny. I enjoyed the evening.

We went to articulate Workshop on Wednesday the 9^th of November at the Unicorn Theatre.

I went with Jacobus, Andrea, Sophie, Jackie. The Workshop was good. It was about looking ahead in the future and what career do you want to get, and what job do you want and what skills do you need to get that job and also what you’d like to do in the future. The words we had were Now, Then, Next, Future and we used these in our workshop. I enjoyed it.

We did 3 Performances of How Happy We Would Be. We performed in Brick Box, St Thomas Hospital and Laban.

We Perfomed 26^th, 21^st ,28^th of November. It was good. My best bit was tea for 2 dance it made me happy.

We had 4 regular Company Classes held at Brixton Arts Space on a Wednesday Morning for couple of hours. We were doing Technique and lot different things like improving your balance and choreography and working with partners and we were looking at shapes and parts of body. And we talked about Healthy eating as well.

Bethan

2011-10-04T05:21:00.001-07:00

Corali is pleased to support Candoco market their forthcoming anniversary work.

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhvLNo9TeH8

Candoco Dance Company
Turning 20: Anniversary Bill
Friday 14- Saturday 15 October
Let Candoco Dance Company take you to the past, present and future to celebrate its 20th anniversary with three bold and unexpected commissions.

Experience music by Laurie Anderson and playful movement in a re-staging of the 1983 Set and Reset/ Reset between Trisha Brown Dance Company and Candoco. French choreographer Rachid Ouramdane reveals private portraits of present day life in an atmospheric and visually striking new commission. Matthias Sperling's light-hearted solo is an intimate encounter showing what the future might hold.

These works celebrate different ways of making dances and build on Candoco's rich experience as the company of disabled and non-disabled dancers.

'An absolute joy - Candoco is in tremendous form.' (Dancing Times)

Book tickets / More info
http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/dance-performance/tickets/candoco-dance-company-uk-60102

2011-06-13T03:28:00.000-07:00

We have been doing how happy performances at Dilston Grove and we are now performing at Tate modern community garden and at Marys secret garden and we are doing performances in schools in June on 28th and 29th I enjoyed doing the performances and in the gardens as well. I like the gardens.

Bethan

Past Few Months Update

2011-03-24T09:14:00.000-07:00

On a Wednesday we have Company Class based at Oval House its for people with learning disabilities and we do different things like Technique and looking after ourselves and talking about healthy eating. I enjoyed doing the classes and I liked having different people leading the classes like Natalie, Georgie, Jacobus, Sarah.

I’d like to work more with Natalie because she is amazing and kind and helpful. I enjoyed working with her.

I like meeting new People in Corali like Antonio and Michael they are brilliant people and I think they are nice people to work with. I’d like to work more with Michael because he is fantastic and a good dancer.

On Thursday the 3^rd of March we went to Articulate Conference with Georgie at Battersea Arts Centre it was good. I enjoyed watching Mind the Gap they were brilliant and I stepped in, it was brilliant they had different workshops in the afternoon they were Mind the Gap Workshop and beat bullying workshop. I enjoyed it.

On Wednesday the 23^rd of February we went to Disability Arts Consortium Meeting at Shape it was good. I enjoyed talking and meeting new people to talk about what Corali does and what we do. I enjoyed listening to other people to talk about what they do and their role is. The event was called Speed dating and I like to do it again and I enjoyed it and it was good we didn’t have to move and I like that.

Dec - Jan - by Bethan

2011-01-26T05:35:00.000-08:00

On Thursday the 16^th of December we had a Christmas Party at Oval House Theatre we had nibbles chatting and music and then we launched the Business plan for 2011 it was introduced by Lloyd Page. I enjoyed it.

On Monday 10^th of January we went to Mary Rose School in Portsmouth we lead 4 workshops and then we did the twilight session with the teachers it was good. I enjoyed it.

I helped Sarah to prepare the Film Screening for the Tate. I helped by making a flyer and putting Photo’s on the flyer and sending them off and also putting details on the flyer and I also helped Sarah with Rehearsals and I enjoyed doing it.

Update

2010-11-10T03:44:00.000-08:00

On Monday the 11^th of October we did a performance of How Happy We Will Be at the Albany in Deptford it was part of their Connected Culture event. The performance was good. I enjoyed it, my best bit was the ‘When I Was a Tiny Person’ memory sequence and the ‘Tea for Two’ dance. I enjoyed the event, it was interesting. I liked the debate, it was good.

On Tuesday 2^nd of November we went to Derry, in Northern Ireland for two days we led two workshops with Stage Beyond Theatre Company it was good. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed working with Michael, Geraldine and Paul. I enjoyed meeting Dee and Patsy and Frank, they are nice people. I enjoyed the flights.

I went to Disability Arts Consortium Meeting with Georgie on the 14^th October and it was interesting and it was useful to listen to other people, to hear what they have to say about their opinions about Arts, Olympics, organisations and Theatres and Grants and Arts Councils.

Posted By Bethan

2010-08-17T12:10:00.000-07:00

I have been working with Antoine and DJ to make a Performance. We were doing lots of Rehearsals. We Rehearsed at Oval and Brixton and some other places.

In Rehearsals we had to collect some ideas and different ways of travelling, and looking at different pictures to make shapes with our body, and doing name solo’s with different parts of our body. And then we made duet’s by bridging different parts of our body to another persons body. We made an angles solo by looking at different pictures.

And we did lot of stuff about eye contact.

We performed at Greenside School and that was good and also other people in Corali performed at Heart n’ Soul Festival in Victoria Park on the 19^th of July. I Performed at Greenside School on the 23^rd of July that was good. I enjoyed it. I love working with Antoine he was brillant. I’m glad he performed with us at Greenside.

Bethan

Back to Back Theatre

2010-07-23T01:48:00.000-07:00

For any of you that didn't manage to come and see Food Court at the Barbican last month, by the brilliant Australian theatre company, Back to Back Theatre, try and catch a show another time (Georgie has sent a link saying something is happening at the Arnolfini Inbetween time festival 3 - 8 September 2010 and 1 December 2010). Check out their website in the meantime, it's really exciting work - http://backtobacktheatre.com/

Sarah

Scapes: Corali at Sadler's Wells.

2010-04-01T06:49:00.000-07:00

In March I was rehearsing for 5 days at Sadler’s Wells with Corali and working with people from New Adventures and we were preparing a performance for the Connect Festival on Friday 12th of March. The performance was called Scapes and it was work based on the Visual Voices training Programme. The performance was a collaboration between Corali and New Adventures, we were performing 2 new short pieces from Scapes and Visual Voices Scores lead by 4 dancers from Corali. I enjoyed doing the performance it was good, my best bit was my Score and working with Belinda Chapman and Joe Walkling.

And after the Performance we did a workshop with other people, I was in Sarah Archdeacon’s group it was good. I led the warm up. We were looking at descriptive words and we were improvising and travelling as well, it was good.

Bethan

Preparing for Coming of Age...

2009-12-10T05:50:00.001-08:00

On Thursday the 3rd of December I went to Tate Modern with Sarah
for a meeting. We met other artists from intoart and Heart n Soul to talk about the seminar day that we doing in January on the 21st. The event called Coming Of Age its about looking to the future and what Corali would like to do in the future.

I met Chris Brierley, James Thompson, Mark Williams and Danny Smith. They are from Heart n Soul.

And I have also met Clifton Wright, Ntiense Eno Amooquaye
and Ella Ritchie and they are all from intoart.

Bethan

Update...November

2009-11-26T02:13:00.000-08:00

I am going to write an update for the Corali blog about
The things that we do in Corali.

Recently we have been to a Private view Exbition at Truman Brewery 0n 29th of October 2009 it was very good it was interesting to see other artists’ work from Project Volume.

Also, we did a Performance Lab at the Truman Brewery on Thursday 5th of November 2009 as part of the training programme that we did over 2 weeks in October 2009. The Training programme was called Visual voices and that was about making dances with Choreography Scores - your own scores that you made yourself and to give people so they can respond to them.

Also we have been to Mary Rose School in Portsmouth on Monday the 9th of November 2009 we have been leading 5 workshops we did 2 workshops in the morning, 2 in the afternoon with the students and then in the end we did a Twilight session with Teachers. On Saturday 14th November we led another workshop at Michael Tippet School as part of their parent engagement day.

Step Up Opening Event

On Monday the 16th of November 2009. I went to the Magic Eye Theatre in Peckham with Hannah and Jo it was the STEP UP AND TELL FESTIVAL it was there Opening Event and there were 3 short Performances and also there was food and drinks, it was good. I enjoyed the performances I thought it was good. I enjoyed the tap dancing Performance, it was interesting and loud but good.

Bethan

Welcome to Corali Dance Company's Blog!

2009-10-08T05:25:00.000-07:00

Welcome to our first Corali Dance Company blog. I am going to write about the things that we do in Corali and also the things that we do in the office aswell. Corali does lots of things, like rehearsals, doing performances. At the moment we are doing a Training Programme called Visual Voices. We do all of those things here at Oval and in different places, like Sadlers Wells. I enjoy doing all of these things and they help me to learn to new things. Visual Voices Training Programme is where you choreograph your own dances and I made a solo with my choroegraphy score. Sometimes we go on tour to different places.

I am a part time Corali Voluntary Office Assistant. I work in the Corali Office on a regular basis. Every Thursday afternoon I work in the Corali Office with Georgie Cockburn. Sometimes I work with Sarah Archdeacon but not all the time she has other commitments she has to make and sometimes she has meetings with other people.

With Corali we normally go meetings like Arts Council meetings, the AGM, Disability Arts Consortium meetings. I normally go to one of these Meetings with Sarah Archdeacon or Georgie Cockburn and I get support from them.

I am going to use this blog to keep you up to date with what Corali is doing...see you soon,

Bethan.