The Moment When ...
Background to the Project
Cheshire Dance and Walk The Plank are gearing up for a phenomenal performance project in 2012 (inspired by London 2012), choreography by Jacqueline McCormick, Cheshire Dance, Vicki Amedume and Ruth Spencer, Independent Dance Artist.
All performances will be site-based at 3 iconic locations in Chester, Cheshire East and Warrington and will involve a range of specialist collaborators in dance, aerial work, music, light, costume, fire and pyrotechnics. The Chester event for example will form the culmination of the Olympic Torch evening celebration event, so we're talking about events of some scale. We will be working on unique pieces for each site with professional dancers, a range of specialist collaborators as well as a very diverse range of community groups drawn from across the sub-region. There will be a few hundred performers or more in each piece.
There’s likely to be thousands, tens of thousands watching or taking part in other ways. With all the performers and large creative team, we will no doubt be exploding the potential of outdoor sites as media for making art. We will celebrate ‘The Moment When…..’, inspired by the very moment an athlete commits to becoming an Olympian.
Cheshire West and Chester
Chester Racecourse.
29th May 2012
Torch Relay stage show starts at 5pm. TMW kicks off at twilight at 9pm
Cheshire East
Tatton Park
Date / time tbc
Warrington
Orford Jubilee Park, Warrington, 16th June 2012
Orford Festival during the day. TMW show starts at 10pm
Supported by:
The Moment When ... is supported by Cheshire West and Chester Council, Cheshire East Council, Warrington Borough Council, Arts Council England, Embrace the Games, Big Dance. It is also part of the Cultural Olympiad for the North West.
Do you and your group want to be part of it? Here's how you can get involved:-
Flashmob
- Learning and performing the TMW flashmob
Creative Learning Pack
- For those groups who want to go further, order your copy of the Creative Learning Pack
Audience
- Come and see one of the 3 main shows. See dates above.
Performing in one of the 3 main shows
- FULL
Be part of our large-scale London 2012 inspired project by applying to become a shadower. If successful you will be shadowing one of our facilitators for the project. This is a great opportunity for you to enhance your skills and gain free training alongside professional artists under Cheshire Dance’s largest project to date.
Shadower’s Role:
- To undertake CPD with Cheshire Dance around The Moment When ... theme.
- Supporting one facilitator and their group during rehearsal periods.
- Option to support the facilitator in the delivery of The Moment When theme to other community and education groups.
- Have full responsibility for supervision, support and leadership during the tech rehearsals and performance.
- Opportunity (if suitable) to perform with the shadowed group at the performance.
For more information or to receive an application pack email: cassie@cheshiredance.org