Dear Colleagues,
My new dance theatre company’s work, combining dance, text and live music will be performing at the
below scratch night taking place at Yorkshire Dance, Leeds next Friday 4th October. The piece, Dysmorphic, is beginning to explore thoughts, feelings and attitudes relating to body image, partly inspired by the choreographer’s experiences relating
to body dysmorphic disorder.
Lyrical Body’s work is characterised by a psychophysical approach combining fixed/scored/choreographed
improvisations, truthful text, live music and a focus upon lyricality as the heart of a moving theatre performance.
Dysmorphic (excerpts from)
by Lyrical Body Dance Theatre
Choreographer, Writer and Performer:
James McNicholas
Performer:
Kate Sicchio
Musician:
James Pettinger
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"Dysmorphic
brings you into a direct confrontation with your thoughts, feelings and actions surrounding perceptions of your body. Bold imagery, dancing music and lyrical
dance." |
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Dysmorphic
is a piece of dance theatre attempting to bring its performers and audiences into a direct confrontation with how they think, feel and act in relation to their own
perceptions of their own bodies. Through a creative collaboration between an ensemble of musicians and dancers, the work seeks to begin to express the current zeitgeist of body image-related issues in today's world, and somehow, choreograph it. The piece explores
all parts of the body, relationships between rhythmic movement and emotion and the ways in which we often seem to perceive of our own body's image through the body of another. One hope of the work is that choreographer, musicians, dancers and audiences engaging
with Dysmorphic will come out of the other side having a sharper awareness of why it is important to heal our relationship with our own body. What are your perceptions of your body and its image? |
An excerpt from
Dysmorphic will be performed at:
Bish Bash Bosh
Yorkshire Dance presents
FRIDAY FIRSTS #19: BISH BASH BOSH
Fri 4 Oct, 5.30pm – late
Admission free
LIMITED CAPACITY
As part of
Light Night Leeds, Yorkshire Dance invites you to an extraordinary three-ring dance circus.
From 5.30pm, Yorkshire Dance’s building will be buzzing with performances by young people from across the city. There
will be face painting, a synchronised hoola hoop workshop, Rotherham Boys’ company REBUZZ performing, stilt walkers and more. Families welcome!
From 7.30pm, the action moves to The Loft, our top-floor performance space, for a scratch-night of new works-in-progress
by dance artists from around the region.
From 9.30pm, we cross to West Yorkshire Playhouse where, in the foyer and bar area, we’ll be presenting lots more
new dance work from Yorkshire along with a DJ, a compere and the Light Night After-Party. Do come with us!
You’ll see performances by Yorkshire Dance Associate Artists
70/30 Split, Nathan Geering and Jordan Massarella Dance, as well as Carlos Pons Guerra’s DeNada Dance Theatre and many more, and a range of dance films by artists including
Amy & Hannah Buckley.
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Friday Firsts showcases new work by
independent choreographers and dance companies working on the small scale.
Each evening has its own distinct theme, and will often be the first chance to see performances by the most promising
dance makers from Yorkshire and beyond who seek to experiment, push dance as a form or find a new voice.
James McNicholas
Senior Lecturer in Performance | Admissions Tutor
Development and Society
Sheffield Hallam University
Owen 1130
Sheffield S1 1WB
Telephone +44 (0)114 225 5555
Direct line +44 (0)114 2256227