National Dance Company Wales

National Dance Company Wales
Abbreviation NDCWales
Formation 1983
Founders Roy Campbell-Moore
Ann Sholem
Purpose Dance Company
Region served
UK and Internationally
Artistic Director
 Caroline Finn
Website www.ndcwales.co.uk

National Dance Company Wales (NDCWales), formerly Diversions, is the national dance company of Wales. It was established in 1983 by Roy Campbell-Moore and Ann Sholem and is funded by the Arts Council of Wales.[1] Formerly known as Diversions, it was renamed in 2009. Caroline Finn is the Artistic Director of National Dance Company Wales, having been appointed the position in 2015.

National Dance Company Wales is a resident company at the Wales Millennium Centre and is a contemporary dance company which performs work from established international choreographers and tours throughout the UK and abroad.[2] Programmes of dance are presented within the format of double and triple bills.

The company also runs a wide range of participation, professional development and "engagement opportunities" for people of all ages. This includes open classes and rehearsals, Summer and Easter dance courses,[3] the Associates programme[4], Dance for Parkinson's and support for Wales-based choreographers.

The Dance House

The Dance House
Entrance to the Dance House
The Blue Room studio

The Dance House is the home of the National Dance Company Wales in the Wales Millennium Centre. It houses two production studios, office space and a lounge area. The main production studio, the Blue Room, includes 100 tiered and retractable seats. The second studio, the Man Gwyn, provides additional rehearsal space and is fitted with ballet barres and mirrors. The Dance House is a production facility[5] and performance space for both NDCWales productions and other dance projects.

The Company

NDCWales Dancers perform 'Walking Mad' by Johan Inger 2015.

FEARGHUS Ó CONCHÚIR

Fearghus has been the Artistic Director of National Dance Company Wales since October 2018.

Born and raised in Ireland, Fearghus has presented choreography in the UK, across Europe, the USA and China, collaborating with award-winning performers, directors, composers and designers. Most recently he worked as Artistic Director of The Casement Project, one of Arts Council of Ireland’s largest projects for the centenary commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising. It engaged 90,000 people in a varied programme of dance events and was also one of the 14-18 NOW co-commissions for the centenary of the First World War. He has also worked as a dance teacher for companies such as Adventures in Motion Pictures, Arc Dance, Company and Ballet Preljocaj, as well as being a lecturer on professional training courses at LCDS, Middlesex University and London Studio Centre. Fearghus has gained a wealth of artistic experience and an international network of creative collaborators and partners in and beyond dance. He holds a strong focus on diversity and have developed dance projects within the LGBT and refugee communities, with dance enthusiasts over 50, and with Irish integrated dance company, Croí Glan.

In addition to being a Fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme, he have gained a wealth of experience as a facilitator, coach, and contributor to the Clore Leadership Programme, having been part of the delivery of its Fellowship, Intensive and Emerging Leaders’ Courses for over ten years. Fearghus has also previously worked with Clore to deliver the Advanced Cultural Leadership Programme in Hong Kong.

PAUL KAYNES

Paul has been the Chief Executive of the company since February 2015, taking overall responsibility for all aspects of the company’s work, including strategy and planning, funding and finance, external partnerships and collaborations and engaging audiences, participants and the wider public.

Prior to this role, Paul was Director of Creative Programmes at the Birmingham Hippodrome, responsible for major outdoor festivals, commissioning new work and the creative learning programme. From 2008 to 2012 he was the West Midlands Creative Programmer for London 2012, commissioning dance participation and performance programmes, as well as many hundreds of diverse cultural events, with audiences and participants totalling 3 million. For twenty years he worked in cultural marketing and audience development – for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Warwick Arts Centre, mac Birmingham and latterly as Chief Executive of Audiences Central, the audience development agency for the West Midlands.

In his role at NDCWales he hopes to inspire existing and new audiences with the power of dance, creating dance in new places and contexts, discovering choreographic talent and taking superb dance made in Wales to the rest of the world.

National Dance Company Wales performing 'A Mighty Wind' By Jeroen Verbruggen 2015

Repertoire

Current Repertoire

  • Atalaÿ Choreographer: Mario Bermudez Gil (Spain)
  • Tundra Coreographer: Marcos Morau (Spain)
  • Folk Coreographer: Caroline Finn (UK)
  • Animatorium Choreographer: Caroline Finn (UK)
  • They Seek To Find The Happiness They Seem Choreographer: Lee Johnston (Australia / UK)

Recent Repertoire

  • Parade Coreographer: Caroline Finn (UK)
  • Profundis Choreographer: Roy Assaf (Israel)
  • The Green House Choreographer: Caroline Finn (UK)
  • Walking Mad Choreographer: Johan Inger (Sweden)
  • Tupet Choreographer: Alexander Ekman (Sweden)
  • A Mighty Wind Choreographer: Jeroen Verbruggen (Belgium)
  • Mythology Choreographer: Stephen Shropshire (Netherlands/USA)
  • Water Stories Choreographer: Stephen Petronio (USA)
  • Purlieus Choreographer: Lee Johnston (UK)
  • They Seek To Find The Happiness They Seem Choreographer: Lee Johnston (UK)
  • Dream Choreographer: Christopher Bruce (UK)
  • Noces Choreographer: Angelin Preljocaj (France)
  • Virtual Descent Choreographer: Eleesha Drennan (Canada)
  • B/olero & Black Milk Choreographer: Ohad Naharin (Israel)
  • Phantoms of Us Choreographer: Eleesha Drennan (Canada)
  • Quixoteland Choreographer: Gustavo Ramirez Sansano (Spain)
  • By Singing Light Choreographer: Stephen Petronio (USA)
  • Romance Inverse Choreographer: Itzik Galili (Israel)
  • Veil of Stars Choreographer: Andonis Foniadakis (Greece)
  • Lunatic Choreographer: Nigel Charnock (UK)
  • Hinterland Choreographer: Roy Campbell-Moore (Wales)
  • >>FORM<< Choreographer: Stijn Celis (Belgium)

References

  1. ↑ Roy, Sanjoy (2010-02-16). "Step by step guide to dance: National Dance Company Wales". Guardian. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
  2. ↑ "National Dance Company Wales". WMC. Retrieved 2011-11-04.
  3. ↑ Roxelana, Anna (December 2010). "The Arts in Wales: 2011 Preview". Buzz Magazine. p. 16. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
  4. ↑ "Participation". NDCWales. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
  5. ↑ "NDCWales International Programme". WMC. Archived from the original on 2010-12-02. Retrieved 2011-03-21.
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