TAKING FLIGHT
DANSOPOLIS COMMUNITY DANCE FESTIVAL, LEEDS
Directed TC Howard
Workshop Leader TC Howard
Concept, Video Stills, Lighting and Sound Operation Charlotte
Vincent
Support Workers Charlotte
Vincent and Kirstie Redhead
Commissioned as part of Yorkshire Dance's first ever Dansopolis Community Dance Festival, Taking Flight involved 50 performers in the making of an intergenerational production performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse on 10th July 2004.
TC Howard
worked over six weeks with four groups in Leeds - Mind the Step (people
with special needs and their carers), Sharpe Lane Primary School (8-11 year
olds), Yorkshire Dance's Over 50's Jazz Group, Yorkshire Dance's Recent
Graduates Group and with St Joseph's Primary School in Sheffield (a group
of parents/guardians and their children).
Beautiful and humorous Taking Flight explored flights of
imagination, showing off like Birds of Paradise, soaring through the air
like super-girl and finding new wings to prepare for life's many twists
and turns.
Commissioned by Yorkshire
Dance, funded by West
Yorkshire Grants, Arts
Council England, Yorkshire and Arts Leeds.
