YorkshireDance

@YorkshireDance #Juncture

2014curated by Wendy Houstouna festival of contemporary

movement, theatre & film work

featuring works& appearances byGeorge AdamsJohn AveryNicole BeutlerOliver BrayCathy ButterworthCandoco Dance CompanyJordi CortésSiobhan DaviesHugo Glendinning

Vanessa GrasseRobert M. HaydenDavid HintonKaroline Hjorth

& Riitta IkonenAlexander KellyGary StevensLucy SuggateGrace SurmanLouise WallingerVivien Wood

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Juncture 2014

A warm welcome to our second edition of

Juncture for which we are absolutely thrilled

to be working with acclaimed artist Wendy

Houstoun. Feeling my own insight expand is

one of the best things about working with Wendy, whose intellect

and unique outlook on life are rich, rigorous and stimulating.

What a joy to be able to share a bit of her with you. My thanks

to Kirsty Redhead in helping to shape this programme.

Wieke Eringa

Artistic Director & CEO, Yorkshire Dance

Juncture was first curated for Yorkshire Dance by

Charlotte Vincent in an initiative designed to bring new

work, professional development, critical debate and

innovative performance practice to Yorkshire.

In her own statement from last year Charlotte says she chose

artists who were “quiet anarchists, searching for an appropriate

language to say what they need to say.”

I would say that holds true for this year too, although perhaps,

this time, some of the anarchists are not quite so quiet.

As a first-time curator I blissfully ignored practicalities and went

for a kind of dream list of makers, performers, writers and

talkers who all inspire and intrigue me.

In all of them I find a clarity and integrity of purpose, a deep

connection to their material and the way it relates to an

audience.

Among the artists are long term inspirations (Jordi Cortés, Hugo

Glendinning, John Avery, Vivien Wood), work influences (Gary

Stevens, Grace Surman), brief collisions with the hope for more

(Nicole Beutler, Robert M. Hayden, Louise Wallinger) and

granted wishes (Riitta Ikonen & Karoline Hjorth).

In a selfish way it is going to give me the chance to start or

continue a conversation with them but I am really very much

hoping it is a conversation that includes you. Because, of course,

without you it is just not the same.

Wendy Houstoun

Wieke Eringa © Yorkshire Dance; Wendy Houstoun © Berkeley White PhotographyCover photo from Eyes as Big as Plates © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen

Wendy Houstoun

Wendy has worked extensively as a solo performer and incollaboration with companies and artists whose workchallenges, enriches, and extends the boundaries of, danceand theatre.

Since 1980, her work with DV8 Physical Theatre, Tim

Etchells and Forced Entertainment, film-maker David

Hinton, Jonathan Burrows, the late Nigel Charnock,Gary Stevens, performance artist Rose English,musician John Avery, Gloria and Ludus Dance

Company has explored large and small stages, specificsites, film and installation and created a hallmark intensityof performance.

Her performance style retains a hallmark of honesty,humour and vulnerability and she continues to performher own work while negotiating the complexities of ageingin a youth focused discipline.

Wendy’s solo pieces, Haunted, Happy Hour

(commissioned by Chisenhale Dance Space) and The

48 Almost Love Lyrics have toured Europe.

A recent work, Keep Dancing (a Dance UmbrellaCommission), was performed at NRLA, NottinghamContemporary and at Tanzquartier as part of the minimarathon day for What Escapes project and her latestpiece, 50 Acts, is touring in the UK and further afieldover the next year.

Wendy has increasingly been creating works forcompanies. She made Imperfect Storm for Candoco

Dance Company, Home on the Range for Yorke

Dance Project and has recently created a solo workfor Antonia Grove called Small Talk which continuesto tour.

In 2013 Wendy won the TMA Achievement in DanceAward for 50 Acts.

Wendy Houstoun in 50 Acts © Chris Nash

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Juncture 2014 LaunchReceptionLimited capacity - advance booking essential

Wendy Houstoun and Yorkshire

Dance invite you to join us at The Tetley,a new centre for contemporary art andlearning in the stunning art deco head-quarters of the former Tetley Brewery.

Have a glass of wine, meet some of the artists and audience who’ll make up the Juncture 2014 family, and experiencetwo very special performances...

Hugo Glendinning & John Avery

unstillFilm installation

unstill by photographer and filmmaker Hugo

Glendinning is a big-screen projected photo-work withnewly commissioned music by John Avery (long-timecollaborator with Forced Entertainment and WendyHoustoun), mixed live for this event.

Glendinning’s work draws on 30 years of photographingdance and performance, also including work from acrosshis archive. John Avery’s music both leads and follows theimagery in a series of long leaning notes that float, and areheld, at once in motion and waiting to move.

Candoco Dance Company

MiniaturesPerformance

Lea Anderson’s Miniatures is a futuristic nod to theElizabethan era, playfully musing about what may have goneon ‘outside of the frame’ of traditional portraiture. It’s acharming and rigorous solo inspired by London’s V&Amuseum’s miniatures portrait collection, full of referencesto poses, dress and demeanour of the period.

The resulting piece cleverly uses the modern day ‘frame’ ofa TV screen, to lure audiences into a locked gaze withCandoco dancer Annie Hanauer, evoking questionsaround power and reality.

5.30pm

Tetley Brewery

Admission FREELimited capacity;advance bookingessential

THU

6 March

unstill © Hugo Glendinning

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unstill will be open to the public, free of charge,from Fri 7 - Sat 15 March http://thetetley.org/

Gary Stevens

Not Tony

Lucy Suggate

Liquid Gold

Louise Wallinger

Annoying the NeighboursPerformance

Not Tony by Gary Stevens is likea comedy, quick-change hat routine,where single items (a hat, a beard, a wigor glasses) represent different members of a family.

All speak with the same voice as an ambiguousinternal/external conflict is played out. An unnamed,unknown identity emerges in the space between the otherestablished characters. This alien entity was a residue thatcan only be defined negatively as not any of the others.

7.30pm

Yorkshire Dance

£10.00 / £8.00

THU

6 March

Annie Hanauer in Miniatures © Hugo Glendinning, Gary Stevens in Not Tony © Andrew Whittuck

“Gary Stevens, one of Britain’s most original performers”

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Liquid Gold by Lucy Suggate is a visual delight, asensual and intricate solo where the performer embarkson a luxurious transformation. With liquid limbs and a spinelike treacle the body becomes fluid in expression,articulation and thought.

Annoying the Neighbours is a hilarious and disturbingcollection of tales of Shooting Squirrels, Using the Neighbour’s

Garden as an Ashtray, Letting Yourself In for a Nose Around andDemolishing the Neighbour’s Garage. To create this piece of‘verbatim theatre’, Louise Wallinger interviewedinquisitive and quarrelling neighbours and the noise officersand council workers who deal with their disputes. In thisperformance she listens to the edited interviews via anearpiece while repeating their words exactly as they arebeing spoken. The result is an extraordinary theatricalkaleidoscope of characters and their stories.

Lucy Suggate © Maria Falconer, Louise Wallinger © Karen Scott Photography

“A candid, prurient view of urban London living...

As good as reading the Sunday papers.” The Stage

Don’t rush off after the show... the bar’s open till late!

Louise Wallinger

Verbatim TheatreWorkshop

Louise Wallinger co-foundedNon-Fiction Theatre Company,the first company to develop outof Mark Wing-Davey’s verbatim theatreworkshop, Drama without Paper. Louisegathers interviews, edits them, and thenperforms the edited interviews exactly as she is hearing them through earphones.

Because real speech is examined andreproduced we get two stories – the onethe teller intends us to know and the onethat is revealed by the way they speak – by

10.00am-1.00pm

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£15.00 / £12.00

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7 March

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Jordi Cortés

Integrated DanceWorkshop for people

with and without disabilities

Taking dance and movement as a creationelement, this workshop invites people withfunctional diversity (physically disabled),non professional, with and without dancingexperience to create from the difference,to be surprised at the singularities of eachother, to reinvent our way of being in theworld, to create our relationships.

We will learn to discover dance from awheelchair, from the floor, from blindness,from the contact with others, from musicand from the experience and expressionthrough the movement.

We all learn from all.

1.30pm-3.30pm

Yorkshire Dance

£15.00 / £12.00

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7 March

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following the rhythms of their speech, their accent, breath,every hesitation and vocal tic. The workshop will exploreinterviewing and performing with this technique and willlook at what makes a story performable.

Suitable for performers, writers and those wanting to sharpen

their listening skills.

Please bring your own recording / playback device and

earphones.

Jordi Cortés & Integrated Dance workshop © Víctor Navarro

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Grace Surman &

Cathy Butterworth

Two Four One One

Oliver Bray

The Animal was Upon HimPerformance

Join Grace Surman and Cathy

Butterworth for a sculptural performance double act.

How do you find new ways to describe the moon?

Wrestle with a wild beast Read some ProustRecreate small acts of abandonmentEvade a censusDon’t ask me to make another damn cakeAct in a live art contextOr maybe you have to stay up all night to find out.

Cathy Butterworth is a performer, curator andresearcher in Live Art practices, who for the last 10 yearshas programmed, produced and performed in projectswithin this field. In 2011 she began collaborating withGrace Surman and they produced Two Four One

One, which was first presented as part of Compass LiveArt Festival in Leeds.

Over the last decade Surman has been making work todisentangle, to escape, to slip in and out of logics, oftraditions and of modes of selfhood, modes which movebetween the seemingly honest and the playfullyconstructed, she works firmly in a tradition that exists tobe plundered, revered, and ridiculed in equal measure.

4.30pm-6.30pm

Yorkshire Dance

£10.00 / £8.00

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7 March

Two Four One One © Tim Brunsden

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“Grace has been a long-time favourite... idiosyncraticand delightful. I love her intelligence, her presence onstage as if butter wouldn’t melt, and her forensic wit

and savagery. This new collaboration with CathyButterworth is so welcome; make sure you make

a space in your day for this.” Annie Lloyd

Take our FREE coach to Northern

School of Contemporary Dance for...

NBprojects / Nicole Beutler

1: SongsPerformance

1: Songs is a solo performance presentedas a concert, a Liederkreis, an existentialexercise for a singing body. PerformerIbelisse Guardia Ferragutti surrendersher voice to the intense words of tragicfemale figures from the history of theatre,figures such as Antigone, Medea andGretchen. The suffering of the fictional heroines (and anti-heroines) repeatedly enters her very being as she sings,shouts and speaks – she is fragile, raw, calculating and

Oliver Bray’s The Animal was Upon Him is aridiculous conversation, a wry two-hander of nonsensical,pseudo-philosophical badinage and silliness. It’s a trip to aVictorian zoo, a filthy reading of astral constellations andwhat it’s like to be an ape. But it’s also really complicated,with more moves than the average game of chess* and alot more swearing.

“Rats who build the labyrinth from which they will try to

escape.” Raymond Queneau

Since 1960, the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, theWorkshop of Potential Literature, has used constraints andrestrictions to generate new writing. This work is a live-annotated example of redesigned OuLiPo constraintsapplied to a live theatrical context. Echoing the playful,often funny and unpredictably accessible ethos of theOuLiPo, every moment of this performance is the result ofan imposed constraint, without exception.

Directed by Oliver Bray, performed by Hannah

Butterfield & Oliver Bray.

Oliver Bray is a Theatre Maker based in Leeds. He is alsoSenior Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University where heleads the MA Performance programme.

*Probably

Oliver Bray in The Animal was Upon Him © Malcolm Johnson

7.30pm

Northern Schoolof ContemporaryDance

£12.00 / £6.00

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7 March

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Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti in Nicole Beutler’s 1: Songs © Anja Beutler

emotional. But who is speaking here? And do the dramaticreferences from the past resonate in the here and now?The symbiosis of contemporary electronic musiccomposed by Gary Shepherd and texts from the literarycanon forms the basis for a subtle but loud scream againstthe instability and the incalculable incalculability of ourexistence.

Nicole Beutler works with the tension between intenseemotionality and cool calculation on the one hand and withthe reflection on the history of theatre on the other hand.How do we look at emotions, what moves us and whatdoesn’t? And in how far does the past resonate through tothe contemporary reality? These are issues that are atstake in Nicole Beutler’s work. Always in search of newforms, she now examines working with existing texts.Music and text shall form the metaphorical basis for asubtle but loud scream against the instability andunpredictablility of existence.

In 2010 Nicole Beutler received the prestigious VSCD-Mimeprice for 1: Songs. It was also selected by the jury ofthe flemish Theaterfestival as one of the best performancesof the season 2009/2010 and was performed during theDutch Theaterfestival in 2010. It won the Silver Award forBest Performance (Special Jury Award) in The InternationalFestival of Liberal Theater 2012, Amman, Jordan.

Originally created in collaboration with theatre-maker /performer Sanja Mitrovic, the piece has been performed byIbelisse Guardia Ferragutti since September 2011.

“From gentle, frail and melancholic to rough, wildand hysterical, 1: Songs careers from one emotionalextreme to the other as the literary greats infiltrate

contemporary reality.”De Keuze 2010, Theater Festival Flanders

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Wendy Houstoun

invites you to

The Coffee LoungeInformal Networking

If you’re not attending a workshop, tellingyour dreams to Louise Wallinger orrecovering from the night before, then whynot pop into Yorkshire Dance’s NorthSpace for coffee, cake, laid-back tunes andthe chance to network and ask WendyHouston those questions you’ve beenlonging to ask her...?

George Adams

Paizo [Play]Workshop

The workshop will begin withtechnique-based warm up followedby an exploratory session focusing onimprovisation and play.

Participants will investigate themesaddressed by George Adams’ currentsolo work, Solitaire, commentating onthe Artist’s process, autobiography,sexuality, death and risk.

10.00am-11.30am

Yorkshire Dance

Admission FREE

SAT

8 March

10.00am-1.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

£15.00 / £12.00

SAT

8 March

Louise Wallinger

The Dream Teller

1-to-1sPerformance

Daydreams or night terrors, ambitionsfor life – realised or not... Tell Louise yourdreams and, using Verbatim Technique,Louise will tell them back to you.

Are they still what they seemed?

Book your unique 10-minute one-to-one

experience by phone only: 0113 243 8765.

Limited capacity – advance booking essential.

10.00am-12.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Admission FREE

SAT

8 March

1.30pm-3.30pm

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Wendy Houstoun © Berkeley White Photography, George Adams © Nicola Selby

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Karoline Hjorth &

Riitta Ikonen

Eyes as Big as PlatesPerformance / sharing

This performance is the culmination ofa week’s work, during which the Finnish-Norwegian artist duo Riitta Ikonen andKaroline Hjorth have been working witholder people from Leeds and WestYorkshire. Eyes as Big as Plates is their first collaborative venture.

Starting out as a play on characters from Nordic folklorein 2011, Eyes as Big as Plates has evolved into acontinual search for modern human’s belonging to nature.Inspired by the Romantics’ celebration of imagination, eachimage presents a solitary figure in a landscape, dressed inelements from surroundings that indicate neither timenor place.

The natural world acts as both content and context in thiswork, with the characters literally inhabiting the landscapeas they become one with their wearable sculpture and thesurrounding natural landscape.

Eyes as Big as Plates is produced in collaboration withretired farmers, fishermen, zoologists, plumbers, operasingers, housewives, artists, academics and ninety-year oldparachutists. As active participants in our contemporarysociety, these older people encourage the rediscovery ofa demographic group too often marginalized or labelled asa stereotypical cliché. The project aims to generate newperspectives on who we are and where we belong.

The series has so far been exhibited in New York City,Trondheim (2013), Oslo (2012), Tokyo (2012) and Sandnes(2011). A book publication is also underway.

www.eyesasbigasplates.com

2.00pm & 4.00pm

Tetley Brewery

Admission FREELimited capacity;advance bookingessential

SAT

8 March

Eyes as Big as Plates (Tuija) © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen

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Jordi Cortés

In HeavenPerformance

In Heaven is part of a trilogy whichbegan with Lucky and Happy Hour.In Lucky Jordi Cortés was lookingfor the people who are no longer here, ajourney through life in front of death.In Happy Hour, he took us ona journey towards happiness.

Now, in In Heaven, Jordi is no longerlooking for answers: he’s reached theepiphany of the metaphorical heaven mentioned in thetitle, which allows him to go beyond the two previousversions of himself and explore a multitude of possibilities.

Jordi Cortés is a choreographer and performer who hasworked with companies around the world, including DV8

Physical Theatre and Nigel Charnock + Company.

Suitable for ages 15+

7.30pm

Stanley & AudreyBurton Theatre,Northern Ballet

£12.00 / £8.00

SAT

8 March

Juncture 2014

Party

Join us for a boogie, funky tunes courtesyof DJ Adam Young, and a raffle to win adance with Jordi Cortés, all set against alooping backdrop of extraordinary filmfootage.

The party features a performanceof Solitaire by George Adams...

MC to his own vaudeville style show, Adamsstruts recklessly about the stage whilstquaffing alcohol, mocking modern cultureand dancing with energy and panache.

9.15pm

Yorkshire Dance

Admission £5.00

SAT

8 March

Jordi Cortés in In Heaven © Víctor Navarro, George Adams in Solitaire © Nicola Selby

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Lucy Suggate

Give Us Our Daily DanceMorning Class

“Five years ago I became interested indeveloping a daily practice to support andmaintain training and help elevate myperformance and choreographic work. SoI set myself the task of dancing everyday;when I say dancing I mean it in the truestsense. Unleashing an internal force, re-connecting with the feelings and ideas thatencouraged me to dance in the first place.

“The class will consist of guided exercises, departure points and lots of flamboyantdancing. We will cultivate a playground ofpossibilities, discover new forms thatcollide and stretch our limitations.”

9.45am-10.45am

Yorkshire Dance

£6.00 / £4.00

SUN

9 March

Memory, Archive

& the Act of Recording

with Wendy Houstoun,

Alexander Kelly,

Vivien Wood and more...Open discussion about documentation

Our working and social lives areincreasingly subject to observation,commentary and analysis over which wehave less and less control. Sunday atJuncture is devoted to questioning theact of documentation. With livepresentation and an open discussion.

11.00am-1.30pm

Yorkshire Dance

£5.00

SUN

9 March

Vanessa Grasse

MovementscapesWalk

Vanessa Grasse leads a walk to HydePark Picture House, to arrive in time forthe film screenings at 3.30pm. Thischoreographed journey through the citywill heighten our awareness of everyday‘urban choreographies’ and play with ourkinetic and perceptual experience of thespace. The walk will suggest new ways torelate to our surroundings and to captureour experience along the way.

Limited capacity – advance booking essential.

2.00pm

Yorkshire Danceto Hyde ParkPicture House

Admission FREE

SUN

9 March

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Lucy Suggate © Ilaria Costanzo, Third Angel & Mala Voadora’s Story Map © Hannah Nicklin

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All This Can Happen

a film by Siobhan Davies

& David Hinton

Touched

choreographed by Wendy

Houstoun, directed by

David Hinton Film screening

All This Can Happen (2012), is abeautifully choreographed compilationfilm which invites us on a meditative walk througha not-so-distant past, in the spirit of writer Robert Walser.

A flickering dance of intriguing imagery brings to light thepossibilities of everyday movements which appear, evolveand freeze before your eyes. Made entirely from archivephotographs and footage from the earliest days of movingimage, it follows the footsteps of the protagonist ofWalser’s story, ‘The Walk’. Juxtapositions, different speedsand split-frame techniques convey the walker’s state ofmind in a world of hilarity, despair and ceaseless variety.

3.30pm-5.30pm

Hyde ParkPicture House

Admission £4.50

SUN

9 March

“I have seen a future for dance filmand its name is All This Can Happen.”

John Wyver, illuminationsmedia.co.uk

Touched is a choreography of close-ups, a romance forhands and faces. The setting is a bar in north London. Thecharacters are people who talk, smoke, drink, dance, fight,laugh and weep. They are just people at a party but, in oneway or another, they are all touched.

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“David Hinton’s jazz-like, visual poem Touched

is a fast-paced, witty look at human connection...”Dance Connection (Canada)

Box Office 0113 275 2045

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0113 243 8765All This Can Happen still courtesy of BFI National Archive) / still from Touched © David Hinton

Robert M. Hayden

SiftingFive-day Workshop

Sifting focuses on the body as a ‘totalinstrument’, capable of what can be calledthe ‘total act’, working on physical actions,movement as theatrical act, and the voice.

A series of physical exercises will establisha strong, vital body-breath connection,unlocking the flow of living impulses withinthe body, allowing our attention, intentionand awareness to flow more freely.

Specific ‘impossible’ tasks will allow ourinner ‘obstacles’ to become moretransparent. Dealing with the element of

physical risk or danger, these tasks emphasize our apparentlimitations and give us the chance to go beyond them.

By harnessing creative energy in a more present, active andalive manner, the act of creating can then develop within amore structured or compositional frame. Participants willbe asked to create a score of actions between 3-5 minutesin length with a clear beginning, middle and end. We will befocusing on its logic, actions, intentions, meaning andcontent.

This workshop is open to both amateur and professionalperformers, pedagogues and directors.

11.00am-3.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

£120.00 / £80.00

MON

10 - FRI

14 March

Wendy Houstoun & Co

Stupid WomenPerformance

Stupid Women is a live directedimprovisation. It aims to combine idiocywith skill, anarchy with meaning andcostumes with music. A number of invitedguests, of high calibre and low pay, attemptthe possible and quite probably fail.

Stupid Women is an endeavour made especially forJuncture as a tribute to the late and great Nigel

Charnock whose piece Stupid Men irritated andannoyed most audiences that saw it.

We are hoping to be able to achieve something similar.

Stupid Women has been created at Yorkshire Danceover four days by Wendy Houstoun with Jo Fong,TC Howard, Vivien Wood, Sophie Unwin and others.

7.30pm

Yorkshire Dance

£6.00

SAT

15 March

Robert M. Hayden © Robert M. Hayden

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Juncture Youth Dance Fringe

presents

Dancing with your

Neighboursa short film

Dancing with your Neighbours

is a short film created by young peoplefrom Yorkshire Dance Youth whorepresent areas of Leeds such as Seacroftand Richmond Hill.

Working alongside professional choreographer Anthony

Middleton and group leader Danielle Byars, the grouphave explored dancing with and for their neighbours.

Shot on location, the film presents a personal insight intothe communities, presenting conversations through dance.

Dancing with your Neighbours is curated by YorkshireDance Youth and Community team and is presented as partof the Juncture Youth Dance Fringe, an event which aims toengage a younger audience with Juncture.

Other aspects of the fringe include support for youngpeople to view, discuss and blog on Juncture events and anopportunity for young people to meet professional artiststo discuss their work.

2.00pm

Yorkshire Dance

Admission FREE

SAT

8 March

photo © Tom Gowanlock

0113 243 8765

Thanks to our partners & funders

Festival Pass £85.00

Concessions £65.00Allows you into all events markedfor free

Performance Pass £45.00

Concessions £30.00Allows you into all events markedfor free

for Festival Passes, Performance Passesand individual events at Yorkshire DanceBox Office 0113 243 8765or www.yorkshiredance.com

for All This Can Happen / Touched screening atHyde Park Picture HouseBox Office 0113 275 2045or www.hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk

for Jordi Cortés In Heaven atThe Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre,Northern Ballet, Box Office 0113 220 8008or www.theatreleeds.com

for Nicole Beutler 1: Songs atThe Riley Theatre,Northern School of Contemporary DanceBox Office 0113 219 3018or www.nscd.ac.uk/performances

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Winding its way through airbrushed beauty, boob jobs

and Botox, victim-blaming, slut-shaming, the might of

motherhood and the challenge of childlessness,

Motherland is a funny and moving show about having

it all.

Vincent Dance Theatre’s brilliant, multi-talented

ensemble of men, women and children take a look at the

gender they were born into and the price they are paying

for it.

Spurred on by Simone de Beauvoir, Caitlin Moran and

the Spice Girls, Vincent goes into battle with the big

boys, arguing against a narrow, over-sexualized

definition of femininity to ask: what is it that we really,

really want?

Uncompromising yet utterly accessible, Motherland has

a broad appeal for both sexes through its potent blend of

theatre, live music and dance.

Motherland is a call to arms: one that sticks two fingers

up at the shallow hypocrisies and inequalities of our time

and asks ‘what do we hope for now?’

www.motherland.org.uk / www.vincentdt.com

moving people and making them think

MOTHERLAND Directed and Designed by Charlotte Vincent

Thursday 3 April, 7.30pm

West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds

www.wyp.org.uk / 0113 213 7700

‘Admirably uncompromising’The Times