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NEW PROJECTS
DV8 are currently researching and developing ideas for a new production in 2011.
Casting for New Project
DV8 is seeking highly experienced and trained dancers with strong technique and discipline for the New Project 2011. Acting ability and a willingness to improvise are essential.To reflect the cultural diversity of the characters presented in in the new work, applicants of Middle Eastern descent are particularly encouraged to apply.
Rehearsals will commence early February 2011.
Please click here for details on how to apply.
Workshops
DV8 will be leading a number of workshops throughout 2010. For further information, please see our Diary.
NEW TRUSTEES
Following an extensive search, leading dance theatre company DV8 Physical Theatre has appointed a new chair of trustees. Andrew Barnett, UK Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, will chair his first meeting this month. Previous chair Sue Hoyle resigned from the board in 2009 after taking up the role as director of the Clore Leadership Programme.
Other recently appointed DV8 trustees are Free Word director Shreela Ghosh and the incoming head of Performance & Cultural Industries at Leeds University, Sita Popat. Artistic director Lloyd Newson and executive producer Eva Pepper are delighted with the appointments and look forward to working with the new trustees.
Andrew Barnett said: “It will be a privilege to work with Lloyd Newson and all at DV8. Using physical movement and speech, Lloyd explores and challenges some of the contradictions that lie at the heart of our humanity and free society - intolerance and injustice - to create extraordinary and often controversial work. In an era of stringent public funding restraint, it will be more important than ever to emphasise the uniqueness of DV8, the critical acclaim it enjoys, and the importance of Lloyd's work in the arts ecology".
RECENT AWARDS
Lloyd Newson and the company won two awards recently. The first is the Grand Prix de Danse, awarded by the Syndicat Professionnel de la Critique de Théâtre, Musique et Danse (Paris), for the stage production To Be Straight with You, which was also nominated in the 2009 Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards for 'Best Modern Choreography'.
The second award is for our film The Cost of Living — a Special Merit at the Documentary and Disability, 3rd International Festival 2009 (Athens). This film has now won sixteen international awards, including a Prix Italia and a Rose d'Or.
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