Kick Up!

Scores

Big Dance

Greenside School

New Board Members

DJ's Professional Development Project

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Kick Up!

Corali 'kick started' its first Arts Award project for 14 - 19 year olds - Kick Up! The project included a week long intensive at Oval House Theatre, small group mentoring and workshops at Lansdowne School and Rathbone Youth Club. As part of the intensive all participants also created a performance for friends and family.

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Scores

Following further rehearsal and mentoring, Bethan Kendrick and Graham Evans developed the choreographies they had created as part of the Visual Voices project. These were performed as a double bill with Eshr8 (DJ's placement performance at
Heart n Souls Beautiful Octopus Club at Paradise Gardens (www.paradisegardensfestival.org.uk), Greenside Schools Arts Festival and at Battersea Sports Centre as part of Corali's Big Dance project with shape and finally at a disability seminar led by Whippersnappers Theatre Company at Brockwell Lido.

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Big Dance

Corali led two events for the national festival, The Big Dance.

Dilston Grove - Mémoire
In partnership with Cafe Gallery Projects (CGP), Corali led a day of workshops at the gallery's recently renovated new space, Dilston Grove. Corali worked with young people from Bede House and the day culminated in a performance inspired by the gallery's inaugural show, 'Mémoire' by Sammy Baloji.

Make Some Shapes
Based around Corali's 'Scores' performances, Corali led a day of dance workshops at Battersea Sports Centre in partnership with Shape. The day culminated in a performance that was shown alongside Corali's own work.  

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Greenside School

All Greenside School students pass their Arts Awards, including three silver awards! For the last two years Corali has collaborated with Bill Leslie the Arts Co-ordinator at Greenside to deliver and Arts Awards programme and in this year the Company also took part in the schools summer arts festival in June.  

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Two New Board Members Join Corali!

Corali is delighted to report that it has been joined by two new Board members at its AGM in July: Corrie Lunghi, Dance Lecturer from the Royal Academy of Dance and Geraldine McNamara from Shape.

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DJ's Professional Development Project

DJ completed his 18 month long professional development project with Jonzi D productions, Matthew Bourne's New Adventures and Wayne McGregor | Random Dance.

The placement culminated in DJ creating his own choreography, 'Eshr8' devised by himself with one to one mentoring from   Antoine Vereecken from Wayne McGregor | Random Dance . Bethan Kendrick, Graham Evans, and Jackie Ryan from Corali performed the piece along with Antoine and DJ. It was shown as a double bill next to Corali's 'Scores' at Paradise Gardens, Battersea Sports Centre and Greenside School, as well as at Cecil Sharpe House as part of Random Dance's own Big Dance event.

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21st Anniversary Programme

Corali has recently finished its 21st Anniversary programme that comprised 3 main events:

• Coming of Age: A Seminar Day at Tate Modern
• How Happy We Would Be: A new performance at Whitechapel Art Gallery
• Scapes: A collaboration with New Adventures at Sadler’s Wells (Lilian Baylis)

Coming of Age

Corali invited artists with and without learning disabilities to share a day of discussion and performances. Into art, Robin Deacon, Corali and Heart n Soul presented talks and performances. Artist Richard Layzell facilitated the day. The day sold out and the audience was made up of artists, school groups, community groups and arts educationalists.

How Happy We Would Be

Corali took over the Creative Studio at Whitechapel Art Gallery to create a new performance to celebrate its 21st Anniversary. Corali dancers made use of their personal childhood memories and photographs to create the work.

The resulting performance was an intimate work that directly made use of the Creative Studio space, piano music, memory and plenty of cups of tea.

Scapes

Corali worked with New Adventures dancers to create a new collaborative performance. Dancers from both companies shared ideas about making movement over the period of one week. This work also included Corali dancers sharing their dance ‘scores’ with New Adventures dancers. On the day, Bethan Kendrick and Graham Evans performed Bethan’s score and New Adventures dancers performed DJ’s score; everyone performed in the new collaborative piece. This project was also part of Corali’s Visual Voices programme.

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