Corali was invited to participated in an Arts Award development conference. Corali facilitator DJ was asked to present a Pecha Kucha style presentation.This is 20 slides of 20 seconds each. It was quite hard to keep in the time limit!
DJ was joined by Sarah from Corali and Bill Leslie from Greenside School.
Corali runs two Arts Award projects each year, one at Greenside School in Stevenage and Kick Up! run at Brixton Arts Space.
DJ’s talk was called, ‘The Sky’s the Limit’, which was about his role as a creative facilitator at Greenside School.
Corali worked with Bede to run a series of sharing practice workshops.
Bede shared their ideas about sculpture along with some chosen objects and Corali dancers supplied movement expertise to turn these ideas into dance.
The workshops culminated in a sharing event at Dilston Grove to an invited audience.
For the 2nd year running, Corali linked up with the STEP festival to deliver a project at Spa School.
As part of the project, Corali created a new video work that was presented at the Festival conference.
This video was really well received and you can watch it by clicking here Step Into You
Corali dancers and members of the Company’s professional development class presented, ‘Thinking Along the Same Lines’, at the South Bank Centre in December 2012. The performance was shown alongside Corali’s recent film and performance work, ‘One of a Kind’.
Here is a selection of audience comments:
‘Such high quality work and great to have such a good audience there to enjoy it’.
‘What a great show!’
‘Great turn-out and appreciative audience, good mix of film and live performance’
As part of Big Dance 2012, Corali worked with six different community groups to create a participatory performance, Jump, Turn, Speak! Corali worked with Rathbone Youth Club, Southwark and Lambeth College, L’arche, and Bede House. During the project Corali worked with Film-maker Samuel Dore, to create a documentary.
Kick up 2012 was Corali’s recent Arts Award project with all six participants passing their awards! The moderator said of the project, ‘A fantastic achievement from all concerned. The young people clearly enjoyed and gained much from the art experiences shared by this group. Adviser support was exemplary throughout’
The project took as its starting point a visit to the exhibition ‘Lines of Thought’, at the Parasol Unit gallery. The group visited the exhibition and created an amazing performance piece based on its ideas.
As a successful pilot project, Corali ran a course at Morely College exploring integrated and inclusive dance practice. This course culminated in taking part in the Colleges annual dance showcase event, where Corali’s performance of ‘Editions’ was said to be a highlight of the evening.
Corali joined forces with Oval House Theatre to deliver a new project Demonstrate!, as a partnership team. Demonstrate! has been running since the summer of 2011 as a combination of Saturday morning workshops and holiday intensives. It is aimed at 8-14 year olds with learning disabilities and complex needs. It has been a wonderfully successful programme. The Corali team delivering Demonstrate! are Bridget Chew, Victoria Thompson, DJ, Kasia Maslowska with Ayaka Furukawa and Gina Hye Kim volunteering.
For a second year running Corali worked with Spa special school to deliver a project that included performance and peer learning. This year the focus of the work was combining dance and drama to explore emotions. The project culminated in the group taking their performance on a ‘mini tour’. The project was delivered by DJ, Elly White, Jacobus Flynn, Andrea Gerrett with Ayaka Furukawa and Sophie Turner volunteering.