Rosie Kay Dance Company

There Is Hope – Premieres October 2012

Rosie Kay Dance Company are putting a call out to youth groups, dance groups, schools and colleges to help with the research and development of the company’s new work, There Is Hope.

There Is Hope is a look at where we feel we are right now, today. Questioning ideas of morality, religion and faith, this work delves into a modern and very timely look at what are our modern concepts of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. The work asks the question- where do we find hope today? And what kind of future can we create?

If you would be interested in workshops, residencies, talks or presentation please contact hannah@twoscompanydance.co.uk

Recent Quotes

“… astonishing work… Rosie Kay’s dancers get right inside the skins, the minds, the very souls of the five as they progress from the rigours of training to the breath-holding intensity of the frontline. It’s highly charged and it screams authenticity.. …. Awesome.” The Stage on 5 SOLDIERS

“stark and brilliantly uncompromising… remarkable… It is difficult not to be utterly draw-in by the palpable intensity the dancers so aptly embody, particularly in the final scene… striving to remind us that ultimately, war is about the people involved, not the politics.” Fiona Campbell London Dance.com on 5 SOLDIERS

“Rosie Kay’s new work pulls no punches. While there is laughter there is also incredible pain and realisation that more than simply innocence can be left on the battlefield.” The Birmingham Post on 5 SOLDIERS

The Mission

Rosie Kay Dance Company (RKDC) is a vibrant contemporary dance company that promotes excellent high quality dance that challenges and inspires. The company, lead by artistic Director Rosie Kay, makes outstanding touring productions that tour the UK and Internationally. RKDC believes dance has the power to transform, educate and help people to see the word in a new light. Rosie Kay Dance Company creates cutting edge work at the highest technical and production values possible, working with the most exciting talents in the arts world in key collaborations. The work is consistently cutting edge and builds stability for innovation within the genre.

Supernova

Activities

Creating dance theatre touring productions, touring nationally+ internationally
Experimenting with digital media and performance- www.5soldiers.co.uk
Creating unusual works in unusual settings, such as a Ballet on the Buses and The Great Train Dance
Teaching workshops and masterclasses
Training for dancers + dance leaders
Rosie Kay is Subject Leader in Contemporary dance at the Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) in the West Midlands
Writing articles and delivering talks to a range of audiences, including academic conferences, dance press and national press

QUOTES

‘Outstanding Partnership of the Year’ chosen by Mary Brennan in Dance Europe’s Critics Choice of the Year. Outstanding Partnership: Rosie Kay and Morgan Cloud in the feindishly challenging Double Points:K- Kay’s own classical take on the synchronicities of an early Emio Greco | PC work, Double Points:Two”

“…An Everest of synchronicity, timing, defined body lines and stamina…For Kay, this choreographic re-interpretation is a triumph“ The Herald on Double Points: K

“Thank goodness, then, for the inimitable diva of dance, ROSIE KAY. Her last show at the Fringe, The Wild Party, was a hoot and Double Points: K, though is entirely different, is just as exciting. “ Scotland on Sunday on Double Points: K

“Kay’s choreography is a strenuously sensual marriage of polished recklessness splattered with lascivious amusements“ The Times on The Wild Party

“The Wild Party lives up to its title, with four characters who are hell-bent on having a good time. Rosie Kay, as lead performer and choreographer, possesses a pitiless eye for the body language of the inebriated, and, in this 75-minute bash, perfectly captures the gaudily self-conscious gestures of the wasted, their slippage between painful deliberation and shambolic blur. “ The Guardian on The Wild Party

Contact us

Executive Director: Hannah Sharpe

Email: hannah@twoscompanydance.co.uk

Phone: 0044 (0) 7971 225436

Press and PR: Lesley Wilde, Wilde Thing PR & Events

T: 0121 742 7777

M: 07920 707000

E: lesley@wildething.co.uk

W: www.wildething.co.uk