Rosie Kay Dance Company is based in Birmingham, and has a widening reputation as a company that produces high quality and cutting edge dance works that range from pure dance to dance theatre.
Rosie Kay is currently Associate Artist of DanceXchange, Birmingham Hippodrome.
Rosie Kay is a former Rayne Foundation Fellow.Rayne Foundation Link
Latest News
- 14th Feb Rosie Kay to speak at the Arts Council England State of The Arts, Artists Shaping The World, Conference, The Lowry, Manchester.
- April 2012 Rosie Kay announced as a participant for Dance East’s first Choreo LAB
- Rosie Kay writing education pack for International dance Festival Birmingham’s SPILL project, choreographed by Shaun Parker
- Dep Arts and Northern Ballet present Rosie Kay Dance Company at Northern Ballet on the 27th April 2012
- November 2011 Rosie Kay is invited to speak at Arts Desk, Future of Dance Debate, London, alongside Arlene Philips, Alistair Spalding, Val Bourne and Tamara Rojo
- November 2011 Rosie Kay invited to speak at the Rayne Foundation Board of Trustees
- November 2011 Rosie Kay invited to be part of the Digital Arts panel at the Hello Culture conference, Birmingham
- October 2011 DanceXchange revive past works Asylum and Double Points: K for their 10th Anniversary Programme, and Rosie Kay recovered from knee surgery to perform herself with Chris Linda in Double Points: K
- September 2011 Rosie Kay speaks as one of the former Rayne Fellow to an invited audience of dance educators and VIP’s
- August was a period of rest for Rosie and the company as Rosie recovered from knee surgery
- July 2011 was The Great Train Dance! 2 fantastic performance,s broadcast live on BBC Shropshire, involving a huge cast of 6 professionals, 25 CAT students, and over 300 regional dance leaders and young participants. The Great Train Dance started in Kidderminster SVR station and went all the way to Highley Engine House, with performances at each platform and even in a field and by a reservoir! The film is on the video page.
- May 2011 the company spend a week in the studio researching the new work,supported by DanceXchange
- May 2011 5 SOLDIERS was performed at Town Hall, Birmingham, with kind support from Sir Peter Rigby. We raised money for charities Help for Heroes, QEH Hospitals Birmingham, Care for Casualties and The Royal British Legion. The event was even attended by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham.
- April 2011 Over two periods, RKDC performed 6 shows at the Kunsthaus Tacheles. Arriving in the midst of a storm over the future of the building (one of the oldest free arts buildings in Berlin), we were amazed to see the politics of the situation. The audiences built up consistently each night, until we were at almost capacity and the cast received 2 standing ovations. Post show discussions were equally interesting- a different reaction to a work about war than in the UK
- April 2011 After the first 3 shows the company spent a 5-day period improvising and researching Rosie Kay’s new work. Chris, Tilly, Chris and Michael were joined by former Wild Party dancer Sung-Im Her and by Rosie Kay dancing as well. A very exciting week created new ideas and brought up a totally new world of adventure for the company
- After the research week, the company set off for the west, driving to Paderborn to stay and perform at Normandy Barracks and to 5th Battalion The Rifles. Staying in the officer’s quarters and eating each day at the officers mess was quite new to the company, but it was the workshops with the daughters of soldiers and the performance itself that were the highlights. The company spent 1 day working with 8 teenage girls to create a 7-minute version of 5 Soldiers, which was performed as a curtain raiser. The show was then performed for pre-deployment troops- to whom the threat of injury is a very real danger. In 6 months time these people will be in Afghanistan themselves.
Quotes
Last night was incredible; ‘Thank you’ doesn’t seem enough…I think we have achieved what I personally, was trying to get which is more open and honest discussion about the realities of what is happening. We all have fears to face but unless we talk about them and find a positive way to express them, they become demons.
By facing ‘demons’ before events happen you have the opportunity to develop strategies. This surely would allow you to deal more practically with any event that presented itself. Please leave knowing that you have definitely humanized many ‘taboo’ issues- you have lifted the forcefield of “it will never happen to me” and you have also brought two communities of young people together under a general understanding that whilst ‘the body is the frontline’ we are all human an that is ‘the bottom line’! Thank you With the deepest respect for all of you as professionals but also as people who have taken the time to see soldiers as human beings too. ” By Wendy Faux, Childcare Business Support Manager, Army Welfare Service, Normandy Barracks
- November 2010 Madrid En Danza Festival
- November 2010 Filmed the special 10 minute version of 5 Soldiers- www.5soldiers.co.uk
- April- June 2010 5 Soldiers tours the UK, winning the Time Out Critics Choice, The Times Editors Choice and critical acclaim
- April 23rd 2010 5 Soldiers premiere at the 2nd International Dance Festival Birmingham
- April 23rd 2010, Rosie Kay is interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Today programme about 5 Soldiers
- March 2010 the dancers go on a three day TA training weekend in Norfolk
- February 2010 5 Soldiers is shown as a work-in-progress at British Dance Edition 2010
- January 2010 5 Soldiers begins studio work
- December 2010 5 Soldiers research phase begins at Warwick Arts Centre, with full battle training and military weapons handling
• November 2009 International Dance Festival launches and announces the new work of Rosie Kay Dance Company- 5 SOLDIERS- The Body Is The Frontline
• 5 SOLDIERS announced as part of BDE 2010 in Birmingham.
• September 2009, 5 incredible dancers found for the new work- Tilly Webber, Michael Spenceley, Tomasz Moskal, Chris Vann and Chris Linda.
•September 2009 RKDC awarded Arts Council England award for the new creation and tour of 5 SOLDIERS
• September 2009 Rosie Kay, Annie Mahtani and Petra Taucher conduct interviews with members of 4 Rifles, a retired Major General and a recent recruit. Production meetings begin for 5 SOLDIERS
•September Rosie Kay creates Frontline Body for the University of Northampton and includes battle training exercises as part of the research process.
• September 2009 Rosie Kay and Morgan Cloud perform an adapted version of Double Points:K- Double Points: 3x as part of a Manchester University and University of Glasgow research project studying Kinesthetic Empathy.
• Summer 2009 Rosie Kay spends time writing and submitting funding applications! Not so glamorous…
• Early 2009 Rosie Kay becomes the Course Leader for contemporary strand for the Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) in the West Midlands Contemporary
Double Points: K
• January 2009 Two week secondment at Sadler’s Well’s, London
• January 2009 Secondment at DMRC Headley Court studying the rehabilitation of Army, Navy and RAF soldiers.
• November 2008 two-week attachment with the 4 Rifles Regiment. 4 day and night exercises on Dartmoor, exercises at barracks and 2 days exercises on Salisbury Plain.
• September 2008 Premiere Supernova to a sell out audience at The Patrick Centre, Birmingham Hippodrome.
• August 2008 Receive critical acclaim for Double Points: K at Edinburgh festival fringe
• May 2008 Premiere of Double Points: K at International Dance Festival Birmingham
• March 2008 1st Prize for dance and choreography, International Dance Festival Sardinia for Patisserie
Patisserie
• March 2008 choreographs A couple of Poor Polish Speaking Romanians, Dir Lisa Goldman at Soho Theatre, London
• September 2007-July 2008 Toured the 5 star show The Wild Party across the UK. Dates included Spring Loaded at The Place, London, Belfast International Festival, Lichfield Festival, Warwick Arts Centre, Taunton Brewhouse, Derby Dance among other venues.
• December 2007 assists director Roswitha Gerlitz for a Royal Opera House 2 production, Stumbling Over Infinity
Asylum
• September 2007 Rosie Kay performs a solo to crowds in Dubai
• August 2007 Shadowed academy award winning director Anthony Minghella in Botswana to watch the filming of The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency.
• June 2007 Collaborates with Amsterdam based dance company Emio Greco| PC to learn Double Points: Two.
• May 2007 creates Ballet on the Buses for Birmingham Royal Ballet, for FIERCE! Festival
Ballet on The Buses with Birmingham Royal Ballet
• February 2007 choreographer with Carrie Cracknell, Rosie and Albie at The Young Vic
• December 2006 Awarded five star reviews for The Class Club (The Barbican) and The Wild Party (The Sunday Herald Cultural Highlight of the Year 2006)
• Spring 2006 Rosie Kay creates Trapped for Ludus Dance Company.
• Summer 2006 creates and premieres The Wild Party at DanceXchange and Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The Wild Party
• 2005 Awarded by Channel Four as the Creative Class of UK by Ideas Factory TV
• August 2005 company takes Asylum to Edinburgh Festival
• 2004 Short-listed for Samuel Beckett Theatre Award
• 2004 Rosie Kay creates first version of Asylum
• 2003 Bonnie Bird New UK Choreographer Award, Laban Centre
• 2002 Rosie creates Honey You’re a Pig in France and performs Edinburgh Festival Fringe
• 2001 Don’t Play Me Play Games is created in Berlin and presented at the opening of Dance Base, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
• 2000 1st Prize for Choreography, International Solo Dance Theatre Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
• 1999 Awarded by the Queen of Great Britain and included in the Queens Millenium Speech, Queens Award as Young Achiever of Scotland
• August 1999 First solo show, Absolute Solo, Edinburgh Festival
