Since base dance was set up the company has always had a strong education team that have facilitated projects all over the UK including Aberdeen, Wales, Cambridge, Colchester, London and Hampshire.
Base dance prides itself on the fact that they can tailor make workshops and residencies (however small or big) especially for any organisation, University, school, college or community group. We have extensive knowledge of working with many types of participants from professional through to inexperienced. This includes integrated groups, all disabilities, corporate events and Hen Parties!
Base dance’s education team all have current CRB checks and are fully insured through the company.
The world record breaking side to base dance:
In 2006, we worked with the BBC to break two world records!!!
* The largest Human Concorde – for Children in Need 200 people lined up in the shape of Concorde all for charity.
* Big Dance Class – over 9000 people learnt the same dance class across the UK
For more information on base dance’s education team or to book a workshop/ residency please contact info@basedance.co.uk
Here are some examples of base dance’s education work:
Teenage Kicks Project – Haverhill, Suffolk (2007)
A 20 week street dance project based at Haverhill Leisure Centre. This project was designed to encourage teenagers to engage in a positive activity and to give them a new opportunity to learn from an experienced street jazz choreographer.
Facilitated by: Kate Durrant (Director, KD Productions)
Supported by: Positive Futures, Haverhill Town Council and Crime Concern
Peripheral Vision Performance Residency @ Colchester Institute (2006)
During a four day dance and technology BTEC students from Colchester Institute were introduced to working with Isadora, an interactive computer software system which allows live video to be filtered in real time. Base dance then created a 10 minute integrated performance work on the participants.
Just Movin’ – A Youth Male Dance Film (2006)
Four days, four schools and 91 boys. Just Movin’ fuses free running and contemporary dance creating a journey around the four schools visited.
Commissioned by: Dance in Herts, Essexdance, Hertfordshire County Council, Arts Council
Vital Communities – (2005 – present)
Term time residencies
Vital Communities is a unique action research project. It aims to demonstrate the impact of the arts upon individual and community development and to investigate whether the arts have a positive impact on the aspirations, achievement and attitudes of specific communities across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
Avatar – Generations (2005)
This boy’s dance project was hosted by Hampshire dance with support from the Arts Council and Hampshire district council. Base dance was commissioned to create a short dance performance work which integrated motion capture technology and ‘live’ choreography together.
During a 4 day residency the participants (aged 11 – 18 yrs) learnt and created movements which were then recorded in a motion capture rig on the 4th day at Access MoCap (based at Bournemouth University). Each recorded sequence was animated into different characters such as a Granddad, wood figure and clothes.
An additional weekend was used to create the show mixing the two dimensions together. The piece is currently touring around Hampshire.