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One
of the UK 's most thoughtful dance companies creating
productions & education programs for specific communities.
With
20 years experience of taking intelligent dance directly
to those with least access to it in educational, community
and arts settings.
Established
by Artistic Director Fergus Early , a choreographer and
dance pioneer. Supported by Associate Director Rachel Elliott
, a leading dance artist-educator.
Green
Candle Dance Company sets out to explore some of the interesting
human issues we face as individuals, as communities and
as a society,
through dance and the related arts.
STOP PRESS!!
GREEN
CANDLE IS UNDER THREAT FROM
LONDON COUNCILS FUNDING RECOMMENDATION
Green
Candle Dance Company, based at Oxford House in Bethnal Green
has been informed that officers from London Councils are
to recommend that it receives no funding in its coming highly
competitive round of commissioning. The company has been
producing work for children & young people and older
people for the past 20 years. For the past 5 years, London
Councils have supported Green Candle to produce some extraordinary
work all over the capital working with children and young
people and with older people over the age of 60. The company
has made a speciality of working with deaf children and
young people, running an annual Deaf Dance Summer School
in partnership with Sadler’s Wells Theatre, for the
past nine years, and the National Deaf Children’s
Society, as well as producing touring productions such as
‘Listening Eyes’ for Deaf and hearing
children with a cast of both Deaf and hearing performers,
seen all over London.
Its
current production 'Falling About' for older audiences
(researched with the Falls Unit at Mile End Hospital) is
touring day centres, hospitals and sheltered housing in
18 different London boroughs.
London Councils
Grants Committee meets on 29th April to take final decisions
about the organisations it will fund for the next 4 years.
Green Candle Dance Company believes that the recommendations
not to fund it will not only threaten the company's survival
but will leave many Londoners, particularly those with little
voice and little power, without something which gives them
enormous benefits in their lives.
For
further information or to support our appeal please contact:
fergus@greencandledance.com
Current Productions
Falling About - a dance theatre production
for older
people
running from 26
Oct 2007 to 6 July 2008
Click
here for more information
photos by Hugo Glendinning
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