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Past Projects |
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Take Art is continually developing new dance projects. Please refer to Current Projects for details |
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Time to Move |
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Time to Move was a three year dance and movement project for older people in Sedgemoor and West Somerset. |
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The course is full of ideas, logistical considerations, possible challenges, contra-indications, use of music, planning, evalutation and reminiscence work. The programme includes sessions from guest artists and tutors from the South West with substantial experience in this field. |
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Alive and Kicking |
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Alive & Kicking was a 2 year dance & health project for young people across Somerset between 2006 and 2008. |
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The project was divided into two strands: |
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Kick Start – which focused on working with early years children (2 – 5 years old), their families, teachers and carers, and which operated in Children’s Centres and Foundation settings within schools across the county as a whole
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Kick Off – which focused on 5 – 19 year olds in South and West Somerset, equally divided between settings within formal education and outside of school settings. (These included: youth centres, after school clubs, young carers, medical home tuition service, women’s refuges).
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“Children have enjoyed and looked forward to their dance project. It has encouraged them to use their bodies in different ways, and has given some children more confidence. [it has] given the staff new ideas to put into planning.” - Chard Children’s Centre |
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View the Research project - Zest - carried out by Exeter University as part of the Alive & Kicking project |
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For a copy of the Illustrated Evaluation Report please call Chris on 01460 249450 |
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Black Moves |
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Black Moves took place in 2007 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. |
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Take Art commissioned the Zimbabwean choreographer Bawren Tavaziva to create a new solo piece – Mr Man – which was made especially for Black Moves and then toured nationally as part of his company’s repertoire. Bawren worked with Somerset dancers Louise Barrett, Nikki Penfold and Joanne Willmott to create a curtain raiser to Tavazeva Dance’s own performance. |
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These Somerset dancers then delivered a weekend residency to teachers and youth dance leaders, who then used this material to develop new pieces with their respective groups.
4 Reel Films worked with Somerset actor Will Bateman and dancer Katey Leader to create Songs of Lamentation, a digital response to Coleridge’s anti-slavery lecture delivered in the Unitarian Chapel in Taunton. |
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Please click here to view images from Black Moves |
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Moves Afoot |
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Moves Afoot began in 2003 as a 2 year project working with adults with learning disabilities from Six Acres in Taunton and Pepperall Road Resource Centre in Highbridge. |
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Led by dance artist Emma Ellis, the project featured training and a masterclass from StopGap Dance Company* and culminated in a performance by all the participants at Bridgwater Arts Centre. |
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In 2006 the project was rolled out to the whole of Somerset led by dance artists Oliver Ellis, Anna Golding and Lucy Howell, as the dance strand of the Somerset Arts Xchange, co-ordinated by Catherine Beedell, which offered opportunities in drumming, visual arts, and storytelling, as well as dance. |
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The project included a series of skill sharing sessions for arts practitioners, featuring a workshop by CandoCo, and culminated in a huge celebration at Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre in 2008. |
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