Dance

Dance Professionals

Our professional programme works with Somerset venues to put on high quality dance. We also co-commission work and residencies and generate opportunities for networking and professional development, training, mentoring and support.

We provide different ways to help support and develop Somerset based artists. Networking and training days, workshops and professional class opportunities with resident and visiting artists, are all posted on the danceandtheatresomerset.net website as soon as they are confirmed.

We send out a monthly e-newsletter to all our subscribers to highlight what's coming up each month: performances and opportunities. Do register with us if you would like to receive this e.newsletter.

Take Art offer annual events to assist regional artists in developing their projects from concept to production, as well as advice sessions, all of which are announced on our website and through our monthly e-newsletter.

If you would like to talk about your project to the experienced staff at Take Art, do email us and we will do our best to support you.

To find out more contact Professional Programme Consultant and Co-Director of Take Art Dance Cath James by emailing cath@takeart.org

Photo Credit: Photo from Love and War, by the Mark Bruce Company. The dance is Eleanor Duval. photo by - Farrow Creatives

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Projects

Life Circles
Just because you are passed the age of partying, it doesn’t mean your body has given up on joy, or your brain has stopped seeking creative expression…

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Urban Dance
Urban dance is a powerful way of connecting young people with both their bodies and their communities, through the music and moves they love.

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EXPOSED
A new platform event launching in 2012 in partnership with Bath Spa University open to professional artists.

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Spring Forward
Spring Forward is Somerset’s County Youth Dance Platform open to any group or school to take part in. It is an opportunity for dance groups to perform on a professional stage and to watch each other perform.

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Signposts
Signposts was a project funded by the NHS to research and develop dance activities across Somerset, using dance to help promote active lifestyles particularly in areas of deprivation.

Complete (Mar 2011) Read More
Step Change
Step Change was a two-year dance and health project for Somerset that has touched the lives and lifestyles of over 1,900 people living in rural communities, residential homes, schools, special needs centres and the work place.

Complete (Jul 2010) Read More

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Mark Bruce - The Interview

15 May 2012

The Mark Bruce Company premiere Made in Heaven this Friday night at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. We asked Mark to respond to some quickfire questions in his (scarce) spare time…

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Life Circles - See Early Film Footage

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Life Circles is a new project and a new partnership between Take Art Dance and Core Dance, with a focus on engaging the frail elderly in movement, dance and imaginative play. It started last autumn and will run for two years, with the ambition of supporting the lifelong creativity of older people in eight residential settings in Somerset, Devon and Dorset.