Creative Collaborations
Contacting the World, street event, Manchester 2006
Photo: John Cooper
This programme encourages new connections between UK and international artists working with young people in education and community participants.
Supported by Visiting Arts in partnership with the DCMS, each awarded project involved a UK residency which created new work for public presentation. The scheme aims were to:
- nurture creativity between UK and international artists
- support the creative industries
- enable young people and local communities to participate in intercultural arts projects
2007/08
Supported by Visiting Arts in partnership with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the 2007/08 Creative Collaborations programme encouraged collaborations between African artists and UK participants in education and the community.
Taliesin Arts Centre and Junaid Jemal Sendi (Ethiopia)
Taliesin Arts Centre have invited Junaid Jemal Sendi, from Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa, to collaborate with both the County Youth Dance Company and young men’s company Dynion on a new choreography. Jenaid will be in residence for five weeks and a presentation of the work will take place at Taliesin Arts Centre in April and in the city centre during the Dance Days Festival. www.taliesinartscentre.co.uk
Professionals and young people from London/Liverpool and Takku Ligguey (Senegal)
The project Intercultural dialogues: The body in African dance is a collaboration between company Takku Ligguey from Senegal and dance professionals, young people and enthusiasts in Liverpool and London. Through explorative residencies, these collaborations will produce a showing of creative and traditional dance, post-show discussions and a seminar at which practitioners involved in dance, disability issues and intercultural practice will meet and discuss issues raised by the work of the company. Funmi Adewole and Ukachi Akalawu are co-producers of the project. Ukachi is the director of Akaara Ltd, an arts consultancy company. For more information on the dance company visit:
www.takku-ligguey.org and www.chm-khady-gueye.org
Africa’s Hip Hop connections
A creative collaboration in music and language between Hip Hop artists Daara J of Senegal, K’naan, Black Twang and Young Kof will take place in Liverpool this February. The collaborations will evolve alongside residencies with school children and young people in Merseyside. The work from the project will be presented at the 'Free Mike’ event at The Magnet in Liverpool. www.africaoye.com
2006
Four projects took place in 2006, including collaborations involving UK organisations Contact Theatre, Just-b, onedotzero and Serious with a range of artists from Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Hungary and Trinidad.
Projects:
Miraculous Meetings (Bulgaria, Hungary, Scotland)
An extraordinary line up of musicians Robert Farkas, John Rae, Mario Caribe, Bea Palya, Kalman Balogh, Balazs Szokolay and Martin Lubenov took part in this project which was part of the Jazz Odyssey: Music & Migration series, produced by Serious.
Kalman Balogh (Hungary)
Courtesy: Serious, London
Miraculous Meetings was performed in London, Paris, Bratislava and Budapest. www.serious.org.uk
International Digital Collaboration (China, UK)
Just-b commissioned a new digital artwork that explored the processes and challenges involved in remote creative collaborations.
Soda Creative
The ten-day residency involved UK artist Fiddian Warman from Soda Creative - a group of fine artists and researchers based in Shoreditch, working with new media practitioner Yang Lei (China) who works across the genres of electronic music, digital arts and the moving image. The artists also worked with students from the University Centre, Doncaster and the University of Bradford throughout the collaborative process. The work was presented at the b.TWEEN International Interactive Media Forum 06 at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford.
www.just-b.com | www.soda.co.uk
Four Points of Coincidence (Argentina, UK)
onedotzero presented Four Points of Coincidence as part of its tenth anniversary in 2006. The programme explored cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary creativity through a live, visual and audio performance conceived in collaboration between music producer and DJ Gustavo Lamas (Argentina) and director Kieran Evans (UK). The work involved multi-screen projections, a dynamic sound design and a soundtrack composed during the development of the performance. onedotzero used their established connections with educational institutions and community organisations across the UK to reach students, graduates, young people and future professionals who participated in a series of workshops. The collaborative residency took place in May/June with public performances at the ICA, followed by a UK and international tour.
www.onedotzero.com
Contacting the World Street Event (Brazil, Trinidad, UK)
This Creative Collaborations event took place on 23 July, 2006 in Manchester. Throughout the week leading up to the event, London artists Kinetika, Arts in Action from Trinidad, Brazilian Meninos do Morumbi and Barracudas from Barrow ran a series of workshops with a group of 30-40 young people from Manchester, Liverpool, London and Belgium.
The participants in the project were introduced to different elements of Brazilian dance and music, Trinidadian carnival traditions, as well as a variety of other styles of performance. They also attended other workshops and performances by the Contacting the World companies. Through the inspiration of these workshops a new performance piece was created especially for the street event, including music, dance and theatrical performance.
www.contact-theatre.org
www.meninosdomorumbi.org.br
www.kinetika.co.uk
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Related links
Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
Creative Collaborations: Junaid Jemal Sendi in Swansea
Creative Collaborations... announcement of award recipients
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CREATIVE ENCOUNTERS
Artist-to-Artist
Creative Collaborations
Creative Initiatives
Brazil Cultural Programme
Colombia Programme
Taiwan Programme |
