Gathered Together 2014 - Scotland's First Inclusive Dance Festival

Wed 27 - Sat 30 August at Tramway
Scotland’s leading inclusive dance development company, Indepen-dance, will host the country's first International Inclusive Dance Festival from Wednesday 27 - Saturday 30 August at Glasgow’s Tramway - part of Get Scotland Dancing and the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme.

Over four days, the Festival will bring together dance artists and people from across the globe to share best practice and knowledge as well as showing work. The Festival programme will include workshops, panel discussions, presentations and performances culminating in a ceilidh on the Saturday night. All performances and the ceilidh are open to the public.

The opening night includes two performances from the Festival hosts and their acclaimed ensemble dance company Indepen-dance 4 with Christine Devaney’s playful and dreamlike Some Of The Moments We Haven’t Forgotten followed by their performance company who will delight audiences once again with Natasha Gilmore’s moving and funny Now. No. Now.

Thursday night will see performances by Marc Brew (Scotland), Caroline Bowditch (Scotland), Solar Bear (Scotland), StopGap and Axis Dance Company.

Friday night will include work by Alas Abiertas Dance (Paraguay), Culture Device Dance Project (England) and Blast M3 (Scotland).

As well as intensive workshop programme, keynote speakers include: Dr Jenny Elliot CEO of Artscare and founder of Orbit Dance Company on dance and wellbeing; Professor Sarah Whatley BA PhD, Professor of Dance and Director, Centre for Dance Research/C-DaRE; Gustabo Fijalkow, Freelancer M.A. Arts Management.

The full programme of workshops, panel discussions and performances



Wednesday 27 August 2014
All Evening Performances at Tramway are at 7.30pm and open to the public. Public Booking: £6/£9 / 0845 330 3501 /www.tramway.org

Indepen-dance 4: Some Of The Moments We Haven’t Forgotten. Choreographed by Christine Devaney

Indepen-dance Performance Company: Now. No. Now! Choreographed by Natasha Gilmore



Thursday 28 August 2014

All Evening Performances at Tramway are at 7.30pm and open to the public. Public Booking: £6/£9 / 0845 330 3501 /www.tramway.org

Axis Dance Company: Divide. Choreographed by Marc Brew in collaboration with the dancers

StopGap Dance Company: The Awakening (site specific). Choreographed by Chris Pavia

Leftovers - Performed and choreographed by Marc Brew & Caroline Bowditch

The Birthday of the Infanta - Performed by members of Solar Bear Deaf Youth Theatre



Friday 29 August 2014

All Evening Performances at Tramway are at 7.30pm and open to the public. Public Booking: £6/£9 / 0845 330 3501 /www.tramway.org


The Point At Which It Last Made Sense by Nick Bryson & Robin Dingemans

Alas Abiertas Dance: Al Alba (At Dawn). Choreographed by Jazmín Derbas & Sergio Nuñez.

Culture Device Dance Project: The Death of a Disco Dancer. Choreographed by Daniel Vais

Into the Light - Choreographed and performed by Blast M3



Saturday 30 August 2014

Gathered Together Ceilidh at 7.30pm, The Briggait. Tickets: £10. Booking through admin@indepen-dance.org.uk

Featuring the ceilidh band, Inishowen, including BBC Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year, Paddy Callaghan.