Making Moves with Dance
Easter was busy for Attik 360 with four beautiful and different events. Two musicians joined us and played piano and guitar for the regular dance workshops. The music ran through the whole room and everybody, uniting the dancers with the music and vice versa. Attik 360 and Access Theatre met in Liskeard for a day of drama [...]
Last month myself and three other dancers wet to Sterts to plan a One minute Video challenge for an online group called Dancetag on YouTube. The challenge was to make a dance piece for one minute or under using Smartphone’s and upload on YouTube. The Location of the filming was at the Sterts Theatre a [...]
Pavilion dance South West offered free full day workshops on how to create engaging and well produced dance films. Digitising Dance – Plymouth took place in the Dance and Drama studio at City College Plymouth, the Goshen Centre on Thursday 4th April 2013. The Workshop was lead by James, a filmmaker from Somerset Film, accompanied [...]
I’m Pauline from France. I’m here with the French program “Mevipro” who found Attik for me, in order to gain professional and linguistic experience for 6 months. I shadow Attik’s teachers who work with different groups and teach dance in a different way. This way I get to see a variety of teaching and ideas [...]
We had a wonderful time at our community platform on Tuesday 26th February. It was such a fantastic mix of performers and it was lovely to see so many happy faces. The evening started with beautiful films from Spindrift, Gloucester Dance and Access Theatre. Attik 360 kicked the show off with ‘Strictly 360’, a piece [...]
Preparations for the community platform are well under way! The programme has been sent off to the printers, ticket sales are going well and we have some fantastic raffle prizes thanks to The Theatre Royal Plymouth, Woodlands Theme Park, Dartmoor Zoo, Plymouth Pavilions, the Eden project plus many more……. We have a great mix of [...]
Hi, I’m Pauline Finet and I come from France. I arrived in January and I will be here for 6 months with Attik Dance in order to understand the functioning of an organisation of dance and disability. After completing a Master’s of “Intervention and Management of Physical Activities Adapted for Disabilities and Health” at the University of Lyon (France), I would like [...]
Attik 360 Dance Company performed at the Access Theatre Platform at Launceston Town hall as part of their ‘Xmas Factor Show’. The show’s theme was games shows and competitions on the television around Christmas time, and there is a lot of them! … We slotted in perfectly when it came to Strictly Come Dancing! The [...]
I’m Sandra 24 years old and from Germany. I’m here on an Exchange project name IDA “Integration through Exchange”. Before this project I completed a 13 week English language course in Germany. My stay here has been for three months and the time flies by. Here in England, there is a partner school, which supports [...]
In October 2012 I started my work placement with Attik Dance as part of my third year university project. Every day spent with Attik dance was a pure joy, everyone I met was friendly, enthusiastic and inspirational. My project was looking at how the arts benefit people with disabilities, and after attending Attik 360 classes, [...]
On Thursday 20th September we started a new 10 week course of Dance for fitness, funded by The British Heart Foundation. Sarah and Clair teach 6-7pm at The Brickfields Sports Centre in Plymouth, 30 minutes of dance cardio, 20 minutes of circuit training and 10 minutes of stretching and relaxation. Heart conditions are an area [...]
In the past 30 years, leading researchers across many different areas of academia have studied the positive links between movement and learning. The breadth of data and research available to us is unequivocal in demonstrating that the experience of movement, and in particular dance, has a significant and positive affect on the processes involved in [...]
Things had started to get pretty crowded in our office, especially on a Tuesday when Lauren, Sarah & Sarah are in for Attik 360. Getting around the office became like a game of twister. Once at your desk you were either trapped, or everyone would have to take a deep breath in to let you [...]
I have spent two amazing sunny, inspiring and thought provoking weeks in Vienna with Adam Benjamin a the Dance Ability and the Impuls dans Festival. I received a bursary from Adam Benjamin to go to Vienna to train in his Advanced Integrated training group run by Dance Ability. This was an intense improvisation workshop for disabled and [...]
On the 18th July, Pilgrim Primary school brought colour, laughter and rhythm to Plymouth city centre as they paraded from their school, through the city centre to Frankfurt Gate before the whole school performed an Olympic inspired dance for their friends, family and passing shoppers. The children also created flags and banners which they proudly [...]
Due to popular demand, Attik 360 were asked to perform their piece ‘Juke Box’ as part of The World at Your Feet Schools tour, in which 7 schools came together to dance and watch performances. This has been a brilliant term and we are looking forward to the exciting projects coming up in September, so watch this space! [...]
Ben has been working as Artistic Coordinator of the Plymouth Dance Dance Team Dance Conditioning Project funded by SLM’s Plymouth Beacon Project with Plymouth Diving. Attik have been working with Plymouth Dance, Paris Payne, Sue Smith, Jules Laville and the Plymouth Diving Elite Junior Squad for the past 3 months on this dance conditioning project. The project involves [...]
Attik Dance are returning to Pilgrim Primary School to create and deliver an Olympics opening ceremony parade through Plymouth City Centre culminating in a dance performance at Frankfurt Gate. Attik delivered a fantastic project with the school a number of years ago, and we are very excited to be working with them again. The aim [...]
Do you have a passion for dance? Come & join Attik Dance for a day of dance at the City College, Goschen Centre. Work with a professional dance company for the day and dance with Artistic Director Benjamin Dunks & Clair Beckett. Learn contemporary dance techniques and work creatively towards a performance piece for sharing [...]
The World at Your Feet celebrates the many journeys to Plymouth. It is a city-wide theatre and dance project that celebrates the many people who have made Plymouth their home. Every part of this project is inspired by real people’s lives and the stories they have told us. Exploring migration and what it means is [...]
We held our first inset training on Friday 18th May that was specifically designed for activity coordinators, care staff and support workers in a day service or care home setting who were interested in learning more about using dance in their centre. We took participants through exercises that they could run at their centre, developed [...]
We opened the doors to the phantasmagorical Devonport Guildhall for the second time on the 25th April and had a great evening of film, music, theatre and dance. The singer-songwriter and guitarist Josie Newton kicked things off on the main stage, followed by an a cappella vocal harmony group called Java 5 who got us [...]
