Attik Dance hosted the first ever community dance platform at the Devonport Guildhall to raise funds for Attik 360 dance classes. We had performances of dance, film and art work displayed throughout the building. 

Attik 360 provides classes for adults with learning and physical disabilities. From the funds raised we will buy equipment for the dancers to allow the sessions to be accessible and inclusive to all of the members.

Over 100 local people attended the event. We would like to say a big Thank you to Print Options in Millbrook and David Folley for making this event possible.

And The Art of Dance, The Marine Aquarium, Plymouth City Roller Girls, Haunted Plymouth, Forty Five Clothing , Mount Batten Centre, The Eden Project , Hawkins Bazaar , John Nike Leisuresport , JB Outdoors, The Clovelly Bay Inn and The Theatre Royal Plymouth for their wonderful raffle prizes.

As part of National Science and Engineering Week, Attik Dance formed partnership with the Marine Biological Association to produce an interpretive educational performance piece representing algal blooms. The three dancers developed a script and movement phrases to show their interpretation of the varying movements of four kinds of dinoflagelattes – unicellular alga, as well as general information and the affects of dinoflagelattes on marine life. This enabled the child audience members to understand marine life in a creative way.  The dancers performed to over 500 people from 10 primary schools around the Plymouth area.

Course Leaders: Sally Robbins, Emily Dobson & Brett Harvey

150 children worked with Attik to tell the story of where they lived. In order to bring colour back to the West End they invented and brought to life a story of alien landings, scientific experiments and a geek to save the day.

Attik dance spent a week in Pensilva Primary school.  Mornings were spent in Pentiddy Woods where we ran a series of creative tasks based on developing the senses, the imagination and learning some key facts about the woods.

The Children would lie down on the floor and look up into the trees making shapes from the branches. They were also blindfolded and described the feel of objects they had found and to develop their language skills. We noted how much the teachers enjoyed getting out and how sociable it was with the children waving to family and friends as they walked.

Choreographer: Lois Taylor
Musical Director: Jon Sterkx
Dancers: Luke Birch, Sam Edgecombe, Judith Hughes, Saara Lamberg,Maryam Pourian, Hanna Tatham
Musician: Charly Harrison

Clean Sweep was a three week skills exchange between dancers and musicians resulting in a performance created to entertain shoppers and passers by with a creative mix of dance theatre and live music.

The street cleaners arrive to tidy up and create order.  But musicians are in town and the rhythm of the drums pull at their best intentions.  In a flurry of overalls and brushes they give in to their wilder side…

Clean Sweep toured to Exeter, Plymouth, Yeovil, Newton Abbot and Bournemouth.

Course leaders: Lois Taylor & Sally Robbins
Film-makers: Chris Lewis-Smith

We headed for the beach again to let it stimulate our mind, soul and body for another creative week in the summer sun or rain.

Guided improvisations, space to explore indivdual ideas using stimulus both given and found, working together and sharing ideas and working independently.

The nature of the course was to be able to respond to the group, the environment and the findings, so there was always an unpredictable element that kept it fresh, unknown and exciting.

Course leaders: Lois Taylor & Sally Robbins
Film-makers: Chris Lewis-Smith & Emily Keene

Lois Taylor and Sally Robbins used the work of sculptor Antony Gormley as a starting point for this creative summer course located on Perranporth Beach in North Cornwall.

The aim of the course allowed space for individual exploration of the landscape using shared stimuli, improvisation processes and collective reviewing of experiences and findings.