Details

EDge is the Postgraduate Performance Company of London Contemporary Dance School. The company is made up of dancers on the cusp of their professional careers. The touring programme will feature a world premiere from Retina Dance’s Artistic Director Filip van Huffel, as well as several short works that have been commissioned from choreographers Martin Forsberg, Rachel Krische, Petra Soor and Beth Cassani. An original dance film made by Gabriela Tropia will be shown at selected venues. Jonathan Lunn’s Reading Room is a cross-discipline work incorporating text written by Anthony Minghella and performed by a different professional actor at each venue. The dance element of the show will be choreographed on and performed by EDge at selected venues on the Spring tour of Reading Room including the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on 5 and 6 June. Lunn will also rework the section as a stand-alone piece, for EDge to perform as the centrepiece of its repertoire on the EDge 08 Spring Tour. In June, EDge and students from Denmark’s Skolen for Moderne Dans are joining forces with Copenhagen dance venue Dansescenen for a week of shared performances showcasing their unique partnership and the wealth of quality contemporary dance at the post graduate level. Additionally, EDge will be in residence at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, France in May, The Cable Factory in Finland in June and the Casa Des Artes in Portugal in July, working with local students to create new work, teaching classes and giving workshops. The company will also give performances at these venues. This year, the dancers of EDge are drawn from around the UK as well as Brazil, Spain, Korea, Luxembourg and Malaysia and are all recent graduates from the world’s finest dance conservatoires. Made up of young dancers on the cusp of their professional careers, the Company represents the very pinnacle of graduate student dance. The year the students spend in the Company forms the main part of their Postgraduate Diploma in Performance at London Contemporary Dance School, and gives them invaluable experience of rehearsing and touring as a professional company.

Creatives/Company

Producer: Turtle Key Arts
Company: Jonathan Lunn Dance Company

EDge Dance Company

EDge Dance Company (Dance or ballet) production archive for QTIX code T01509703460. Details of all EDge Dance Company archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S275345801

Archive Listings

22 Jun 08Rose Theatre Kingston
Kingston, Surrey
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19 Jun 08
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21 Jun 08
The Place Theatre
Inner London, Greater London
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17 Jun 08Malvern Theatres
Malvern, Worcestershire
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10 Jun 08Playhouse
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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4 Jun 08
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6 Jun 08
Southbank Centre
West End, Greater London
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28 May 08
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30 May 08
Theatre Royal
York, North Yorkshire
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19 May 08
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20 May 08
Exeter Phoenix
Exeter, Devon
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3 May 08Ariel Centre
Totnes, Devon
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25 Apr 08Swindon Dance
Swindon, Wiltshire
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23 Apr 08Gulbenkian Arts Centre
Canterbury, Kent
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18 Apr 08The Bluecoat
Liverpool, Merseyside
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CORONAVIRUS: All UK venues closed on 16th March 2020, restrictions were lifted on 19th July 2021. Please note that iUKTDb archive listings between March 2020 and July 2021 may not be accurate as we did not receive details of all rescheduled and cancelled shows.

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