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What’s Age Got To Do With It?

Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall,
Level 5 Function Room
Fri 12 October

Still a relatively young art form, contemporary dance in the UK is only now beginning to produce a substantial generation of mature dance artists, both dance-makers and performers. What are the issues - philosophical, aesthetic and practical - that affect an artist’s ability to sustain his or her art? How do their priorities change over time? What do we need to learn as a sector if we are to retain their experience?

Gill Clarke will chair a panel of mature working artists who will discuss issues around survival, sustaining engagement and a dancer’s status in the wider dance culture.

Gill has had an extensive performing, teaching and making career and was a founder member of Siobhan Davies Dance Company. She is Co-director of Independent dance, an artist-led organisation dedicated to the ongoing development of dance artists at all stages of their career, works with students at Laban and teaches internationally.

Panel: Gill Clarke (Chair), Fergus Early, Paul-André Fortier, Scott Smith and Chitra Sundaram

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Presented by Dance Umbrella and Dance UK.

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