Reciprocal Gestures: movement in dialogue

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National Dance Company Wales: Rendering

Reciprocal Gestures: movement in dialogue

  • 30m

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  • Duration 30m
Reciprocal Gestures: movement in dialogue is a two-day programme of expanded dance and movement, gathering artists and communities to explore the sustaining and transformative potential of movement-based practices.

As you settle into the café space with National Dance Company Wales, an improvised experimental performance unfolds around you.

Everyday movements shift in and out of the familiar. Gestures repeat, break apart, and come back together in unexpected ways. Patterns appear and disappear, and new sequences form and fall away. 

No two performances of this work are the same, making each experience unique. 

Get a drink and let this moment in time wash over you. 
Book ahead or drop in to the café.

Movement & Performance: Sonny Connor-Bell, Alys Davies, Jill Goh Riz Golden, Ed Myhill, Andrew Lennox Scott. 
Choreography & Sound: Bakani Pick-Up

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About the artist
 
Bakani Pick-Up was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and moved to the UK in 2005. Their dance journey began in Zimbabwe, they was fortunate to attend schools that nurtured their passion for movement. After completing their A Levels, Bakani trained in Choreography at Falmouth University and Trinity Laban. Since graduating, they have worked with artists including Grace Wales Bonner, Anthea Hamilton, Theo Clinkard and Fevered Sleep. Alongside their movement practice, Bakani has worked as a Choreographer, Writer, Lecturer, Researcher and Programmer.

Since 2018, Bakani has been freelancing as a Performer and Teacher, expanding their expertise in pedagogy, creative well-being, leadership, governance, and interdisciplinary arts. Their work has been presented at The Place (London), Vienna Secession (Austria), and on BBC Four.

In 2018, they founded Bakani Pick-Up Company, a choreographic performance company exploring ‘ways of being.’ Their work has been supported by The Place, Goethe Institute, British Council (Spain), Yorkshire Dance, FABRIC, Arts Council England and Dans Atelier (NED). 

Bakani currently hold roles as an Associate Trustee at Yorkshire Dance and a Trustee at Chisenhale Dance Space.

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About National Dance Company Wales 

National Dance Company Wales embraces the distinctive voices of artists from near and far. It commissions bold artistic collaborations with dance at its heart.

It seeks to inspire everyone to move by nourishing talent and insight, enabling new ideas to emerge and develop. 

National Dance Company Wales creates and presents ambitious, engaging dance work across the UK and internationally.

As a repertory company, it creates work by a range of choreographers to reflect different perspectives. Its artistic programme is driven by a commitment to create new work, discover and develop new artists and to inspire audiences and communities through high quality and enriching dance experiences. 

The company is made up of exceptional dancers, who have a rich physical understanding, and a sense of individual artistry and a highly talented creative and business team. The company performs at its home base, The Dance House in Cardiff Bay and at other venues in Wales, the wider UK and internationally. 

Equally important is the work it delivers to engage people in dance themselves; to tap into the wellbeing benefits of dance and experience its many benefits and its talent development programmes support those with aspirations for a career in dance, on and off stage. By enabling artistic innovation at all stages of career development, it seeks to make a significant contribution towards a diverse dance ecology in Wales. 

NDCWales is putting many voices and styles of dance presentation at the heart of its work, which develops our artform, and explores how dance can reach and connect with audiences. These distinctive collaborations aim to thrill, inspire, surprise and delight, presenting audiences with opportunities they could not experience anywhere else.

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