Dance United Yorkshire proudly presents Rewritten Pages on Thursday 7th November 2013, featuring dancers from its current Bradford Project.

Rewritten Pages is directed by Dance United Yorkshire's Artistic Director Helen Linsell and Dance Artist Leanne Taylor. 

The evening will also feature the Yorkshire Performance Company performing Changing Spaces, a new piece created exclusively for them by choreographer Donald Edwards, and the Keighley Youth Company performing I Am Me.

The performance will be at the Alhambra Studio Theatre in Bradford. Tickets are free.

More info: http://bit.ly/1ctNuO8

Since 2010, teenagers 13 to 19 years old have been invited by The New York Times in the summer to choose any piece they like and write why it interested them. The New York Times then chooses a weekly favourite to feature.

This week, the runner-up response came from Tommy, a 15-year-old from Webster, N.Y., who wrote a passionate response to the recent article on Dance United Yorkshire's work in Leeds:

This program does not forget about certain citizens because of their wrongdoings on society, rather, provide them with a new lifestyle that they can influence on others and the world.

Wessex Dance Academy’s current cohort will perform Rewritten Pages  on Tuesday 12 February 2013, 7pm, at The Lights in Andover.

Rewritten Pages, choreographed by Siobhan Maguire-Swartz and Robert Guy, was created to show the raw energy, physicality and talent of young people new to contemporary dance. It charts their journey into adulthood, the different paths and choices they can take and the pressures they face. This is their first performance together after only three weeks of dance training.

Robert Guy is currently Head Aerialist for Wired Aerial Theatre and has been choreographing and performing with them for the past 5 years. He has also performed works by Fillip Van Huffel, Henri Ougike and Stephen Petronio. Robert teaches and choreographs both nationally and internationally, with one of his most recent works for Dance United, Unwritten Pages, winning him the Koestler Platinum Award for Choreography.

Siobhan Maguire-Swartz is Academy Director for Dance United’s London Academy. She won alongside Robert Guy the Koestler Platinum Award for Choreography for Unwritten Pages. More recently, her work The Performance, choreographed with John Ross, received acclaim across London and featured in the Festival of the World, Celebrate the City Festival and the Olympic Torch Relay during the summer of 2012.

Rewritten Pages Tuesday 12th February, 7pm The Lights West Street, Andover Hampshire SP10 1AH

Rewritten Pages on Flickr.