So much going on, so will say some of it in pictures...

Zoe celebrates her 50th Birthday this week and is the last founding performer still in Shallal, we started when she was 19.

Anna was 21 two weeks ago and started in Shallal Dance Theatre aged 7.

Anna gave our second Shallal Artists Talk for Back Lane West remote residency 2020 and Zoe gave the third one recently. 

It was a real success, so well received with a fantastic Questions and Answers.

You can see Zoe's presentation on you tube.

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 Grab a Hat! we were practising for Zoe's Fancy Dress lunchtime zoom party 12.30-1.30pm this Friday!

On to the real work!

Getting ready for the 24 July In your Hands at Newlyn Art Gallery - without too many spoilers

1. Art & Production zoom

butterfly

2. Shallal Dance Theatre film chat with Bobby and Pep and all....

Debs showing us her painting - scale is so important.

We were joined by Arinda (lower right) we all shared news about all the work being created including film ideas with Pep (below), and Bobby (lower left)

Zooming in from....Catalonia, Spain and Uganda, and west to mid Cornwall.

Following on, Arinda 'zoomed in' on Monday to Newlyn Art Gallery, where we chatted with Blair about the possibilities for the exhibition..which will be three part: Arinda's inspiration, prompts and voice, Shallal's responses and Blair's curation. 

Welcome to Chris Gardner our new general manager.

News

my notes....

 New website about to launch and oh my so much: 

new general manager post

Dance Deliveries gift a dance

Connect and Dance

Regular Zoom Tuesdays 10.30-11.30 starts June 8th?

In Your Hands

Homecoming

Forget me nots

Back Lane West

Mentoring for Business plan

 a week later ....

In your hands

feedback from Arinda on Star's short film!

The video is amazing. I love the sepia mood. It accentuates the realness of nature,. And the dancing, I love the tactile appeal when Star touches the feathery trunk.

Send my gratitude and admiration to Star for her work.

New Zoom

Shallal are pleased and excited to launch our new regular Zoom

Dance Connection

Tuesdays 10.30 - 11.30am in term time

is a drop in session for anyone who likes to dance and move, that you can take at your own pace

 Free - donate what you can

As many dancers begin to be able to meet up again, we want to keep the joy of dancing with friends near and far from our own homes and stay connected.

Shallal Style Improvisation

Aiming to be Fun & Accessible, 

The session works with those who come along in an open spontaneous workshop style.

We welcome artists to draw, play music etc.

Shallal has an eclectic style welcoming different inputs.

Warm up with Sapphire Sumpter followed by working with Jo Willis Shallal's Creative director

Hope to see you soon in 'Zoomland'

Sapphire Sumpter - has recently graduated from Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance with a BA (Hons).Working under Wolfgang Stange in AMICI Dance Theatre transformed how I view dance and showed me the endless possibilities of connecting with others through movement.

Jo Willis - has worked for over 30 years in creative dance ( also inspired by Wolfgang Stange) and enjoys the freedom of creativity and cross art forms, developing ways to increase range of expression for dance artists and devising open improvisation prompts.

We danced with...

Miles - Flushing      Andrew - Portcurno   Lily, Xanthe and baby - Southern Spain.  a good start and more to come!

We welcome Chris Gardner as our new General Manager and more to come soon as everything gathers momentum including G7! oh my we are overrun! in this spanner at the end of Britain. Uploaded Toby's film to instagram this morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YLzq2P6z8Y&t=5s

Conversation with Mary Ann Bloomfield re Ordinalia yesterday and so much creativity as we work towards In your Hands. 

And a big thank you to everyone behind the scenes especially Theresa Elgar our new finance manager and our Trustees and Lou and Barbara who have held so much while we transitioned from one Business manager role into Finanace and General Managers as Shallal expands and consolidates.