Young dancers to showcase their skills
The annual Project Y tour visits the Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling later this month.
It showcases the extraordinary talent of some of the UK’s best young contemporary dancers upon their completion of intensive dance training programme, the Project Y Performance Course.
YDance (Scottish Youth Dance) - the national dance organisation for children and young people in Scotland - established Project Y in 2006 as the only programme of its kind for 16 to 21-year-olds.
Each year up to 25 young dancers are selected from a rigorous audition process to form the Project Y Company and the company spends four weeks over the summer working with four different choreographers to create new dance works which are then toured to venues across the country.
This year’s choreographers are Richard Chappell, James Cousins, Anna Kenrick and Sophie Laplane.
Part of the appeal of Project Y to both participants and audience members is the diversity of the programme. Each choreographer has different methods of creating material based on diverse themes ensuring participants get a breadth of experience during the four weeks and audiences see a varied programme.
Anna Kenrick, artistic director of YDance and one of this year’s choreographers, said: “Project Y is a unique intensive training and performance programme. It gives them a real sense of what it’s like to work in the industry as a performer – from the audition process, to working with top choreographers to creating and rehearsing a number of dance pieces, right through to touring the work on a national tour.”
Project Y is on stage at the Macrobert on Thursday, July 26 at 7.30pm. Tickets priced £7.50/£5.50 concession are on sale now from www.macrobertartscentre.org or call the box office on 01786 466 666.