Dance Resource Base

Wishing you a fun-packed and cosy winter Dancerland!

2009-12-15T15:53:00.003Z

Dance Resource Base would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us over the past year and we wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happily dancing New Year! Enjoy!

Dance Funding Clinic

2009-07-27T15:47:00.003+01:00

Many thanks to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for hosting and presenting the Dance Funding Clinic this morning, 27th July. The session was informative and enlightening, and allowed Dance Resource Base members insight into the application process for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland's SIAP awards...which by the way opens today for applications and coses on 27th August so get writing!!

For guidelines and an application form visit http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/award/award.htm

Juliette has had a happy, healthy baby girl!!

2009-07-17T10:07:00.001+01:00

We have recently had some great news within the Dance Resource Base office as Juliette has given birth to a beautiful baby daughter. Congratulations Juliette and we look forward to meeting wee Alice very soon!

Dance for Darfur

2009-07-16T12:24:00.002+01:00

Just to say a huge thank you to everyone who joined in, and to those who supported Philip Johnston's fundraising event in Belfast yesterday. We managed to skip the rain and thunder and danced in glorious weather, surroundings and with glorious music too! And the best bit ... it was all in aid of Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières—MSF).

Please visit www.philip-johnston.net for more information or to make a donation.

Ponydance wins "Ulster Bank Pick of the Festival" Award at the Pick n Mix, OMAC

2009-06-30T10:56:00.005+01:00

Dance Resource Base would like to congratulate Ponydance on their recent success at the Pick n Mix Festival at the OMAC (Old Museum Arts Centre), Belfast last month. The local dance company won the "Ulster Bank Pick of the Festival" Award for their performance of a Work in Progress. We wish them all the best for the future development of this piece and for their upcoming performances at Transfest, Belfast and The Fringe, Dublin this summer.

Visit: www.ponydance.com

June 2009 Members' Forum

2009-06-24T17:28:00.003+01:00

Thanks to everyone who was able to make it to the June Forum held last Wednesday at Dance Resource Base. It was great to enable everyone who attended the chance to touch base with Dance Resource Base, share new ideas, and feed into our current and ongoing commitments to the dance sector.

Dance Resource Base hopes that all its' members come to next month's meeting, with a twist!, and will be in touch shortly with more details.

Dance Venue Research

2009-06-16T13:13:00.002+01:00

Dance Resource Base are in the initial stages of researching dance studios and other spaces suitable for dance practice within Northern Ireland. We hope to gather information from all corners of the region and create a database open to Dance Resource Base members and visitors.

If you can assist with this research and know of a place suitable to hire for dance activity then please contact the Dance Resource Base Development Officer at info@danceresourcebase.org.

We value your input and your help is much appreciated, thanks.

Can I also just take a moment to say Hello to those I haven't had the chance to meet yet. I'm Jen Thornton and I will be covering the Development Officer post temporarily as Juliette has taken maternity leave with her baby due in July. All the best to Juliette!!

Presentation to the Board of ACNI

2009-03-04T12:48:00.002Z

Dance Resource Base has been invited to present the organisation to the Board of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, on Wednesday 11 March. Which means we're busy working on Powerpoint at the moment!

Dance Strategy: meeting with the Arts Council

2009-01-26T15:58:00.002Z

On Friday 9th January 2009, representatives of the dance sector (annually funded companies, the University of Ulster and Dance Resource Base) discussed the new Dance Strategy with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Held at the ACNI, the meeting was very positive and an opportunity to hear some good news: the ACNI is restructuring and is going to hire a part-time Dance Officer. The ACNI is hoping to have someone in place in 6 months.

Dance Strategy: meeting with the Arts Council

2008-11-26T11:18:00.003Z

On Friday 9th January 2009, representatives of the dance sector (annually funded companies, the University of Ulster and Dance Resource Base) will discuss the new Dance Strategy with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

There is a further opportunity for members, especially those who could not attend the forum discussion on October 13, to forward their responses to Dance Resource Base, who will represent individual dance professionals at the meeting.

This is your chance to be heard. Please send us your views, comments and queries about the Dance Strategy by Monday 5th January!

Reminder: you can download the strategy from ACNI's website. Hard copies are also available for consultation at Dance Resource Base.

Dance archive

2008-11-05T14:43:00.002Z

Dance Research Forum Ireland, in partnership with the Arts Council of Ireland and the University of Limerick, are proposing to establish a dance archive for Ireland, based in the Library of the University of Limerick.

Victoria O'Brien, from Dance Research Forum Ireland, is currently carrying out a feasibility report and came to meet us at Dance Resource Base to discuss a potential partnership.

If you have any archival material (programmes, posters, press-clippings, videos...) which could be copied or even donated to either the archive in Limerick or to the Resource room at Dance Resource Base, please get in touch!

The Creative Blueprint launch

2008-11-03T13:36:00.004Z

On Thursday 30 October, Dance Resource Base attended the Creative Blueprint launch, as part of the Belfast Festival at Queen's. The Creative Blueprint is the plan of Creative & Cultural Skills to meet the training and business needs of the sector in Northern Ireland.

New initiatives like Creative Apprenticeships, Creative Choices website, an industry bespoke leadership programme and the UK Design Skills Alliance were presented.

For more information visit www.creative-choices.co.uk/blueprint or come to the resource room at Dance Resource Base.

Cultural Olympiad

2008-10-23T14:46:00.004+01:00

Dance Resource Base was invited to take part in a discussion about the Cultural Olympiad, organised by the Foundation for Community Dance in London. The first meeting took place on Monday 6 October at The Place in London. Most of the important dance organisations in the UK participated. It was agreed that the dance sector would put together a proposition for a signature project, and try to add dance to the 10 existing signature projects.

The second meeting took place on Tuesday 21 October at Akademi in London. A smaller group of organisations gathered and discussed the proposition further.

University of Ulster and Random Dance performance

2008-10-20T18:47:00.005+01:00

The University of Ulster worked with Random Dance to present a performance on Saturday 18, before Wayne McGregor's Entity at the Waterfront hall. The performance took place in the Green Room, and Sandie Fisher, the University's Artist in Residence, kindly invited Dance Resource Base to say a few words about what we do.

AGM and Dance Strategy forum

2008-10-16T14:17:00.003+01:00

Dance Resource Base first Annual General Meeting took place on Monday 13 October, and was followed by a forum on the Dance Strategy of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

The three leading dance companies of Northern Ireland (Dance United Northern Ireland, Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company and Maiden Voyage Dance Company) attended the meeting, as well as individual artists and tutors.

It was the start of a discussion which we are hoping to continue! When asked how Dance Resource Base could improve its services to the dance community, the participants talked about the lack of opportunities to meet. It was agreed that Dance Resource Base will organise a monthly informal meeting for its members.