From: Equator Festival [events_at_equatorfestival_dot_com]
Sent: 09 May 2016 13:04
Subject: Equator 2016 events - Equator events in Ashford - Chinese dance and music May 21

Equator 2016 Events in Ashford


Equator Festival is launching its Ashford season with 3 very diverse world music and dance events:

Sat May 21st - Far Eastern Feast - a day of Chinese dance, music, calligraphy and opera face-painting

5pm onwards, Centrepiece Church Lower Hall, Bank Street, Ashford TN23 1BA,
tickets; £10, £6(child) Available from Eventbrite. Booking fee will apply.
Please go to www.equatorfestival.com or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/far- eastern-feast-tickets-24651047948

Special Offer for Ashford residents: For 2 or more events your tickets will be discounted to £8 each.

A day of spectacular Chinese dance, music, calligraphy and Chinese opera face- painting and Tai-Chi. Before enjoying a stunning show of dance and music from the Sinman Chinese artists.

5pm 5.45pm
Chinese calligraphy workshop
Inc in ticket for evening performance
It?s the art of writing in traditional China using special brush and ink. You will have an opportunity to learn this writing technique as well as some simple Chinese characters.

5.45pm 6.30pm
Chinese dance workshop
Inc in ticket for evening performance
Long Fan dance is a traditional folk and festive dance in mainland China. The colourful long fan gives the dance cheerful and graceful feel. The workshop participants will join our dance using this beautiful prop.

6.30pm 7pm
Chinese opera face-painting
Inc in ticket for evening performance
Beijing Opera Mask is a pattern of putting on facial make up for opera actors and actresses, enabling the audience to get a glimpse of the inner world of the each role. Different color represents different roles in the play. For example: Red indicates devotion, courage bravery, uprightness and loyalty. Black symbolizes roughness and fierceness. Yellow signifies fierceness, ambition and cool-headedness. We will try to demonstrate few main role masks on participants

7.30pm 9pm
Sinman Chinese Artists
Tickets £12 £7.50 for children
Sinman Dance Company aims to promote and develop Chinese dance and culture in the UK through performances and activity workshops. We are delighted to provide you this unique cultural experience with Chinese arts. Come and enjoy our colourful display of Chinese traditional dance and music from different regions of China.

About the Sinman Dance Company

Sinman Dance Company was formed in June 2002. The Company aims to promote and develop Chinese dance and culture in the UK through public performances and activity workshops. Sinman Dance is an artist led company in which the work is planned, produced and delivered by our artists. The Company?s core members are professionally trained performing artists from China, Hong Kong & Taiwan who are all currently based in the UK. Together, we have built a healthy portfolio of work through past projects and events.

Artistically, we made our debut performance at The Place Theatre. The unique style of this debut project brought us more opportunities in the following years. Our choreographic commissions include The Third Sex, Talking Feather, Fire of Hope and many more; these pieces have been presented by some major events and venues such as French company Les Passagers at O2 arena, ROH2 New Currents at the Royal Opera House, East London Dance at Stratford Circus, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Dance City in Newcastle and Barking Broadway Theatre etc

Education and community work are significant for us to fulfil our aim. We constantly provide high quality work for schools, libraries, universities and museums in order to reach a wider audience. Some of the projects were carried out through collaborations with other organisations like Museum of London, British Museum, Chinese Cultural Centre, Yellow Earth Theatre and Cultural Co- operation. We also initiate our own ideas and educational projects in the past by receiving project funding from Arts Council England as well as Awards For All from the Lottery Fund.
The most recent high profile projects are:
2012 Lord Mayor Show
China Late educational programme at British Museum from 2007-2008 Community project for Beijing Olympic Torch Relay at British Museum and O2 in London
BBC Silk Screen 2008 in Birmingham, an outdoor event working with the local community.
The annual school tours, to celebrate the Chinese New Year in schools with Chinese dance and other traditional
performances and workshops.

Sat June 25th from 5pm - Red with Indian dance and music, Centrepiece Church Hall, Bank Street, Ashford TN23 1BA tickets; £10, £6(child) Available from Eventbrite. Booking fee will apply.

Please go to www.equatorfestival.com or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/red- with-indian-dance-and-music-tickets-24651469208

Indian dance workshop 5 6pm

Learn some authentic Bollywood dance moves from dancers Ash and Kali (from Bombay Dreams and Kirov Ballet) part of the music and dance company ShivaNova.
Indian drum workshop 6 7pm

Indian drumming A taster on Indian drums learning some of the rhythm circles and interesting Indian folk and classical drum patterns.

Red 7.30 9 pm

Ash and Kali from ShivaNova perform a mix of Indian dance, Bollywood and Latin to a range of music from contemporary to traditional Indian. Ash and Kali are two of the most skilled and virtuoso dancers in the UK. Also featured will be Indian drumming in a spectacular ?question-answer? session with dancers.
About Red

Ash A Time Out London?s Rising Talent and Critics? Circle National Dance Awards UK nominee, Ash has been hailed as the Best Indian dancer in Great Britain today by Dance Europe.
In a recent survey conducted by Wiki Answers on the top twenty best male dancers in the world, Ash is the only representative of temple dance and appears along side his childhood idols, Rudolph Nureyev and Fred Astaire. Tipped as one of the most unique and cutting edge choreographers emerging from the UK dance scene today, Ash was hand picked by the production team behind This Is It! to create a short temple dance solo and represent India Michael Jackson?s O2 shows.
A versatile dance maker with an intuitive grasp on popular culture, Ash brings a fresh new take on artistic collaboration, most notably in his recent work with the acclaimed director Kevin Godley, in creating the striking imagery behind the music video of the Katie Melua/William Orbit hit single, The Flood and his choreographic piece for the one of the hottest international dance shows on television So You Think You Can Dance 2 UK on BBC1 television. ?Mukherjee?s solos are works of art. There is no greater Indian dancer in Great Britain.
The speed with which he moves across the floor and the fluency of his poetic arms are for anyone who wishes to appreciate outstanding dancing.? Mike Dixon, Dance Europe

Kali a powerful dancer, his lyrical and flexible upper body, drawing on both Odissi and western contemporary demonstrated an affinity with the varied qualities of the jazz clarinet, while his lower body strength aligned with the rhythmic pulse?, Pulse (autumn 2004) ?Lasya was powerful and different giving the audience a lot of drama and incident?, Head of Dance, Royal Festival Hall. ?As inventive with his title as he is with his choreography. ?Trandisionale? speaks of transcending traditions and nationality, this work was outstanding. Kali, in his ?creative dance avatar?, was able to display the dignity of evolved forms in a striking setting. The grace of Bharata Natyam and Odissi blended effortlessly, via Shankaresque fusion, into more sexually charged styles of Flamenco, Tango and informal social dance?, Narthaki.com
Sat July 16th from 5.30pm, U'Zambezi - South African songs and dances Centrepiece Church Hall, Bank Street, Ashford TN23 1BA tickets; £10, £6(child) Available from Eventbrite. Booking fee will apply.
Please go to www.equatorfestival.com or
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uzambezi-south-african-songs-and-dances- tickets-24959525613

U?Zambezi Arts specialises in songs, drum rhythms, dances and instrumental music styles from the Southern African region. The musicians are self-taught, multi-talented artists whose work has taken them into Canada, the USA, Europe including the UK, and all across southern Africa.

They have performed at some of the world?s most prestigious venues over the past 18 years, such as the Winter Gardens in Toronto, Symphony Space in New York, JFK Centre in Washington DC, Opera de Paris, the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, and Ronnie Scott?s Club in London.

U?Zambezi has shared stages with reggae musician Jimmy Cliff and English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, and performed for dignitaries such as Nelson Mandela and Queen Elizabeth II. They have appeared on TV programmes including Blue Peter, Later with Jools Holland, and on prime time City TV-Toronto.
5.30pm: African Dance Workshop
Free with ticket to the main show.
Participants will have a chance to learn traditional dances from southern Africa including the famous Gumboot dance which will be demonstrated here.
6.15pm: African Drumming Workshop
Free with ticket to the main show.
A hand-on session learning and playing southern African drum patterns and rhythms.

7.30pm - main show


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