NSCD events off-site
A daytime, family-friendly festival.
Students at Northern School of Contemporary Dance have made a series of performances and films that will pop up in different corners of Chapeltown.
Houses are dream incubators. Students rent rooms and the walls become transparent. Hoarded memories from ancient and unborn tenants buzz loudly in the basement. In a breath, the wind blows the roof off and dance stories spill out onto the pavement. Chapeltown cats mooching along the walls are the first to notice. Will you be the second?
Descend into the animal realm in Out of Elk, a nomadic performance full of tall tales and sideward glances. Turn up the volume on a silent movie and finally find out who dunnit in ‘The Devastating and Tragic Murder of Commissioner Magnus Abbott’ and linger in sweet sadness in an immersive film ‘A love letter to the things we left behind’.
Free of charge and welcome to all.
Sign up online for either trail via the links below or turn up on the day (please note capacity for each trail is limited so advance booking is advised)
TRAIL 1 - 11am, 1pm & 3pm (8 works) BOOK HERE
Suitable for all ages
TRAIL 2 - 11am, 12pm, 1pm , 2pm, 3pm (6 works) BOOK HERE
Age suitability 14+
Please note each trail involves travelling from place to place. If you have any additional access requirements, please do get in touch.
Tickets:Free
Audience Capacity: 16
Team: James Cale, Gabriel Dunn, Nina Grindley
“How can nature persevere? it perseveres as we do, through the cracks and cobbles of urban culture. we seek each other out as we look towards the sky.”
Team: Layla [Lay] Johnson-Sanchez, Nina Dalla Vite, Xun Guo
Team: Tzu-Yen Chin, April Faldon, Emelia Macmichael
Team: Lydia Uwanogho, Eve Dobson, Niamh Ollier, Pippa Wright, Kristian Darby, Suzon Jouffrey, Joshua Morrison
Team: Krish Bhakerd, Fride Henriksen, Ava Warwick, Az Farrell
This short film explores abnormality within the every day and the freedom those who hide have during darkness. Loosely based on the witches from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Let Not Light uses movement to follow the thread of life.
Team: Hazel Astbury, Maerin Miles , Lauren Magill , Saskia Roy
Team: Miyabi Croft, Mariana Cruz, Cristian Mellett, Maisy Rose, Milly Bajpai, Scarlett Thornton, Tamzin Jones
Team: Deanna Gore, Meg Morgan, Megan Silverwood
Audience Capacity: 5
Age Guidance: 16+
Team: Posy Darnborough, Jocelyn Johnson
Inspired by the poem Dancehall Sound Clash by Khadijah Ibrahiim.We have taken further inspiration from music and sound originating from Chapeltown in the past and have allowed this to guide us into new ways of moving and our own sense of being.
Team: Alice Silver, Conrad Couzins, Liliom Valter, Meg Morgan, Emily Piddlesden, Mutyat Anibaba
Team: Emma Woodhouse , Freya Hattam, James Mist-Clark, Layla-Ann Leaning
Team:Imogen Masters, Raye Cashmore-Clifton , Sophie Hawley, Isola Earp, Connie Thorby-Hodge
This performance requires you to download the audio below:
We Are. Brainrot – Out There 2024 on SoundCloud
Team: Amali Perry-Falvey, Leona Williams, Salomé Gomis
Chapeltown basement raves have always been safe spaces for everyone. As women continue to fight for spaces like this to be more common, immerse yourselves and enjoy!
Team: Abbie Garmany, Jamie Elize Garcia , Mia Hier, Maja Funch Olsen, Ellie Jean Middleton