A site-specific, community dance and storytelling project for, by and about Newport Shropshire, Ghosts, Ghouls and Gargoyles, aimed to give participants and audience members knowledge of and pride in their local community.  Resources and research were gathered from Shropshire Archives to inform the project, storyteller Amy Douglas explored this history and the stories surrounding it and choreographer Bettina Strickler and rehearsal Director Rose Gordon translated these stories into movement sequences. A workshop programme of storytelling and dance workshops took place, firstly to gather stories to inform the performance and then to explore them, in local schools and community settings.  Bettina Strickler worked with a community company of dancers to create an original dance production inspired by these stories and history which culminated in an afternoon and evening of public performances on Halloween at Adams’ Grammar School.

 

In Spring 2009 Bare Bones were in residency at 2 Telford secondary schools, Charlton and Hadley Learning Community creating site specific curtain raiser pieces to be performed in the aircraft hangar in promenade before the Bare Bones 6 performance.  Bare Bones also worked with Making Choreographers who created a piece which was also performed as a curtain raiser.

 

A group of Telford students had a half term residency with international choreographer Elizabetta D’Aloia who was commissioned to create an original dance piece for 2009 Telford Dance Festival.
 

In partnership with Telford and Wrekin libraries and Wolverhampton Art Gallery, dx worked with three primary schools: High Ercall, Crudgington and Shortwood to create dance performances based on local myths and legends.

dx were also one of many partners working with Charlton school to create a site specific performance in Wellington marketplace.