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For Turveyworld latest News and forthcoming events please click here www.turveyworld.wordpress.com

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Previous Events:

Obsession
Art Gallery Workshop
Oct 30/31
1.30-4.30 £10/8

Gerry will run a dance workshop using the themes and ideas of the exhibition 'Obsession: Contemporary Art from the Lodeveans collection, see link for images of the collection - www.lodeveanscollection.com

The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
Parkinson Building
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
For further details and to book contact Gerry.
turveyworld2@yahoo.com

WINDOW SHOPPING!
Oct 8..

As part of World Mental Health week Turveyworld will present this will be a one-off unique event located in the centre of Huddersfield inside a shop window. It will combine, dance and physical theatre to an unsuspecting, accidental audience passing by…

Watch out for other events in Huddersfield during this week as part of the ‘Pigs might Fly Festival’!

The Space Between
12/13 Nov 10-4pm

Green Top Circus Space
Two day workshop event
£80/70

As part of the Green-Top professional development training programme, ‘Transform,’ Gerry will run a two day workshop at the Circus Space, in Sheffield. This workshop will focus on new ways of working with equipment and choreography, with encouragement to dive into unknown territories.
To book or for more information see
www.greentop.org
Tel 0114 2448828

Other events in the planning for 2009/10:
· Workshops for Sheffield professional Dance Collective
· Collaboration with Urban Angels circus for site-specific installation, Feb 2010
· Further teaching of site-specific work, at both Leeds University and Edge Hill University.

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Previous events....

Aerial Theatre ...

Gerry was awarded an Arts Council grant to develop some research into the relationship between dance and aerial work. This very exciting venture took place with three different aerial companies and culminated in a ‘sharing’ of work at GREEN TOP Circus Space. Click here for images of the project.

LIDO

- a site specific performance at Yearsley Pool in York.

This work will be made by the upcoming young company 103 Falling Birds. Gerry will be mentoring 103 Falling Birds throughout the choreographic process (and having a few swims as well!)

Performances Oct 31 2008 @2pm Nov 1/2 @7.00pm Tickets £2.00.
Download the leaflet here.

Visit www.samlawrencedance.co.uk.

Kaz DanceHUMAN Special September Series

In early September 2008 Gerry will revisit KazDance Humantheater in Amherst MA USA to run an integrated dance project with both able-bodied and physically disabled dancers. The work will focus on Transitional Bridges. Spaces and places of Change. Special attention will be paid to change through disability and limitations, aging, and times of transition. The work will be site specific and body specific.

Visit www.myspace.com/kazdancehumantheater for more info.

Watch this space for information of other exciting events planned for the future.

Barnsley Big Dance.

'RED'

Gerry was commissioned by Barnsley Council to make a new site specific work with three community groups. This Event took place at Cannon Hall Park on Saturday July 12th. RED used the space and inspiration from the gardens to create dance and a full report can now be viewed here.

Dance at Canon Hall

Geometry of Fear
Dance @ Huddersfield Art Gallery

A movement workshop facilitated by dancer Gerry Turvey
Saturday 10 May 2008. In collaboration with the Geometry of Fear Exhibition. The workshop aimed to develop a deeper awareness of image form and space.

Namibia January 2008

Gerry started 2008 with an adventurous trip to Namibia to choreograph and train a group of young people. This was in collaboration with The Ombetja Yehinga Organisation (OYO). This is a Namibian Welfare Organisation aiming at decreasing the impact of HIV/AIDS among young people, using Arts (both performing and visual) as a tool to create social awareness. It also trains young people and equips them with new skills.

See the 'International Work' page for more details and to download Gerry’s Article.

Dance York
During May 2008 Gerry co-ordinated a promenade series of Site Specific Dance performances in York City as part of DanceYork. A dance workshop as part of this is planned during Easter Week.

Extended Play

Dance Improvisation Workshop

Saturday Jan 5th 2008
Huddersfield Art Gallery
In Collaboration with the sound installation by Janek Schaefer

This was a unique opportunity to improvise alongside a sound installation that is triggered by movement in the space.

Janek Schaefer’s ‘Extended Play…a triptych for the children of war’ is an uplifting and enveloping mass of sound. A trio of turntables play a score for piano, cello and violin adapted from music transmitted in Warsaw during world war two.

Dance was introduced in the space in relation to the sound and ideas of the work. Improvisational scores were given as well as an opportunity to create movement material from the actual score.