TARGET GROUPS

• Education and community settings (mostly rural).
• Cross-generation, cross-artform, cross-cultural and disabled/integrated contexts with young people, disabled people of all ages, older people.

GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT
UK, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Western and Southern Europe.

COMPANY POLICY
Undertakes music, dance and combined music and dance projects. The company aims to produce high quality performance, training and participatory work in a variety of contexts with a general emphasis on:

• Communicating effectively with partners, collaborators and participants
• Connecting contemporary dance and folk/pop music and song

SCALE OF PROJECTS
Number of practitioners: 1-4
Number of participants: 30 maximum
Preparation time: 1-5 days
Contact time: 1 day - 12 weeks

PERMANENT STAFF
Anna Ryder, Artistic Director (music)
Louise Katerega, Artistic Director (dance)

Dance in a Day (UK, 2001)
25 young people aged 8-16 created dance, music and a simple set to accompany Anna Ryder's song, Pockets on Fire, and performed to parents in the studio's main theatre at Warwick Arts Centre.

Outside In (UK, 2002)
Site-specific work focused on history, literacy , architecture and environment with 30 school students aged 10-11. Artistic directors led children in devising 10-minute outdoor performances of poetry, dance and song based on their experiences of visiting the house and grounds at Charlcote Park Stately Home.

Feetbeat (UK, 2001-2002)
Artistic directors trained six pairs of Birmingham Royal Ballet members and orchestra players to work in primary schools and mentored them for six months as they created performances with school students aged 8-11 based on current company repertory.

The Bathroom Story (UK, 2001)
Cross-generational community project in rural area led by Anna Ryder. Participants 2-40 years of age created and recorded songs for a musical promoting dental hygiene.

Tshwarango: In Touch (South Africa, 2000-03)
In four three-week trips, Louise Katerega demonstrated a professional level integrated dance training programme; travelled to several towns/cities leading workshops and establishing networks; spoke informally at a conference; mentored trainees in integrated education work; remounted professional integrated work by project leader Adam Benjamin; and choreographed own professional integrated work.

Community Music Training
Workshops for university/conservatoire students, led by Anna Ryder

Big Sandwich (working title)
A collaboration between professional artists and groups of young, older and disabled participants to create a dance/music show based around selected songs from Anna Ryder's three released albums (2003-04).

Anna Ryder

E anna@rowdymusic.net

"I gave Anna my tune and words and she arranged and recorded it...So I've had my music done by a brill singer!"
Male project participant, aged 15, learning disabled

"Louise has proven herself not only an excellent and adaptable teacher, but potentially a key figure in the development of integrated dance in South Africa."
Adam benjamin, Choreographer and Project Leader, Tshwarango Integrated Dance Development Project (South Africa, 2000)

"Artistry, humour, technical acumen and choreographic invention."
Adrienne Sichel, The Star, review of integrated dance performance work, FNB Dance Umbrella Festival (South Africa, 2003)

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