information pack - Northern School of Contemporary Dance

Third DayMorning: classroomSincro Rewinder:• 1 Unit Introduction and Overview• 2 Operator Interface Panel Controls• 3 Settings and Adjustments:• How to adjust draw roll Units• How to adjust perforation blades• How to change perforation blades• How to adjust lower detour roll (Drawroll before winding unit)• How to adjust core supply• How to adjust core Introduction finger• How to adjust SINCRO pads• Master Reference• Rewinder Zero cycle – Robox Homing• Core diameter changing procedures• Product changing procedures• Lower Winding roll position• What each Photocell does• Lower winding roll speed control andDeceleration parameters• Diatrol & Rider roll parameters• Rider Roll & Diatrol system setting• How to calibrate Rewinder encoders• How to jog the Rewinder shafts (jogaxis)• How to improve product operating• 4 General HousekeepingAfternoon: hands onSincro Rewinder:• Core diameter changing procedures• Core transport chains tensioning• Glue unit adjustments and cleaningprocedures• Perforation blades changing procedure• Sincro pads changing proceduresSincro Rewinder:• Practical session regarding the winding rolland product parameters• How to change, set and calibrate all theencoders• Pneumatic Panel explanationCORE BIN&CONVEYOR• 1 Unit Introduction and Overview• 2 Controls• 3 Settings and Adjustments• 4 General Housekeeping5 Question and Answer session3

Forth DayMorning: classroomTail Sealer:• 1 Unit Introduction and Overview• 2 Operator Interface Panel Controls• 3 What each photocell does• 4 Positioning cycle explanation• 5 Settings and Adjustments:• How to set the upper unit in referencewith log diameter• How to correctly set tail position• How to set tail length• How to set glue application• How to adjust the quantity of glueapplied• How to adjust glue flow• How to adjust log tail rewinding andpositioning• How to set encoder• 6 General HousekeepingAccumulator:• 1 Unit Introduction and Overview• 2 Operator Interface Panel Controls• 3 Settings and Adjustments:• How to set loading and Unloadingsystem• How to set and correct accumulatorchain tension• How to set tray parallelism• How to set Torque safety devices onLoad and Unload sections• Chain Lubrication• 4 General HousekeepingAfternoon: hands onTail Sealer:• How to correctly set tail position• How to set tail length• How to set glue application• How to adjust the quantity of glue applied• How to adjust glue flow• How to adjust log tail rewinding andpositioning• Cleaning the glue tank• How to set encoderAccumulator:• How to set loading and Unloading system• How to set and correct accumulator chaintension• How to set trays parallelismLog Saw Loader:• 1 Unit Introduction and Overview• 2 Operator Interface Panel Controls• 3 Settings and Adjustments:• What each eye or sensor does• How to set Loading trays• How to set chain tension• 4 General HousekeepingLog Saw Loader:• How to set Loading trays• How to set chain tension4

iographieschoreographers Verve 07Rafael Bonachela: choreographer (repertory)Born in Barcelona, Spain, Rafael trained at the London Studio Centre and danced withLanonima Imperial before joining Rambert Dance Company in 1992. In April 2003, he wasappointed Rambert's Associate Choreographer. In September 2004 Rafael won the first everPlace Prize award for choreography, audience vote award and the New York Bloomberg choiceaward, for his piece E2 7SD.To date, he has choreographed nine works for Rambert dancers,including 21, a multi-media work produced in collaboration with Kylie Minogue's creative team.In 2002, Bonachela's career took an interesting turn when he was commissioned tochoreograph Kylie Minogue's routine at the Brit Awards and he went on to work extensively withMs Minogue, choreographing her award-winning Fever tour, the Top of the Pops Awards andthe World Music Awards. Rafael is co-choreographer for Kylie Minogue’s Show Girl world tourthat opened in March 2005 and has also choreographed her two recent music videos for thesingles I Believe In You and Giving You Up.Recent dance commissions include works for: Transitions Dance Company, English ChamberOrchestra, Dance Works Rotterdam, Hip, Union Dance Company, PROBE, GloucestershireYouth Dance Company, InToTo and VERVE. He has also created dance and film works for avariety of clients including MTV, The Kills, Primal Scream, Jaguar Automobiles, SiemensMobile and Hugo Boss.Kim Brandstrup: choreographer (new commission)Kim studied film at the University of Copenhagen and choreography under Nina Fonaroff at theLondon Contemporary Dance School before establishing Arc Dance Company in 1985. He hascreated over twenty works for Arc including Saints and Shadows (Olivier Award nominee),Hamlet, Crime Fictions, Peer Gynt, Garden of Joys and Sorrows and The Return of Don Juan,featuring Irek Mukhamedov, Elegy, Brothers and most recently Hans Christian Andersen-TheAnatomy of a Storyteller commissioned by the Hans Christian Andersen Foundation 2005 andthe Royal Opera House.Kim's credits also include: Orfeo for London Contemporary Dance Theatre, winner of the 1989Laurence Olivier Award for Most Outstanding Achievement In Dance, also performed by ArcDance Company; Sacre Du Printemps (1991) for Geneva Ballet; Benjamin Britten’s Death In

Venice (1992) for the Royal Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, New York; White Nights forEnglish National Ballet; Zemir Et Azor for the Drottingholm Opera House (1993); Othello, forIrek Mukhamedov, winner of the London Evening Standard Award for Most OutstandingProduction (1994); Mysterier for the Royal Danish Ballet, filmed by Danish Television; Eidolonfor Rambert Dance Company; director of Peter Handke’s play The Hour We Knew Nothing OfEach Other in Mälmo, Sweden; Cupid And Psyche for the Royal Danish Ballet (1997) andSleeping Beauty for the Royal New Zealand Ballet (1999); Place of Stone for NorwegianNational Ballet (2001) and The Queen of Spades for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal(2001). In 2004 he was the choreographer for the film The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes,directed by the Quay Brothers.Kim has recently created a new version of Pulcinella for Birmingham Royal Ballet and codirectedthe world premiere of Debussy’s opera La Chute de la Maison Usher based on thenovel The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe for the Bregenze Festival,Austria inAugust 2006.Shobana Jeyasingh: choreographer (new commission)Shobana Jeyasingh was born in Chennai, India. She founded Shobana Jeyasingh DanceCompany in 1988. In addition to the works created for her own company, Shobana hasproduced work for theatre and television and site specific performances created for GreenwichDance Agency (with live web cast from Bangalore, India), the café at Waterman’s Arts,Brentford (with DJ Mukul Patel) and for the City Hall, London. Other commissions includeFoliage Chorus for the opening of ArtsDepot in North London, for Sonia Sabre Dance Company,Random Dance Company, Anurekha Ghosh and the CANASIAN Festival in Toronto.Shobana was awarded an Arts Council Women in Arts project award (1993) inacknowledgement for her valuable contribution to the arts over the past decade and an MBE inJanuary 1995 for services to dance. She is a NESTA Dream Time Fellow.Hofesh Shechter: choreographer (Verve repertory)Hofesh trained at the Jerusalem Academy of Dance. He has performed with Batsheva DanceCompany, Israel and Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company, England. His choreographic debutwork Fragments (2004) premiered at Resolution! at The Place and toured internationallywinning the 3 rd Serge Diaghilev choreography competition in Poland. Cult (2004) reached thefinal of the first Place Prize 2004 and won the audience vote special prize. He was awarded theRobin Howard Foundation Commission for 2006 to create Uprising, to premier at The Place onJune 2006. Future work includes commissions for Ballet CeDeCe in Portugal and Scottish

Dance Theatre. Shechter was appointed the first Resident Artist at The Point, Eastleigh, in July2006.Fin Walker: choreographer (repertory)Fin Walker, winner of the major Jerwood Award, is an independent choreographer, performerand teacher, working nationally and internationally. She joined Extemporary Dance Theatre asa performer in 1988. Since then she has worked with the Jonathan Burrows Group, RosemaryButcher Company and Laurie Booth amongst other British based companies.Fin began making her own work professionally in 1989 and began working with Ben Park(composer) in 1993. Walker Dance was established in 1998 and the name of the company waschanged in 2001 to Walker Dance Park Music to reflect the importance of the relationshipbetween the music and the dance. Fin and Ben have made a number of works both on theirown company and other companies and individuals, in Britain and Europe. Fin and Ben createdShadow with CandoCo Dance Company in 2002. More recent commissions include Me andYou for Phoenix Dance Theatre, a film entitled The Truth, for Ricochet Dance Productions,directed by Katrina McPherson, and a new work for Rambert Dance Company, Reflection,which premiered in Sheffield in 2004.Glenn Wilkinson: choreographer (Verve repertory)Born in Leeds in 1966, he trained at his mother and sister’s school Armley Dance Studio andthen at Intake High School with John Auty. After training at Rambert School between 1984 and1987 he then went on to join Rambert Dance Company where he stayed for 17 years until hisdeparture in May 2004. Whilst at Rambert Glenn choreographed four pieces that went into theirrepertoire. He has also worked with Matz Ek, Jiri Kylian, Glen Tetley, Ashley Page, LaurieBooth, Wayne Mc Gregor, Jeremy James, Ian Spink, Twyla Tharp, Raphael Bonachela, FinnWalker and Lindsay Kemp.

iographiesVerve 07Sarah Callow: dancerSarah was a freestyle disco dancer before joining a contemporary dancegroup near her home in Milton Keynes. She studied HND dance for one yearat New College Nottingham before joining the BPA (Hons) degree at NSCD.Sarah has also been involved in several projects including RODA and anumber of cross-arts collaborations.Kajza Ekberg: dancerKajza was born in Sweden and as a child trained in gymnastics. She studiedat the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance before joining NSCD, whereshe was awarded a first class honours degree. She has been involved withmany community platforms and worked on projects with choreographer LucaSilvestrini, and dance companies RODA and Action Point.Sarah Eldin: dancerSarah was introduced to contemporary dance through her involvement withthe Cornwall Youth Dance Company. She studied on the a BTEC NationalDiploma in Dance at St Austell College and then joined the BPA (Hons)degree at NSCD. Sarah is deeply committed to the development of herchoreographic work and was awarded the NSCD prize for CreativeAchievement. She has also been involved with the RODA dance project.Julia Mazowska: dancerJulia was born in Sweden and attended ballet classes from an early age.During her school education she developed a strong interest in science andwas awarded a place at university to continue her studies. However, shechose instead to follow her passion for dance by joining the BPA (Hons)degree course at NSCD.

Kelly McClelland: dancerKelly was born in Blackpool and from the age of three attended classes at herlocal dance school and became a Junior Associate of the Royal Ballet whenshe was eight years-old. Kelly joined the three-year BPA (Hons) programmeat NSCD in 2003, and gained a first class degree on completion of herstudies. She was also awarded the University of Leeds’ Armes Prize foroutstanding achievement.Simon Palmer: dancerSimon grew up in Essex where he developed a keen interest in performingarts. He started dance classes at the age of 16 and joined the BPA (Hons)degree in Contemporary Dance at NSCD in 2002. After graduating Simonworked on a number of professional dance projects before joining Verve tofurther his professional development as a dance artist.Newsha Parvardin: dancerAfter studying A-level dance Newsha moved to Leeds from London to train atNSCD. After successfully completing the one-year Foundation Course inContemporary Dance she joined the School’s BPA (Hons) degreeprogramme. Newsha has participated in summer schools at the MarthaGraham Center, The Merce Cunningham Studio, The Ailey School and theToronto Dance Theatre.Phil Sanger: dancerAfter graduating from NSCD in 2002 with a BPA (Hons) in ContemporaryDance, Philip and two friends formed a dance company which performed andtaught in schools and universities throughout the UK. More recently Philiphas worked on a number of site-specific performance projects.

Ira Siobhan: dancerIra originally planned on becoming a professional basketball player but choseinstead to pursue a career in contemporary dance. After completing NSCD’sFoundation Course he joined the BPA (Hons) degree programme, achievinga first class award and receiving the School’s Graduation Performance Prize.He has been involved with the RODA dance project for the last two years, andhas recently been offered work with Lloyd Newson.Jennifer Thornton: dancerJennifer’s interest in dance first started with rhythmic gymnastics in herhometown of Manchester. She achieved a BA (Hons) in Dance Studies fromLiverpool John Moores University before joining the third year of NSCD’s BPA(Hons) degree course. She has been involved in many performance projectsincluding a celebration gala marking the centenary of Liverpool’s AnglicanCathedral.Elena Zaino: dancerElena studied ballet, jazz, and contemporary dance in her native Italy prior tomoving to the UK. She studied on the BA (Hons) degree course at LondonContemporary Dance School and has danced and choreographed for variouscompanies including a community project for Rawhead Dance Theatre.Elena’s interest in the use of film in the creation of dance performance hasinvolved her in directing and performing a dance video in Italy.

February2-3 Fri-Sat The Point, EastleighThe Graduatestour datesVerve 070238 065 233322 Riley Theatre, NSCD, Leeds preview 0113 219 301823 Riley Theatre, NSCD, Leeds premiere invite onlyMarch8 Thu Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal OperaHouse, London0207 304 400021 Wed Dance City, Newcastle Upon Tyne 0191 261 050526 Mon Richmond Theatre, London0870 060 6651Leap into Dance28 Wed LIPA, Liverpooljoint performance0151 709 4988April11 Wed Wakefield Theatre Royal 0192 421 131121 Sat The Dukes, Lancaster 0845 344 064026 Thu Waterside Arts Centre, Sale Town Centre 0161 912 5616May4 Fri Macrobert, University of Stirling 0178 646 66665 Sat The Space, Dundee College 0138 283 493417 Thu Gulbenkian Theatre, University of Kent,Canterbury0122 776 907518 Fri The Sinden Theatre, Homewood School,Tenterden20 Sun Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, LondonConservatoire for Dance and Drama Gala0158 076 3826invite only22 Mon Trinity, Tunbridge Wells 0189 267 867824 Thu Town Hall Studio, High Wycombe 0149 451 2000June28 Lakeside Arts, Nottingham 0115 846 777725/26 ITS Festival, Amsterdam info@itsfestival.nlJuly11 Riley Theatre, NSCD, Leeds 0113 219 3018

ox office notesVerve 07What is Verve?Verve is the graduate performance company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance.In 2007 the company comprises eleven dancers who will tour to 20+ venues in the UK andEurope. The School is one of the UK’s leading conservatoire dance schools and offers full timecourses in contemporary dance at foundation, degree and graduate diploma levels.What will be performed?Verve performs contemporary dance work created by leading choreographers. The programmeis a mixed bill of six unconnected works.Suitability?Verve’s 2007 repertoire has an age recommendation of 14+ with caution as Hofesh Shechter’spiece, Bitter Ripples, contains the occasional use of offensive language.Running time:Approximately 120 minutes including a 20-minute interval at mid-point.Running order: (subject to change)Piece Music Dancers LightinguntitledKim BrandstrupApexRafael BonachelaFour Point FiveGlenn WilkinsonintervalCounterfeitShobanaJeyasinghThe SelfFin WalkerBitter RipplesHofesh ShechterGiuseppe DomenicoScarlattidesignCostume designDurationSeven Mark Baker Cassie Fadden 15 minutesBenjamin Wallfisch One Mark Baker Selina Nightingale 8 minutes‘Camberwell Beauty’ byDarius KedrosJurgen Simpson andStephen BanburyEleven Mark Baker Selina Nightingale& Cassie FaddenTen Mark Baker Selina Nightingale& Cassie FaddenBen Parks Two AdamSilvermanHofesh ShechterThis piece contains stronglanguageBen Maher18 minutes20 minutes13 minutes6 minutesTen Mark Baker Selina Nightingale 20 minutes

Photographer: Chris NashimagesVerve 07Untitled by Kim BrandstrupDancers: Kajza Ekberg and Phil SangerApex by Rafael BonachelaDancer: Sarah EldinPhotographerChris NashWorkBitter Ripples by Hofesh ShechterDancersSimon Palmer and Sarah EldinBitter Ripples by Hofesh ShechterDancers: Simon Palmer and Sarah EldinBitter Ripples by Hofesh ShechterDancers: Simon Palmer and Sarah EldinCounterfeit by Shobana JeyasinghDancers: Ira Siobhan and Sarah EldinCounterfeit by Shobana JeyasinghDancers: Ira Siobhan and Sarah Eldin