Behind the Scene is a brand new series from Bradford Producing Hub that provides performance makers of Bradford the opportunity to observe rehearsals and R&D processes.
Expressions of interest by
Wednesday 11 September at 11 PM
Next in our Behind the Scene series is a 3-day observation placement with DeNada Dance Theatre for the restaging of their show, Mariposa: a Queer Tragedy Inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.
The deadline is quick on this one, so get your expression of interest in asap!
Placement dates:
Any 3 consecutive days between Monday 16 September and Friday 4 October 2024
Placement times:
9 AM – 5 PM
Placement locations:
Week commencing 16 September will take place at Barnsley Civic
Week commencing 23 September will take place at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham
Bradford Producing Hub will reimburse all travel plus accommodation on consecutive days
DeNada are revisiting and restaging an existing full-length narrative dance production (premiered 2021) ahead of an international tour.
Mariposa (‘butterfly’ in Spanish) is choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra’s queer reimagining of Puccini’s seminal opera, Madame Butterfly. An operatic dance drama, it transports Puccini’s Orientalist libretto to post-revolution Cuba, to a dockland world of faded showgirls, hopeful rent boys, troubled sailors and divine queer spirits. Engulfed in a tropical storm of repressed desires, the production is a passionate and deeply moving exploration of what we are ready to sacrifice in order to be loved and accepted.
This process of restaging will be about developing existing material and finding more depth in a narrative. It will be a great opportunity to observe how character can be communicated through the body; methods of learning and adapting existing choreographic material and how we can make existing and problematic narratives relevant to minorities.
The production blends several dance styles- contemporary, ballet, and Latin dance, with a diverse cast in terms of artistic backgrounds.
If you need support with completing the form, or you need to submit your expression of interest another way, please drop us an email at hello@bdproducinghub.co.uk
The production deals with themes around sexuality, gender, sexual and gender identity and colonialism.
Both venues are fully accessible.
About DeNada Dance Theatre
DeNada Dance Theatre is an independent LGBTQ+ dance company fully committed to the promotion of diversity and inclusion of non-normative identities. Our purpose is to voice underrepresented narratives through high quality dance, performing work in a variety of contexts to offer visibility and representation to the LGBTQ+ community. Stemming from our Hispanic and Latinx heritage, the company also promotes transcultural relations and celebrates the cultural diversity of the audiences we perform for, and the artists we work with.
We fully believe in the transformative power of dance: its capacity to mobilise change, to heal and to cause reflection.
We seek to entertain through extravagant theatricality, kitschy physicality, and accessible narratives.
Based in the North of England, the company tours internationally to theatres, outdoor and unconventional spaces. Nominated as Best Independent Company by the UK Critic’s Circle, DeNada has taken a unique place in the UK dance sector as a company offering poignant, innovative and exciting work that places the underrepresented at the fore.
