Dancers to have a whirl with windfall; pounds 60,000 GRANT TO HELP MOTIONHOUSE REACH 'AD HOC' AUDIENCES.Byline: MARTIN SMITH A LEAMINGTON dance company has landed its own lottery jackpot after being included in the latest round of grants for art and cultural projects across the West Midlands. Six organisations in Warwickshire have been awarded cash grants by the Regional Arts Lottery Programme. The Motionhouse Dance Company, based in Leamington, gets pounds 60,000, which will be used to fund a two-year programme of dance projects, along with the creation and touring of its new production, Volatile. Some of it will also be used to help the company take its work to a wider audience - aiming to bring contemporary dance to cinema queues, leisure centre foyers and outdoor arenas. Paul Gilligan Paul Gilligan is the creator of the comic strip Pooch Café. External links
"The grant will be spread over two years to develop the way we work, which is taking projects to unconventional spaces to reach audiences that would not normally watch contemporary dance," he said. Meanwhile, the Fine Arts Brass Ensemble has picked up pounds 6,000 which will pay for a 15-minute work for brass quintet A brass quintet is a five-piece musical ensemble composed of brass instruments. The most common instrumentation is two trumpets or cornets, one French horn, one trombone, and one tuba or bass trombone. from the American composer, Michael Torke American composer Michael Torke (born September 22 1961 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), graduated from Wauwatosa East High School, studied at the Eastman School of Music with Joseph Schwantner and Christopher Rouse, and at Yale University, and writes music influenced by jazz and . The piece will be premiered as part of the Warwick and Leamington Festival next July. Warwickshire Museum has been awarded pounds 5,933, which will fund a new exhibition entitled Picture the Past. The project will unite a photographic artist and a group of excluded young people in a project to revitalise Verb 1. revitalise - give new life or vigor to revitalize regenerate, renew - reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new; "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years"; "They renewed their membership" the museum's historical collections and encourage new audiences to take an interest in the past. Other grants include pounds 5,250 to The Gallery, in Stratford, to pay for commissioning new work. And pounds 19,003 has been given to the Nina and Frederick project, an artistic partnership between Richard Talbot and Carran Waterfield. They intend to use the cash to produce a new theatre production based on the life story of The Singing Nun. A total of 17 art, theatre, music and poetry projects in the West Midlands benefited from this latest round of grants. CAPTION(S): RECIPIENTS: Paul Gilligan and (inset) Nina and Frederick, who were awarded more than pounds 19,000. Main Picture: MARK RADFORD Mark Jeffrey Radford (born July 5, 1959) is an American former National Basketball Association player who played from 1981–1983. He played in college for Oregon State University, and was drafted in the third round (53rd overall) of the 1981 NBA Draft by the Seattle |
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