Press Release: Sadler's Wells - WILD CARD: Katye Coe: Preparation, Lilian Baylis Studio, Friday 24 April 2015

[Jan McNulty]

Wild Card
KATYE COE: PREPARATION
Lilian Baylis Studio
Friday 24 April
Performance: 8pm, plus pre-show activities
Tickets: £17
Ticket Office: 0844 412 4300 or www.sadlerswells.com
 

 

The second Wild Card evening this spring Katye Coe: Preparation is curated at the Lilian Baylis Studio at Sadler’s Wellson Friday 24 April, and follows Tim Casson’s Wild Card evening CASSON & FRIENDS on Wednesday 18 March. Wild Card presents specially curated evenings from a new generation of dance makers, bringing fresh perspectives to the stage. For each Wild Card, an emerging artist or producer is given the opportunity to present work they admire alongside their own work.

 

Wild Card is part of Sadler’s Wells’ programme of support for young and emerging dance talent, alongside hosting the National Youth Dance Company, the New Wave Associates initiative and the Sadler’s Wells Summer University programme.

 

Katye Coe is a performer, curator, dance maker and teacher. One of her latest works, ‘(to) Constantly Vent’ was recently presented at the Hayward Gallery. Her practice reaches across forms and communities, and is informed by the belief that thinking happens differently when it is located in the activity of dancing or moving.

 

Coe curates an evening in conversation with Charlie Morrissey, dance artist, teacher and collaborator. The evening is anchored through key questions in their evolving intricate physical duet Where we are not. The audience will experience live creative decision making.

Artist Graeme Miller and philosopher Alva Noë also contribute to the evening, igniting the idea of ‘preparation’ and exploring states of attention. Miller, an artist, theatre maker and composer embraces a wide range of media often creating installations and interventions. He is the co-founder of Impact Theatre Co-operative. Noë is a philosopher and author working on the nature of mind and human experience. He is currently philosopher in residence with the Forsythe Company.

 

This will be the first time that Coe and Morrissey, who have been practising together for a number of years, will collaborate with Miller and Noë.

 

Notes to Editors:

 

Listings information 

Wild Card
KATYE COE: PREPARATION
Lilian Baylis Studio at Sadler’s Wells
Friday 24 April 2015
Performance: 8pm, pre-show activities to be announced. See website for details.
Tickets: £17
Ticket office: 0844 412 4300 / www.sadlerswells.com 

 

About Wild Card

Wild Card is a Sadler’s Wells initiative which opens up the theatre’s Lilian Baylis Studio to the next generation of choreographers and dance makers.

The initiative aims to bring fresh perspectives to the stage and each time gives emerging artists from different spectrums of the dance landscape the opportunity to curate a mixed bill evening of cutting edge work.

Wild Card is supported by The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and The Garrick Charitable Trust. 

 

About Sadler’s Wells

Sadler's Wells is a world leader in contemporary dance, committed to producing, commissioning and presenting new works and to bringing the very best international and UK dance to London and worldwide audiences. Under the Artistic Directorship of Alistair Spalding the theatre’s acclaimed year-round programme spans dance of every kind, from contemporary to flamenco, Bollywood to ballet, salsa to street dance and tango to tap. Since 2005 it has helped to bring over 90 new dance works to the stage and its international award-winning commissions and collaborative productions regularly tour the world. Sadler’s Wells supports 16 appointed world class Associate Artists and 3 Resident Companies and nurtures the next generation of talent through its National Youth Dance Company, Summer University programme, Wild Card initiative and its New Wave Associates.

 

Located in Islington in north London, the current theatre is the sixth to have stood on the site since it was first built by Richard Sadler in 1683. The venue has played an illustrious role in the history of theatre ever since, with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and English National Opera all having started at Sadler’s Wells.

 

Sadler’s Wells is an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation and currently receives approximately 9% of its revenue from Arts Council England.