Performance Archives - Blue Moose Dance Company

An Alien Stole My iPig

Sarah Hall — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:25:00 +0000

In 2016 we created a dance and literature performance piece called ‘iPig’ taking local communities on an interactive adventure, complete with a big red space bus! iPig was created with poet Louise Fazackerley, commissioned by Save Our Stories (Blackpool Council) and supported by Lancashire Encounter. This performance was toured across various outdoor festivals in the North West throughout 2016 and 2017, collecting stories from the wonderful general public.

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Timehop

Sarah Hall — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:24:05 +0000

In 2016, Sarah worked with two Secondary Schools in Blackpool to create new dance performances for Timehop, Blackpools Young Adult Fiction festival. Using Young Adult fiction and literature to inspire and create new movement material, young people devised short performance works to share with other local school groups who attended the festival. During this process, they worked towards and achieved their Bronze level Arts Award, celebrating their achievements in creating, researching and producing art.

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Lord Mayors Show

Sarah Hall — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:22:57 +0000

In November 2016, we worked with dancers from Fylde Coast Youth Dance Company and young dancers and their parents from Thames Primary School, Blackpool, on a mass performance for the Lord Mayors Show 2016. Using music inspired by the seaside alongside other lively numbers, we created a travelling dance performance to showcase alongside the other 7000 participants in the parade and as an opportunity to raise the profile of the wonderful delights of Blackpool! A regular tradition since 1215, the parade is watched live by 500,000 people and broadcast on the BBC to over 2 million viewers. As part of Team Blackpool entry into the parade, we had a specially designed float was made by the Blackpool Illuminations Team float and the fabulous Lawrence LLewelyn Bowen joined us for the day, waving to the crowds and playing our on-float Wurlitzer!

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Window on Warrington

Sarah Hall — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:21:56 +0000

or a number of years we worked as Artists with Culture Warrington and the Warrington Wolves Foundation on a series of mass performances for the Warrington community. In 2013, we worked on Window on Warrington – a mass sited dance performance to celebrate the Rugby League World Cup being held in Warrington. The project celebrated various aspects of Warrington and Samoan culture and culminated in two 45 minute performances by people of all ages.

In 2015, Sarah was lead choreographer for the second of three (of 3) mass outdoor performance to commemorate the centenary of WW1. Leading 150 dancers aged 3 – 22, and managing of team of 6 dance artists, Sarah produced a 45minute outdoor performance depicting the life of the soldier during WW1 using dance physical theatre and voice, performed at Peninsula Barracks, Orford.

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Big Dance

Sarah Hall — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:47:13 +0000

Sarah and Zanna were part of a team of 25 dance artists from the North West of England, working across 5 counties, to produce a sited performance including 1200 dancers (from community dancers through to professionals) as part of the Cultural Olympiad, in celebration of the London 2012 games. Sarah and Zanna worked both as performers and artist’s working with 100 dancers from across Lancashire culminating in a Lancashire performance during the Olympic Torch relay in Preston and a final North West Performance at Liverpool One. Sarah and Zanna also performed as part of the professional cast in several outdoor performances across the UK.

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