Animate Artists X Trinity Laban Youth Dance Company
Laban Building
Nov-Feb, Occasional Sundays and Tuesdays
Event details
Animate Orchestra offers young musicians in school years 5 to 13 opportunities to play together and create their own music in a ‘Young Person’s Orchestra for the 21st Century’. Animate Artists courses bring together experienced young musicians in exciting collaborations with other artists and art forms.
Bringing together young people from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and musical interests, Animate courses are fun, sociable and musically adventurous. With specialist tutors and world-class musicians as mentors, projects take place in school holidays or weekends – and range from introductory 1 – 3 day local courses to more intensive projects and collaborations with other art-forms.
Animate Artists X Trinity Laban Youth Dance Company
Animate Artists is seeking young musicians for its next creative project. With sessions across November 24 to February 25 – on occasional Sundays and Tuesday evenings – you will work as part of a group to devise a brand-new piece of music for dance, collaborating with the Trinity Laban Youth Dance Company. This daring new work will be performed live at the state-of-the-art Laban Theatre as part of the high-profile U.Dance 2025: London Regional Platform.
We are delighted that this project will be led by Aga Serugo-Lugo (Royal Opera House, Wigmore Hall, ENO Baylis) and Roseann Denby (Co-Founder of Tough Boys, Associate Artist of Sadlers Wells 2023-2025.) The team will be supported by additional tutors and students from Trinity Laban.
This is a unique opportunity for young musicians and dancers to experiment side-by-side to organically create a new work that breaks through the boundaries of musician or dancer. Come and explore your individualism and unique artistry to create together a truly spectacular live performance.
Priority will be given to applications received by Tuesday 15 October. Places on this project are limited so we suggest sending in your application sooner rather than later, as we may not be able to offer everyone a place.
Who is this project for?
- Anyone who plays any instrument, aged 13-18
- Priority will be given to more experienced musicians who are grade 4 standard upwards (or equivalent)
- Young musicians from South-east London and/or who have taken part in past Animate projects are particularly encouraged to take part!
When does this project take place?
- Sunday 17 November 10:00-13:00 (This session will take place at King Charles Court, Greenwich, SE10 9JF)
- Tuesday 19 November 18.00-20.00
- Tuesday 03 December 18.00-20.00
- Tuesday 14 January 18.00-20.00
- Sunday 19 January 09.30-15.30
- Tuesday 28 January 18.00-20.00
- Sunday 09 Feb 09.30-15.30
- Tuesday 11 Feb 18.00-20.00
- Sunday 23 Feb Performance day (Likely to be all day.)Sessions will take place at the Laban Building, Deptford, SE8 3DZ unless otherwise specified.
Priority will be given to applications received by Tuesday 15 October. Places on this project are limited so we suggest sending in your application sooner rather than later, as we may not be able to offer everyone a place. Sessions will take place at the Laban Building, Deptford, SE8 3DZ unless otherwise specified.
Recent Projects
Animate Lewisham – 28-29 May 2024, The Fellowship Inn, over 40 young people aged 9-14 collaborated with spoken word artists to create new music.
Animate Artists – Click below to watch a beautiful film of the music and dance from our Autumn 2023 collaboration with Trinity Laban Youth Dance Company, ‘As Time Goes By’.
What will I do on a typical Animate Artists project?
- Work closely with a team of typically 20 – 25 other Animate Artist musicians and other young artists to create a brand new piece of performance art
- Be supported by an artistic team of professional musicians and other collaborators
- Take part in a series of creative sessions to shape your ideas and get more comfortable playing together with the other musicians and young artists
- Be part of a high-profile and public performance at the end of the process
Animate Artists have collaborated with Emergency Exit Arts, Trinity Laban Youth Dance Company and Greenwich & Lewisham Young People’s Theatre, amongst others, and performed at the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall, Tate Modern, Southbank Centre and Cadogan Hall.