PRODUCTIONS

2024 Life Lines
2023 Life Lines
2022 Every Body Dance
2021 Every Body Dance

2024  Life Lines

2023  Life Lines

2022  Every Body Dance

2021  Every Body Dance

2019 Move Over Moon
2018 Every Body Dance!
2017 Rite to Dance
2016 Dance & Prose

2019  Move Over Moon

2018  Every Body Dance

2017  The Rite to Dance

2016  An Evening of Dance and Prose 

ENIGMA

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Choreographer: Fionuala Power

Music: Schubert Arpeggione Sonata, Allegro moderato

Summary: Dancers and music weave together to present a playful yet mysterious integration.

Performances:
October 2023 Life Lines: Poetry Dance and Music for Bloomsbury Festival, London 

SPIRALS OF US

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Choreographer: Sarah Miller

Music: Andy Monroe Passages

Summary: People. Friends. Loved Ones. Sometimes unified towards a common goal; sometimes joined in quiet harmony; other times supporting, spiralling and echoing from afar. But always there. Always connected.

Performances:
October 2023 Life Lines: Poetry Dance and Music for Bloomsbury Festival, London 

RULES FOR THE OLDER WOMAN

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Choreographer: Kim Mendez

Poem: Rules for the Older Woman by Michèle Roberts

Summary:  ‘Mustn’t mumble, mustn’t fumble, mustn’t stumble, mustn’t tumble – mustn’t grumble …’

Performances:
October 2023 Life Lines: Poetry Dance and Music for Bloomsbury Festival, London 

DESFADO

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Choreographer: Marie Forbes

Music: Max Richter Sleep; Ana Moura Desfado

Summary: Inspired by the song lyrics of Ana Moura’s ‘Desfado’, this piece lightly explores the uncertainty of life, portraying a group of people that move between being connected and disconnected: sometimes on the same trajectory and sometimes following their own individual path.

Performances:
November 2022 Every Body Dance! 2022 at Marylebone Theatre, London 
June 2023 DanceWest Fest at The Rose Theatre, Kingston, London
October 2023 Life Lines: Dance Poetry and Music for Bloomsbury Festival, London

SUGAR RUM CHERRY

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Choreographer: Kim Mendez

Music: Duke Ellington Sugar Rum Cherry

Summary: Burlesque for a lunchtime cabaret at The Posh Club

Performances:
March 2023 at The Posh Club, London 

CYGNETS

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Choreographer: Kim Mendez

Music: Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Act II, Dance of the Cygnets

Summary: While teaching Sage ballet over the lockdown we often finished class with some tap routines. And so the Cygnets appeared, practised and perfected through the pandemic for your delight!

Performances:
November 2022 Every Body Dance! 2022 at Marylebone Theatre, London 
March 2023 at The Posh Club, London

I AM

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Choreographer: Fionuala Power

Music: Schubert Arpeggione Sonata, Allegro moderato

Summary: This piece is inspired by the poem, I Am a Thousand Winds.  … I am a thousand winds that blow; I am the diamond glints on the snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain; I am the gentle autumn’s rain. When you awaken in the morning’s hush, I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft star that shines at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there; I did not die.

Performances:
November 2022 Every Body Dance! 2022 at Marylebone Theatre, London

CIACCONA

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Choreographer: Simon Rice

Music: Vivaldi Mandolin Concerto in C; Scarlatti Mandolin Sonata in D Minor; Merula Ciaccona                                                                     Costumes: Stella-Jane Odoemelam

Summary: This baroque triptych was born during lockdown when the joyful optimism of Merula’s Ciaccona provided the necessary buoyancy to choreograph to this uniquely danceable music. Vivaldi’s Mandolin Concerto is a wonderfully incessant study of time pressing onward towards each pause in a cyclical manner, while the grace and beautiful fragility of Scarlatti’s Mandolin Sonata provides the heart of this triptych, inducing a quality that gently stills the mind.

Performances:
October 2021 Every Body Dance! at Conway Hall for Bloomsbury Festival, London
November 2022 Every Body Dance! 2022 at Marylebone Theatre, London 

NICOLE THE GRANDMASTER

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Choreographer: Alex Ferrelly

Performers: Sage Dance and Manifest Nation

Music: Wiseguys Say Ooh La La; The O’Jays Can You Come Out and Play

Summary: There are many stories that make HipHop what it is today. Mr Miyagi (The KarateKid) is an example of how HipHop has been inspired by the culture of martial arts. Here we blend the movements of Tai-Chi and HipHop exploring the connections between mind and body. Mr Miyagi is the story of an older man teaching a young boy, but in this piece the Sage Company become the students under the young watchful eye of the Grandmaster, Nicole.

Performances:
October 2021 Every Body Dance! at Conway Hall for Bloomsbury Festival, London
November 2022 Every Body Dance! 2022 at Marylebone Theatre, London 

GO

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Choreographer: Thomas Page

Music: Moderat No22 and Seamonkey

Summary: Using words and movement, this piece explores the journeys we make throughout our lives – from catching the same bus to work every day to a once in a lifetime trip to the moon.  Journeys can be mundane, exciting, distressing, uplifting … but one thing is certain, as ever-curious human beings GO we must!

Performances:
October 2019 Move Over Moon for Bloomsbury Festival, London

OUT OF THE BLUE

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Choreographer: Kim Mendez

Music: Kim Mendez

Summary: This amusing piece was inspired by her witnessing party-goers leaving a local celebration. Kim challenged herself to create both solo pieces without music making her own sound effects to move to.

Performances:
April 2019 Tate Modern, London
October 2019 Move Over Moon for Bloomsbury Festival, London

TREE FROG AFTER A THUNDERSTORM

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Choreographer: Kim Mendez

Music: Kim Mendez

Summary: This solo is inspired by Kim’s life-long love of frogs! She loves the concept of sound and how it creates the movement; there has never been a piece of choreography whereby every single step has been voiced by the dancer.

Performances:
April 2019 Tate Modern, London
October 2019 Move Over Moon for Bloomsbury Festival, London

INFINITE SLOPE

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Choreographer: Philippa Morgan

Music: skilldrick

Summary: Puppets or robots? Strings and wires get badly crossed by the end of this exciting company piece set to an electronic score.

Performances:
April 2019 Tate Modern, London
October 2019 Move Over Moon for Bloomsbury Festival, London

ARISE

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Choreographer: Teresa Earle

Music: skilldrick

Summary: Teresa’s solo piece derives from Buddhist teaching. The bodhisattvas emerge dancing to live on this earth as ordinary human beings with the power to transform life and the environment for the better and to enable others to do the same.

Performances:
April 2019 Tate Modern, London
October 2019 Move Over Moon for Bloomsbury Festival, London

 

GITANES

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Choreographer: Simon Rice

Music: Piéces Gigtanes

Summary: Danced to beautiful music taken from Vivaldi and the Baroque Gypsies, each of these four pieces is unique in mood and rhythm. The first is hypnotic, the second bold and energetic, the third humorous and the fourth mysterious.

Performances:
April 2018 Sage production Every Body Dance! Arts Ed Theatre, London
May 2018 Ignition Dance Festival, London
June 2018 Hammersmith and Fulham Festival, London
June 2018 Chelmsford Arts Festival, Essex
July 2018 Raising the Roof! Thanet Centre, London
April 2019 Flourishing Livesat Tate Modern
April 2019 Tate Modern, London
October 2019 Move Over Moon for Bloomsbury Festival, London

ZADOK

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Choreographer: Simon Rice

Music: George Frideric Handel

Summary: A complex and uplifting work to the three pieces of Handel’s Zadok the Priest

Performances:

March 2017  Sage production The Rite to Dance, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes

May 2017  Whiteley Retirement Village, Surrey

June and October 2017  Breathe Arts, Guy’s Hospital, London

October 2017  Bloomsbury Festival, London

April 2018  Sage Production Every Body Dance! Arts Ed Theatre, London

 

ANOTHER PRESENCE

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Choreographer: Fionuala Power

Music: Ron Ford

Summary: A duet exploring how one dancer’s presence affects the other as they connect, harmonise and transform together.

Performances:
October 2017  Bloomsbury Festival, London.
April 2018  Sage Production Every Body Dance! Arts Ed Theatre, London
April 2019 Tate Modern, London

FRIEND

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Choreographer: Bren Gosling and Catriona Maccoll

Music: Henry Purcell, The Cold Song from King Arthur

Summary: A haunting duet about the break-up of a long-term relationship, inspired by Bren Gosling’s poem of the same name.

Performances:
June 2017  with Backstory Ensemble, Rose and Crown Theatre, London
June and October 2017  Breathe Arts, Guy’s Hospital, London
October 2017  Bloomsbury Festival, London
March 2018  Stage – Creative Performance and Medicine Symposium, Kings College, London
April 2018  Sage production Every Body Dance! Arts Ed Theatre, London
April 2019 Tate Modern, London
October 2019 Move Over Moon for Bloomsbury Festival, London

TRIFARIAM

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Choreographer: Liz Heasman

Music: Jan Garbarek

Summary: In three ways; a quietly joyful piece which celebrates lasting friendships with grace and style.

Performances:
March 2017  Sage production The Rite to Dance, OSO Arts Centre Barnes
May 2017  Whiteley Retirement Village, Surrey
June 2017  Cubitt Summer Ball, Islington
October 2017  Breathe Arts, Guy’s Hospital, London
October 2017  Bloomsbury Festival, London
March 2018  Stage – Creative Performance and Medicine Symposium, Kings College, London
April 2018  Sage production Every Body Dance! Arts Ed Theatre, London
April 2019 Tate Modern, London
October 2019 Move Over Moon for Bloomsbury Festival, London

HIDDEN TWINS

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Choreographer: Olivia Lousada

Music: Claudio Monteverdi, Pur ti miro

Summary: A duet expressing the relationship experiences of adult opposite-sex twins that emerged from the findings of Olivia’s doctoral research.

Performances:
March 2016  Sage production An Evening of Dance and Prose, OSO Arts Centre Barnes

PIECES OF EIGHT

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Choreographer: Simon Rice

Music: Georg Philipp Telemann

Summary: Eight eclectic pieces that capture the joy and melancholy of Telemann’s life.

Performances:
March 2016  RichDance, Hampton
March 2016  Sage production An Evening of Dance and Prose, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
June 2016   Cubitt Summer Ball, Islington
June 2016  Sage production More Tales of Dance and Prose, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
July 2016  Big Bus Dance Festival, Twickenham
July 2016  Sagacity! Dance Festival, Bethnal Green
March 2017  Sage production The Rite to Dance, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
May 2017  Whiteley Retirement Village, Surrey
June 2017  Breathe Arts, Guy’s Hospital, London
June 2017  Ignition Dance Festival, Rose Theatre, Kingston
March 2018  Stage – Creative Performance and Medicine Symposium, Kings College, London
March 2018  Bull Theatre Dance Festival, London
April 2018  Sage production Every Body Dance! Arts Ed Theatre, London

INVOCATION

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Choreographer: Simon Rice

Music: Robert Schumann, Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood)

Summary: Thirteen dances, depicting scenes from childhood as the title of the music suggests, some energetic, some serene, all woven together to depict joyful and dream-like episodes.

Performances:
April 2013  RichFest, Hampton
June 2013  Whittington Park Centre, Holloway
June 2013  Finsbury Arts Festival, St Luke’s Community Centre, Islington
June 2013  Wilding Festival, St George’s, Bloomsbury
June 2013  Shaw Theatre, Euston
May 2012  Dreams in Bloom, Chisenhale Dance Space
May 2012  Big Bus Dance Festival, Islington
June 2012  Finsbury Arts Festival, Islington
June 2011  Claremont Centre, Islington

Version 2

Choreographer: Simon Rice

Music: Georg Philipp Telemann

Summary: A group dance of constancy that nobly moves on to its fractured ending.

Performances:
May 2015  RichDance, Hampton
May 2015  Cubitt Spring Ball, Islington
June 2015  FizzFest Islington
July 2015  Sagacity! Dance Festival, Bethnal Green
October 2015  Orleans House Gallery, Richmond
October 2015  Breathe Arts, Guy’s Hospital, London

CHASE

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Choreographer: Fionuala Power

Music: Ron Ford

Summary: A piece inspired by and dedicated to Merce Cunningham, a choreographer at the forefront of American Modern Dance for over fifty years.

Performances
March 2014  RichDance Festival, Hampton, London
April 2014  Donald Hutera and Lilia Pegado Chelsea Arts Collective, St Luke’s, Chelsea
May 2014  Capital Age Festival, filming in Sir Robert Peel pub, Camden
July 2014  Capital Age Festival, Albany Theatre, Deptford
July 2014  Breathe Arts, St Thomas’ Hospital, London
July 2014  Sagacity! Dance Festival, Bethnal Green
September 2014  Sadler’s Wells Elixir Festival, London
March 2016  Sage production An Evening of Dance and Prose, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
June 2016  Sage production More Tales of Dance and Prose, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
March 2017  Sage production The Rite to Dance, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
October 2017  Breathe Arts, Guy’s Hospital, London
October 2017  Bloomsbury Festival, London
April 2018  Sage production Every Body Dance! Arts Ed Theatre, London
April 2019 Tate Modern, London
October 2019 Move Over Moon for Bloomsbury Festival, London

MODERN LEGACY

Productions

Choreographer: Simon Rice

Music: Steve Reich

Summary: A collaboration with Acland Burghley High School. A work of vibrancy and sensitivity in which contrasting age groups worked together to great effect. Part of the Wilding Festival to celebrate 100 years since the death of Emily Wilding Davison, a prominent suffragette activist.

Performances:
June 2013  Wilding Festival, St George’s, Bloomsbury
June 2013  Shaw Theatre, Euston

SONG OF LOVE

Productions

Choreographer: Simon Rice

Music: Johannes Brahms, Piano Quartet No.2 in A, Op.26-2. Poco Adagio

Summary: The Brahms lyrical piano quartet, at times quiet and contemplative and at others soaring to an uplifting crescendo, was the inspiration for this beautiful balletic choreography with its intricate steps and shifting movements.

Performances:
May 2013  Keats House, Hampstead
May 2013  Thanet Community Centre, Camden
May 2013  Cubitt Spring Ball, Islington Town Hall
July 2013  Capital Age Festival, Stadium Suite, John Lewis, Olympic Park

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW?

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Choreographer: Simon Rice

Music: Spike Milligan The Ying Tong Song

Summary: A work every bit as eccentric as the music of Spike Milligan and the Goons

Performances:
May 2013  Cubitt Spring Ball, Islington

DREAMING

EVERY BODY DANCE! A celebration of lifelong creativity

Sage Dance Company with guest performers from Ready Willing Able Dance Company, Manifest Nation, SLiDE, Arts Educational Schools and Thomas Page Dances hosted an evening of dance for all at the Arts Educational Theatre in London, April 10th 2018.