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The Place is a dance and performance centre in Duke's Road near Euston in the London Borough of Camden. Originally the home base of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre from the 1970s, it is now the location of the London Contemporary Dance School, the Richard Alston Dance Company and the Robin Howard Dance Theatre. For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ...
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Euston station, also known as London Euston, is a major railway station to the north of central London and in the London Borough of Camden. ...
The London Borough of Camden is a borough of London, England, which forms part of Inner London. ...
The London Contemporary Dance Theatre was a contemporary dance company, based at The Place, which was founded by Robin Howard during the 1970s and based on the ideas of Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham. ...
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The London Contemporary Dance School is the foremost school in the United Kingdom for the teaching of contemporary dance. ...
The Richard Alston Dance Company is a medium size contemporary dance company that was formed in 1994 after the demise of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, based at The Place in London. ...
Converted from a Victorian drill hall, The Place became the permanent home of the Contemporary Dance Trust in 1969. Since then, under the auspices of its founder Robin Howard, its first artistic director Robert Cohan, and subsequent directors Richard Alston, John Ashford, Nigel Hinds and Veronica Lewis, it has led the way in the development of contemporary dance in the UK. Virtually all of the major British contemporary dance artists to have emerged in the past 40 years have been associated with The Place at some stage in their careers, and its contribution to the popularity of contemporary dance in Britain today is hard to overstate. Robin Jared Stanley Howard was a British philanthropist, dance patron and founder of The Place who promoted modern dance in England. ...
Born in New York in 1925, Robert Cohan is a dancer, choreographer and teacher, a key figure in the development of British contemporary dance. ...
Richard Alston is a British choreographer. ...
John Ashford is a theatre director, who has been instrumental in the burgeoning of contemporary dances popularity in the UK over the last 20 years through his role as Theatre Director at The Place in London. ...
From 1999-2001, a major redevelopment programme principally funded by the National Lottery refurbished The Place's original building and extended it with a new, state-of-the-art block of six dance studios designed by architects Allies and Morrison. A play here! sign outside a newsagent, incorporating the National Lotterys logo of a stylised hand with crossed fingers which emulates a smiling face. ...
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The Place's work today continues to focus on developing dance artists at different stages of their careers. This work is most visible through the touring of the dance company of it Artistic Director, Richard Alston, whose company perform annual seasons at Sadler's Wells and in 2006 complete their first tour of the USA. The Place's Robin Howard Dance Theatre, so named in honour of their founder in 2001, premieres more danceworks than any other venue in the country. It is seen as a hotbed of experimentation, where emerging dancers and dancemakers from the UK and abroad first come to national attention, while more established artists use the space to develop and show experimental works. Richard Alston is a British choreographer. ...
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Among work less visible to the general public, London Contemporary Dance School is recognised as one of the world's leading dance conservatoires, providing full-time vocational training to around 170 students to degree and postgraduate level. Through founding in 2001 with RADA the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, London Contemporary Dance School became the first dance school to provide funding for its students which compares to that for students of other disciplines in the UK. London Contemporary Dance School is part of The Place – one of the world’s leading centres for contemporary dance. ...
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The Place also organises community work to address the needs of local people, including those who are disadvantaged or may feel excluded, and runs a popular programme of evening and weekend classes where enthusiasts of all ages and abilities have the chance to learn from some of the artform's most accomplished practitioners.
In September 2007, Kenneth Tharp OBE took up the new position of Chief Executive of The Place[1]. Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp is a dance artist. ...
The Place receives regular funding from Arts Council England, the Higher Education Funding Council of England and Camden Council, along with private sources. Arts Council England was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. ...
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External links
- http://www.theplace.org.uk/
References The Stage 12 June 2007 [1] |
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