There are approximately 150 Special Schools in London. This four day programme invites you to find out more, take part in a public dance workshop and watch performances from project participants.
• Take part in a dance workshop led by Studio Wayne McGregor
• Join The Vale Special School band
• Watch a dance performance by St Giles Special School
• Discuss and debate the issues and opportunities around access to the arts for young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
• Discover more about London’s creative and cultural offer for young people with SEND
Together we aim to raise the profile and visibility of London Special Schools and celebrate the creative work of their teachers and students.
Monday 27 March 2017
St Giles performance
First performance: 12.30pm
Second performance: 1.15pm
Venue: Clore Studio, Tate Modern
Details: St Giles School will perform a short movement piece developed with Studio Wayne McGregor during a weeklong residency in the school.
Studio Wayne McGregor dance workshop
Time: 4.00-5.00pm
Details: Studio Wayne McGregor will lead an inclusive dance session for all ages and abilities. Starting with a physical warm up, followed by creative tasks that use imagery to create movement, the session will allow participants to explore their own physical and creative potential. Please come in comfortable clothes and trainers or soft shoes you can move in.
Tuesday 28 March 2017
The Vale Special School present: Everyone’s a rock star!
Time: 3.00 - 4.00pm
Venue: Tate Exchange Main space
Details: Everyone can express themselves through music. Come and join a different type of special school music lesson and see your ideas become lyrics to a song. Be part of a rock band experience with an interactive live performance by the Vale school band Backdrop. Learn and perform all the actions, sign language and dance moves.
Book: This is a free, drop-in session (no experience necessary).
Time: 4.00-6.00pm
Details: If you would like to exchange ideas on the issues and opportunities involved in enabling more young people with SEND to access arts and culture, sign up for our symposium. Speakers include Tate Exchange Associate and Touretteshero, Jess Thom and Jenny Sealey, Artistic Director of Graeae.
Wednesday 29 March 2017
SEND Creative dance INSET
Time: 10.00–5.00pm
Venue: Clore Studio
Details: A unique opportunity for teachers to explore creative dance practise with Studio Wayne McGregor, who have an unparalleled reputation for transformative approaches to how dance is taught, learned and talked about. The Studio Wayne McGregor practitioners will focus specifically on how you can apply their techniques to support young people with SEND.
Book via the AND website: https://www.anewdirection.org.uk/calendar/schools-inset-send-specific
Marketplace
Time: 4.00-5.00pm
Details: If you are interested in finding out about London’s arts and cultural opportunities for young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), come along and mingle with organisations, artists and educators who work in this field.
Book: This is a free, drop-in session.
Representatives of organisations who deliver work with, for, and by young people with Special Needs and Disabilities can express their interest in presenting at the marketplace by emailing schools@anewdirection.org.uk
Working together, A New Direction and Studio Wayne McGregor create a platform in Tate Exchange that aims to raise the profile and visibility of good practice in Special Education Needs creative and cultural education across London.
This event is programmed by A New Direction and Studio Wayne McGregor, Tate Exchange Associates.
The Vale Special School present: Everyone’s a rock star!
Time: 5.00 - 6.00pm
Venue: Tate Exchange Main space
Details: Everyone can express themselves through music. Come and join a different type of special school music lesson and see your ideas become lyrics to a song. Be part of a rock band experience with an interactive live performance by the Vale school band Backdrop. Learn and perform all the actions, sign language and dance moves.
Book: This is a free, drop-in session (no experience necessary).
About the programme
Studio Wayne McGregor’s practice explores individuals’ creative and physical potential using imagery (visual, acoustic, kinaesthetic) as a starting point for movement creation. In this programme at Tate Exchange, Studio Wayne McGregor build on extensive experience working with SEND participants, (including an award winning partnership with Sense, the deafblind charity), to explore the development of their creative practice and resources with the Special School network, with teachers taking a leading role in the development of creative resources, lesson plans and schemes of work around the new Tate collection.
Lancasterian Primary School, photographed by Roger Brown for A New Direction
Lancasterian Primary School, photographed by Roger Brown for A New Direction
A New Direction Photo: Roger Brown
A New Direction Photo: Roger Brown
About A New Direction (AND)
A New Direction is London’s flagship cultural education agency. They help London create, think and learn. They work to ensure that all children and young people get the most out of London’s extraordinary creative and cultural offer, with support and training for schools, programmes for the cultural sector, and a youth employment initiative, as well as opportunities for joint investment in radical projects and partnerships.
About Studio Wayne McGregor
Studio Wayne McGregor is the creative engine for choreographer and director Wayne McGregor, and the home of his life-long enquiry into thinking through and with the body. Over the last twenty years, Studio Wayne McGregor has developed an unparalleled reputation for transformative approaches to how dance is taught, learned and talked about. Learning and Engagement projects are carefully devised to reflect the professional artistic processes that Wayne McGregor uses with his own company in the studio, ensuring that all who participate in our projects experience cutting edge, high quality practice.
