Ghosts of the Past is the sequel to YMT’s vampire musical The Watchers and picks up the story five years on after Jude’s girlfriend Dawn was turned into a vampire and dramatically disappeared from Whitby.

Jude, a University drop out/busker is forced to return home to the pain of the past in Whitby where the town and society’s attitudes to Vampirism have changed beyond all recognition.
Both the Vampire Movement and the Watchers (canines) have bred and evolved and once again humanity is tested to the max.  Can he lay the ghosts of his past to rest and move on?

A story of love, passion and denial.

“Face your demons, Jude! – can’t you just ignore the ghosts of the past?”

Ghosts of the Past is the sequel to YMT’s vampire musical The Watchers and picks up the story five years on after Jude’s girlfriend Dawn was turned into a vampire and dramatically disappeared from Whitby.

Jude, a University drop out/busker is forced to return home to the pain of the past in Whitby where the town and society’s attitudes to Vampirism have changed beyond all recognition.
Both the Vampire Movement and the Watchers (canines) have bred and evolved and once again humanity is tested to the max.  Can he lay the ghosts of his past to rest and move on?

A story of love, passion and denial.

“Face your demons, Jude! – can’t you just ignore the ghosts of the past?’

Rushmore Primary School and Kieran Sheehan Dance Theatre are working together as part of the Creative Partnerships Change Programme to create a new piece of dance theatre.  For this project KSDT are providing the lighting, set, music and 3 dancers and Year Two students and their families are choreographing and designing the project.

This exciting twenty minute performance will take place on Saturday 12th  June in the afternoon and dancers will be required for six days before this point. The dancer will engage in one day of KSDT participation skills training in May 2010. We are looking for a versatile contemporary dancer that has experience of working with Year Two students and/or other education settings.

Dancers will perform with Lucia Tong and Fiona Rae (KSDT associate artists).

Fee: £750

Please send a CV, head shot and expression of interest to education@kieransheehan.com

There are lots of paid opportunities for artists of many disciplines within this scheme please visit the Creative Junction website to view the opportunities:

http://www.creativejunction.org.uk/work-with-us/

Please submit your CV or letter of interest to education@kieransheehan.com

Paul and Kieran Dance Theatre present the North West tour of My Name Is…

Paul and Kieran Dance Theatre are a new organisation committed to the production of innovative dance theatre exploring the nature of addiction and journey of recovery.

My Name Is…. their first production has been supported by Arts Council England and developed through an extensive research and development process with Trust The Process rehabilitation centres and The Bridge Oasis Centre.

My Name Is… explores the world of a father and a son tested by the devastating demands of addiction. The production presents the hopelessness of addiction and the enlightenment of recovery, allowing the audience to consider the life of alcoholic adults and those that witness the powerful process of escaping drugs and alcohol.  The story will follow snatches of conversation between a father and son living with the dilemma of addiction.  Using a blend of naturalistic performance and heightened contemporary dance, My Name Is… describes the culture of addiction through a sophisticated language of performance unique to the company.

Performances will take place at Edge Hill University’s Rose Theatre on 28^th April, The Jerwood Dance House on 6^th June as part of Pulse Fringe Festival and The Brindley on 25^th June 2010.  Times and ticket prices vary – for further email emily@paulandkieran.com OR Paul Bayes – 07801 478 548

Director/Choreographer: Kieran Sheehan            Collaborative Performer: Paul Bayes Kitcher

Designer: Jean – Marc Puissant                                     Composer: Howard Haigh

Lighting: Clare O Donoghue                                    Writer: Sara Masters

About the artists

Paul Bayes Kitcher:  Paul trained at the Royal Ballet School and at Rambert.  His first professional experience was with Scottish Ballet where he danced various principal roles.  In 1990 he was accepted into Birmingham Royal Ballet as a First Artist and subsequently promoted to Soloist. He has had the privilege of working with world-renowned choreographers such as Peter Darrell,Oleg Vinagradov, Michael Corder, David Bintley, Sir Peter Wright and Sir Kenneth Macmillan who created roles for him.  Paul is currently teaching Classical Ballet at Edge Hill.  His experience includes The Royal Ballet, The Royal Ballet School and Birmingham Royal Ballet where he leads outreach and choreographic projects. Paul has developed a relationship with Dance for All, Outreach Programme in Cape Town South Africa where he choreographed for their Professional Dance Company. Recently Paul was invited as a guest teacher for Carlos Acosta and Company.

Kieran Sheehan: London based Choreographer/Movement Director Kieran Sheehan graduated from the MA Movement Studies at Central School of Speech and Drama in 2005 having previously trained at London Contemporary Dance School and Guildford School of Acting. He is currently the associate artist of UpSwing and iceandfire performance company. Kieran is focusing on developing work as an independent artist and recently won a mentorship with Kate Flatt awarded by the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund. In 2007 Kieran spent 3 months as movement coach at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Kieran Sheehan formed his own Dance Theatre Company (KSDT) in 2008 with a vision to produce high quality cross-art form performance work rooted in contemporary dance. The company’s practice has a strong emphasis on participatory research and public engagement, designed to inform the creative development of work that will reflect large-scale social concerns.

Research and Development Promo (September 2009 @ The Lowry Studio)

Click here to view the embedded video.

Director/Choregrapher ~ Kieran Sheehan          Collaborative Performer ~ Paul Bayes Kitcher

Composer ~ Howard Haigh      Film Director ~ Chris Stone

Dancers ~ Paul Bayes Kitcher, Craig Horton, Chris Keerie

Hello, on this page we will update the weekly activities at Rushmore and also document ideas that have happened at home. If your child has come up with ideas for the set design, costume, music or dance then please click on the comment box below and we will publish your thoughts. We can upload images or sounds that you would like to contribute as stimuli for the various artists working on the production.

We hope this page becomes a way of parents staying in touch and capturing the conversations that happen around the project activity….

If you have anything you want to email us, please do so at education@kieransheehan.com…….

Week 4:

SO here are the results of the first day of the residency – let us know if you think we have captured the children’s ideas well. We are currently showing – growing, suffocating astronauts, lonely rabbits in space, a black hole, deers in space, inside the rocket……

Week 1:

The week was very successful the children seemed to enjoy the process and took part in the work very keenly. They created their own movement and then used the language we had discovered in class to comment on the performances. This week we looked at DYNAMICS such as ‘jerky’ and ’sudden’. When working with Fiona they moved onto action words such as pushing, pressing and gliding. This work is loosely based on the Laban Efforts of Action Drive that the company use in all of their outreach and education work.

The children explored their own journey and then an aspirational journey just like Bob, the man on the moon – who we are using as a frame work for the creative exploration.

Next week we are going to start looking more directly at the role of the choreographer and how bodies can be used to create atmospheres.

The work in progress performance will take place on the 17th September at The Lowry Studio Theatre in Manchester at 7pm.

Please contact info@kieransheehan.com for more information.

Fallen tells the story of Angelique, a refugee who has lost everything she once cherished. Hers is a story of self preservation and how sometimes in order to survive in the present, you must confront the ghosts of the past. Treading a fine line between fantasy and reality Fallen shows us how strange the world looks when you are alone and far from home.

Fallen has been in development since 2008 and was presented as a work in progress during Musical Futures at Greenwich Dance Agency in September which Kieran co-directed with Vicki Amedume. Further development work will be undertaken in 2009.

A full touring version will be ready in the Spring of 2011.

Fallen is made by Upswing for whom Kieran is an associate artist. Upswing takes the approach that serious, everyday and cultural issues can be explored in an entertaining way through circus and that it is important to engage with people on many levels – visually, emotionally, intellectually – to exploit circus’ full potential as an art form. The combination of physical skills and cultural contexts to tell stories is what has helped them garner a formidable reputation both in the UK and overseas.