Signdance Collective Blog
David Bower of Signdance Collective blogs on the work and travels of a dynamic sign dance performance company
Signdance Collective's new base at Bucks New University
SDC has a new base...well, its first ever real base, at Bucks New University, High Wycombe! Up until now the company/collective has existed virtually, without admin, storage, rehearsal or...Comments: 0
Signdance are now company in residence at Buckinghamshire New University
The times They are a-changin'... We have some very cool events coming up , and this brief blog is an intermediary! On 3 December 2009 SDC will help launch Arts Council England South East ...Comments: 0
David Bower have set up a youtube channel
I have just sent off the first off-line version of a film project that SDC have been working on. The great news is that SDC has its own channel on YouTube. There are currently four films on the...Comments: 0
SDC Dances For A Lost Traveller (previously Three Films + One)
Signdance Collective is at The Warehouse Theatre in Croydon for a three week run. So far it has been a mixture of Time Out Critics Choice! to small but beautifully formed and loving audiences....Comments: 0
Part three of David Bower's stunning account of Signdance's trip to India in 2009
Visually India is a very powerful place to be. Some Deaf people talk about visual music. For the Deaf the view out the window is our visual radio. The many sights that I saw remained etched in my...Comments: 0
28 February 2009
Part two of David Bower's account of Signdance's work in India 2009 part two
On reading the Hindu Times, one article seeks to illustrate the different ways people have of describing India. In so many words, one school tries to categorise India as having "a beginning, a middle...Comments: 0
10 February 2009
David Bower gives an evocative account of Signdance's trip to India in India 2009
The tired hot sun rose wearily over the horizon, as we meandered our way from the airport down recently well heeled motorways into Bangalore. Pass the night time fires. Mingling into the dawn rush...Comments: 0
26 January 2009
Signdance give details of the High Wyrrd Festival Fri 19 – Sun 21 September 2008
In a once wooded valley the wild, wonderful and wacky is about to happen! Friday 19 September - Sunday 21 September, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Signdance Collective presents High Wyrrd...Comments: 0
26 January 2009
Signdance give details of their regional touring commitments Autumn 2008 / Spring 2009
For Press enquiries please contact Signdance Collectiive directly on 00447887974684 or email signdancecollective[at]gmail.com 1-10 November 2008 Signdance Collective is in Tunisia working with...Comments: 0
Late Autumn Blog
Greetings just got back from our holiday in Tunisia. First visit I hope of what will be many trips to Africa. Whilst we were there, we indulged ourselves in a little nightlife, boogie on down! We...Comments: 0
Autumn 2008
After Turkey, having created three of the pieces for 'Three Films + one', we set off to join Carovana in Sardinia to work on our final piece. This work, rather appropriately came to be called...Comments: 0
July 2008
Whoah!..I just left it hanging there. Since I last wrote, I think that in the last few months, I have experienced some of the most full, rich, intense, rewarding, and challenging times that I have...Comments: 0
Istanbul
Istanbul is an amazing city, full of history that is at once both ancient and contemporary. There's a lot of tourist blurb that de-sensitizes and strangely makes mundane what is in fact is an...Comments: 0
David Bower on the highs and the wyrrd's of this years' Signdance programme
Okay, so what ‘ails. Well quite a fair bit, its a big un' for us at the Signdance Collective this year. First, over the next few months, I will be reporting the events in the run-up for the...Comments: 0