Folk Dance Remixed

WEEK 6

We’re celebrating the joyous talents of our amazing crew in a series of weekly videos. Here’s a bit of the Folk Dance Remixed flavour and eccentricity from us to you! And don’t forget to ask your favourite festival, promoters and council event teams to get us on your streets in 2021! Looking forward to dancing with you in person – stay safe, take care, keep dancing!

We continue with this series keeping our bit of magic out in the Universe! This week we look back at an R&D period from 2018 that we did on a new idea/show called ‘Dusk’.

‘Join our roaming band of dancers, singers and musicians
As the twists and turns of a long journey lead to welcome and warmth.
Will they find new friends and a warm fire under a starry sky?
Discover how they bring light to those in the shadows.
Discover how the twilight of evening works its magic and spreads its kindness.
Discover the warmest welcome at the end of the day’

Enjoy & please do share it & leave us a message so we know our work is still reaching you & hopefully inspiring you or just taking your mind of things for a moment…much love – Natasha, Kerry & Frances xxx
PS we hope to get this show up and touring in the near future….

WEEK 5

We’re celebrating the joyous talents of our amazing crew in a series of weekly videos. Here’s a bit of the Folk Dance Remixed flavour and eccentricity from us to you! And don’t forget to ask your favourite festival, promoters and council event teams to get us on your streets in 2021! Looking forward to dancing with you in person – stay safe, take care, keep dancing!

Make yourself a cocktail 🍹’Folk Dance Remixed Fridays’ week 5 is here! We continue with this new series to keep a bit of our magic out in the Universe! We are used to spreading JOY & bringing people TOGETHER & are determined to keep doing so…We showcase one of our talented company member each week.

This week we are in Wales with the BRILLIANT Jock Tyldesley & his gorgeous family. Jock plays fiddle in our current show & here he teaches us a VERY, VERY old Folk Dance – the Wyresdale Greensleeves Dance! Beats by current UK champ ABH Hackett. Extra track by Vera & Jock – Black Jack Mix.

Enjoy & please do share it & leave us a message so we know our work is still reaching you & hopefully inspiring you or just taking your mind of things for a moment…much love,

Natasha, Kerry & Frances xxx

 

WEEK 4

We’re celebrating the joyous talents of our amazing crew in a series of weekly videos. Here’s a bit of the Folk Dance Remixed flavour and eccentricity from us to you! And don’t forget to ask your favourite festival, promoters and council event teams to get us on your streets in 2021! Looking forward to dancing with you in person – stay safe, take care, keep dancing!

Happy #MayDay! This week we go BACK, WAY BACK, BACK IN TIME to our very first R&D!! Folk Dance Remixed Fridays week 4 is here!! We continue with this new series to keep a bit of our magic out in the Universe!

We are used to spreading JOY & bringing people TOGETHER & are determined to keep doing so…We showcase one of our talented company member each week. This week we go back to 2012 & our very first R&D! It features a POWERHOUSE group of artists & we still work with most of them which means we must be nice!! After this R&D we were urged to go for a bigger grant by the brilliant Debs Butler who was working for ACE & we’ve never looked back! Enjoy it & please do share it & leave us a message so we know our work is still reaching you & hopefully inspiring you or just taking your mind of things for a moment…much love – Natasha, Kerry & Frances xxx

WEEK THREE

We’re celebrating the joyous talents of our amazing crew in a series of weekly videos. Here’s a bit of the Folk Dance Remixed flavour and eccentricity from us to you! And don’t forget to ask your favourite festival, promoters and council event teams to get us on your streets in 2021! Looking forward to dancing with you in person – stay safe, take care, keep dancing!

Co-Artistic Director KERRY FLETCHER recreating the Maypole wrap from the finale section from one of our the shows – ‘Step Hop House’, which we were supposed to be touring now. It features the ridiculously talented company member Alex ABH Hackett who is the current UK Beatbox Champion & fabulous guest artist Chris Walshaw who plays the saxophone as well as also playing in the additional music section ‘New Green Dress’ by Climax Ceilidh Band. The company appear briefly doing our finale on time lapse and this was our last show of 2019 in Bournemouth at the Arts By the Sea Festival 2019.

WEEK TWO

We’re celebrating the joyous talents of our amazing crew in a series of weekly videos. Here’s a bit of the Folk Dance Remixed flavour and eccentricity from us to you! And don’t forget to ask your favourite festival, promoters and council event teams to get us on your streets in 2021! Looking forward to dancing with you in person – stay safe, take care, keep dancing!

Co Artistic Director of Folk Dance Remixed, Natasha Khamjani performing the ‘Samantha’ section from one of our the shows ‘Step Hop House’, which we were supposed to be touring. It features my fantastic next door neighbours Ruth Seager & @bex-marie hoyle who just so happen to be performers (how lucky!) & my beautiful children Skyla & Kalani (who had no choice!!). Part of the music is by @climaxceilidhband & remixed by company members @oletahaffner & @frankwilson Enjoy & please do share & leave us a message so we know our work is still reaching you & hopefully inspiring you or just taking your mind off things for a moment…much love

 

WEEK ONE

We’re celebrating the joyous talents of our amazing crew in a series of weekly videos. Here’s a bit of the Folk Dance Remixed flavour and eccentricity from us to you! And don’t forget to ask your favourite festival, promoters and council event teams to get us on your streets in 2021! Looking forward to dancing with you in person – stay safe, take care, keep dancing!

Today we have the BRILLIANT Ben Moss to kick it off with a song he wrote called Single Thread and the beats coming from the talented Michael Mikey J Asante! We used this sonf for an R&D for a new piece we will be doing called Dusk.

We had a great time on Saturday 21st July working with Essex Cultural Diversity Project at the grand finale of their Festival of Thetford and Punjab.

We joined in the procession through King Street along to Butten Island and the statue of Maharajah Duleep Singh, and then along the Little Ouse river.

 

The event was an exciting multi-cultural programme in partnership with Thetford Town Council River Festival, featuring the UK’s leading tradtional Punjbi Dance Troupe Jugnu Bhangra Dancers, Folk Dance Remixed, Local Morris dance groups, King Gurcharan Mall Dhol Blasters, Rani Giddha Female Dancers, Ghatka Punjabi Sikh Martial Arts, as well as storytelling by Seema Anand, Indian food stall, henna hand painting.

 

Folk Dance Remixed survives through the fees from gigs and workshops, grants from funding bodies and donations from the public – people like you! We are striving to keep our multi talented, diverse, energetic, dedicated family on the road with our belief in the importance of creating spaces where people come together, share their traditions and
bring out the best in each other. Our work has social cohesion at the core – exploring how people from different starting points and with different cultural expressions can come together in joy, passion, excitement – and infect everyone with a bit of fun!

We really do need your help in keeping us on the road. Times are getting harder for arts organisations, dancers, musicians, tech crews and choreographers. Any support you can give us will be hugely appreciated, and ploughed back in the Folk Dance Remixed project.

We’ve launched a Folk Dance Remixed Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. So please take a couple of minutes to have a listen…. thank you.

Here’s a great chance to be part of the Folk Dance Remixed family!

Bring your friends, colleagues, neighbours, children, nieces, nephews along to Whitcliffe Mount School on Friday 6th June and join in with our funky fusion dance workshop  – and then strut your new found funky styles on Saturday as part of the Cleckheaton Folk Festival!

And it’s all FREE! Contact Bev Adams on bevadamsarts@gmail.com, text or phone 07770933484 or call 01924 629104.

Our friends at Appetite have made a lovely video showcasing their Bentilee event – and Folk Dance Remixed right at the heart of it! Enjoy!