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Dragon Dance Theatre
....exploring visual and performing arts since 1976

NEXT RESIDENCY SUMMER 2023
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Dragon Dance has been leading international cultural exchange residencies, focusing on the creative arts and culminating in performances.  In the last 45 years, we have offered workshops and residencies in the following countries:  Argentina, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, the US, Canada, Belgium, Germany, Finland and France. 
Dragon Dance was founded in 1976.
Sam Kerson has been the artistic director during this forty years.   Katah joined the theatre  in 2000. 

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Our idea is to create a temporary and mobile Utopia. A place where the community, created for the occasion, can do what they like and want to do; be creative, make things, realize scenes and dramatize moments which comment on history and the events of the day. We want to participate in the struggles and society of our times, using our art, our theatre skills and our experience. We arrange these laboratories/ artist residencies in such a way that we can present our findings to the public, in the theatre or on the street, with pageants, plays, dances, parades and tableaux. We use music, actors, masks, banners, paintings, large masks, puppets, objects, projected images, sculptures and whatever we can invent to tell our stories. In these residencies, we as a community, create an environment where we can focus and concentrate on the chosen themes.

Anna Kaisa - Spring dance.jpg
Large mask making and dramatization workshops ; reinventing the theatre

 

We invite you to join us and we assure you that this experience will move you, heart and soul.  If you decide to join us, you are sure to have a deep and memorable experience that will be reflected in your creative and artistic work for years to come.

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We look for people of different ages with different skills, different cultural backgrounds and different languages including music and dance. We think of the workshops as a theatre laboratory. We use masks that we create together.  We use texts that we improvise. We imagine and create a different theatre; we  explore, we propose, we invent. As a group, we make a very special piece of creative work that we can share with the people of the surrounding towns and villages where the residency and workshop takes place.

Next artist residency - summer 2023

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Dragon Dance Theatre

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