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CREATION DANCE THEATRE COMPANY
Director Dechen Chodron
Story board Adrian Beckingham
Dechen created the dance theatre company in response to a demand to create ritual theatre productions in the landscape.
Dechen experience covers movement, character dance, Raq Sharki and theatre skills.
The Ancient Tradition of Raq Sharki is an earth creation dance, danced all over the Far East which travelled with the gypsies to eventually come to Spain where the dance developed into the flamenco.
Dechen has been performing and teaching dance for many years. Dechen has performed and taught dance to hundreds of students.
At present Dechen is running workshops.with a group of Musicians known as heart beat.
THE WORKSHOPS INCLUDE:
HEART BEAT
A performance of the dance by Dechen to the drum and mandolin. Encouraging the relationship between the drum and dancer, working together from the heart.
The workshop participants are then asked if they want to drum or dance.
The dancers learn the principle movements and experience dancing with the veil. The drummers learning to listen and play the rhythm of the drum, the heart beat.
The final result is when the dancers and drummers come together to feel the heart beat.
CREATIVE DANCE & PERFORMANCE
Dechen teaching involves developing skills:
Social interaction, fun, literacy and numeracy, creative skills. decision making.
Creative dance and movement, exploring spatial awareness,
Group sharing, body awareness, character dance, group choreography.
EGYPTIAN DANCE
Egyptian dance and performance: this involves warm up movements learning, the principle movements, and techniques, with the veil, the clients work towards a performance, following a storyline.
Dechen works creating the story into dance and theatre
Adrian Beckingham, works with half the children teaching storytelling techniques whilst Dechen creates the dance into story.
This we perform in front of the parents at the end of the day.
Dechen is available for storytelling, dance and drama.
EGYPT
Dechen has travelled to Egypt and visited the Ancient tombs and witnessed the amazing art works and performed at Karnac.
A video is available of some of the art works plus footage from a hot air balloon over the Nile River of the Ancient Karnac temple and local village life.
PRODUCTIONS
THEATRE IN THE WILD
North Wales 1998 -2004
LISTEN TO THE LAND SPEAKING
Chalice Well Glastonbury 2000 - 2003
BEDOUIN PARTIES INVOLVING DANCE AND MUSIC
2000--2007
PERFORMANCE OF EARTH CREATION DANCE, UK AND ABROAD
1995- 2007
PERFORMANCE OF ANCIENT STORIES (With the man from story mountain) 2000--2007
Dechen career in dance movement and theatre spans over a period of 20yrs experience
STORY AND DANCE PRODUCTION JULY 2007
Stories that crafted the earth.
Multi cultural event production of Raven.
