THE SIGNDANCE GROUP
Sign Dance Collective Charitable Foundation
Signdance Europe International Projects
Signdance Collective U.K Touring Company
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"Hypnotic, poetic, and unruly.
The Signdance Collective represents the ungovernable energy of art itself, railing and raging against tyrannical forces. Beautiful to behold".
Caridad Svich, Playwright New York City
The Signdance Group, International Signdance Theatre Pioneers are based in the UK and Croatia and led by a team of Deaf, disabled, and diverse producer/artists.
Signdance Collective's work in SIGNDANCE THEATRE began in 1987 in London.
SigndanceTheatre fuses sign-theatre, dance, and live original music. In 2001, the directors, Isolte Maria Avila De Graal and David Bower, started re-developing Signdance Theatre into an international touring group based in Amsterdam, Holland, and Buckinghamshire, England.
As the company began collaborating with artists worldwide, the touring grew exponentially. In 2020, we began developing Signdance Europe in Pakostane, Zadar, Croatia. The Signdance Group comprises a UK-based international Touring Company, The Signdance Collective Trust, and a European-wide trust.
We undertake cultural exchange/international collaborative practice from our UK and European bases, producing, collaborating, and touring with Signdance Theatre nationally and internationally.
Signdance exists to develop, tour, and engage with communities worldwide, utilizing its powerful, inclusive, entertaining way of creating performances.
More information about the Signdance Collective Trust Coming Soon
" Sign Dance Collective's work is an incredible eye-opener in the possibilities of accessibility and inclusion. Slick, thought-provoking and enjoyable, making it a joy to witness and support." Slunglow Leeds, U.K
"I have never seen such an inclusive approach throughout my many years of working with creative organizations".
Leona Forthsyth Rothschild Foundation
Creatively Brilliant & Inclusively Cool
AMI Awards London
"The company has an outstanding reputation for excellent work and pushing the boundaries to make it so." Anonymous Audience Member
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Multi Lingual Dramaturgies
Towards New European Theatre
by Kasia lech
Signdance Collectives' work features in this exciting new publication about European Theatre -the book is in production now! It already has excellent reviews! It should be out in April:
SDC's chapter focuses on multilingual dramaturgies created over prolonged periods across multiple locations with different languages and people: Rimini Protokoll’s project 100% City, SignDance Collective International’s 2017 production of Carthage/Cartagena by Caridad Svich, and Anne Bérélowitch’s directorial and training practices that facilitate multilingual acting dramaturgies. These works re-evoke tropes mentioned in previous sections but on a very different scale, magnified through their years- and decades-long, deeply trans-local, porous, nomadic, and transtemporal processes. This creation and re-performing of dramaturgies across diverse languages and contexts repeatedly interrogates habitual modes for seeing a difference. It also involves various communities in cocreating new paradigms of otherness underpinned by gość-inność. The interviews provide specific examples of these processes and show how the dramaturgies reimagine Europe(s) into a democratic and inclusive web of trans-local connections that escape the continent's geopolitical borders.
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031406232
