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The Break Station by Upswing Dance Company
| Opening Times | | Friday 3rd July from 5-7pm | | Sat 4th - Sat 11th July from 11-7pm | | | | Address | | 3D Market Place, Clonmel |
|  A relaxed and vibrant space to chill out; a room full of dancers of different styles…..
Watch the action here, be part of it, take a lesson or just chill out and relax and hang out with your gang and listen to some new tunes. Come down and take a class in street dance styles such as krumping, house dance and old skool hip hop. Local dancers will collaborate with Upswing over the festival period to teach and curate the café with open mic sessions, dance classes and live dance events and performances. | Join The Breakstation on  | | | | | | | | | EVERY DAY | AT THE BREAK STATION | | AM | 11.30 -12.30 | Dance Sessions for 8-12 year olds | | PM | 2.30 - 3.30 | Dance Sessions for teenagers (13 and up) | | PM | 5.00 | Open Dance Floor |
| | | | Some of the elements within café | | | | Street dance workshops | | Workshops and master-classes in hip hop and street dance followed by an open dance floor lead by company dancers. | | | | Live DJ | | DJ session every evening at 6pm. We would be looking to link up with local young people or DJs to do guest appearances. If you are interested in hosting a music session, contact us, so we can fit you into the schedule. | | | | A love theme hour | | Where young people can bring their favorite love songs or ask for a song to be dedicated to the one they love. Also people could bring in a song that reminds them of their first kiss? Or their first dance? Or simply request ‘their’ song. | | | | Wall of love | | People could write a true love story, either that happened to them or someone they know well, in 3 sentences. Over the week a graffiti artist would incorporate some of these into the wall of love either in text or picture form. These stories could be happy or unhappy, successful or unsuccessful, about crushes, first kisses, last kisses, lust, or loss. | | | | Flash mob dance | | A surprising moment of mass choreography, using people who attend the dance workshops. Participants will be taught a short section of choreography which will be incorporated into a short performance piece created for the Café space. It will be an unusual moment lasting briefly, and then dispersing quickly back into normality. | | | | | | | Upswing Aerial Dance Company | | | | Upswing challenges assumptions of identity, place and our relationships with each other by literally turning the world upside down. Upswing works with the human body to tell stories of people, their culture and the world we all share using high quality circus blended with theatrical performance, memorable music and the imaginative use of visual imagery. | | |
Vicki Amedume, artistic director Having trained as an aerialist at The French National Circus School Chalon en Champagne and at Circus Space London, UK Vicki has performed and created work across all spheres of circus from Traditional to New Circus, outdoor performance to touring theatre. Her varied career has included producing large scale cross artform outdoor performances and working as a circus and aerial consultant for the Liverpool Culture Company, The Lord of the Rings and productions at The Lowry and the Globe. | | | Leila McMillan trained at Laban obtaining an MA Performance and BA in Contemporary Dance. She has worked with many renowned choreographers such as Jeanefer Jean-Charles, Athina Vahla, Henry Montes, Crystal Pite, Alicia Herrero Simon, Rafael Bonachela, Thomas Lehmen, and Wendy Houston. Choreographically her work fuses street art and fashion, raw sound and explosive contemporary movement aiming to create cross-art and innovative performance. To date her work has been shown at Lilian Baylis Theatre, The New Wolsey, Stratford Circus, Hackney Empire, Greenwich Dance Agency and Resolution! 2009. | | |  |
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