Signdance Theatre International
David Bower of Signdance Collective blogs on the work and travels of a dynamic sign dance performance company
28 January 2012
SDC 2012 World Tour. Join us !
Signdance Collective/ International Signdance Theatre 2012 Tour Taking a leaf out of an age old tradition and trekking the road less travelled, we can confirm that we are continuing our...Comments: 0
12 November 2011
Signdance Collective/ Theatre International to perform at National Cultural Diversity Network Awards 2011
Here we are almost at the end of 2011. Its been quite a year for us. We have toured six different countries with some beautiful and exciting projects. Our highlights have included the...Comments: 0
29 August 2011
Autumms Up ! SDC's Autumm Tour & Thanks
SDC and SDTI want to thank everyone that made SDC's summer so exciting and such smooth running! It was an incredible season , so congratulations to the company , guests , and in-particular our...Comments: 0
6 July 2011
Signdance Collective International tour continues
Signdance Collectives directors have spent five fantastic days at the Ana Desetnica/111/) international festival in Slovenia, Ljbljana. We are being mentored, coached, by its director Goro Osojnic...Comments: 0
17 June 2011
SDC's International 'PITCH' A great success
Signdance Collective is in Greece/ performing, giving training workshops to actors and international sign-language interpreters, and in residency at several places across Greece. We have had major...Comments: 2
29 April 2011
Signdance Theatre International SDC's Greek & Welsh& Turkish Tours
March 30th untill April 4th -The Company (Signdance Theatre International / SDC) was priviledged to participate at the Ankara Festival of Performance ETHOS / ETHICS . The Festival...Comments: 0
4 March 2011
El Grande Signdance 2011 Diario
Latest News -During 2011 and 2012! SDTI will be working on major projects in the USA (at Urban Warrior N.C with Proffesor Roger Braswell and in San Francisco with...Comments: 0
10 January 2011
David Bower blogs about the Signdance Collective’s approach to choreography
From experience I would say choreography is about listening visually, with the eyes and finding the right moment to act and react. Choreography begins with a simple idea like the movement of the sea...Comments: 0
18 October 2010
Signdance Collective present New Gold Phase 2
Long days into the night! We haven't stopped at all this year. Signdance Collective has been creating our new street signdance show, 'New Gold'! Supported by: Create Compete Colaborate ,...Comments: 0
9 August 2010
David Bower stars in Little Voices - a new film by Post Graduate Students at Glamorgan University / Welsh Film Academy with Screen Wales.
Little Voices is produced by Chris Colton, directed by Chris McFall, and co-stars Rebecca Hurst. Producer Chris Colton sent David Bower the script for Little Voices after contacting him through...Comments: 6
16 June 2010
Signdance Collective report on their summer touring program to Holland and Slovenia
At the moment we are at the Oeral Festival in Holland Freisland. We are staying on a big barge for the 10 days of the Festival, and have been invited by Captain Aad Van Ploeg to do small sign-theatre...Comments: 0
10 June 2010
Signdance Collective perform at Signcircle before doing their pilot New Gold at Bucks New University
The stop before the New Gold shows was 'SignCircle' the big Deaf gathering in North West England. Fab festival with Caroline Parker in action and some new wonderful Deaf performers skimming across...Comments: 0
17 January 2010
Signdance Collective's new base at Bucks New University
SDC has a new base...well, its first ever real base, at Bucks New University, High Wycombe! Up until now the company/collective has existed virtually, without admin, storage, rehearsal or...Comments: 1
22 November 2009
Signdance are now company in residence at Buckinghamshire New University
The times They are a-changin'... We have some very cool events coming up , and this brief blog is an intermediary! On 3 December 2009 SDC will help launch Arts Council England South East ...Comments: 0
17 September 2009
David Bower have set up a youtube channel
I have just sent off the first off-line version of a film project that SDC have been working on. The great news is that SDC has its own channel on YouTube. There are currently four films on the...Comments: 0
27 June 2009
SDC Dances For A Lost Traveller (previously Three Films + One)
Signdance Collective is at The Warehouse Theatre in Croydon for a three week run. So far it has been a mixture of Time Out Critics Choice! to small but beautifully formed and loving audiences....Comments: 0
27 April 2009
Part three of David Bower's stunning account of Signdance's trip to India in 2009
Visually India is a very powerful place to be. Some Deaf people talk about visual music. For the Deaf the view out the window is our visual radio. The many sights that I saw remained etched in my...Comments: 0
28 February 2009
Part two of David Bower's account of Signdance's work in India 2009 part two
On reading the Hindu Times, one article seeks to illustrate the different ways people have of describing India. In so many words, one school tries to categorise India as having "a beginning, a middle...Comments: 0
10 February 2009
David Bower gives an evocative account of Signdance's trip to India in India 2009
The tired hot sun rose wearily over the horizon, as we meandered our way from the airport down recently well heeled motorways into Bangalore. Pass the night time fires. Mingling into the dawn rush...Comments: 0
26 January 2009
Signdance give details of the High Wyrrd Festival Fri 19 – Sun 21 September 2008
In a once wooded valley the wild, wonderful and wacky is about to happen! Friday 19 September - Sunday 21 September, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Signdance Collective presents High Wyrrd...Comments: 0
26 January 2009
Signdance give details of their regional touring commitments Autumn 2008 / Spring 2009
For Press enquiries please contact Signdance Collectiive directly on 00447887974684 or email signdancecollective[at]gmail.com 1-10 November 2008 Signdance Collective is in Tunisia working with...Comments: 0
26 October 2008
Late Autumn Blog
Greetings just got back from our holiday in Tunisia. First visit I hope of what will be many trips to Africa. Whilst we were there, we indulged ourselves in a little nightlife, boogie on down! We...Comments: 0
26 September 2008
Autumn 2008
After Turkey, having created three of the pieces for 'Three Films + one', we set off to join Carovana in Sardinia to work on our final piece. This work, rather appropriately came to be called...Comments: 0
26 July 2008
July 2008
Whoah!..I just left it hanging there. Since I last wrote, I think that in the last few months, I have experienced some of the most full, rich, intense, rewarding, and challenging times that I have...Comments: 0
24 April 2008
Istanbul
Istanbul is an amazing city, full of history that is at once both ancient and contemporary. There's a lot of tourist blurb that de-sensitizes and strangely makes mundane what is in fact is an...Comments: 0