2009 was a very busy year for Instant Dissidence:

The company’s dance for the camera work (Aemilius Sense) went on a screening tour of London, Skipton and Portugal.

The company won a commission from Dance Digital and a further Arts Council G4A grant, to create its live art production Involuntary Dances. This was the first in a trilogy of works looking at the relationship between dance, epilepsy and drug research, and was the most talked about live art work of 2009, attracting press, TV and radio coverage from countries as far as Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Canada, Russia and Taiwan.

Rita Marcalo was invited to do a research presentation on her Involuntary Dances work, for Hybrid: Yorkshire arts and science network. This took place on 28th October at Arts Council Yorkshire.

Marcalo’s was resident contemporary teacher at Yorkshire Dance in the Autumn of 2009, with classes selling out throughout the term.

Marcalo’s writings on her research into the relationship between choreographic practice and post-classical physics (entitled Failing to Do Without: Writing as Classical Documentation of Post-classical Choreographic Documentation) have recently been published in the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice (edited by Claire Hind and Dr Susan Orr), by Intellect. For more information please go to: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/

Rita Marcalo was invited to integrate the Yorkshire Dance Professional Development Programme The Fourteen, and has been undertaking the programme throughout the Autumn.

Marcalo was invited to act as one of two European dance jury members for the International Arts festival Neu/Now, which took place in Vilnius (Lithuania) in November 2009.

In 2010 we are looking forward to:

Working as company in residency at Theatre in the Mill between 11th and 27th January 2010. Instant Dissidence has been invited to integrate the Theatre in the Mill’s Development Lab programme: the "strand of work at the Theatre in the Mill dedicated to supporting new work and developing artists working in new or alternative means - pushing at the boundaries of current practice" (http://www.brad.ac.uk/theatre/). During the residency the company will be developing its production She's Lost Control, and will also be offering contemporary dance provision in the area in the form of company class and sharings of work in progress. If you are interested in getting involved in the residency contact us here.

Touring our new production She's Lost Control, the second in the trilogy of works looking at the relationship between dance, epilepsy and drug research (for more detailed information please go to touring).

Continuing our programme of workshops, technique classes and workshops (for more information please go to education).

Starting work on the third in the trilogy of works looking at the relationship between dance, epilepsy and drug research (Sem Corpo), which should open in 2011 (for more information please go to touring).