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Sunday, 11 December 2022

The Encounter - extra performance


Next Step Creative's Steven Turner has scheduled an extra performance of The Encounter, a show that explores the story of Christmas in a fresh way using dance and mime. This performance will be on 28 December at 4.00 pm at Miracle House, Silva Island Way, Wickford SS12 9NR. To book tickets go to https://www.nextstepcreative.co.uk/events/. The show will also be streamed to Zoom for those that can’t make it to the venue.

Through the show you will experience a variety of Christmas stories in contemporary and engaging ways for the whole family. The performance is a creative mix of multi media and physical theatre appealing to a variety of ages. This is a great community event with a range of dynamic and engaging pieces, including Mime, Contemporary, Ribbons, Ballet, and Banners combined with bespoke video graphics.

Steven Turner has trained in a variety of dance styles, including contemporary, street, mime and moving with props. He attended a Laban boys course, as well as attending summer schools with companies including Springs Dance Company, Movement in Worship and Chantry Dance Company. In recent years Steven has founded his own organisation, Next Step Creative, to promote collaboration between dance and other creative arts. Regularly choreographing and teaching for Dance 21 (a dance company for children and young adults with Down’s syndrome). He has performed at Project Dance Paris and travelled to Rotterdam to teach in connection with his role as ICDF Refresh Coordinator. He has performed across the UK and Europe including Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, and France.

Next Step Creative is a relational organisation with a vision to create a platform to support creative people. Working within the UK and internationally using multi media, live performances, workshops and teaching; making their artists work more accessible through a collaborative online shop.

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Next Step Creative - The Encounter.

Sunday, 4 December 2022

Next Step Creative: The Encounter









On Friday our first term of Unveiled events at St Andrew's Wickford ended with a wonderful evening in which Next Step Creative's Steven Turner performed The Encounter, a show that explores the story of Christmas in a fresh way using dance and mime. Through the show we experienced a variety of Christmas stories in contemporary and engaging ways for the whole family. The performance was a creative mix of multi media and physical theatre appealing to a variety of ages. This was a great community event with a range of dynamic and engaging pieces, including Mime, Contemporary, Ribbons, Ballet, and Banners combined with bespoke video graphics. 

Steven Turner has trained in a variety of dance styles, including contemporary, street, mime and moving with props. He attended a Laban boys course, as well as attending summer schools with companies including Springs Dance Company, Movement in Worship and Chantry Dance Company. In recent years Steven has founded his own organisation, Next Step Creative, to promote collaboration between dance and other creative arts. Regularly choreographing and teaching for Dance 21 (a dance company for children and young adults with Down’s syndrome). He has performed at Project Dance Paris and travelled to Rotterdam to teach in connection with his role as ICDF Refresh Coordinator. He has performed across the UK and Europe including Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, and France.

Next Step Creative is a relational organisation with a vision to create a platform to support creative people. Working within the UK and internationally using multi media, live performances, workshops and teaching; making their artists work more accessible through a collaborative online shop.

2023's Unveiled events will begin with:
  • From Rettendon Turnpike to Halls Corner: A Journey in Time, A talk by Geoff Whiter of Wickford Community Archive, Friday 13 January, 7.00 pm.
  • The Blind Jesus (No-one belongs here more than you): Exhibition viewing evening, Friday 27 January 2023, 7.00 – 9.00 pm. See this exhibition of Last Supper images created by: Alan Stewart; (Still) Calling from the Edge conference; WAVE (We are All Valued Equally); & Schools in Hampstead and Barnet. Hear from artist Alan Stewart, project lead Celia Webster (co-founder of WAVE), and Revd John Beauchamp, Disability Ministry Enabler for the Diocese of London. The Blind Jesus (No-one belongs here more than you) has been commissioned as part of a project in which it seeds other images of the Last Supper that are truly for everyone. Schools, churches and community groups are invited, as part of this project, to create their own Last Supper images.
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Steve Taylor - Innocence Lost.

Sunday, 13 November 2022

Unveiled - Congruity and controversy: exploring issues for contemporary commissions

 



On Friday I gave an illustrated talk at Unveiled entitled Congruity and controversy: exploring issues for contemporary commissions. For any who missed the talk but who would be interested to know more, the talk has been published by ArtWay and can be read by clicking here.

The final Unveiled events at St Andrew's Wickford in 2022 are as follows:

On Friday 18 November, 7.00 pm, Rev Simpkins & the Phantom Notes perform Saltings. Rev Simpkins’ music mixes the colourful folk tradition of Appalachians Mountains with the melodiousness and carefully-observed lyrics of the Kinks. Close harmonies intertwine with banjo, French horn, and bass. At this concert the band will perform the Rev’s acclaimed fourth album and book, Saltings in its entirety. Created with the Illustrator, Tom Knight, Saltings is a loving portrait of the mystery and beauty of Essex's salt marsh wilderness, and a meditation on the real human cost of the wilderness time of the pandemic. Found within 50 miles of London, the saltings are one of England’s last natural wild spaces. Working as a parish priest a few miles away, Matt came to the saltings to retreat and compose these compelling and compassionate songs about his community’s real-life experiences during the pandemic. Saltings portrays hope found amid wilderness.

Then, on Friday 2 December, 7.00 pm we have The Encounter, a show that explores the story of Christmas in a fresh way using dance and mime. Throughout the show you will experience a variety of Christmas stories in a contemporary and engaging way for the whole family. Performed by Steven Turner, who has performed across the UK and Europe including Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, and France. Tickets £6.50. To book your ticket go to www.nextstepcreative.co.uk/events.

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Rev Simpkins - The Apple Tree.