October 25, 2018
Tenancy – Manchester/Salford
Jo Fong and Sonia Hughes will be in residency in Manchester as part of Quarantine’s Tenancy Project which is about people and place.
Jo Fong is a director, choreographer and performer based in Cardiff and Sonia Hughes is a writer and performer who lives in the Colne Valley in Yorkshire. They collaborate on artistic events that explore the power of conversation, authentic encounters and finding ways to form community.
For full details on the project - Click HERE
The artists will be exploring and developing their new work entitled Neither Here Nor There.
Try - out presentations will take place at the house
2a Springfield Lane, Irwell Riverside, Salford, M3 7FH, UK.
9th Nov 7pm
10th Nov 11am and 4pm
11th Nov 4pm
To book a ticket please contact info@qtine.com
August 20, 2018
China Changing – A Discussion and A Movement Workshop
Southbank Centre, London
This October Jo will be leading a "Kitchen Table" discussion and Physical Workshop for China Changing Festival at the Southbank, London.
For details on the whole festival 4 OCT 2018 - 7 OCT 2018 see the LINK
Suitable for all aged 16+. Places are limited so please sign up HERE
Ways of Being Together is part a series of workshops, discussions and performances centred around the idea of Belonging.
Both events are FREE to attend, places are limited so do book.
SEE BELOW.
Ways of Being Together - A discussion led by Jo Fong
Friday 5th Oct 2018
6pm - 9pm
Join Jo for a table discussion - the kitchen table is where many a good idea will start. This gathering is suitable for artists from any genre music, dance, visual arts, film... or perhaps you are someone who is interested in the question, What is Community? Jo is interested in spontaneity, authentic encounters and drawing on our own experiences. She wants to stimulate fresh conversation, empowerment and action, creating an art action or a pledge, something positive however small or potentially groundbreaking. This project stimulates conversation around collaboration, participation, inclusivity… We have also talked about parties, friendship, responsibility, gardens, permaculture and other things.
As part of China Changing there will conversations about "Chineseness" in Britain.
Presence. Visibility. Audibility.
Ways of Being Together - A movement workshop led by Jo Fong
Saturday 6th Oct 2018
2pm - 6pm
This session is suitable for people who love to move and are interested in moving together: dancers, actors, circus folk, pilates teachers, japanese drummers, martial arts... experts and non-experts.
Choreographer Jo Fong leads a warm-up followed by pair work, group work and games that she has devised and developed as part of her creative process. Working from the inside of the body to the outside and using guided improvisation, the process incorporates a sense of play and experimentation. Jo is interested in spontaneity and authentic encounters. The interaction is live and people adapt, make room, save, lead, follow, get out of the way, care, grow an energy and awareness, whether that be spacial, a shared joke or about the knowledge of what each human carries with them.
Suitable for all aged 16+.
Free but ticketed.
Places are limited so please sign up HERE
Jo Fong is a director, choreographer and performer working in dance, film, theatre, opera and the visual arts. Jo’s practice is influenced by her eclectic experiences in many dance and theatre making processes and performance. She has performed with companies such as Rosas (Belgium), DV8 Physical Theatre and Rambert Dance Company. Current projects and collaborations include Wallflower and Engish with Quarantine and National Theatre Wales, Neither Here Nor There with artist and writer Sonia Hughes and An Invitation... as part of LEAP Festival in Liverpool.
Jo is an Associate Artist with Chinese Arts Now (CAN) and Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff and this project forms research for a new commission entitled Assemble for CAN Festival, 2020.
Photo credit Simon Banham and Jamie Morgans
August 11, 2018
LEAP – An Invitation… Liverpool
LEAP DANCE FESTIVAL 2nd-12th Nov 2018
An Invitation... heads to Liverpool for two performances alongside some of the UK's most exciting contemporary makers and performers.
For the full line up see this LINK
An Invitation...
November 6th 2018
2pm and 6pm
The Warehouse Studio Theatre
Tickets : £9.50 / £7.50
An Invitation... is an alive and evolving work.
An Invitation… is about connection, conversation, spontaneity and uncertainty. It’s also playful, joyous, imaginative, powerful and human.
An Invitation… is about us.
We are creating this performance now.
We play the performer.
We play the audience.
We are the show.
August 4, 2018
Free classes this August
Do JOIN
This August Jo will be teaching company class for National Dance Company Wales at the Dance House, Cardiff.
Lots of classes to choose from this summer
Jo Fong dates are 15, 16, 17 and 28th Aug
For more information and to book a place Register here
August 2, 2018
A Review – Ways of Being Together
Ways of Being Together happened as part of Cardiff Dance Festival at Chapter.
Review
The Sprout ****
July 20, 2018
Internationale Tanzmesse 2018 – Dusseldorf
Jo will be heading to Tanzmesse supported by Wales Arts International and National Dance Company Wales.
At Tanzmesse, artists from more than 50 countries in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia find an equal opportunity to present their work to a professional audience. Tanzmesse is an event dedicated to contemporary dance without any specific geographical focus.
June 8, 2018
English 14 – 24 June 2018 / Cardiff
National Theatre Wales & Quarantine
With Wales Millennium Centre
Part of Festival of Voice 2018
Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Book Tickets HERE
See the Trailer
National Theatre Wales’ and Quarantine’s extraordinary new show invites its audience into a conversation about language with performer Jonny Cotsen – a performance built out of a fascination with what happens when we try to talk about how to live together. It’s inspired by the theatricality of language lessons, and discussions with migrants who learn English for all kinds of reasons. For business, for pleasure, for survival, to take part, to pass the test…
This exuberant A to Z of language and identity – made in Wales, but with a global perspective – pulls pop songs apart, tears grammar to pieces and invites all the languages in the room to be heard. A joyous, intimate, provocative encounter, English asks how language shapes us all and what happens to our sense of self when we don’t really know how to say who we are.
Accessible Performances
BSL interpreter – Tony Evans
Please contact boxoffice@nationaltheatrewales.org if you have any questions.
Age Guidance: 14+
May 15, 2018
ENGLISH – Festival of Voice
14-24 June 2018
Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Co production by National Theatre Wales & Quarantine
For full details and tickets click HERE National Theatre Wales’ and Quarantine’s extraordinary new show invites its audience into a conversation about language with performer Jonny Cotsen – a performance built out of a fascination with what happens when we try to talk about how to live together. It’s inspired by the theatricality of language lessons, and discussions with migrants who learn English for all kinds of reasons. For business, for pleasure, for survival, to take part, to pass the test… This exuberant A to Z of language and identity - made in Wales, but with a global perspective - pulls pop songs apart, tears grammar to pieces and invites all the languages in the room to be heard. A joyous, intimate, provocative encounter, English asks how language shapes us all and what happens to our sense of self when we don’t really know how to say who we are.
May 15, 2018
An Invitation… in Dresden
Review
by Gary Raymond "An Invitation… is a brilliantly funny physical dialogue between dancers and audience, a tireless journey through the potential of dance to edify, to force us to grow within and without" Read the full article HERE Image credit: John Collingswood
April 18, 2018
Neither Here Nor There
Review
Sonia Hughes and Jo Fong at Experimentica, Chapter Arts Centre.
"How do you get strangers to open up to each other in a very short space of time? Jo Fong and Sonia Hughes create a safe space for probing some buried truths as part of Experimentica 2018. Emma Geliot and Filiz Mehmedova joined a choreographed conversation."
CCQ magazine's review can be found HERE
