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
March 14, 2018
A Spring Move
Come and move together. It's Spring time!
A gathering for those who love to move.
The class is influence by multiple techniques including contact, yoga and the work embraces a sense of play. Jo will lead exercises in pairs and group work. "I’m interested in meeting people, encouraging awareness, listening and noticing." These workshops are part of a larger conversation about inclusivity and participation... thinking about what it is to thrive both individually and as a community.
For more information on Jo's studio practice see Workshops
Monday 2nd April (Easter Monday)
10.15-11.45am
Peilot Studio, Chapter
Do wear comfortable clothing, bring a water bottle and a blanket or a yoga mat.
There are limited places so please get in touch to book a place at workshops@jofong.com
The class is free
If you wish to make a donation Jo would like to hand funds onto Huggard Shelter.
A Cardiff-based charity tackling homelessness and seeking to overcome the problems and barriers that force individuals to sleep rough on our streets. http://www.huggard.org.uk/about-us/
Photo Heloise Godfrey-Talbot
March 6, 2018
Experimentica – ABOUT TIME
Jo Fong and Sonia Hughes embark on a new project for Experimentica 2018 entitled
Neither Here Nor There.
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
The festival runs from Wed 11th - Sun 15th Apr
Jo and Sonia will have performances at 1pm Wed - Sat
Experimentica's artists 2018
KATHRYN ASHILL, MEGAN BROADMEADOW, GARETH CHAMBERS, RHODRI DAVIES, FREYA DOOLEY & CINZIA MUTIGLI, PAUL EASTWOOD, JO FONG & SONIA HUGHES, BETH GREENHALGH, PAUL HURLEY, SHAUN CATON AND TYPESUN, ANGUS MCLEAN BALBERNIE, NAHUM, DORIAN NUSKIND-ODER & SIMON GRENIER-POIRIER, PLAYING UP, MIKE PEARSON, THEATRE REPLACEMENT, FERN THOMAS, ULTIMATE DANCER WITH ROBBIE THOMSON, GREG WOHEAD AND MORE…
Tickets are pay what you decide. All payments go directly to supporting artists to make and perform new work at Experimentica.
For details on all the performances click HERE.
Photo Solomon Hughes
