Winter soiree 'Moon-eater' premier.

Cannot believe in less than 24 hours we will be premiering ‘Moon-eaters’. We have had a busy week rehearsing and refining our company’s piece and are more than excited to share the performance with an audience tomorrow. We now have our website up and running so please take a look and check it out at http://www.flighteffect.co.uk/ . Here you can see a little bit more about our company and us as individuals as well as photos, videos, ticket information and contact details if you have any questions for us.
Our winter soirée is from 6:30pm-8:30pm tomorrow and we hope to see you there!  
Don’t forget to check out our facebook page, intagram and twitter!
Tomorrow is our last rehearsal and performance as a company until the new year, so Merry Christmas. Until next time!
Helen and Steph. xx

Intensive Week Has Come To A Close

So intensive week has come to an end and our choreographer has gone home. We are so grateful to Dimitri for all he has done for us over the past 10 days. And what a busy intensive period we have had what with trying out movement material through improvisational tasks to use in the piece to sorting out costume ideas and lighting the performance, it certainly has been a chaotic few days. Intensive week has definitely been an emotional roller coaster, but we have all powered through, and the support we all received from each other through the process has brought us closer together as a company. The final few days of intensive have seen us finish trying out material and arrange the different sections to create the final product. We have also tried out different costume ideas ready for the premiere on the 10^th of December. There as also been numerous hours of technical and costume, runs to make sure the piece would be at its best. We also performed our piece for the first time to a our university lecturers and first year theater students, as an experience before premiering the piece. It has been an amazing experience, and all company members have taken something different from working with Dimitri over the last few days. We are looking forward to touring the piece we have worked hard at creating. 

Thank you so much to Dimitri for everything you have done for us and we are looking forward to meeting up with him again when we tour our piece in Paris in May. 

For Daily Updates, Videos and Pictures don’t forget to check out our Facebook,Twitter and Instagram pages. 

Until Next Time 

Helen and Steph Xxx

Day six of intensive

Day six of intensive and we have nearly set our piece! It has been an exhausting week with emotions running high and low but we have come together as a team this week and demonstrated a true company! Working with Dimitri has been both an inspiration and a joy. The technique classes have been very interesting and it has been refreshing to embody a new technique. Only three more days until our intensive is over; and we shall soon be ready to perform at our premier on December 10th! Keep checking our blog for updates and don’t forget our twitter, Instagram and facebook accounts too!
Helen and Steph. xx

First week of intensive

First day of intensive complete… what a productive day it has been! We have finally met our choreographer Dimitri, and began the process of creating material that may be used in the final piece. The day has included a technique class influenced by his movement style as well as an intensive and ‘chaotic’ (Dimitri’s words, not ours!) first rehearsal which was developed through improvisation as well as an introduction to our theme of the piece. The theme behind the piece was discussed in great detail over group discussion where we shared our individual research. Our main themes are Luna, Soma and Shaman. In the discussion we established that Luna was a roman god/goddess, associated with the moon. Soma is a ritual of which we will be researching further. We also discussed Shaman which to some cultures, is known to be a person that has ability to enter a state of chance when performing rituals. These themes will have a big influence of the creation of the piece with using our interpretations through movement.
Keep checking out our blog, we shall be keeping you up to date over the next ten days how our rehearsals are going!
Also don’t forget our Facebook, twitter and instagram page.  
Helen and Steph. xx

Counting down the weeks until intensive week with now only just over 2 weeks to go. We have had a refresher course on writing risk assessments. Not forgetting the technique classes we have had over the course of the week, preparing us for the start of intensive week.
Remember to follow us on twitter; @FlightEffect, Instagram: flighteffect and give us a like on Facebook: Flight Effect Dance Company, For daily updates, pictures and videos.
Until the next time
Steph and Helen :)    

What another busy week it’s been at York St John Dance!
We have had a commercial style audition class with Katie Elizabeth that has given us tips on what to expect and how to prepare ourselves ready for any upcoming and future auditions we will be attending.
We’ve also had a fun filled session with flight effect’s technical manager Richard Lawrence refreshing our memories on how to work and set up a lighting rig.
With now just over three weeks until our intensive ten days begins, we are counting the days until Dimiti             Tsiapkinis arrives to create the choreography with us.  
Keep tracking our blog for weekly updates from us in the studio!
Helen and Steph. xx

Hi everyone,
So we’ve had another busy week both in and out of the studio, in preparation for the upcoming work with Dimiti Tsiapkinis.
This week in what would have been our flight effect session, we travelled to Leeds for an afternoon at Yorkshire Dance. This involved open discussions with Kirsty redhead, Antony Dunn and Sarah Lyon discussing a mixture of different roles. We also had a ninety minute street popping and locking class with Bobak. Pictures and videos are up on our flight effect twitter page!
Keep looking out for our Blog updates and see what Flight Effect Company have been up to!
Don’t forget to follow us on twitter, facebook and Instagram! @YSJ_dance     @ FlightEffect. For twitter,
Flight Effect Dance for facebook,
https://i.instagram.com/flighteffectdance/  For instagram.
Helen and Steph x

New Year!.... New Company!

A New Batch of York St Johns 3rd Year Dance Students, are the latest to join a long line of ex undergraduate students in the company best known as Flight Effect.

It has definitely been a busy week in the studio what with team building exercises that will help us to get ready for the most anticipated arrival of our choreographer Dimitri Tsiapkinis. we are all ready and raring to get creating our newest piece of choreography premiering on 10th December.

We will continue to update you all on our progress of the company over the fourth coming year.
So please keep following us on our blog and of course for daily updates you can always follow us on Facebook by searching Flight Effect Dance Company and Twitter @FlightEffect as well as our instagram page https://i.instagram.com/flighteffectdance/

Thank you we hope you have enjoyed this read.
Helen and Steph :D