News
Announcing The Saturday Sessions
3 January 2019Company Chameleon is excited to present The Saturday Sessions – a new fun, physical and interactive programme of dance classes for young people, age 8 to 16, in Manchester.
Dancing to happiness with Darcey Bussell
2 January 2019In December, we were delighted to feature in a BBC Two documentary with Dame Darcey Bussell, which asked the question, can dance improve your mental health?
Q&A with Navala ‘Niku’ Chaudhari
1 January 2019This Spring, we perform our newest outdoor work, Amaranthine, at Move It, the world’s biggest dance event. Here we catch up with co-creator, Navala ‘Niku’ Chaudhari, to find out more about the choreography and making of the piece.
Championing boys’ dance
2 December 2018Fresh, innovative and engaging ideas to get boys moving! We were delighted to be invited to the One Dance UK conference in November to deliver a Teacher Toolkit session on ‘Facilitating Boys Dance’.
Taking dance into Manchester schools
28 November 2018We talk to our Dance Development Artist, Amber Calland, and find out more about taking dance into Manchester schools this Autumn.
Movement for the mind
20 October 2018To coincide with World Mental Health Day this Autumn, our Co-Artistic Director, Kevin Edward Turner, talks us through the creative process for Witness This, an outdoor choreography which explores his own mental health.
Kevin works with Darcey Bussell
10 October 2018Over the summer, our Co-Artistic Director, Kevin, worked with young people’s mental health charity, 42nd Street, to deliver a dance and mental health project, which was filmed for the BBC and followed by world famous ballerina and Strictly Come Dancing judge, Darcey Bussell.
New dance space for Manchester
5 October 2018To create a hothouse for dance and to make Manchester more of a dancing city, our Co-Artistic Directors, Kevin and Anthony, talk about the launch and vision for our new home.
Autumn UK Tour of 10
5 October 2018This Autumn, Company Chameleon presents the second UK tour of 10. The production, celebrating a decade of creating socially relevant dance theatre, that makes you think and makes you feel, tours nationally from 25 October to 20 November 2018.
Popping up in Manchester
20 August 2018On Thursday 13 and Saturday 15 September, we’re popping up in our home city of Manchester with a trio of free performances - and the UK premiere of Amaranthine, a magnetic short dance piece that tells the story of two people who are deeply in love, and in conflict.