COMMISSIONS

Crystal Palace Festival 2019 commission with Twiin Dance Company (Photo credit: George Dyer)

Grounded Movement are passionate about giving everyday people of all ages and abilities, the opportunity to perform in both professional and informal settings. Projects and commissions include:

• Junctions, site specific Encounter commission for Woking Dance Festival 2013, culminating within a public performance by a wide spectrum of more than 60 members of the Woking community

• Silver Routes choreographic commission for Sadler’s Wells Art of Age Programme towards a performance piece for Elixir 2017, working with 60+ years

• A three year association with the Crystal Palace Festival (CPF), with the most recent completed commission in partnership with Annerley Town Hall youth centre and Twiin Dance Company creating a piece for young people to perform at CPF 2019

Grounded Movement’s recent commission, Company of Recycled Youth ‘National Treasures’, was a 6 month project delivering a range of work and opportunity to get moving for Croydon’s older community, building towards the creation of a company of 60+ years. Funded by Arts Council England Lottery Fund, Croydon Council and ASKI, they performed the commissioned work at Parchmore Methodist Church and Braithwaite Hall to local community audience of friends and family for Black History month 2019.

Commission for Crystal Palace Festival 2018 (Photo credit: Paul grace)

Associate Groups and Training

Grounded UK with Temujin and Sunanda at The Royal Festival Hall

As part of their access and opportunity programme, Grounded Movement also run two associate groups, Grounded UK and Lindy Kicks

Grounded UK invests in young people’s training in Breakin’ and other street derived dance forms. Founded and directed by Sunanda Biswas, they access to top competitions and professional performance opportunities from the Youth Olympics to B-Supreme, UK B.Boy Champs and the Southbank Centre’s Urban Mix. For info email sunsun@hotmail.co.uk

Lindy Kicks, also founded in 2013 and directed by Temujin Gill, are an adult community Lindy Hop performance group who originally grew out of his regular Tuesday night classes established since 2006. They are now based at the Depford Lounge and perform throughout the year locally and further afield at a mix of theatre, community and festival events such as Thanet at War, Tall Ships Festival and Dance Box in Bromley.

Lindy Kicks, Thanet at War 2013 festival Temujin (Photo credit: Andrew Blythe)

Classes

Temujin leading a class in the Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre

Grounded Lindy Hop at Deptford

Regular Tuesday night classes in Lindy Hop, the grandfather of all Swing Dance forms, led by Temujin Gill. Running since 2006, originally based at Greenwich Dance’s Borough Hall on Royal Hill, and now moved to the amazing space at Deptford Lounge, in association with Albany.

Next beginners and intermediates Lindy Hop courses start 22 October – 7 week course – further info and bookings

Education

Training at Greenwich Dance with Temujin (Photo credit: Alicia Clarke)

Directors Temujin Gill and Sunanda Biswas have been lecturing and deliver performance arts modules for over 15 years, from WAC Foundation Degree, London Metropolitan Uni BA and Anglia Rustin Uni BA and London Studio Centre for over 4 years. Currently Temujin is delivering a Jazz, Street and Tap Dance programme for musical theatre students at London College of Music and Sunanda has been delivering a Hip Hop/Breaking module for UEL since 2015.

Well Being

Temujin’s movement session with Neuro-rehab patients (Photo credit: Benedict Johnson)

In 2015, director Temujin Gill, began delivering a brand new activity designed specifically for neuro-rehab patients. In partnership with St Georges NHS Trust, Temujin created Motivate, an adaptable dance therapy programme that works with music, memory, movement, expression and being social. This basic programme has now been adapted to work in a number of different contexts and projects working with people in their advanced years, people with different abilities and those living with differing degrees of dementia.

Banner Image: Paul Grace