On the Run Dance Company
On The Run (formed in April 2005) has slowly built up over the last year through hard work and effort of not only it’s partners, but with the help of dancers Alexander Gallacher and Laura McFadden. As well as this, the company also has a mentor in X Factor’s Alan Greig, who has not only donated his time and energy but his choreography as well. He has been working with the company on rearranging one of his pieces last year, as well as repeating this process again with a different piece for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2006.
Alec and Laura both trained at Edinburgh’s Telford College, and the company is currently also working with two other dancers who trained at the same college. The company's style is mainly contemporary based, however it is always merged with some form of jazz dance.
The company has a great in-kind partnership with The Lochgelly Centre (TLC) in Fife. It strongly believes in backing new ventures that not only aim to create choreography and explore new regions of dance, but have a strong connection to the community.
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On the Run Dance Productions aims to create dynamically innovative choreography, working on the basis that contrasting styles of dance can be merged together to create an energetic and accessible programme of work. |
The company strongly believes that dance should be accessible to all, and everyone should have the opportunity to experience and express themselves through dance. It aims to use inspiring and stimulating workshops to encourage activity and creativity within the community, and to reach as wide an audience as possible, by taking it's work to the public in conventional and unconventional performance and creative spaces.
The company is made of two distinct parts, a professional performing side and a community-led side, including teaching and choreographing within the schools and community centres of Fife.
- On The Run have showcased their work (including Alan Grieg’s choreography) in a showcase at TLC (Oct 2005) and completed a weeks residency at Dancebase in Edinburgh creating Whatever, Darling - a piece based around the cause and effects of social exclusion, as well as the power that is afforded to the more popular of the world (April 2006)
- Performed in Bright Young Flings, at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Dancebase’s graduate showcase, (April 2006).
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- On the Run have weekly community classes, concentrating on building confidence and social interaction through dance, as well as building technique and performance skills in a variety of dance styles.
- Choreographed the pantomime, Mother Goose, for Fife Children’s Theatre (Dec 2005), and a site-specific performance at the Royal Museum in Edinburgh, involving children aged 10 - 13, learning about The Millennium Clock, and taking inspiration from that to create their own choreography, directed by Lynne Evans and Katie Simon. (Feb 2006)
- Currently they are have plans to run a Summer programme for five days in July 2006.
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