New Faces - January 2010

As well as working on a brand new piece we are also working with brand new dancers. FireBox is delighted to welcome Joanne Clark and Kelly McCartney to the company and you can see them in action with Beth Noble and the dancers from Blaze performing in SOMA at the Theatre Royal's Go Dance 10 on Thursday 28th January. Tickets £10 from 0844 871 7647 or online.

Electric Silhouette - October 2009

FireBox are back where they belong in the studio creating new work for the upcoming evening of dance in collaboration with Blaze. Electric Silhouette will feature two brand new Blaze performances as well as the premiere of Silver, FireBox's current work based on the poem Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou.

Blaze & FireBox Dance Theatre present Electric Silhouette
Gilmorehill G12 Theatre
Sat 28 Nov 2009
7.30pm Tickets £6
Box office 0141 330 5522

Limited Edition - June 2009

FireBox Dance Theatre will be joining forces once again with Blaze to present Limited Edition, an evening of street, tap and contemporary dance pieces.

Blaze will be treating you to their latest street dance piece, Don’t Look Now, a high energy, fast paced set that will leave you wanting more and Cell Block of Sin, a selection of excerpts from Chicago performed by our pearl-swinging tap class.

FireBox will be introducing choreographers, Joan Marshall Beattie and Kelly Shearer, with exciting new pieces plus the Glasgow premiere of Susan Elena’s new work, White Noise: As the screen flickers something catches your eye, maybe it’s nothing, no wait, there it is again. You can’t quite make it out but you’re sure you can see something, someone moving in the white noise. Keep looking, it’s getting clearer…

Foundations - April 2009

FireBox dancer Emma Park has joined forces with two other recent Telford graduates to form The Foundations Collective, a group which supports emerging artists and new graduates with work in Scotland. FireBox is very pleased to have been invited to perform at one of their first evenings of dance in St. Brides Theatre, Edinburgh on Thursday 23rd April.

We have been busy creating a brand new piece, titled White Noise, which features 6 dancers, 2 large screens and a selection of TVs making it one of our most technical pieces to date.

Tickets are £6/£4 and are available from St. Brides Theatre - 0131 346 1405

Scratch Moves - February 2009

Thursday 5th March 7.30pm Pay what you can.

This exciting new event for all things physical uses the 'talkback' Scratch format, this month exploring movement and image. Artists include award-winning German video editor/dance video maker Sabine Klaus, choreographer Susan Elena and visual artist Anna Henson (MFA, Glasgow School of Art).

For details contact lj@thearches.co.uk

FireBox are pleased to be involved in the first ever Scratch Moves night, after being approached by The Arches, to rework As the sparks fly upwards... into a performance piece.

Underneath the Arches - January 2009

Directed by David Overend.

There’s a lot to get through ladies and gentlemen. We have to move quickly...

As the pulsating beat of Death Disco thunders through the walls and thousands of clubbers fill the building, we're going on a journey down dark, damp corridors; into hidden rooms and impassable doorways.

Passing through bars, stages, derelict spaces and offices, Underneath the Arches explores everything the building can be - a dynamic gig venue then an experimental theatre then a hedonistic nightclub. From extravagant corporate events and alternative film nights to creative learning workshops and burlesque art classes - the space is constantly shifting and never staying still.

But the only way to ever really know the Arches is to realise that you can never know it all...

As the sparks fly upwards... will form part of this event with FireBox dancers hanging around for a while to mix things up with the Death Disco revellers afterwards.

Tickets £11/£7 from The Arches 0141 565 1000

Degree Show - September 2008

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design's Masters Show is almost upon us. The show opens on Friday 5th September 7pm-9pm in the Cooper Gallery at Duncan of Jordanstone and will feature FireBox dancers performing in Susan Elena's interactive piece, As the sparks fly upwards...

As dancers move around the space, the lights they hold are tracked by an overhead camera which relays this information to Isadora, an interactive software. Isadora then triggers one of 50 pre-recorded clips of the dancers.

New Projects - May 2008

Lots of new things have been happening recently... Editing of 'itch' is well underway and it's easily the eeriest dance film FireBox has made to date. On top of this Susan Elena will be filming regular FireBox dancers, Suzi Kelly and Gillian Smith, as they combine contemporary dance and pole dancing with exciting results. Susan has also been approached by YDance to document Project Y, their performance project for young aspiring dancers, this summer and the company is busy working on an interactive performance piece which will be shown as Susan's Masters degree show.

Busy, busy, busy.

Spring Clean - April 2008

As regulars will have spotted the site has been given a bit of a spring clean to make it even more of a lean, mean, info machine. With quicker loading pages and more control over the content expect some exciting additions very shortly, including the long-awaited video gallery...

Watch this space.

Montage Video Dance Festival - February 2008

FireBox Dance Theatre is very pleased to announce that Dark Matter has been selected to be screened at the Montage Video Dance Festival in Johannesberg, South Africa this weekend.

"Last year, Montage was named ‘a world beater’ by Adrienne Sichel and this year will again give you a line up of dance videos that are exciting, innovative and astounding. Jeannette Ginslov and Gerard Bester of Walking Gusto Productions have selected the best of local and international video dance works for this year’s festival. The video dance works involve dance, choreography, animation, special effects and the moving image made specifically for the screen to amplify the video dance makers’ intentions."

*Taken from FNB Dance Umbrella 2008 brochure.

Filming in February - February 2008

FireBox Dance Theatre were approached by Jarprocess, a Glasgow based film production company, to dance in their new film, Dog Walker Cafe. The scenes were shot on a bitterly cold night in a car park in Clydebank - ooh the glamour! More information on screenings as soon as they are confirmed.

We have also been experimenting with lights and still cameras in rehearsals with a view to creating a new piece this year. Susan will be spending some more time on this idea during her rehearsal time at The Arches.

New Year New Look - January 2008

With new images by Derrick Linton and a new knowledge of HTML, Susan Elena decided it was time for an update. Please get in touch with any comments or suggestions you have about the new site. Special thanks to Dan Norton for his assistance in getting this site up and running.