Beyond Words Dance

The landscape of poetry & dance • Cross arts • Contemporary dance • Artistic Director @HelenCalcutt / Grief is the Thing with Feathers' @ace_national

[Beyond Words Dance @beyondourwords]

SAVE THE DATE! It's audition time...

We are looking for professional dance artists & performers to join our Crowtastic cohort.
Wednesday 13th September, 10am-3.30pm @mac_birmingham.

Please send brief expressions of interest to [email protected]

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

Besotted with this gorgeous review by Ellora Sutton of ‘Feeling All…’ in the latest issue of @Mslexia ✨ I’m in wonderful company too!

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

I have five, signed copies of ‘Feeling All the Kills’ available to any readers out there who fancy 🍎
Just drop me a message!

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

Less than a month to go before I share this new work with the world.

There are a number of poems in this book that only myself, and the wonderful @DerynRJ have seen —- and so the journey begins…

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

Four weeks in the studio with Max Porter's 'Grief Is the Thing with Feathers', and it's almost here.

Fri 1st March, 3.30pm @Arena_Theatre.

Thank you @ace_national @wlv_uni @BrumYODO @maxjohnporter and of course, the artists bringing this to life. You are SMASHING it.

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

‘(Soul, / spin orange. Soul, spin the colour of love).

I love how the most prominent lines often appear in brackets 🍑

Check out the @MPTmagazine archive, in particular this translation by James Byrne. Beautiful, thank you.

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

DELIGHTED to let the world know that we have been successful in our grant application for Phase 2 of ‘Grief Is the Thing with Feathers’ 🪶 ~ dance translation & research.

Work begins in January 2024 ✨

Thank you to @aceagrams once again for your funding and support 🙏

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

Yesterday, this happened ✨

Miss C received an Honorary Doctor of Letters 💡@lborouniversity

What a bloody honour.

Congratulations to all those beautiful souls who graduated. Remember, your glimmers are your diamonds. This is all about you now.

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

What a gorgeous line-up! Delighted to be here with you all, and my poem ‘Summer Solstice’ ✨(snippet below)

Thank you to Matthew @berlinlit

[Beyond Words Dance @beyondourwords]

THANK YOU to all the professional dance artists from both Brum & London who joined us on our CROW auditions last month. The dance community is thriving that's for sure. What a privilidge to share our practice with you.

@TripSpaceLondon @mac_birmingham @ace_national

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

‘the sun came paper close.’

And everything else fierce, indignant, surreal, heart-stopping about this poem, by Janos Pilinszky

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

Here she is, in all her bold beauty. Delighted to join the incredible sisterhood @PavilionPoetry. ‘Feeling all the kills’ lands April 2024. I hope she brings as much fire and joy to your worlds as she has to mine ♥️

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

Proud of this one 🦋
Really gorgeous docu-film covering our research & creation into ‘Grief is The thing with Feathers.’ Featuring interviews from myself & some wonderful snapshots of the dancers at play ✨

Thank you @ThePaulStringer for capturing 🙏

https://t.co/Dw6At8Vcwk

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

THANK YOU @ace_national for supporting my poetry and dance translation project 'Beyond Words' 🙏

Big thanks to @MairBosworth #AliceOswald, @dancexchange @DanceWorcesterU @shelleyevahaden #saramacqueen #MarciaEdwards @PeteStones123 & Super Amy. You made this possible. #DYCP2021

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

Crikey. This incredible poem from Lucille Clifton @LightClifton

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

The repeated, incantatory diction is both child-like in its ‘simplicity’ and a ‘chorus’, touching on the profound.'

Thank you to @highwindowpress for this attentive review of 'Somehow' @VervePoetryPres

ttps://thehighwindowpress.com/category/reviews/

[Helen Calcutt @HelenCalcutt]

Today, I have a title for my new collection. And it's EXCITING.

[Beyond Words Dance @beyondourwords]

@ThePaulStringer @ChrisSudworth @HelenCalcutt needs headshots and outdoor dancy stuff doing!

[ThePaulStringer @ThePaulStringer]

I want to shoot a ton of outdoor portraits now the sun is popping - musicians, poets, entrepreneurs, anyone needing that fresh shot - hit me up. No charge. (Examples below)

[Amy Dalton-Hardy @AmyLDalton]

Do I know any indie freelance producers - in dance - who specialise or have expertise in digital/technology?
Please share/tag 😀

@lydwharf @psjack17 @AnnaliseCowan @KirstenJeavons @OxspringVanessa @_phoebehilton @spinarts1 @ChelseyEveratt @OpusArtsEvents @saehack @Pippa_Frith