COLLECTIVE ENDEAVOURS

Collective Endeavours is a music/dance collective from Scotland that began with the meeting of Jer Reid and Solène Weinachter in 2010. Their starting point was that the music and dance would have equal impact on their pieces. They made dance/music duets that engaged with specific ideas that were (and are) important to them like the climate emergency and fracking... The group believe in the universality of improvising. At its core it's about making individual and collective choices. We also believe that having the processes of group decision-making explicit in performance gives an audience a chance to reflect on the possibilities of creative decision making in their own lives as well as being taken along by their imagination in a performance. The group believe that the way to reach out with these ideas is to perform in all kind of spaces - especially places that don't usually see dance... Collective Endeavours began with musician Jer Reid and dancer Solène Weinachter creating..

Primary location: United Kingdom