Montage Theatre Arts provides excellent performing arts opportunities for older people of all ages and abilities.  Join us, have fun, get fit and make new friends.  Everyone is welcome – we have a ball!

Over 55’s Drama and Dance:
in partnership with the Elder People’s Support Project, Ackroyd Community Centre.
When: TUESDAYS, 1 – 3pm
Where: Ackroyd Community Centre, Ackroyd Road, SE23 1DL

http://www.ackroydcentre.co.uk/

Fee: £3 per class for members/£4 per class for non-members

Please see our News and Events page for details on our exciting forthcoming performance events!

“I’m 86. It’s fun and it keeps me young. I look forward to seeing everyone each week.”    Helen, 86 years

Tea Party at Deptford X

Performances:

Our group participate in various performance events and festivals.  Highlights include:

Tales of Ambition,  May 5th 2012 at Chisenhale Dance Space, London.

This piece is part of an evening of dance created by experienced choreographers in north-London companies working with older performers, Dreams in Bloom.  This new piece of dance theatre is where Judy returns to her roots of performance using personal histories, working with original music by harmonica player Bill Smith, and choreographing to Duke Ellington, Mahalia Jackson and Chorus Line’s “One“.

Conceived, directed, text edited, sound design and choreographed by Judy Gordon.

Original Composition and Harmonica playing: Bill Smith.

Sound/text recording: Jo Newell

Costume design by company, sourced by Keji Dixon

Production Assistant: Lucy Scarrott

A journey of ambition – where it starts, where it  goes…  17 older women weave their own beautiful and amusing stories of past dreams and life-affirming moments in a new dance theatre piece driven by jazz classics and blues, culminating in an ambitious  show–stopping tap dance routine  – complete with sequined shirts, hats, canes and fishnet tights!

Cast:

Soloists: Keji Dixon, Emel Deniz, Marilyn Ward (writer and performer)

Monica Gittens, Norma Scott, Sheila Mehmet, Pauline Williams, Noele Abeydeera, Claudette Parchment, Carmen Dacres,

Delores Hamilton, Marjorie Jones, Gwen Rose, Ethel Senior, Josie Thorn,  Oriel Weekes, Lucy Scarrott

The final dance number will be appearing in numerous Olympic events including the Big Screen on Blackheath, the Big Dance Bus at Lewisham Shopping Centre, Hilly Fields Fayre and on the Broadway Theatre, Catford.

This same group that will be performing in another piece, Dancing Voices, at the Royal Festival Hall in the opening Cultural Olympiad event in July with East London Dance.

The Dinner Party, July ‘10

Created and performed by 17 women, aged 64 – 86 years, devised by Artistic Director, Judy Gordon. Funded by the Arts Council as part of Big Dance 10.  The women arrive at their annual dinner party. As they wait for service, the wine flows freely and truths are revealed in an inspiring, joyous dance theatre piece, by a unique set of women. Based on the performers’ own lives, the women dance, speak and sing this moving story through tap, tango and a dance with cutlery and crockery.