New Adventures Choreographer Award 2016

Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures Choreographer Award has established itself as one of the dance sector’s most hotly sought after platforms for new choreographic talent, with previous award winners now enjoying successful choreographic careers nationally and internationally.

NACA 2016 winner, Jamaal Burkmar, will present three World Premieres this Autumn at the Platform Theatre at Central Saint Martins London. The triple bill includes Jamaal Burkmar Dance’s ’16 Bars’, featuring a stellar cast of six professional female dancers, ‘Storm’ by Shoreditch Youth Dance and ‘The Calm’ by the newly formed Batch Company.

“An exceptional new voice” –Matthew Bourne.

Jamaal Burkmar is a graduate from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and a product of the ACE Youth Dance and Music in Birmingham, where he began his dance journey back in 2005.

Dance/Design Collaboration and Partnerships -
This year’s NACA involved a new exciting collaboration and partnership between Central Saint Martins and New Adventures and Re:Bourne. During an intensive research and development period at CSM, Jamaal worked alongside current CSM students and graduates who then had the opportunity to pitch their designs based around Jamaal’s movement ideas. Curated by New Adventures & Re:Bourne Resident Artist, Lee Smikle and Platform Theatre Producer, Ged Matthews ,16 designers took part in the design incubator lab. CSM graduate Robin Soutar was the successful designer chosen by Jamaal as the NACA Showcase 2016 designer.

NACA Creative Team 2016 -
Choreographer/Director: Jamaal Burkmar
Composer: Otis Jones
Rehearsal Director: Gianluca Vincentini
Lighting Designer: Luke Haywood
Set & Costume Designer: Robin Soutar
Producer: Lee Smikle

New Adventures & Re:Bourne are supported using public funding by Arts Council England