motionhouse annual report 2011/12

1ANNUAL REPORT 2011/12Motionhouse

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OUR VISIONIS TO CREATE STARTLING, PASSIONATE DANCE THEATRE THAT PROFOUNDLY MOVES PEOPLE TO A NEW PLACE AND UNDERSTANDING.

MOTIONHOUSE CREATES REMARKABLE DANCE THEATRE, FUSING IMAGES, ACTION AND DYNAMISM TO SURPRISE, CHALLENGE AND DELIGHT.

MotionhouseC R E A T I O N , I N S P I R A T I O N , P A R T I C I P A T I O N

ARTISTIC STATEMENTPAGE 02

CONTENTSPAGE 02

ABOUT USPAGE 03

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEARPAGES 04 - 05

ARTISTIC PROGRAMMESCATTERED PAGE 06

OUTDOOR REPERTOIRE CASCADEPAGE 07UNDERGROUNDPAGE 08CHASERPAGE 09

MACHINE DANCE TRACTIONPAGE 10WAITING GAMEPAGE 11

LEARNING AND PARTICIPATIONPAGES 12 - 13

FINANCIAL SUMMARYPAGES 14 - 17

REACH PAGES 18 - 21

2011/12 | THE FACTSPAGE 22

OUR FUNDERS, SUPPORTERS, STAFF AND COLLABORATORS PAGE 23

CONTENTS

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Motionhouse is one of the UK’s foremost dance theatre companies, touring highly acclaimed and award winning productions to theatres and festivals throughout the world.

Under the strong direction of Kevin Finnan and Louise Richards, we create an extraordinary range of performances. Rooted in dance, our dynamic productions draw on theatre, circus and acrobatics and are acclaimed for striking use of imagery, theatricality and immediate impact.

Since forming in 1988 we have produced eighteen theatre touring productions, a series of shorter outdoor festival pieces and have become renowned for our large-scale dance spectacles in which setting, action and context collide.

We use dance and visual theatre to explore, question and celebrate the relationship between the tangible world of objects, bodies and environments, and the intangible one of images, concepts and cultures. The resulting work is exciting and visually rich, and strives to balance the artistically adventurous with the appealing and accessible.

A wide ranging participatory programme complements and enhances our performance work. We work hard to engage people with dance through a vibrant programme of outreach and community work. Our work is supported by an internationally recognised programme of

dance participation and we are recognised as being leaders in the field of dance education and training.

We have always been based in Leamington Spa and operate all year round. We manage an office and a dance studio as well as an additional warehouse space to house our sets and equipment. The studio is home not just to our creative work and our local participatory programme, but also to a range of other dance and movement-linked classes and the making of work by other practitioners.

We believe that dance is for everyone and that by engaging people with ‘doing’ dance we are more likely to encourage more people to become dance attendees. Audiences have always been central to the Motionhouse vision and practice, as has a ‘joined up’ approach to the various strands of activity, both participatory and performance.

ABOUT US

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PASSIONATE PERFORMANCE, STARTLING SPECTACLE, DYNAMIC DANCE

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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR2011/12 has been a strategically and artistically significant year for Motionhouse. We were commissioned to develop a large-scale multimedia outdoor spectacle, The Voyage, to open the London 2012 Festival in the West Midlands. Created in collaboration with world-renowned Australian physical theatre company, Legs On The Wall, produced by Birmingham Hippodrome and with extraordinary projections from Logela Multimedia from the Basque region of Spain, significant development work on The Voyage took place throughout the year in preparation for launching the London 2012 Festival in our home region in June 2012. The Voyage will be our most ambitious production to date.

Parallel to the development of the content for The Voyage we also planned and began to deliver an extensive professional development project and community participatory programme, Quest. As part of the Quest participatory project we recruited eight apprentice dancers to join our company for The Voyage from March 2012. We also offered 130 performers of all ages from throughout the West Midlands the opportunity to be part of the production. In March our dancers and apprentices, under Kevin Finnan’s direction, began creating material with seven groups from Birmingham Ormiston Academy (BOA), Solihull Youth Dance Company, Stratford-upon-Avon College, Nova Youth Dance Company, Coventry PAS Youth Dance, Playbox Theatre and an

Adult Performance Group based in our Spencer Yard Studio. The participants will go on to perform alongside our dancers and performers from Legs On The Wall in this landmark event.

With new partnerships and new markets in place, particularly with international agents laying the ground for future tours in Asia and America, we began the process of artistic development and promotion for two new touring works, Broken and Captive, planned for 2013.

Scattered enjoyed its third year of touring this year with a series of international performances. In May 2011 we toured to the Macau International Arts Festival followed by a European tour encompassing venues in Belgium, Romania and Portugal plus five more venues in the UK. Our festival shows, Underground and Cascade continued to tour in Europe and the UK during the summer months with 38 performances in the UK and 51 across mainland Europe. Chaser was performed in Macau four times. In total over 34,000 audience members (34,165) enjoyed our three festival shows in nine different countries throughout the year.

A new Machine Dance piece was developed in response to a commission from Bullring Birmingham to launch the opening of the Spiceal Street development in November 2011. Traction followed the two dancer/one digger trio, Waiting Game which was commissioned earlier in

the year to mark the start of the construction of this development. The larger Traction, for three machines and six dancers premiered on 24 November and was seen by nearly 4,000 people. Waiting Game, created in March 2011, was introduced to the festival market and was presented three times at the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival in July.

A new website was launched at the end of 2011 after considerable research and development. The website was created in response to a digital CRM audience engagement project, Arts Nation, which Arts Council England (ACE) invited us to participate in. The website was designed in order to develop greater engagement with, and loyalty from, our online community, and the integration of our social media platforms into the site was introduced in order to encourage deeper interaction and dialogue with our audiences. The website was a resounding success and during the first week of its launch the site received the highest average time spent by our audiences online since our records began.

We witnessed a triumphant climax to the financial year 2011/12 when our Artistic Director was invited to take up the role of Choreographer and Director of Movement for the London 2012 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony.

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“Super athletic dancers, as dexterous in the air and with ropes as they are on the floor, this is a company that has long cornered the high impact end of the market”The Guardian

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Scattered was commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre and created with support from Playbox Theatre, Warwick

SCATTERED

Due to exceptional demand Scattered remained in rep for the third consecutive year and embarked on its first ever sell-out long-haul tour. Scattered premiered in Macau, Belgium and Portugal and was invited to return to Romania, this year as part of the Festivalului International de Teatru Povesti in Alba Iulia. Scattered also returned to Warwick Arts Centre, and witnessed enthusiastic crowds on its UK tour in the autumn of 2011.

Scattered combines our trademark highly physical dance theatre and mesmerizing aerial imagery with film and graphics, to create a unique visual production. Performed on a giant curved floor like a snowboard half-pipe, Scattered explores our relationship with water in an ingenious collaboration with Logela Multimedia from the Basque region of Spain.

Scattered delves into the majesty and savagery of water, a fundamental force in our lives. The mix of magical film and daring dancing creates an extraordinary world in which seven dancers plunge into an ocean, tumble down a waterfall, gasp with thirst under a scorching sun and slide on an avalanche to a frozen landscape of arctic beauty in a meteor shower of unlikely moments.

“I was really captivated watching Scattered and

proud that work this good is being made in the

UK… The water issue was wonderfully appropriate without being a forced

message. Congratulations on a sophisticated, energising,

thought-provoking, touchingly beautiful piece of work.”

Scattered Audience Member

A Meteor Shower of Unlikely Moments

3,813 people saw Scattered in 2011/12 Bringing the total number of people who have seen Scattered since its premiere in 2009 to 15,647

Scattered has been performed 50 times in 39 venues in 7 countries throughout the world since its premiere. 10 of these performances occurred in 2011/12

Our average audience attendance throughout the 2011/12 tour of Scattered was 94%

Scattered’s advanced bookings are strong, with a tour of China planned in the autumn of 2012 and our first ever American tour scheduled for January 2013

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Our festival pieces are short sharp injections of dance and circus that are devised to be performed in the public arena rather than in the confines of a venue. Our performances fuse images and action and are designed to challenge, as

well as delight our audiences. The shows tour extensively on the international street festival circuit to enormous crowds and critical acclaim.

“Motionhouse is breaking new ground - they have an amazing grasp of the challenges and rewards of outdoor work and have demonstrated great sophistication in their work across different scales: from intimacy to spectacle”Bradley Hemmings | Artistic Director Greenwich+Docklands International Festival

“With Cascade Motionhouse combines a serious subject with high quality artistic performance, leaving festival audiences both stunned and amazed by the tidal wave that has taken place before their eyes”Zone European Arts Project

In 2011 Cascade, our third outdoor festival piece, made premiere appearances in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and Ireland as well as appearing in France and touring extensively throughout the UK.

Set on a submerged house amidst rising flood waters, four dancers balance, slide and tumble their way upwards as they scramble to get ahead of the deluge. Cascade combines the very best of dance and acrobatics in a physical and dramatic spectacle, in which the presence of water becomes more pressing and more insistently evident until it sweeps away all before it.

OUTDOOR REPERTOIRE

Keeping your Feet on Dry LandCASCADE

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Cascade premiered in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and Ireland in 2011/12

In 2011/12 Cascade was performed 45 times at 13 festivals throughout the UK and Europe to 19,113 people

Since premiering in 2010 Cascade has been seen by 30,793 people in the UK and 5 countries throughout EuropeFA

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Cascade was co-commissioned by Without Walls, mac and the University of Surrey

Underground was commissioned by Birmingham Hippodrome, Fierce Festival and Without Walls

Life Going Down the Tube

Underground was performed 44 times at 11 festivals throughout the UK, The Netherlands, France and Spain in 2011/12

Underground was seen by 13,832 people in 2011/12

Since premiering in 2008 Underground has been seen by 77,147 people in 11 countries throughout the worldFACT

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“Really fantastic piece and such simple and effective set design, not to mention breathtaking dancers! It was so good to see such a great piece performed outdoors, the audience were totally gripped and engaged”Underground Audience Member

“Emotive, superbly choreographed, head tingling & totally mesmerising”Underground Audience Member

In its fourth year of touring Underground remained as popular as ever on the festival circuit and toured extensively throughout the UK and Europe.

Performed by four dancers within a rocking tubular structure, Underground uses stunningly physical dance, poignant imagery and surprising

aerial encounters to explore the new reality of train travel. Travellers are thrown together in an unlikely alliance as graffiti artists paint their love in motion. Suspended at odd angles and riding the rhythm of the train, the four characters are constantly drawn together then torn apart in an energetic and thought-provoking piece.

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Chaser was originally created with the support of Lichfield Garrick Theatre, mac, Solihull Arts Complex and Birmingham Hippodrome

“Thrilling and heart stopping!” Chaser Audience Member

“Powerful stuff, excellently danced… you can almost feel the energy and emotion”

Ballet/Dance Magazine

“Intriguing, inclusive, slightly unsettling, acrobatic”

Chaser Audience Member

Originally created in 2005 Chaser was invited to appear at the Outdoor Performing Arts Showcase at Iao Hon Gardens in Macau in May 2011.

Chaser is fifteen nail-biting minutes of dynamic encounters, high-speed socialising, friendly rivalry, flying and falling.

Acrobatic, dramatic and engaging, Chaser is performed on and around a triangular set, by three breathtaking performers.

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Chaser was performed 4 times in 2011/12 to 1,220 people

Since premiering in 2005 Chaser has been seen by 36,960 people in 8 countries throughout the world

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“Chaser is a rare thing in outdoor performance – a strong combination of high-quality dance mixed with an engaging narrative and always performed with commitment and panache”Angus MacKechnie | Producer Watch This Space Festival, National Theatre

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“Awesome! Brilliantly choreographed; beautifully executed - an inspiration and a wonderful piece of theatre”Traction Audience Member

“Traction is perhaps the most perfect fusion of man and machine since Cyberdyne Systems grafted flesh over a metal exoskeleton”Traction Audience Member

Machine Dance is a truly unique performance concept featuring dancers and large construction diggers in a moving and poetic display portraying the strength yet vulnerability of the human form and the unlikely tenderness of the machines.

Since 2004 we have been experimenting with these performances involving dancers and machines. Our interest in this work stems from a fascination with both the extraordinary articulation and expressive capacity of construction machines and also the sensitivity with which they can partner and complement human performers.

Traction is the newest show in our Machine Dance series and was commissioned by Bullring Birmingham as a climactic celebration to launch a new development to the shopping centre complex in November 2011. Traction followed the two dancer/one digger trio, Waiting Game which was commissioned earlier in the year for the ‘Breaking the Ground’ event which marked the start of the construction of the new development.

Traction is a stunning Transformers-esque performance that sees six dancers and three JCB diggers dancing together with extreme acrobatic partnering, animal strength and startling unison phrases.

Traction is a high voltage celebration of the powerful harmony of humans and machines. It is at once impossibly emotive and theatrically unforgettable, defying gravity and suspending disbelief.

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Traction was the second Machine Dance commissioned by Bullring Birmingham. Traction followed Waiting Game, which celebrated the start of the development works in March 2011

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“Motionhouse has captured my heart! Waiting Game was enthralling and the dancers took my breath away. So moving!” Waiting Game Audience Member

“Blown away by Waiting Game - a stunning, acrobatic, contemporary pas de deux with a JCB Digger!”Waiting Game Audience Member

Waiting Game premiered on the festival circuit at the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival in July 2011

Waiting Game was performed to 2,015 people over 3 performances

Since its premiere at the Bullring in March 2011 Waiting Game has been seen by 3,315 peopleFACT

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Originally created in response to a brief from Bullring Birmingham and with the support of ACE’s Arts Nation initiative to increase public engagement in the arts, Waiting Game featured in our outdoor repertoire for 2011/12. Waiting Game premiered on the street arts festival circuit in July 2011 when it was performed at the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival.

Waiting Game is a highly ingenious piece that explores the coming together of humans and machines to work in harmony. It’s a playful and audacious trio of two dancers and a JCB digger which takes place in a familiar restaurant situation. Turning dining out on its head, the two dancers are waited on by a JCB - but the quality of the service leaves something to be desired!

The diners interweave and collide with the machine in a poetic aerial spectacle that sees them fly high above the crowds, reaching out to a world of possibilities.

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LEARNING AND PARTICIPATION

We deliver an extensive participatory programme including workshops for schools, community classes for children and adults in our Leamington Spa studio, professional development for teachers and dancers, access to open rehearsals and work experience placements. Our wide ranging participatory programme both builds links to the local community and complements and enhances the touring performance work nationally and internationally.

In 2011/12 we delivered workshops and educational training throughout the UK and in Macau. We also began an extraordinary participatory project called Quest. Quest offered performers of all ages from the West Midlands the opportunity to be part of the London 2012 celebrations. We were commissioned with Australian physical theatre company Legs On The Wall to create The Voyage, a major outdoor multimedia spectacle, to be produced by Birmingham Hippodrome. The Voyage will form part of the official opening of the nationwide London 2012 Festival celebrating the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Quest participatory project was designed in order for the participants to learn from our professional company and to take part in The Voyage. From March 2012 our dancers created material with seven groups that will go on to perform alongside Motionhouse and Legs On The Wall. The Quest performers were made up of groups from the West Midlands including: Birmingham Ormiston Academy (BOA), Solihull Youth Dance Company, Stratford-upon-Avon College, Nova Youth Dance Company, Coventry PAS Youth Dance, Playbox Theatre and an Adult Performance Group based in our Spencer Yard studio.

As part of the Quest participatory project we also recruited eight dance apprentices to join our company for The Voyage. Four apprentices were recruited from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and four were young professionals who were employed with funding from the Legacy Trust. The apprentices joined Motionhouse from March 2012 and as well as creating material that would be performed in The Voyage they also assisted in delivering the workshops and supporting the Quest community performance elements. We also developed relationships during this time with Warwickshire College and Coventry University to film the participants and dancers in rehearsals and during performances. The filming began in March 2012 and over seventy film students were given the opportunity to be involved in The Voyage and Quest.

Our 2005/06 production Perfect remained a set piece on the national GCSE curriculum for Dance in England and Wales and our 2007/08 production Driven continued to be a recommended show on the A Level Performance Studies curriculum. Workshops and education resource packs for these shows and our most recent production, Scattered, continued to be in demand throughout the year.

“We firmly believe that there is a fundamental and intrinsic link between the creation of performance work and the leading of participatory projects and the combination of these elements is fundamental to our overall programme.”Kevin Finnan

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In 2011/12 formal education workshops were delivered to 2,354 participants

738 participants received informal workshops from our staff and dancers in 2011/12

345 participants took part in sessions as part of the Quest project in 2011/12

In 2011/12 1,881 participants received professional training from our staff and dancers

From the date of its launch until 31 March 2012 we have sold 337 PerfectED education resource packs FA

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“I just want to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to the Motionhouse dancers that took part in Dance 2 Educate. The event was great and the dance pieces created were all fantastic and well received! ... All the schools really enjoyed having the dancers working with them and found each dancer very professional and inspirational to work with, which really enthused all those who took part”Tina Heeley | Dance 2 Educate Project Manager

“Having Motionhouse as our resident performance company raised the bar of professionalism for our students. Not only were their skills stretched and challenged, but Kevin’s level of professional expectation gave them the opportunity to experience real industry demands. Kevin’s approach was extremely generous and genuine which enabled each individual student to make significant developments as both a choreographer and performer” Henriette Roberts | Brookes Melton College, De Montford University

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FINANCIAL SUMMARYSOURCES OF FUNDINGOur touring and education work is funded by Arts Council England West Midlands, by Local Authority Service Agreement, by commissions for new touring productions and by fees from the sale of work to venues and festivals.

ARTS COUNCIL FUNDINGMotionhouse is supported by Arts Council England West Midlands. Confirmation of core funding of £257,315 was received during 2011/12. Motionhouse is a National Portfolio organisation and received confirmation of funding until 2014/15 in March 2011.

WARWICKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL AND WARWICK DISTRICT COUNCILMotionhouse has an annually reviewed Service Level Agreement with each of the above councils and received fees of £5,300 for the year ending 31 March 2012.

AUDITORS AND ACCOUNTSThe appointed auditors for Motionhouse are Clement Keys of Birmingham. A full set of audited accounts is available upon request.

FINANCIAL CYCLEThe Company operates in a three year cycle – in each three year period activity is phased in order to optimise investment, use resources to their fullest capacity and maximise possible investment in new work, so ensuring excellent production values, and also making best use of the natural touring life of created work.

Typically year one of the cycle is about conserving resources to invest into the creation of new touring work in year two, which then tours during year three and into year one of the next cycle. Since creation of new work requires vastly larger sums to develop the set and materials of the production, and also investment in rehearsal time, dancers’ salaries, rehearsal space etc – new work of the middle scale can only be created once in any three years under current strategic planning.

FINANCIAL REVIEWMotionhouse’s financial objective is to ensure financial stability and continued solvency year on year so that it can maintain its artistic aims and objectives. For the financial year ending 31 March 2012, Motionhouse recorded a small deficit of £9,437 on unrestricted operations and a surplus of £61,269 on restricted operations and the new financial year begins with a balance of £80,000 on designated funds and £32,383 on unrestricted general reserves.

The restricted funds held at the yearend are held in accordance with the terms and conditions under which they were received.

RESERVES POLICY The charitable company needs reserves to provide funds:

To continue to meet strategic objectives if there is any major shortfall in income; To give a breathing space should the company lose a major source of funds; and To continue to run the business if there are any unexpected expenses.

The amount of money required in reserve depends on the stage of the performance ‘life cycle’. For instance, if the company is touring and the dancers are under contract, then the financial consequences of dancer injury are far greater at the beginning than at the end of the tour. The level of free reserves (being those unrestricted reserves not required to fund fixed assets) needed therefore fluctuates both between years and within years. The Company believes that an adequate level of free reserves is between £10k and £30k depending on the level and nature of activity.

The free reserves of the charity as at 31 March 2012 were £14,906, with £80,000 being carried forward as reserves designated to support the company’s next creation year planned for 2013/14.

Our Finance Officer undertakes to report to the board and council historical reserve levels quarterly as part of the review of the management accounts.

Motionhouse’s investment policy is to invest surplus cash balances to maximise interest whilst not exposing the company to risk and taking into account future cash needs

We undertake an annual review of risks taking into account the forthcoming activity and our strategic plans.

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2012 2011

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Fixed Assets

Tangible assets £39,558 £59,373

Current Assets

Debtors £47,628 £28,416

Cash at bank and in hand - Restricted £92,273 £17,000

- Unrestricted £62,911 £104,646

£202,812 £150,062

Creditors: amounts falling due in

one year (£15,633) (£34,530)

Net Current assets £187,179 £115,532

Total assets less current liabilities £226,737 £174,905

Funds

Restricted £114,354 £53,085

Unrestricted

General £32,383 £36,820

Designated £80,000 £85,000

£112,383 £121,820

£226,737 £174,905

BALANCE SHEET | 31 MARCH 2012

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standards for Smaller Entities (effective 2008).

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DONATIONS, GIFTS AND GRANTS

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Voluntary Income, Grants and Contracts

Restricted

Warwick Arts Centre - £2,000

ACE Arts Nation | CRM Development £500 £4,500

ACE | R & D for Olympics 2012 Project, Birmingham £932 £2,000

ACE Arts Nation | Machine Dance £3,000 £18,000

Without Walls | Festival Commissioning - £2,200

LMAS Grant £1,000 -

ACE | Quest Grant £40,878 -

ACE | Lottery Capital Grant £49,000 -

WDC | Quest Project £2,000 -

WCC | Quest Project £2,000 -

£99,310 £28,700

Unrestricted

Warwickshire County Council | Service Level Agreement £2,800 £2,800

Warwick District Council | Service Level Agreement £2,500 £2,500

Arts Council England £257,315 £276,385

£262,615 £281,685

£361,925 £310,385

Incoming Resources from Charitable Activities

Fees and Other

Merchandise sales £7,376 £13,119

Performance, Education and Community Activity £211,047 £211,426

£218,423 £224,545

Geographical Analysis of Fees and Other Resources 2012 2011

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England £105,642 £128,494

Rest of the United Kingdom £14,337 £8,091

Rest of European Union £70,406 £75,329

Rest of the World £28,038 £12,631

£218,423 £224,545

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2012 2011

Unrestricted Restricted Total Total

Funds Funds Funds Funds

Incoming Resources £ £ £ £

Incoming Resources from Generated Funds

Voluntary Income

Donations, gifts and grants £257,315 - £257,315 £276,385

Activities for Generating Funds

Bank interest £465 - £465 £22

Incoming Resources from Charitable Activities

Grants and contracts £5,300 £99,310 £104,610 £34,000

Fees and other £218,423 - £218,423 £224,545

Total Incoming Resources £481,503 £99,310 £580,813 £534,952

Resources Expended

Charitable Activities £487,789 £38,041 £525,830 £502,528

Governance Costs £3,151 - £3,151 £3,119

Total Resources Expended £490,940 £38,041 £528,981 £505,647

Net (outgoing)/incoming resources being net (expenditure)/income for the year

(£9,437) £61,269 £51,832 £29,305

Reconciliation of Funds

Fund Balance at 01 April £121,820 £53,085 £174,905 £145,600

Fund Balance at 31 March 2012 £112,383 £114,354 £226,737 £174,905

All income and expenditure relates to continuing activities.

All gains and losses recognised in the year are included above. The Statement of Financial Activities incorporates the Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses required by FRS3.

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIESYEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2012

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OUTDOOR PERFORMANCES AND ONE OFF EVENTS | 2011/12

Date Venue | Event ACE Region CountryAudience

FiguresNo. of Perfs

09 Apr 11 City of Wings, Ypres Belgium 954 2

10 Apr 11 City of Wings, Ypres Belgium 1,390 2

04 Jun 11 Street Arts Mooiweer Games The Netherlands 250 1

05 Jun 11 Street Arts Mooiweer Games The Netherlands 850 2

11 Jun 11 Holzminden Festival Germany 2,200 3

12 Jun 11 Holzminden Festival Germany 1,890 3

02 Jul 11 Le Cratère Surfaces, Ales France 1,515 2

03 Jul 11 Le Cratère Surfaces, Ales France 1,615 2

14 Jul 11 Playbox Theatre, Warwick West Midlands UK 120 2

16 Jul 11 Dance Xplosion, Craven Arms, Shropshire

West Midlands UK 459 3

17 Jul 11 Dance Days, Swansea Wales UK 150 1

CASCADE PERFORMANCES | 2011/12

SCATTERED TOUR | 2011/12


FiguresNo. of Perfs

18 May 11 Macau Cultural Centre Macau 362 1

19 May 11 Macau Cultural Centre Macau 362 1

06 Sep 11 Watford Palace Theatre East UK 277 1

23 Sep 11 Cultuurcentrum Dilbeek Belgium 476 1

29 Sep 11 The Core at Corby Cube East Midlands UK 409 1

07 Oct 11 Festivalului International de Teatru Povesti, Alba Iulia

Romania 530 1

14 Oct 11 Hertford Theatre East UK 225 1

20 Oct 11 Queens Hall Theatre, Kent South East UK 192 1

04 Nov 11 Teatro Vila Real Portugal 540 1

22 Mar 12 Warwick Arts Centre West Midlands UK 440 1

Scattered Performance Totals 2011/12 || 3,813 10

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FiguresNo. of Perfs

21 Jul 11 Chalon Dans La Rue France 450 1



24 Jul 11 Chalon Dans La Rue France 1,000 1

29 Jul 11 Spraoi, Waterford Ireland 900 3

30 Jul 11 Spraoi, Waterford Ireland 1,250 3

06 Aug 11 Stockton International Riverside Festival (SIRF)

North East UK 350 1

07 Aug 11 Stockton International Riverside Festival (SIRF)

North East UK 820 2

13 Aug 11 Six Summer Saturdays, Birmingham Hippodrome

West Midlands UK 90 2

20 Aug 11 Watch This Space, National Theatre

London UK 1,000 2

02 Sep 11 Freedom Festival, Hull Yorkshire UK 210 2

03 Sep 11 Freedom Festival, Hull Yorkshire UK 450 3

Cascade Performance Totals 2011/12 || 19,113 45

CASCADE PERFORMANCES | 2011/12 CONTINUED


FiguresNo. of Perfs

28 May 11 Dedans/Dehors, Annemasse France 500 3

29 May 11 Dedans/Dehors, Annemasse France 500 3

16 Jun 11 Playbox Theatre, Warwick West Midlands UK 195 2

17 Jun 11 The Core at Corby Cube East Midlands UK 750 1

18 Jun 11 Ashbourne International Streetfest East Midlands UK 525 3

19 Jun 11 Ashbourne International Streetfest East Midlands UK 540 3

22 Jun 11 Oerol Festival The Netherlands 650 1

23 Jun 11 Oerol Festival The Netherlands 750 2

24 Jun 11 Oerol Festival The Netherlands 1,100 2

26 Jun 11 Oerol Festival The Netherlands 1,100 2

08 Jul 11 Kalealdia International Street Festival, Bilbao

Spain 1,100 3

09 Jul 11 Kalealdia International Street Festival, Bilbao

Spain 1,400 3

16 Jul 11 Dance Days, Swansea Wales UK 600 3


22 Jul 11 Chalon Dans La Rue France 1,100 1

29 Jul 11 Inside Out, St Andrews Scotland UK 332 3

30 Jul 11 Inside Out, St Andrews Scotland UK 590 3

29 Aug 11 Devizes International Street Festival South West UK 350 2

01 Oct 11 Salon Public, Salon de Provence France 850 3

Underground Performance Totals 2011/12 || 13,832 44

UNDERGROUND PERFORMANCES | 2011/12

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FiguresNo. of Perfs

24 Jul 11 Blaze Project, Dance 2 Educate, Northampton

East Midlands UK 300 1

One Off Events Performance Totals 2011/12 || 300 1

CHASER PERFORMANCES | 2011/12

TRACTION PERFORMANCES | 2011/12

WAITING GAME PERFORMANCES | 2011/12

ONE-OFF EVENTS | 2011/12

OUTDOOR PERFORMANCES & OTHER EVENTS TOTALS 2011/ 12 || 40,465 100

TOTAL PERFORMANCE FIGURES – ALL SHOWS 2011/12 || 44,278 110


FiguresNo. of Perfs

09 May 11 Outdoor Performing Arts Showcase, Iao Hon Garden

Macau 650 2

10 May 11 Outdoor Performing Arts Showcase, Iao Hon Garden

Macau 570 2

Chaser Performance Totals 2011/12 || 1,220 4


FiguresNo. of Perfs

20-23 Nov 11 Bullring, Birmingham West Midlands UK 1,935 1

24 Nov 11 Bullring, Birmingham West Midlands UK 2,050 2

Traction Performance Totals 2011/12 || 3,985 3


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02 Jul 11 Greenwich+Docklands International Festival

London UK 2,015 3

Waiting Game Performance Totals 2011/12 || 2,015 3

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2011 /12THE FACTS

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ARTISTIC PROGRAMMEIn 2011/12 attendance figures for Scattered and our festival and outdoor pieces were 44,278

The total number of people engaging with our work through our mixed programme of performance and participation opportunities in 2011/12, is 56,369

SCATTERED

Scattered has been performed 50 times in 39 venues since its premiere in 2009. Ten of these performances occurred in 2011/12

3,813 people saw Scattered in 2011/12

The total number of people who have seen Scattered since its premiere is 15,647 people in 7 countries throughout the world

Half of the venues we visited in 2011/12 had sell-out crowds

Our average audience attendance throughout the 2011/12 tour of Scattered was 94%

Since touring began in 2009 72% of all Scattered tickets available have been sold

Our audiences are broad with 45% being students, under 16s and over 60s

Scattered audience numbers have exceeded the previous production Driven’s total sales to date by 44%

Scattered’s advanced bookings are strong, with a tour of China planned in the autumn of 2012 and our first ever American tour scheduled for January 2013

OUTDOOR REPERTOIRESince premiering in 2010 Cascade has been seen by 30,793 people in the UK and 5 countries throughout Europe

In 2011/12 Cascade was performed 45 times at 13 festivals throughout the UK and Europe to 19,113 people

Since premiering in 2008 Underground has been seen by 77,147 people in 11 countries throughout the world

Underground was performed 44 times at 11 festivals throughout the UK, The Netherlands, France and Spain to 13,832 people in 2011/12

Since premiering in 2005 Chaser has been seen by 36,960 people in 8 countries throughout the world

Chaser debuted in Macau in May 2011, being performed 4 times to 1,220 people

Traction was seen by 3,985 people when it celebrated the opening of Bullring’s Spiceal Street development in November 2011

Since its premiere at the Bullring in March 2011 Waiting Game has been seen by 3,315 people

Waiting Game premiered on the festival circuit at the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival in July 2011 being seen by 2,015 people over 3 performances

ONLINE AUDIENCESBetween 01 April 2011 and 31 March 2012 the Motionhouse website had 47,842 unique visitors, which represents a 17% increase on 2010/2011’s traffic (40,766)

39,940 of these (83%) were first time visitors to the site, with 7,902 returning on more than one occasion (17%)

The longest average time spent on the Motionhouse website since our records began was witnessed during the first week of the new site’s launch (5 mins 42 seconds). This is an increase of over 2 minutes on the annual average time spent on our site (3 mins 19 seconds)

The Motionhouse website pages were viewed 118,812 times during the financial year, which represents a 5% increase on the number of pages consumed in 2010/11 (113,320)

Between 01 April 2011 and 31 March 2012 the website was accessed by viewers in 139 countries

We have loyal fans, 6% of the total number of people visiting our website last year have done so more than 201 times

By 31 March 2012 Motionhouse had 1,513 followers on Twitter, which represents a massive 122% increase since March 2011 (863)

Facebook followers by the same date totalled 1,632. This represents a growth of 30% since March 2011 (1,254)

Our blog readership increased by 43% in 2011/12, rising to 6,066 people from 3,501

Between its launch in December 2008 and March 2012 our Flickr account has been viewed 8,836 times, this represents a 247% increase in views since March 2011 (2,548)

Since its launch in January 2009 our YouTube channel had witnessed 19,182 views and films had been uploaded 77,358 times

This represents 245% increase in channel views since March 2011 (5,552) and 69% increase in uploads of film footage in the same period of time (45,859)

LEARNING AND PARTICIPATIONIn 2011/12 formal education workshops were delivered to 2,354 participants

738 participants received informal workshops from our staff and dancers in 2011/12

345 participants took part in sessions as part of the Quest project in 2011/12

In 2011/12 1,881 participants received professional training from our staff and dancers

From the date of its launch until 31 March 2012 we have sold 337 PerfectED education resource packs

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OUR 2011/12 PROGRAMME WAS FUNDED BYArts Council England | Dancing for the Games Legacy Trust | Warwickshire County Council Warwick District Council

SCATTERED WAS COMMISSIONED BYWarwick Arts Centre | with support from Playbox Theatre, Warwick

CASCADE WAS CO-COMMISSIONED BYWithout Walls | mac | University of Surrey

UNDERGROUND WAS COMMISSIONED BYBirmingham Hippodrome | Fierce Festival | Without Walls

CHASER WAS ORIGINALLY CREATED WITH THE SUPPORT OFLichfield Garrick | mac | Solihull Arts ComplexBirmingham Hippodrome

TRACTION WAS COMMISSIONED BYBullring | with support from Arts Council England Arts Nation

WAITING GAME WAS COMMISSIONED BYBullring | with support from Arts Council England Arts Nation

MOTIONHOUSE BOARD, STAFF & DANCERS MOTIONHOUSE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dorothy Wilson | ChairCharles Vacy-Ash | Vice ChairGaynor Cheshire | DirectorSarah Fitzpatrick | Director Sarah Gee | DirectorLouise Halliday | Director (Appointed Jul 12)Kevin Isaacs | Director Pat Johnstone | Director (Appointed Jul 12)Anthony Naylor | Director (Resigned Jul 12)Chris White | Director (Appointed Jul 12)

OUR FUNDERS, SUPPORTERS, STAFF AND COLLABORATORS

MOTIONHOUSE STAFF Louise Richards | Executive DirectorKevin Finnan | Artistic DirectorJo Valentine | Programme ManagerJustine Watkins | Marketing ManagerLiz Matthews | Finance Officer Mary Kalunga-Eade | AdministratorDonna Beddall | Marketing Assistant (Dec 2010 – Jun 2011)Sophie Hicks | Marketing Assistant (Appointed Dec 2011)

DANCERS Claire Benson Martina Bussi (Appointed March 2012)Junior Cunningham | Rehearsal Director Giorgio de CarolisLaura Peña Nuñez (Resigned November 2011)Olivia QuayleAlasdair StewartPhilipp StummerRebecca Williams (Appointed March 2012)

DANCER APPRENTICES From March 2012George Adams Jade BartonKalliopi-Ioanna Chodrakis Joshua HoughtonTess LethamAmy LovelockLuka Owen Laura Vanhulle

FREELANCERS & ARTISTIC COLLABORATORS Logela Multimedia | FilmmakersSimon Dormon & Oblique Furniture | Set DesignerNatasha Chivers | Lighting DesignerSophy Smith & Tim Dickinson | ComposersClaire Armitage | Costume DesignerPeter Herbert & PH Production Services | Production Manager & Technical TeamChris Bradley | FilmmakerKris Vankay | FilmmakerChris Nash | PhotographerPatrick Baldwin | PhotographerDan Tucker | PhotographerDelineate | PhotographerThe Lift Creative Services | Graphic DesignDelineate | Graphic Design

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