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Founded in Oct 1996, ACE dance and music (African Cultural Exchange Ltd.) is a professional dance Company based at The Link, Digbeth in B'ham. Under the artistic direction of Gail Parmel & musical direction of Ian Parmel, ACE dance and music fuse traditional African & Caribbean dance aesthetic with contemporary techniques to create high-quality innovative performance work, outreach & education programmes for adults and young people in a variety of settings within B'ham, the West Midlands, across the UK and in mainland Europe. ACE's work involves dance & music collaborations, the use of digital media & techniques from other disciplines including theatre.
ACE Dance and music’s Artistic Director Gail Parmel, who after being nominated as one of the Cultural Leadership programme’s 50 Women to Watch in 2010/11, has now been voted one of 20 Inspirational Women from the African Diaspora in Europe (ADIPWE): in celebration of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day.
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Highlights
- In March 2011 ACE dance and music were extremely
pleased to be awarded Arts Council NPO status and wewere granted a small uplift
- ACE dance and music is now a registered charity
- The Company’s Artistic Director Gail Parmel was nominated for two awards in 2011
- ACE Youth took part in an exciting International youth exchange with Dutch company Untold
- 5 more members of ACE Youth successfully auditioned for professional dance training. As a result of our support, 95% of ACE Youth members who audition now go on to gain a place to train professionally
- We have diversified our dance classes with a weekly
intermediate classes for dance students
- The 2011 African Village summer school was a great success, parents and kids begged for more
- In 2010 we took our African Village project to over 650 children. Dance, story and visual art workshops led to a final sharing event in each centre
- Our previous production Skin is now on the OCR
performing arts syllabus study list
- We hosted 2 international dance opportunities. In Oct 2010, South African artist Vincent Mantsoe worked with dancers and presented work at mac. In Feb 2011, Japanese choreographer Akiko Kitamura worked with dancers, and presented work at Warwick Arts Centre
- In 2009/10 we performed our previous production Switch to almost 3,500 people
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