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I’d Rather Be Fishing, Dan Cossette, Sprung 2015 photo: Duncan Grisby Daniel Cossette performed in Sprung, Queen’s College contemporary dance platform, both a classic mime and a dance improv, accompanied by live violinist Dr. Emily Dry, exploring the concepts of secret places and the power, beauty and Spirit that come from such places. Now Infusion is looking to spring-board into some exciting new projects! Dance Opportunities
- We have started local Cambridge dance classes for kids and teens, Tuesday nights 6-7pm (kids), and 7-8:30 (teens). Classes are open level, modern, contemporary and street styles. Classes take place in Unit B,C, The Paddocks Centre, 347, Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge, CB1 8DH. Contact us and let us know if you want to come along.
- We have been receiving requests for ongoing adult dance classes. If you would be interested in participating, please let us know!
Fitness Opportunities
- Dan Cossette is offering continuing Core Fitness Classes in Trumpington, Cambridge, at the Trumpington Village Hall, Mondays 6-7pm. This Pilates-based class is a great way to build strength, flexibility, improve posture, and reduce the risk of injuries. Bring your own fitness mat.
International Opportunities, Paris
- Daniel and Melanie Cossette will be teaching in the City of Love this April, along with our colleague Rachel Smart, for a one-week workshop of dance and mime! Innovo France is hosting their annual workshop exploring dance, mime, and faith as it relates to the Bible. 27th April to 1st May, A l’Institut Biblique, Nogent sur Marne. Check out our Upcoming Events tab…
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Lent Term is coming to an end in Cambridge, and Queens’ College Contemporary Dance Society is hosting the fifteenth annual Sprung!
This year they’ve included Dan Cossette for a second time. Bringing a classical mime performance, Cossette’s tour de imagination takes audiences and a bored janitor on a whimsical journey in I’d Rather Be Fishing. Then, in collaboration with another QCCD dancer/musician–Dr. Emily Dry performing a live violin rendition of Ludovico Einaudi’s La Nascita Delle Cose Segrete–Cossette interprets the music in a structured improvisation.
Details on our Upcoming Events. Check it out!
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Welcome to the New Year! Infusion had a busy Christmas season, and now we’re settling back to a regular stream of teaching.
- Interested in core fitness for adults?
- Dance classes for kids or teens?
- School programs?
We’re offering a variety of local classes for Cambridge, and touring regionally with our Peter and the Wolf Shadows show. It’s all on our education page here!
Also, Dan Cossette will be performing in London this February 7th, so check out our upcoming events tab.
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The show is Scrooge’s Christmas, and it’s Dicken’s ghost tale retold through mime, dance and circus. Scrooge must change his ways before the parade of spirits foretell his doom in aerial, juggling, and contortionism. Rehearsals are looking great for this extravaganza of Christmas-circus. Don’t miss it!Suitable ages 8+
Mon 15th & Tue 16th December 2014 7:45pm
Tickets £12/£10
Box Office: 01223 300085 / adctheatre.com/scrooge /
Park Street, Cambridge / CB5 8AS
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When you work in the arts industry, you know last minute changes happen. It never prepares you for them though! After months of preparation and rehearsal for this year’s annual shadow show at Anglesey Abbey (see Upcoming Events), Infusion performers/choreographers Mel and Dan Cossette realized they would have to completely reverse the shadows of the Mouse King and Nutcracker for the duel scene–only the climax of the entire show.
With dress rehearsal and show day less than 36 hours away, it was back to the props workshop to rebuild the shadow puppets, reversing the handles, and then switching all the choreography to the opposite hands. No biggie, right?
Look for last minute ticket releases for the sold-out hit event Winter Lights at Anglesey Abbey, Lode, UK!
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Don’t miss Infusion at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge, this December with an all-original holiday show. Directed by Daniel Cossette, this choreographic collaboration will be a holiday spectacle to remember!
Scrooge’s Christmas. Featuring all-Cambridge-local cast (L/R) Laura Ortu, Justyna Latoch, Ben Horgan, Daniel Cossette, Ben French, David Stone, and Melanie Cossette. Photography Becky Messenger Dicken’s ghost tale retold through mime, dance and circus; watch as Scrooge must change his ways before the parade of spirits foretell his doom in dance, aerial, juggling, and contortionism.
Monday 15th December, Tuesday 16th December 7:45pmAges 8+
Tickets £12/£10, through the ADC website ADCTheatre.com/scrooge
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Infusion’s work Paradise Lost performed at Project Dance London 
Infusion with Springs Dance Company 
Infusion with E33 Dance Company 
Infusion’s Dan Cossette in Springs Dance Company’s Jenny, and excerpt from Inside Out. Photos from Project Dance London, courtesy of Sarah Adams Photography.
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Check out our upcoming events for Dan Cossette’s participation as a street mime in the fantastic annual buskers festival this weekend!
Classic mime illusions combined with this wistful poor man’s dreams of buried treasures, Olympic aspirations, and penchant to get stuck in slow motion vortexes–all with a healthy dose of audience participation… it’s street mime at its finest!
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What a whirlwind!
We performed and stage managed the fantastic open air dance festival Project Dance London at the Scoop (under Tower Bridge). We programmed and called the 6 hour show, whilst warming up and performing multiple times scattered throughout the day. One lady came at about noon and stayed the entire day to watch every performance! Not bad for a day forecast to be severe thunderstorms; the weather stayed bright and comfortable all day!
Following that we shared a wonderful day doing a cultural exchange with Springs Dance Company (of London) and Ad Deum Dance Company (Houston, Texas). Each company taught some of their standing repertiore after having a class to warm up together taught by Naomi Cook (assistant director, Springs). Someone noted that Infusion’s Dan Cossette is probably the first person to dance for both companies. Being that they both share the same Christian ethos, and have long standing traditions of quality… well, we thought that was pretty neat!
Culturally exchanging British tea time, Springs and Ad Deum We had a double bill performance with Springs and Ad Deum that week. Springs performing sections of their current show Inside Out, featuring personal stories spoken to music and danced out, and Ad Deum performing From One Heart, a seemingly never ending tour de force of grace, athleticism, beauty, and healing.
The Marriage Testimony duet from Inside Out 
Ad Deum’s title work From One Heart After that Ad Deum came up to Cambridge, where Infusion hosted them for a couple of master classes, and their own performance at the beautiful Homerton College. We have no pictures of the show itself, but we were upgraded to the main auditorium by a quick thinking conferences manager (thanks, Gayle!) who realized we couldn’t bring chairs into the dance studio for our scheduled studio performance! The result was a beautiful night in an even nicer space than anticipated.
Ad Deum’s Sarah Yarbrough demonstrates a croise extension en evant with Graham contraction, in Infusion-sponsored master class Randall Flinn (artistic director, Ad Deum) invited our Dan Cossette to perform with them for the C.S. Lewis Foundation’s Oxford/Cambridge conference at the ADC Theatre. Randall suggested a reprise performance of Be Still My Soul, a pas de deux Cossette used to perform with Ad Deum’s former principal dancer Shizu Yasuda, and current company member Sarah Yarbrough. Sarah and Dan went to the rehearsal studio with only a few short hours to show time. Restaging the breathtaking duet was a great joy and honor for Dan. Thanks to Ad Deum Dance Company for sharing the stage with us: you’re such beautiful, dear, and missed friends!
Infusion is now looking ahead to booking the Peter and the Wolf Shadows tour to schools 2014/15, and is working on new rep for the coming season and performances with Creative Cabaret Cambridge. Stay tuned for coming news!
Be Still rehearsal film strip below…
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Lots of things are coming up, so be sure to check out our upcoming events tab! Project Dance London, double-bill performances with Springs and Ad Deum, and master classes and performances in our Cambridge hometown!
City of Peel, Isle of Man All this following a wonderful tour on the picturesque Isle of Man, were we toured five schools in five days. We performed Peter and the Wolf Shadows, and then discussed the science of light and shadow, and did workshops with the children on shadow storytelling. There was no shortage of volunteers, and everybody got a chance to experiment with shadow making. The children loved to see their classmates on the 2.5m x 2m projection screen, and they laughed and laughed whenever we taught them how to magnify a shadow to gigantic size! Good fun!
First day of tour… Peter ready to meet the wolf! Infusion plans to perform next at Project Dance London at the Scoop 19th July in the FREE,
all-day, outdoor dance concert. The Scoop is an open air amphitheater on the south bank of the Thames near Tower Bridge (London Bridge Tube station). Starting at 11am, and going until 5pm, don’t miss a chance to see dance artists from all over the world, and from right here in England, performing for London absolutely free! The Project Dance ethos? To bless and inspire the city, by artists using their gifts to provide hope, healing, and inspiration at no cost to the passersby. You’ll see infusion there, as well as a number of our friends, including E33 Dance Company, Springs Dance Company, and special guests Ad Deum Dance Company all the way from Houston, Texas.The Scoop, London
Infusion Physical Theatre 