 All performance pieces can be accompanied by a range of workshops. Foundation to Higher Education. For more details please contact us |
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Trace is a 20 minute piece for four dancers and two musicians commissioned by Dance in Herts (managed by essexdance) as any artists bursary in 2007. TRACE started with research of the historic city of St. Albans, understanding the ancient and dramatic history of the city; how this has percolated through various layers in numerous ways, into the living history of the architecture of the city and its inhabitants. Following discussions with a local resident, one street in particular Sopwell Lane, became significant. Its geographical reference within the city culminated many of the points that had come to light from previous research. The project has been a fascinating journey through lives, living and recollections of the past, to find a narrative that reflects the inter weaving of story and place bringing together the many elements of memory and personal experience. Lives become alive with the structures of the buildings. “We build the buildings and then the buildings shape us”. The final dance piece reflects how the names and people of the past have left their traces becoming alive in the memories of the day. Scenographer Andy Hamer, Architect Illur, Lighting Hansjörg Schmitt, Music composed and played live by Angeline Conaghan, Graham Lyndon-Jones, David Leahy Back to top |
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Arrive is a 4min dance film commissioned by Video Pool as part of ‘First Video Award’ |
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Truth and Transparency, inspired by Ralph Ellisons novel 'Invisable Man', is a twenty minute piece with four dancers, music composed by Michael “Mikey J” Asante, lighting design Jonathan Samuels and set by Stuart Peverill. This piece uses dance and film to explore ideas raised about projection and identity. Two dancers representing a man’s mind fight for identity against the projection of persona from outside. Both dancers and projected-light solicit space and shape in their bid to claim the eye of the audience and in so doing find recognition. Truth and Transparency was commissioned by Dance North West with support from Arts Council England. |
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Witness is a 15 min piece. The piece uses a solo dancer with a live camera feed. The dancer interacts with images projected on to the cyclorama. The piece explores the idea that we hold our memories within our body and explores the feeling the dancers has as she hears about the beginning of a war. Witness was commissioned by the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation in 2004. Music by Serena Ryder and Soundtrack created by Dave Quanbury. Video Loc Lu & Adesola Akinleye. ”I want you to understand that your humanity isn’t dependent on how a system works but how you learn to work within that system” Back to top |
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