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Jingle Dress was commissioned in 2010 by State of Emergency and was toured across England September –November '10. The work was created for Young Audience and their families. Performed in the round the work is interactive. Inspired by Native American / First Nation beliefs, the show explored the story of a young girl left a Jingle Dress by her grandmother. Rayleen has been left a jingle dress by her Grandma but her dress does not sing. With the help of her two friends she needs to find her own way to make her dress sing, her own unique dance. The work encourages young people to find their own unique movement voice. There is also a workshop that was created to follow the performance. Original music by Angeline Conaghan, with other music by Omaha Whitetail, Northern Style Side Step, set designed by Illugi Eysteinsson, lighting Anthony Osborne, Dramaturge Chris Fogg, Choreographer's assistant Katherine Leung, performers Amy Butler, Alice Cade, Lauren Okadigbo. Research for the piece took place with Pembury House Children's Centre (UK), Trottiscliffe Primary School (UK) and MTYP summer workshop (CA). The children "were entranced throughout" John Ashford Back to top |
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Shadowball a Jazz Opera music Julian Joseph and libretto by Mike Phillips and produced by Hackney Music Trust. Adesola joined the creative team as Choreographer with Jonathan Moore directing. Shadowball is about Black Baseball players and links to a sports programme for primary schools, using the arts both as a learning tool for other areas of the curriculum, and to stimulate interest in this sport. Using the stories of Black Baseball players in the 1930s-40s, and their jazz compatriots who often suffered similar racial prejudice, Shadowball is designed to inspire young people to achieve despite the odds. The piece involved two primary schools year 5 & 6 classes in Hackney, Julian Joseph's band, and opera singer Cleveland Watkiss. The premier performance took place at the Mermaid Theatre London June 2010. A vast cast of schoolchildren handle Joseph's tricky jazz themes with enthusiasm and adroitness. John Fordham, The Guardian .. its world premiere was carried off brilliantly last night with 120 Hackney schoolchildren. Jack Massarik, Evening Standard The part of the Shadowball opera that I will remember and treasure the most will be that moment when I did my bow in front of the humungous crowd... because it gave me absolutely huge amounts of confidence (sic) for the future ahead. Participant Image above by Clive Barda, courtesy of HMDT Back to top |
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Geography of the Body is a fictional look at the experience of Ethnographic Research. The dance depicts four events, extracts, from a researcher’s diary following the process of people changing from being subjects on a page with a written history to participants in a life, with a physical history: bodies that hold within them a past and a future. The work uses the live film projection programme, Isadora to create sites on the stage. It is a 20 minute piece for four dancers and two musicians. Scenographer Andy Hamer,Lighting Jonathan Samuels, Music composed and played live by Angeline Conaghan and Terje Eversen (Bark) Back to top |
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Vicinity was a piece commissioned by London Metropolitan University for their Third Year Dance students’ final year performance at the Bernie Grant Centre in April ’09. ‘Vicinity’ draws on ideas of identity, space and environment. The work explores the nature of ‘site-specific’ dance, creating a piece for a particular place and time. The vicinity relates directly to the specific area in London the performance space, the Bernie Grant Theatre, is located in and captures a moment in time for the performers and for the area – Haringey. The work was created in partnership with The Haringey Housing Federation. The resulting piece integrates the community, the theatre and the performers to create a piece that relates to the space and area in which it is performed. This piece uses live music by Hamish Meaney, and pre-recorded music by Angeline Conaghan and Terje Eversen (Bark). The work also uses the live film projection programme, Isadora. |
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lOcAte was commissioned by Dancin' Oxford for the Oxford Dance Festival, February 2008. The piece took place in the Saïd Business School Building, Oxford and was performed by Oxford based professional dancers. Back to top |
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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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