TRAFFIC next at Déda

As we are getting ready for our next performance at Déda, we are learning that this exciting venue has been threatened with funding cuts. To support the venue, follow this link

Last week at the ROH

Thank you to everyone who came to our performances at the Clore Studio at the Royal Opera House last week. Someone in the audience was reminded of Fischli and Weiss photographs. Let us know what you thought of TRAFFIC.

Here are some other comments I caught from the audience:

TRAFFIC next at Royal Opera House

EXPOSURE FESTIVAL

21 & 22 July, 7pm

Clore Studio Upstairs | Royal Opera House | London 

www.roh.org.uk

Works by Alesandra Seutin, Mayuri Boonham, Sarah Dowling, Marc Brew, Cameron McMillan, Deveraij Thimmaiah and Stephanie Schober

greenroom

Following funding cuts announced earlier this year, greenroom, Manchester’s only dedicated new performance venue for nearly quarter of a century, is closing down. I have been performing and creating work at this very interesting and friendly venue, and am very sad to hear about the news. Their extraordinary legacy is currently being documented on their online archive

New audiences at Laban Theatre

Laban Theatre has yielded a plan to offer complementary tickets for local residents to see the premier of TRAFFIC on the 17th March. The aim was to increase the awareness of Laban Theatre within the local community. This video contains the views and opinions of some of those who came to that performance.

Premiere at Laban Theatre and first review

A few days after our premier at Laban Theatre I found our first review here. Thank you everyone for coming to see the performances and we are really looking forwards now to our next shows!

Final Rehearsals

 

We are in our final rehearsal stages and I have started to talk to Jackie Shemesh about ideas for the lighting design.

An advocate for independent dance artists

Gill Clarke is one of my favorite dance artists and I am very happy to hear that she just won the Jane Attenborough Dance UK Industry Award at the Critics' Circle National Dance Awards at Sadler’s Wells.  The writing says:

The Jane Attenborough Dance UK Industry Award honours an individual working in dance who has made an outstanding contribution to the art form and who, through their knowledge, skill and generosity, has had a significant effect on dance. The winner is chosen following an open nomination process, making the winner someone who is truly respected and admired by their colleagues.
 
Gill’s nominations for the award cited the importance of her impact as an advocate for independent dance artists. Also, her generosity, offering time and advice to support fellow artists, resulting in her being recognised as a major influence on the careers of many independent dance artists and choreographers.

 Gill in her award acceptance letter says: “I would like to accept the award on behalf of Independent Dance Artists – that powerful and under-acknowledged workforce that is made up of all those artists who work in the demanding freedom outside the relative security of institutions. These multi-talented artists are vital to the Dance ecology – they are the performers or choreographers of most of the contemporary work seen around the country, they act as bridge-builders, connecting a public of all ages to the rewards of engaging with dance, they teach and inspire the next generation of artists as well as established company members, and most importantly their investment and passion generates knowledge that will help us to keep re-defining Dance, ideas that will find their way into mainstream theatres such as this – and new choreographic forms in media and contexts that we cannot yet imagine.”

As an independent artist, Gill Clarke has spent her careers as a dancer, choreographer, curator, producer, teacher, mentor, researcher and has influenced many other artists. She is also the co-director of Independent Dance