Sand and Vision – a series of four solo pieces by Agostina D’alessandro, Billie Hanne, Anna Heuer Hansen and Robert Vesty. Directed by Julyen Hamilton. Brussels, April 2016 – Sand and Vision directed by Julyen Hamilton
Gwineverra, Tom and the Enemy of Man is a graphic novel performance set at the very beginning of the 21st century. There is dream and death. The characters live in a crime-ridden city where the placement of action and words is offhand and seeks no forgiveness, yet is soft and ultimate, an instant memory, a mark. Something…
Matthias Sperling working with Guido Orgs (Cognitive Scientist) at Brunel University, May 2015 Matthias invited myself and nine other dance artists to take part in an experiment. Part of an ongoing research project hosted by Guido Orgs and Staci Vicary (Brunel University). The project involved performers with dance backgrounds learning and performing a task-based group score. Set in the…
NIGHTRUNNING ON HACKNEY MARSHES (Nightrunning happened from 6pm on Friday 14th November 2014, Hackney Marshes, East London with twenty participants – led by myself and James Cross. It was inspired by Gardzienice’s actor-training practice which focuses on communal breath and rhythmic practice.) Inspired by the night, I wrote the following poem the next day as…
What_Now 2014 I’m writing now, at my desk, being sedentary, thinking, not thinking, a bit stuck (PhD chapter), then I’ll go to see Les Ballets C de la B and then I’ll come home and pack for this – four days occupying Siobhan Davies studios for What_Now 2014, and look forward to a different, and perhaps…
Melt Down – Dance Umbrella 2012 Back doing this again but not under a tree. Rather, in the throng of King’s Cross and surrounds from 3:30pm on Sun 7th, Sat 13th & Sun 14th October – each event lasts around 15 minutes and it’s FREE. Just come along.
After the dance is over! My friend Regan Hutchins came to visit from Dublin. Here’s the piece he made on Square Dances for RTE Ireland’s Culture File programme. It was broadcast on Friday 28th October 2011. RTE Ireland’s Culture File Programme on Rosemary Lee’s Square Dances. Cover Image Illustration by Sally Mackey
After performing in Rosemary Lee’s Common Dance (2009), I’m really pleased to be taking part in her latest Dance Umbrella commission – Square Dances. There are four dances performed by four distinct groups (men, women, children & dance students from The Place) in four distinct places – squares in and around the Bloomsbury area of…