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Square Dances – Review by Regan Hutchins
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
Matthias Sperling, Group Study, Brunel University
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…
Common Dance – over, but not over
Rosemary Lee’s Common Dance for this year’s Dance Umbrella festival was a big success – sold out at Gda every performance with long waiting list for returns, it was a shame more people couldn’t share what was, we were told by many, a ‘moving’ and ‘powerful’ experience. The Guardian’s Sanjoy Roy reviewed it with four…
One Man Good Woman
I am making a solo show which not only aims to serve as practice in order to research the application of Brecht’s concept of Gestus but also tells the story of one good woman turned sour by the memory of one man. It is has a Hollywood frame, circa 1940s and uses Brecht’s The Good…
Rosemary Lee’s Square Dances for Dance Umbrella
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…
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