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Dog Kennel Hill Project @ The Place
I’m working with Dog Kennel Hill Project this weekend. Their ‘People Working’ is a peformance tour around The Place’s building. The Place is celebrating its 40th birthday and this tour runs 5 times over the weekend, taking an audience of 10 through the basements, offices, cupboards and rooms of the building. In each performers ‘work’. For…
nightrunning 14 November 2014
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…
Senior Moments – Forest Fringe, Edinburgh – 20/08/10
I’m with Kristin Fredricksson this week in Edinburgh, walking the streets talking to older people and asking them if they’d like to take part in Senior Moments at Forest Fringe at 6pm on Friday 20th August. Go to the Senior Moments blog for full details.
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…
More melting down with Rosemary Lee
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.
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…