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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
Moscow Art Theatre trip – May 2008
I spent two weeks training at Moscow Art Theatre in late May. The exchange programme between MAT and University of Kent runs each year with up to a dozen students from MAT spending time in the Drama department in Canterbury in early May before an exchange later in the month. Set up by Stanislavski in 1897,…
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…
Gwineverra, Tom and the Enemy of Man
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…
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.
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…
