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CHOREOGRAPHIC MANOEUVRES
In 2004 CoisCéim launched Choreographic Manoeuvres
- a programme of physical and verbal dialogues with internationally
acclaimed British choreographers.
These innovative choreographers through
their workshops, video presentations and dialogues engaged
with Irish dance practitioners, physical performers and the
general public.
In its first year
Choreographic Manoeuvres was presented as a collaborative
partnership with The British Council and
the programme has hosted workshops by the following choreographers:
Lea
Anderson 25 + 26 November 2004
Founder and Artistic
Director of the Cholmondeleys and the Featherstonehaughs,
Lea Anderson has choreographed over 100 original works for
her companies. She has been at the forefront of promoting
and producing dance for the screen. For television, two series
of Tights Camera Action were commissioned
by Channel 4 (12992 and 1994). For film, Lea has choreographed
for Velvet Goldmine, Todd Haynes films (2000).
She is also known for her large scale community site specific
projects including the French Revolution Bicentennial
Celebrations in Paris in 1989 and Stargazer,
commissioned by Tate St Ives for the 1999 solar eclipse in
Cornwall. In 2002 Lea was awarded an MBE for her services
to dance and her work is one of the first among post-modern
choreographers to be a compulsory element of the GCSE dance
syllabus. Lea has just returned from America where she was
Artist-in-Residence at the University of California.
Lloyd
Newson 14 + 15 February 2005
After studying psychology
at university, Newson won a full scholarship to London Contemporary
Dance School and went on to dance with many notable choreographers
of the era before founding DV8 in 1986. His work concentrates
on connecting meaning to movement and addressing social issues. Newson
has created 15 works for stage and four films. He consistently
receives major British and international awards, including
2 Prix Italia and an international Emmy. His latest film,
loosely based on the stage production of The Cost
of Living, is being shown at festivals worldwide
throughout 2005. His work has included commissions from the
Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festivals and Tate Modern, and films
for the BBC and Channel 4.
Wendy
Hesketh 23 + 24 March 2005
A graduate of London
Contemporary Dance School, Wendy trained and worked as a contemporary
dancer and in 1999 embraced new skills working with the world
famous aerial theatre company De La Guarda in London. Now
an experienced aerial harness specialist, Wendy focuses on
the use of her range of dance and aerial skills within her
performance and choreographic work. Wendy is passionate
about the fusion of single aerial bungee sills (bungee assisted
dance) with contemporary dance theatre, the use of vertical
walls as her dance floor and the possiblilities that this
perspective brings to both choreography and performance. Her
work spans aerial dance theatre designed for theatres and
site-specific aerial stunt work. The magic of aerial performance
is its facility to trick gravity. When set free from gravity,
you are only limited by your imagination.
Wendy Houstoun
29 + 30 March 2005
Wendy Houstoun is
a London based artist. She is committed to experimental movement
and theatre work and works as a performer/maker and teacher.
Her own solo pieces Haunted, Daunted & Flaunted,
Happy Hour and The 48 Almost Love
Lyrics have toured extensively in Europe, USA and
Australia. She has collaborated with many individuals including
Nigel Charnock, David Hinton, Tim Etchells, Jonathan Burrows,
John Avery and Rachel Krische, and has choreographed for the
Royal Exchange, RSC and Glyndebourne Opera. Her performance
work with companies includes: DV8 Physical Theatre, Rose English,
Lumiere & Son and she is currently touring with Forced
Entertainment in the new show Bloody Mess.
She was a recent winner of the Jerwood Award.
CHARLOTTE
VINCENT 17 + 18 jANUARY 2006
Charlotte
Vincent is Artistic Director of
the Vincent Dance Theatre and to date, she has conceived and
directed all of VDT's live and film works. She
is known for creating emotionally bold and physically demanding
work which challenges conventional expectations of what dance
can be, combining physical theatre, music and song. Charlotte
has led professional development workshops in the UK , Switzerland
, Spain , Taiwan and Austria . She
has also led physical theatre workshops
with male and female offenders in more than 30 prisons across
the UK , and has choreographed and devised community projects
and major participation projects for VDT and others. Working
with digital video technologists Charlotte delivered Dance
The Net , a series of training workshops exploring the interface
between dance and digital technology. As
a choreographer, Charlotte Vincent has undertaken many commissions
throughout the world and has
been nominated for several national and international awards
including the Arts Fellowship Award for Choreography, Paul
Hamlyn Award for Choreography, Jerwood Award for Young Choreographers,
The Place Dance on Screen Production Award and Pepinieres
Europeennes Pour Jeunes Artistes.
JASMIN
VARDIMON 21 + 22 MARCH 2006
Jasmin concentrates
her work around observations of human behaviour and is a recognisable
and
strongly individual choreographic voice in dance theatre.
Using a language of artistic expression that engages with
audiences on an emotional, physical and intellectual level,
Vardimon stimulates and provokes fresh perspectives on contemporary
society. Her work is littered with themes of social manners,
family tensions, relationship blunders and sexual mores: a
thematic approach which dictates the movement. She is currently
a Yorkshire Dance Partner having previously been Associate
Artist at The Place. She has won many awards including the
Jerwood Foundation's changing stages award for PARK in 2004.
Jasmin has been commissioned by: the Place Theatre, DanceXchange,
Oval House, Kampnagel [Germany], Now 2000, The Green Room,
and Lichfield Garrick.
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