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November 26, 2009For the past three weeks, I’ve been working on a commission for an evening of work called Triptik. The evening is produced by Ríonach Ní Néill and her company Ciotóg (in association with Project Arts Centre) and it will take … read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged choreography, Ciotog, Feenish, Film, Instinct, Machusla, Ríonach Ní Néill | Leave a commentIn the world in which we lived
October 31, 2009What distinguished Cunningham from all other great choreographers was the degree of his inclusiveness. He invented dance movements that were modern and new, but even more revolutionary was the way he placed them in the world in which we lived. … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentPick’n’Mix:The Dance Selection/Photographs
October 30, 2009Some of the performers and choreographers with the Mayor, Cllr Anna Mbachu who joined in with enthusiasm in the workshop that Shelby Williams and Stephen Berkley White led for New Adventures. Shahla Tarrant dancing among the letters of the Woolworths … read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Pick'n'Mix | Leave a commentPick’n’Mix:The Dance Selection/ The numbers
October 26, 2009On Saturday, for Pick’n’Mix:The Dance Selection in the empty Woolworths in Leytonstone, eight Waltham Forest choreographers presented seven pieces, of which three were new works. The works were performed by 20 dancers. A new visual art installation illuminated the shop … read more…
Posted in Blog | 1 CommentPick’n’Mix:The Dance Selection/The Night before
October 23, 2009I haven’t had time to post updates about Pick’n’Mix. It’s been a lot of work but tonight as I locked up, I felt calm and pleased by what we’ve achieved and hopeful that it will be ok tomorrow. Yesterday Stephanie … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentPick’n’Mix:The Dance Selection/Site visit
October 5, 2009We’re almost there, by which I mean that by Wednesday I hope that I will have the key to Woolworths to allow us to start rehearsing there in preparation for Pick’n’Mix:The Dance Selection on the 24th October. We visited today … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentDearbhla Walsh wins Emmy
October 1, 2009I was delighted to see that Dearbhla Walsh won an Emmy recently for her work on Little Dorrit. I met her when she directed my dance film Match that was commissioned by RTÉ/An Chomairle Ealaíon for the Dance on the … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentDancing in Liverpool
September 26, 2009I visited Liverpool this week to find out whether my work could have a place there. I’d been invited to participate in a roundtable discussion at FACT between arts organisations, artists and the NHS. Liverpool is trying to rebalance the … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentTattered Outlaws: Last day
August 30, 2009To mark Heritage week and to see the ending of the Tattered Outlaws installation, Caroline Cowley invited me back to speak about how Dan and I made the piece. I’m used to trusting my work to performers to give it … read more…
Posted in Blog | 1 CommentPersepolis 2.0 – amateurs and professionals
August 23, 2009This post isn’t about dance but having just performed in Edinburgh alongside the very talented Matthias Sperling whose Riff deliberately samples and reworks excerpts from the choreography of William Forsythe, Shobana Jeyasingh and Laila Diallo, I have been thinking about … read more…
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