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← Older posts Newer posts →Annwyl i mi/ Dear to me. Weeks Two and Three
July 27, 2019Because our first iteration of the the Rygbi Project will be outdoors, it’s been important to build this experience of responding to the unpredictability of environment, public and surface into the choreography and into the dancers’ knowledge. read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Annywl i mi, Dear to Me, The Rygbi Project | Leave a commentAnnywl i mi/Dear to me. Week One
July 14, 2019This week I’ve been inspired by rugby as a way to forge relationships, communities, teams of support – support that would take care of people but also that would support them to take the risks necessary to excel. I want the work not to be about community but to model it and that means taking time to figure out the structures and approaches that will support our community. read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Annywl i mi, Dear to Me, The Rygbi Project | Leave a commentRugby around Wales: The Rygbi Project
July 5, 2019Since I proposed that we would use the physicality, emotion and community of rugby in Wales as a way to think about how we come together, work together, thrive together, I’ve been wondering how to absorb information about the experience of rugby from across Wales read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentThe Rygbi Project – beginning
May 5, 2019I haven’t posted for quite a while. It’s just over six months since I started my role as Artistic Director of National Dance Company Wales and getting to know the company and the people who care about it and invest in it has taken a great deal of energy and attention. But I’m excited that I’ll soon be making work for the company. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentLuke Pell on curiosity and care
November 14, 2018I am finding it difficult to find the time to update this blog as I begin my new role as Artistic Director of NDCWales, but when I read Luke Pell‘s closing words for Skanes Dans Theater’s Dance and People Talk … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentArtistic Director
October 8, 2018It’s six months since my appointment as Artistic Director of National Dance Company Wales was announced. But today is the day I finally step officially into the new role. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentWalthamstow Wetlands Residency: Dancing with Sam Barker
September 22, 2018Sam is a young dancer who lives in Waltham Forest. I invited him and his mum to join me for an afternoon on the Wetlands where we talked about the things we saw there and how I dance with some of those things in my mind. read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Walthamstow Wetlands Residency | Leave a commentDancing with Annie, Isabella and Wanjiru: Walthamstow Wetlands Residency
September 22, 2018Dancing as a quartet made us more visible, more clearly an ‘event’. I loved that some of the security guards stopped to watch our dancing, filming us and engaging in conversation about what we were doing. Our number also multiplied the energy of the dancing in a way that I couldn’t have achieved on my own read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Walthamstow Wetlands Residency | Leave a commentDancing with Annie Hanauer: Walthamstow Wetlands Residency
September 11, 2018It was particularly useful for me to have to explain to someone else the process of working I use and take for granted in my dancing on the Wetlands. This has less to do with how to move than where to put one’s attention, to notice the external/internal stimuli and impulses that might then manifest as movement or transformations of our bodies. And it was such a pleasure to be able to share the work with such a receptive and intelligent movement expert.
Here’s a long dance we made on the slope of Lockwood Reservoir. It goes from being a solo, to a duet, to a quintet when young men happen on us. In fact it’s a symphony of sensations and references, human and non-human that animate our interaction read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentMicroRainbow: Walthamstow Wetlands Residency
July 23, 2018I’ve been aware from the outset that the Wetlands is a sanctuary and a refuge, for humans and non-humans, for anglers and walkers and parents and choreographers and, not least, a place for migrant birds. It’s made sense to me therefore to connect my dance workshops for MicroRainbow (who support LGBTI refugees and asylum seekers in the UK) to this residency read more…
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