Folk Dance (2007-8, 40mins)

Folk Dance is a performance installation for an audience of between two and six, influenced by the circularity, harmony, simplicity and ritual associated with folk traditions. It is a mix of live and recorded dances, a series of super8 films featuring friends dancing to Lie to Me by Tom Waits, a video projection of sheep on the South Downs and a live performance threading between these images and influences. Much of the movement happens within arms' reach of the audience, who sit within the gallery or studio space.

Developed at La Caldera (Barcelona), Pen Pynfarch (Wales) and Clarence Mews (London) and with the participation of Sebastian Baczkiewicz, Liz Drown and Frances Scott.
Video stills below by Roger Lapuente, super8 stills by Nikki Tomlinson

Staithe (2007, 6mins)

Staithe is a distillation of a 3-year performance project, saw/sore/soar, looking at memory, habitual patterns and the nature of change. Made on Burnham Overy beach in Norfolk in 2005, here it is re-cut by film-maker Lucy Cash as a single-screen video. Earlier versions involved a dialogue between live and recorded material, with the performer dancing live with a projection of a 20-minute version of the film.
saw/sore/soar was shown in London at: The Place, Hoxton Hall, Hackney Empire, and at Sensitive Skin Festival (Nottingham); Spring Collection at The Point (Eastleigh); San Francisco Fringe Festival; Masdanza (Gran Canaria).
Staithe has previously been shown in London at the Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance symposium at Goldsmiths; Falling Wide's Outsider Dancing programme at Toynbee Studios; the Chisenhale Biennale curated by Richard Layzell and Alana Jelinek at Chisenhale Studios.

Dance Like Nobody is Looking

Staithe (2007, 6mins) is being screened in Lucy Thane's Dance like Nobody is Looking programme, which includes work by Marina de Quay, Javier Ortega, Quintana Valero, Antonio Harris, Catherine Wheeler. There is more info on Staithe further down this page.

Thursday 5 March 2009
from 8pm
FREE

Unit 73a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
off Broadway
London
E8 4QN