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National Dance Company Wales welcomes Lady Sainsbury as company is short-listed for prestigious Linbury Prize
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National Dance Company Wales will this Friday 18th March welcome Anya Linden, Lady Sainsbury of Preston to its Cardiff headquarters as the company reveals it has been shortlisted for the prestigious Linbury Prize for Stage Design.
The Linbury Prize is the UK’s most prestigious award for stage design providing a unique opportunity for graduating designers to work with the UK’s leading theatre, opera and dance companies. Founded in 1987 by Lady Sainsbury, it identifies and encourages new theatre designers.
Ann Sholem, National Dance Company Wales’s artistic director, said the whole Company was thrilled to be shortlisted for the award and was eagerly awaiting meeting the judging panel next Monday 21st March.
The visit by Lady Sainsbury is not part of the judging procedure but coincided with an existing trip to Cardiff.
Ann Sholem said: “As a Company, we have known Lady Sainsbury for many years and we are thrilled to be able to give her a tour of our new purpose-built performance and rehearsal space at the Dance House at Wales Millennium Centre. We hope it will give her a deeper understanding of the work we do.”
If National Dance Company Wales is successful, its winning design graduate will work with choreographer Eleesha Drennan. As well as being a dancer with the Company since 2004, Eleesha is also a talented choreographer who has created a number of works for the company’s Alternative Routes seasons and who is currently working on her first full production for the main company, which will tour across the UK this autumn.
Ann Sholem said: “This would be a fantastic opportunity for a company dancer that we are really developing and encouraging as a choreographer to work with a talented recently graduated designer.
“For the chosen designer, it would be a wonderful chance to work in our Blue Room, a purpose built production studio where the set will become part of the creative process from day one, meaning the designer and the choreographer can work closely together. Not many companies have such a space – often the performers have to work with uncompleted sets, with the final nuts and bolts being added on during the last few days.
She added: “For the company as a whole, winning would mean we can enhance the impact of the production with a fully designed set from one of the country’s most exciting emerging design talents. This is a very prestigious and well-known award and the support of the Linbury Prize panel and trustees would be very significant for us.” |
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Friday, March 18, 2011 |
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