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Dance Bytes: New Work
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Tuesday 16th & Wednesday 17th March 2010
Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Tickets £8 - £12
Ticket office 029 2030 4400 or www.wmc.org.uk
New Work is the third and final stage of the 09/10 Dance Bytes programme. Jessie Brett and Jo Shapland will premiere their new work in a stimulating and engaging dance double bill on 16th & 17th March 2010.
Background:
Welsh Independent Dance launched its annual choreographic development programme in April 1998 to support and facilitate the creation of new choreographic work. It provides successful applicants with three stages of development; Presentations, Work in Progress and New Work. The successful programme has grown over the years and has helped to build a number of careers including Tanja Råman, Mr & Mrs Clark, Sandra Harnisch-Lacey and Eddie Ladd.
‘Fire Shadow Silence’ is inspired by the revolutionary photographer Tina Modotti who lived, loved and worked in Mexico in the 1920’s. Collaborating with a composer and writer, Jessie is exploring how one person’s extraordinary life can connect and resonate with our own lives more than 80 years on.
Jessie Brett trained at London Contemporary Dance School and California Institute of the Arts. Since 2005 she has danced and choreographed at The Place Theatre, London and venues across Wales as well as site-specific work including the V&A Museum.
Theatrical with an emphasis on unique and intricate ways of moving, her work concentrates on rhythm and musicality finding ways to extract emotions that give her choreography humanity. She often collaborates with a composer and designer and considers this an important aspect of her work.
‘Dance for Neanderthal’ is an immediate, intuitive and gut-felt response to a drawn musical score. Jo is generating material by improvising outdoors on a pebble beach and in woodland, then retreating indoors to embody the abstract marks that are Simon Thorne’s precisely drawn Neanderthal score. The choreography sculpts movement and stillness to connect at heart level with something elemental and timeless.
Multi-disciplinary artist, choreographer and performer, Jo Shapland, has over twenty years professional dance and performance devising experience. Her work is challenging and experimental, incorporating live physical performance, sonic and visual art installation and video under the umbrella name Man Troi.
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