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Image: Woman and Memory - Hidden Voices / Photographer: Sheila Burnett

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Photographer: Sheila Burnett

ROSEMARY BUTCHER COMPANY

Contemporary dance, Installation-based performance, Visual art installation

SIZE OF COMPANY
4–6 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small-, middle- and large-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Rosemary Butcher

Lighting Designer
Charles Balfour

Dancer
Elena Giannotti

Tour Manager
Gesine Geister

ARTISTIC POLICY
For the past 30 years, Rosemary Butcher has sought to challenge conventional notions of dance. On the basis of conceptual art, pure movement and the complex handling of space, she creates her own movement and new choreographic forms, working on performances, installations and films. Teaching also forms an important part of her work.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Donald Hutera, Times ()

Helmut Ploebst, Der Standard

Ismene Brown, Daily Telegraph

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Choreography enters into a dialogue with visual art and film. Four pieces – (solo), (film), (live performance and film), (solo) – are presented as an installation like series, forming a visual choreographic entity. The work is saturated with ideas of journey and navigation and logs a highly personal trajectory of choreographic identity. (75 mins, 1 on stage, 4 on the road.)

Inspired by descriptions of survival in the Arctic and the experiences of polar explorers: a dialogue between three dancers and their giant images on screen, evoking emptiness, transparency, appearance and disappearance. (60 mins, 3 on stage, 7 on the road)

Short film using the natural movement of a big woman. (10 mins)

FUTURE PRODUCTION
(working title) An interweaving of moving image and performance presented as a meditation on a personal archival journey and its discoveries within today’s ever changing and challenging world. (4–5 on the road, tbc)

WRAP-AROUND
Public talks with the audience, workshops including choreography, technique, choreography and film, and choreographic coaching. Different installation work (including film) might be possible to accompany touring performances.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Canada, Germany ()
2006 Austria, France, Netherlands ()
2005 Austrian, Germany ()

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details on request

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