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Photograph Chris Nash

henri oguike dance company

Contemporary dance

SIZE OF COMPANY
16–20 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Henri Oguike

General Manager
Isabel Tamen

Education Officer/Tour Manager
Iyshea Mckay

ARTISTIC POLICY
To produce and tour contemporary dance of the highest standard with a clear commitment to live music; to combine powerful dancing with technical excellence and present work which challenges the perception of contemporary dance as inaccessible, abstract and insufficiently ‘musical’ or ‘theatrical’.

The Times

CURRENT/FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Pulsating energy and thundering rhythms are the hallmark of this collaboration. With Taiko Meantime providing live music accompaniment.

Scarlatti’s bright and rhythmical pieces for harpsichord form the setting in which music, movement and visuals interplay.

A reflective solo set to the quietly beautiful Malian blues of guitarist-composer Ali Farka Toure.

A bright and animated piece carried playfully along by Steve Martland’s specially commissioned score, inspired by William Blake’s poem The Tiger.

A sextet performed to Shostakovich’s 9th Quartet in E Flat, played live by the Pavao Quartet.

(title tbc) A defining work choreographed by Oguike and composed by Iain Ballamy, one of the UK’s leading jazz saxophonists and composers. Staged with live music.

(title tbc) A full company work set to two of Vivaldi ‘s most vibrant concertos featuring the full company.

WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY
Workshops, residencies, lecture-demonstrations and masterclasses available on request.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 Germany, Italy
2005 France, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal

TOURING AVAILABILITY
From January 2007.

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