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SIZE OF COMPANY
2–3 for set up of installations
SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale
PERMANENT STAFF
Artist/Director
Rosemary Lee
Artists’ Producer
Nicky Childs (Artsadmin)
ARTISTIC POLICY
Rosemary Lee has been choreographing, performing and directing for over 20 years. Known for working in a variety of contexts and media, she has created large-scale site-specific work with cross-generational casts, solos for herself and other performers, installations and films. Her interactive video installation, Remote Dancing, has been presented extensively in galleries, art centres and festivals across Europe and at large-scale venues. Common Dance, a large-scale inter-generational work with 50 dancers and a choir of 70 young people was recently presented as part of Dance Umbrella 2009 at Greenwich Dance Agency.
REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘We sensed their uniqueness and multiplicity, as well as their common humanity. It was revelatory… From then on, as the stage darkened, the groupings and gestures felt charged and luminous.’ **** The Guardian (Common Dance)
‘Lee's art achieves a transcendence that has little to do with commonly held aesthetic values in dance. It is about engaging with a life force that is expressed, not through words but through the innocence of a body with no preconceptions of itself.’ Dance Theatre Journal
‘Excellent! The most imaginative and engaging piece I’ve seen since Ollut Eliason’s sun at the Tate. Best thing in London today.’ (Visitor to Remote Dancing)
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Common Dance Documentary DVD on the making of Rosemary Lee’s latest site-specific, large-scale work.
Dancing Nation A documentary for the Foundation for Community Dance about the power of dance in different people’s lives.
Short films Boy, Infanta and Greenman (made in collaboration with Peter Anderson) and Snow (made in collaboration with David Hinton) are available for screenings.
FUTURE PRODUCTION
Weather Dances A series of large-scale images of moving solo figures, projected on big buildings/screens in cities over a period of a year. Each on- screen performer is affected in real time by the wind, rainfall and temperature in the immediate surroundings. Rosemary Lee is also available for commission for specific locations and contexts.
WRAP-AROUND
Workshops, masterclasses, artist talks, post-performance discussions; lectures/seminars/residencies for artists or students in higher education, working with groups of local or student participants to create a new piece.
RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2009 Netherlands (Remote Dancing), Japan (films and talks on cross-generational work)
2006–07 France (Remote Dancing/Stereo Dances and films)
TOURING AVAILABILITY
Remote Dancing and Stereo Dances may be revived for specific contexts
Weather Dances is available for commission from January 2010
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