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ROSEMARY BUTCHER / Image: Woman and Memory / Photographer: Sheila Burnett

Image:
Photographer: Sheila Burnett

ROSEMARY BUTCHER

Contemporary dance|Installation-based performance|Visual art installation

SIZE OF COMPANY
4–6 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Rosemary Butcher
Lighting Designer
Charles Balfour
Sound Composer
Cathy Lane
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
The Independent
Katja Schneider (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
[Hidden Voices]Daily Telegraph (Ismene Brown, The Place Prize)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
A meditation on a personal archival journey to the own sources of inspiration,an interaction with a remembered past, specific to the urban environment of New York in the late 60s and early 70s, presented as an interweaving of moving image and performance.
60 mins, no interval, 1 dancer, 4–5 on the road, middle to large scale
Choreography enters into a dialogue with visual art and film. Four pieces 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.
(solo)
(film)
(live performance and film)
(solo)
Total:75 mins, 1 dancer, 4 on the road, small to large scale
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 dancers, 7 on the road, venue: middle to large scale
Short film using the natural movement of a big woman.
10 mins
Short film reflecting on navigation, journey and travel, the predicament of a traveller's fluctuating relationship, past to present. The experience of a woman traveller presented as an abstract journey that places itself in the visual landscape.
(15 mins)
WRAP-AROUND
Public talks with the audience.
Teaching (Choreography/Technique/Choreography and Film) and Choreographic Coaching.
Academic Research.
Lecturing.
Different installation work (including film) might be possible in future.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Germany, United Kingdom, 2008 France, 2007 France, Germany, Canada, 2006 Austria, Netherlands, France, 2005 Germany, United Kingdom, Austria,

TOURING AVAILABILITY

– 2008/2009/2010
– 2008/2009/2010
– on request
Films – on request

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