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Performance in Profile 2010 - British Council - Arts

Tanja Råman
8 Ferndale Street
Grangetown
Cardiff CF11 7BA

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SIZE OF COMPANY
4 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director/Choreographer

Tanja Råman

Artistic Director/Designer
John Collingswood

ARTISTIC POLICY
tanja råman+dbini industries creates work that integrates expressive yet abstract movement with innovative staging, using video, light and sound to create and explore complex systems of interaction between performers.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘By far the finest example of interdisciplinary dance theatre to have played locally for some time… mesmeric, moving and utterly magical.’ Graham Williams, South Wales Evening Post ()

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
One dancer, one musician and one artist create constantly evolving maps from traces of the dancing body, exploring the world of memories with athletic choreography, hypnotic soundtrack, drawing, video and live photography. (65 mins, 3 on stage, 4 on the road.)

Developed from material created for traces, using photography, live sound, improvised movement and real-time video manipulation to explore the processes of interaction between performers. (20 mins, 3 on stage, 4 on the road.)

WRAP-AROUND
Workshop 1: dance & photography – techniques relating to traces and (re)traces. Target age range: 12+. Level: from beginners to professionals, dance students. Uses long exposure photography and lighting effects to create maps of the moving body.

Workshop 2: dance & film – techniques relating to traces. Target age range: 12+. Level: from beginners to professionals, dance students. Explores site-specific improvised movement for video. Footage from this workshop can be integrated into the performance of traces.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2009 Spain (untitled site-specific work as part of Marc Rees’ En Residencia project, presented at S.P.A.C.E. UK)
2008 Finland ()

TOURING AVAILABILITY
currently available for touring
from June 2010

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