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2006Something to Dance About
On April 29th, 2006, a day of dancing took place in the town of Lewes, East Sussex, consisting of eight new site-specific dances created by local professional choreographers, designers, and composers, in collaboration with the 180 amateur dancers who performed the pieces. The day ran from ten in the morning to 5:30 in the afternoon, with 32 discrete performances and attracted a crowd of nearly 3000 people. All dances took place where the general public simply came across them – in a main shopping pedestrian precinct, a skate park, in the thoroughfare passing through Lewes castle - though they could also be traced by a dance map given to the public, if people wished to see every dance. Artistic themes touched upon issues relevant to people in this region, including four student/young people's dances looking at various aspects of their local heritage, such as the history of the castle, the experiences of flood victims in Lewes, and the importance of conservation. This project was generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Foundation and the Arts Council England, South East, as well as other trusts and foundations.
For more information on Something to Dance About 2006 go to www.danceabout.org
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2004
Physical Music
Exploring A Staging of 3 Cantatas by G.F.Handel
Sonnerie, Yolande Snaith and Susannah Waters
Physical Music was a project supported by the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Arts Council, South East, in which we developed ideas for staging Handel cantatas for solo voice, exploring the ways in which artists from different disciplines could be exposed to and influenced by each other's approaches during the rehearsal period, with a particular emphasis on involving musicians more directly in the physical staging. This was done by including them in the elements of rehearsal process from which they are usually excluded, and by placing them centre-stage in a production rather than to one side. The multi-disciplinary staging of three G. F. Handel cantatas by the team involved in this research and development is a project we are hoping to develop further in the future.
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