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Dance Diary
Dance Diary is a series of open events promoted by the Dance Department at Roehampton University, attracting an audience from both inside and outside the campus.
Previous events have included Retina Dance Company, Lost Dog, Sonia Sabri Dance Company, H2Dance, Liz Aggiss, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, Edge and Mapdance.
For more information or to reserve tickets, please contact Irene Gerlach, Dance Programme Administrator, on 020 8392 5016.
Spring 2010 performances
Wednesday 20 January 2010
Zoi Dimitriou: Dromi & In the process of….
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Michaelis Theatre, Froebel College
Tickets: £6.00 (£4.00 concessions)
Dromi is a solo that explores life’s journeys. Strongly influenced by Eastern musical modes and the philosophy attached to those, this piece unravels the story of one whose life becomes a constant striving towards a place of freedom and rest. Driven by the need to protest against any form of repression of individual freedom, he finds uncanny ways of existing in order to survive his solitude and longing. The story unfolds through clever and touching interactions invoked in the play of music, text and movement, where one loses the thread of cause and effect and can no longer distinguish between that which appears to be and that which actually is.
‘Dimitriou both danced and narrated the work with a clever inter-mingling of live and recorded spoken text’
Graham Watts, Ballet.co.uk, May 2008
‘In The Process of……………’ is a new duet drawing upon Conlon Nancarrow’s compositional structures and a study around the effect of film figure movement on genre recognition. Looking at composition as process, Dimitriou attempts to bring together the highly rational with the irrational in a freely moving continuity and to weight the quality of the human body toward that of objects, words/language, sound and light. Manipulating movement parameters and playing with the central myth of the ‘quest’ underlying the basic archetypical themes, a play of two emerges as a series of short intermezzos to a story never told.
Wednesday 3 February 2010
Thomas Goodwin and Longfellows Physical Theatre: Organ Stories, Two Men, a Tent and a Match
A mixed bill of live work and film
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Michaelis Theatre, Froebel College
Tickets: £5.00 (£3.00 concessions)
How can man survive with only a tent, a match and his own uncommon sense? Man relies on his tools to prosper, but when all else fails, teamwork and camaraderie will pull him out of adversity. Two Men, a Tent and a Match is the latest installment from Longfellows Physical Theatre, awkwardly endearing and lighthearted hi-jinx throughout.
Organ Stories is a solo based on the Chinese philosophy of Ba gua and Body Mind Centering. Thomas Goodwin explores how ordinary phenomena can transcend into the extraordinary.
Longfellows' new film directed and edited but Charlotte Eatock, is a journey out of adversity - from frustration, through trust and process and finally into emancipation. Two men in their rooftop kingdom push on into the great infinity.
Wednesday 17 February 2010
Joe Moran: At Once
Double bill - solo and lecture-performance
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Michaelis Theatre, Froebel College
Tickets: £6.00 (£4.00 concessions)
UK dance artist Joe Moran presents his adaptation of At Once, the new solo by iconoclastic American choreographer Deborah Hay, founder of the influential Judson Church Theatre. Hay’s highly specific choreographic instructions challenge Moran, and his audience, with movement concepts that are both demanding and liberating, triggering multiple levels of perception at once. Moran’s lecture-performance of Hay’s instructions then offers a compelling insight into the complex thinking behind the work
Wednesday 3 March 2010
Neat Timothy: Improvised work
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Michaelis Theatre, Froebel College
Tickets: £6.00 (£4.00 concessions)
Neat Timothy are dancers, actors, musicians and technicians. They weave broken stories, dance animal rituals, sing quiet scenes and light up the dark. Every movement, word, note, and light is carefully improvised.
Featuring Rick Nodine, Jamie McCarthy, Jane Leaney, Seke Chimutengwende, Gabriele Reuter, Bryony Perkins and Gareth Green.
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Transition Dance Company: Mixed Bill
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Michaelis Theatre, Froebel College
Tickets: £6.00 (£4.00 concessions)
Join eleven dynamic young dancers as they perform work by some of the most engaging choreographers on the international contemporary dance scene. Bursting with energy and appeal, Transitions Dance Company offers something for everyone to enjoy, performing a rich and varied repertoire of exciting new work. Don’t miss the opportunity to see this inspiring dance company perform choreography by Angela Woodhouse, Cameron McMillan and Colin Poole.
'Performances by this enterprising and annually reconstituted company are always an eye-opener.' The Guardian Guide.