Erica Stanton

 

Qualifications: BEd (Hons), MFA

Erica Stanton is a graduate of Bedford College and of Sarah Lawrence College, New York where she was the recipient of the Bessie Schönberg Scholarship and gained a Master of Fine Arts degree. As a choreographer, she has been creating works for contemporary dancers for many years, receiving funding from London Arts Board, Southern Arts, South East Arts and the Foundation for Sport and the Arts.

Erica is a specialist in Limon based technique and has led classes for professional dancers and taught company classes for Diversions Dance Company, Phoenix Dance Company (where she was Assistant Artistic Director) and Adventures in Motion Pictures.

Erica's choreography has been seen throughout the UK. Her work Locus (1997), a collaboration with dance educator Marion Gough, has been performed extensively and forms part of a popular resource which is housed at the National Resource Centre for Dance at the University of Surrey Guildford. Erica is co-director with Marion Gough of Mothers of Invention Dance Company. Their inaugural work My Mother, My Daughter, Myself toured very successfully in 2001 and included performances at the Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells. My Mother, My Daughter, Myself was the subject of articles in both Animated and Dance Theatre Journal.

Erica received a 'Moved' commission from the South East Dance National Dance Agency in summer 2002 to research and develop a new short work entitled Matters of Gravitywhich was later performed at The Place Theatre as part of Resolution 2003. Recent commissions include work for West Sussex's Creative Space,Undercurrentfor Fabrica Gallery in Brighton and a new work Mass for Mapdance (2007) which toured to Scandinavia and Europe as well as the UK.

In addition to her choreographic pursuits Erica has been mentor to Kent based dance company Loop, assisting them with their Regional Arts Lottery Programme funded resource pack for teachers. Erica has contributed to artistic programmes run by South East Dance National Dance Agency, including Inside the Artist and Education Action Zone.

Erica has been a member of the Dance staff at Roehampton since 1993 and teaches Limon-based technique and choreography. She is currently an external examiner for the MA Choreography and Postgraduate Diploma Dance Studies Programmes at Trinity Laban and the BA Dance programme at the London Contemporary Dance School.

Research Projects Undertaken

2001 - My Mother, My Daughter, Myself
A 75 minute choreography work for 5 dancers which toured London and the South east.

2002 - Moved Commission from South East Dance National Dance Agency.
A 15 minute choreography which toured the South east and was re-worked to be performed in Resolution 2003 at The Place Theatre London.

2004 -On the Edge
A Creative Space commission by West Sussex County Council, this was a site-specific and theatre based choreographic work for dancers from the Dance programme at Roehampton, Year 9 students from Chatsmore School Worthing and a special needs adult performing group.

2004 - Undercurrent
A 20 minute work co-commissioned by South East Dance National Dance Agency and Fabrica Gallery, Brighton. The work was researched from June to August 2004 during the summer installation of work by artist Rosie Leventon at the Fabrica Gallery in Brighton.

2007 Mass - 20 minute work for Mapdance which was constructed for a tour of the UK, Scandinavia and Europe in spring 2007.

Undergraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Dance Studies

Postgraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Dance Choreography: Master of Fine Arts