Hand In Glove is a performed exhibition of choreography by Lea Anderson and costume for dance designed by Emma Fryer, Sandy Powell and Simon Vincenzi that was first shown at Candidarts in Angel, London in October 2015. A larger version is planned to be presented at the V&A Museum, London 22nd, 23rd and 24th April 2016 in the Rafael Cartoon Gallery. This is in association with London Contemporary Dance School and will be performed by 3rd year students.
“A documentary which tells the story of the mavericks like Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch, whose radical ideas created modern dance in the 20th century”
This is a BBC documentary featuring work by Lea Anderson, originally created for her companies The Cholmondeleys, The Featherstonehaughs and The Victims of Death, will be broadcast on Sunday 13th December at 9pm. Afterwards it will be available on BBC player at:
http:/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06spm22
Excerpts from Smithereens are performed by students of Trinity Laban, London.
Lea Anderson, Steve Blake and Simon Vincenzi have just completed 9 days R&D with Anjali dance company for a new work that reconstructs key scenes from 5 vampire films. The films include Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (1922 director F. W. Murnau), Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979 director Werner Herzog), and Dracula (1958 director Terence Fisher).
The company are expecting to create and tour the work in 2016.
3rd year students from LSCD perform Elvis Legs in the late slot at Duckie on Saturday 3rd October. This is an excerpt from Hand in Glove, a performed exhibition- which opens on Thursday 8th October 2015
A beguiling and jocular soire of magic, music and dance.
The Place Theatre, 17 Dukes Rd, London WC1H 9PY
On: October 1st / 2nd / 3rd
At: 8pm
Lea has worked with composer Steve Blake, designer Tim Spooner and a group of
distinguished Welsh performers to create a wonderful work evocative of the decaying
world of music hall.
Besieged by an ever shifting and bewildering miscellany of inscrutable and enigmatic
props, the last sorry remnants of a legendary music hall family doggedly endeavour
to reconstruct fragments of misremembered routines and hazily recollected punchlines,
in a hopeless attempt to revive their all but forgotten Music Hall act.
(Ladies and Gentlemen) transcends language, is incredibly inventive and entertaining and,
perhaps most importantly, probes at the boundaries of performance and dance.
Emma Gelliot, Culture Colony Magazine
Funded by Arts Council Wales, Arts Council England and Chapter Arts Cardiff.
THU 8 OCT TO FRI 9 OCT
Hand in Glove is a performed exhibition created by legendary choreographer, Lea Anderson. Featuring over 300 costumes and accessories to be viewed in their original context. This unique exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience the work of three times Oscar winning designer Sandy Powell and eminent designers Simon Vincenzi and Emma Fryer in a moving, close-up environment.
The final year students of London Contemporary Dance School will perform vignettes of the choreography from The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs including Yippeee!, Draw on the Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele, Flesh and Blood, Russian Roulette, Smithereens, The Realms of the Unreal, Big Feature, Go Las Vegas.
Hand in Glove takes place at Candid Arts (Islington), view a map to the venue.Candid Arts Trust
3-5 Torrens Street
London EC1V 1NQ
Thursday 5-8pm
Friday 4-7pm
Excerpts from Ladies & Gentlemen will be performed late, – 26th September 2015 at Duckie at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London.
Catch the full show at The Place Theatre, London on 1st, 2nd and 3rd October 2015.
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