Students from Trinity Laban will be performing excerpts from Smithereens at Duckie at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London, on Saturday 30th May at 11 pm. The company will be presenting work reconstructed for the BBC4 programme: Strictly Modern Dance, which we will be broadcast later this year.
Excerpts of The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs production Smithereens is to be filmed by director Bernadette O’Brien for the BBC as part of a programme examining the history of Contemporary Dance (entitled Strictly Modern Dance). Filming will take place in May 2015. The dancers will be 2nd and 3rd year students from Trinity Laban, London. Reconstruction of the work is led by Lea and Gabrielle McNaughton (original cast). Steve Blake (composer and original cast performer) will appear in this new reconstruction.
The Cholmondeleys, The Featherstonehaughs and The Victims of Death in Smithereens was premiered in 1999
Performances of new works by Lea, –Edits #2 and Edits #3 (Hidden Choreographies), will be performed at the Kaufman Theater, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles at 8pm on the 11th and 12th December 2014.
This work is the result of Lea’s time at UCLA as Regents’ Professor, and is a collaboration between the departments of World Art and Culture/Dance and Theater.
Two versions of one process will be shown. Two groups of performers and designers have created the work, resulting in two very different takes on misreading a film for a dance score.
Following the screening at Bend it in Leeds, Edits Film has been programmed at Light Moves in Limerick as part of the City of Culture in November 2014
Ladies & Gentlemen have joined forces with Dep Arts, international dance and theatre producers and are currently planning a British tour in autumn 2015.
See the Dep Arts website for information and updates: http://www.departsltd.com/
http://www.ladiesandgentlemen.eu/
Two dates have been announced for Lea’s new work in Los Angeles.
11th and 12th December 2014
The Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater at UCLA. 120 Westwood Plaza, Room 200, 90095-1608, Los Angeles CA
Lea is working on a production of Kurt Schwitter’s Ursonate, that will be completed in 2015.
It is a danced version of this famous sound poem, with live vocalisation performed by Lea.
The dancers are Jacob Ingram-Dodd, Annie Hanauer, Belinda Neave and Inn Pang Oei. the designer is Tim Spooner and musical director is Steve Blake.
Choreography by Lea. (art work by Taeho Lee)
Ladies and Gentlemen
Cholmondeley Productions
present
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
A beguiling and jocular soire of magic, music and dance.
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 punch-lines, in a hopeless attempt to revive their all but forgotten Music Hall act.
Performers: Gareth Clark, Lauren Lee-Jones, Belinda Neave, Morega Palser, Caroline Sabin and Bert Van Gorp
Choreography and direction: Lea Anderson
Words, music and musical direction: Steve Blake
Design: Tim Spooner
Chapter Arts, Cardiff, 4th-8th February 2014
Supported by Arts Council Wales
Choreo Cymru
Chapter Arts
The Twins
Ladies and Gentlemen will be touring the UK in 2015.
Booking now.
Quick Change is an innovative, cross-form, experimental project that will challenge and change the way costume for performance is displayed and exhibited. It is presented in partnership with The Victoria and Albert Museum London and UCLA. It is produced by Arts Agenda and will take place in September/October 2016. It will feature selections of costumes from The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs archives, and will feature work by Sandy Powell, Simon Vincenzi, Emma Fryer and many others. The costumes will be worn by dancers performing fragments of the original choreography.
The project has very strong implications for curatorial practices and for thinking about costuming in new ways. More generally, it rethinks how museums collect and what they collect, and how the body and performance are part of that process.
The project comprises exhibition, performance, catalogue and online digital archive.
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