New work for National Youth Dance Wales premieres Riverfront Theatre and Arts Centre, Newport, Wales. Choreographed by Lea Anderson, music composed by Steve Blake, costume design by George Hampton Wale. Photos by Sian Trenberth.
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Yippeee!!!
Trinity Laban has invited Lea to reconstruct a 20 minute section of Yippeee!! her work created in 2006, for a group of BA students as part of their annual Historical Project. Lea will be assisted by dancers from The Cholmondeleys, Makiko Aoyama and Valentina Formenti. Yippeee!!! features music by Steve Blake and costume designs by Simon Corder. Performances at The Bonnie Bird Theatre. Laban Building, 30 Creekside, London SE8 3DZ on 20, 21 June 2019.
Photos by Ava GardnerTrying It On
Lea Anderson’s Trying It On will be performed as part of The Bristol Museum and Art Gallery’s Museum At Night on May 16th 2018. It will be a performed exhibition of a selection of costumes from The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs’ archives, which are housed in BV Studios Bristol, performed by 6 dancers with a sound track by Steve Blake. The costumes will include designs by Sandy Powell, Emma Fryer and Simon Vincenzi.
Ladies & Gentlemen Autumn Tour Begins
Excerpts of Ladies & Gentlemen were presented at the Festival of Thrift in Redcar this weekend. The show in its entirety will open this week at Chapter Arts in Cardiff, – September 28, 29, 30. The work will then be touring through October.
Mumford Theatre, Cambridge 9 October 2017
Jersey Opera House 11 October 2017
Winchester Theatre Royal 18 October 2017
Bath Spa University 19 October 2017
De Montford University, Leicester 21 October 2017
Exeter Phoenix 23 October 2017
Greenwich Dance, London 27 October 2017
Studies in Costume & Performance
Volume 2 Number 1 of Studies in Costume and Performance is now published, edited by Donatella Barbieri with articles by Mary Kate Connolly on Lea Anderson’s use of costume, by Lara Maleen Kipp on Howard Barker, the sublime and iconic dresses, by Patricia Lennox on Arthur Rackham and design practice, and by Emily Collett and Roger Alsop on national identity, ballet and costume. The events reviews edited by Nadia Malik include Fiona Watt on Pamela Howard’s exhibition at AUB, Michael Spencer on The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined by Judith Clark and Adam Phillips, Myrsini Pichou on Costume on Stage and Screen held in Athens and Katie Barford on Costume and Fashion in Context and Practice at Huddersfield University. Book reviews edited by Suzanne Osmond are for The Superhero Costume: Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction read by Chris Comerford; also for Mute Movements: A Collective Performance Art journey through Beirut, which is reflected upon by Ester Mangas Fernandez; and for Unbuttoned: The Art and Artists of Theatrical Costume Design reviewed by Suzanne Osmond.
For more details see Intellect website:
https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journa…/view-issue,id=3318/
New London Date for Ladies & Gentlemen Tour
There is a new date announced for the Ladies & Gentlemen autumn tour 2017.
27th October 2017: Greenwich Dance, Borough Hall, Royal Hill, London SE10 8RE
Autumn Tour Announced For Ladies & Gentlemen
UK tour dates announced for Ladies & Gentlemen, directed and choreographed by Lea Anderson and directed and composed by Steve Blake, costume design by Tim Spooner, lighting design by Simon Corder and starring Makiko Aoyama, Gareth Clark, Belinda Neave, Marega Palser, Caroline Sabin and Bert Van Gorp.
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.
Dates:
Festival of Thrift, Yorkshire 23-24 September 2017
Chapter Arts, Cardiff 28-30 September 2017
Mumford Theatre, Cambridge 9 October 2017
Jersey Opera House, St Helier 11 October 2017
Winchester Theatre Royal 18 October 2017
Bath Spa University 19 October 2017
De Montford University, Leicester 21 October 2017
Exeter Phoenix 23 October 2017
Greenwich Dance, London 27 October 2017
A New Home For The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs
The archive and office of The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs has moved to BV Studios in Bristol. Over 30 years worth of items relating to all productions are now safely installed.
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