From September to December 2014, Lea will making work at the University of California in Los Angeles. She has been appointed Regents Professor for this year in the department of World Arts and Cultures. Lea will also be collaborating with graduate students from the David C. Copley Center for The Study of Costume Design, and giving public presentations on Quick Change, a performed exhibition of costume, and Marisa Zanotti’s film of The Featherstonehaughs’ work Edits Film.
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)
Edits Film is a collaboration between Lea Anderson and The Featherstonehaughs and director Marisa Zanotti. We are delighted it is getting its premiere, in Leeds at Bend It and thank Gary Clarke for inviting us to be part of the evening.
Friday Firsts #24: Bend It
curated by Gary Clarke
Fri 6 Jun, 7.30pm
Box Office 0113 243 8765
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Tickets £8.00, concessions £6.00
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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