Photo: Andy Smart
GRADUATION PERFORMANCE Westminster Kingsway Theatre 23 March 2013 8pm
End of
Choreographer: Richard Osborne
Dancers: Serena Cifuni, Adrian Del Arroyo, Jo Littledyke, Lewis Wheeler
Music: Original Score for End of composed by Martin Saint
There has been ice in the Arctic for over 800,000 years, but now it's vanishing. Summer sea ice is predicted to disappear completely within four years. The implications are terrible. End.
Thanks: Thank you so much to the dancers for their enthusiasm, creativity, inspiration and patience. They have been wonderful. Thank you to everyone at Birkbeck, both staff and students, who helped make this possible, to Caroline Salem at Creative Space for her help with rehearsal space and Greenpeace UK for the use of their imagery. Morgane, I would not be here without you.
Floppy Hands, Point and Smile
Choreographer: Joyce Kidd
Dancers: Stephanie Cohen and Sophie Auger
“Marking is a form of physical thinking” (D. Kirsh)
In this piece I explored a number of balletic conventions and endeavored to represent them in a contemporary context. I employed abstraction, stylisation and exaggeration to transform marking from a practical process into a choreographic tool. Combined with explorations into the relationship dynamic between teacher and student situations usually confined to the studio find new meaning within a performance framework.
Am I
Choreographer: Joanna Puchala
Dancers:
Wayne Wallen, Soeine Bac
, Heidi Seppälä, Joanna Puchala
Music:
Sen (Insomnia) Remix by MOAN
Sea urchines A history of orgies by Mano Camatsos
Film Projection: Daniela Kitchiner, Elizabeth Doonan
This work is about an exploration of the dual identity of a sexual slavery victim and trafficker. A victim can be a trafficker and the trafficker can be a victim. Why is the maltreated human being addicted to the oppressor? Hasn't A trafficker got feelings and sensitivity To love and be loved...?
Special thanks to: Birkbeck, University of London, The Place, Lewisham and Southwark College. Thank you to my collaborators and dancers for their incredible commitment, imagination and contribution, without whose help and dedication this project would not happen. www.lcpdancetheatre.com
It’s not the same without you
Choreographer: Diana Robertson
Dancers: Sheila Dickie, Joyce Kidd, Richard Osborne, Diana Robertson
Music:
Cocktails for Two: Spike Jones and his City Slickers
I Learned About Love From Her: Cab Calloway
Jitterbug: Cab Calloway, Jitterbug: Angelo Badalamenti from the soundtrack to Mulholland Drive
Waltz: The Balanescu Quartet
Two people play together. Dance together. Move together. When one leaves, what happens to the other; to the one who is left behind? Do they leave just a memory, just a feeling, or do they also leave a physical trace? Thanks to: Wallacespace for the rehearsal space: www.wallacespace.com
Steve Helliker for the soundtrack: steve@cslive.co.uk.
Interval…10mins
Wish You Were Here
Choreographer: Mil Vukovic
Dancers: Mai Tassinari, Mil Vukovic, Monica Brunello, Philippa Newis, Rachael Hopkins
Music: Something Wrong by Fats Domino, Jitterbug Waltz by Eric Dolph
"Having a lovely time. Weather OK. Will have heaps to tell you when I come home. Lots of love, Audrey."
With thanks to: Alex Katz for inspiration, Anthony Howell and Juri Nishi for advice and support, Julian Zinovieff for music editing and Andy Smart for creating an animated promo at smartstudios.tumblr.com
The Ugliness of Beauty
Choreographer: Jo Littledyke
Dancers: Grace Bowen & Hannah Rotchell
Music: Elysium by Bruce Fowler, Elizabeth Finch, Gavin Greenaway, Jack Smalley, Ladd McIntosh, Lisa Gerrard, The Lyndhurst Orchestra, Walt Fowler & Yvonne S. Moriarty:
Hand Cover Bruise by The Original Movies Orchestra
Vessel by Jon Hopkins
The Wider Sun by Jon Hopkins
Light Through the Veins by Jon Hopkins
Destruction and pain are the ugliness born from the misconception of beauty. Our idea of beauty has become so distorted that we have lost the intrinsic value of our own uniqueness.
Costume
Huge thanks to Sharon Coleman from LCDS
Thanks
This piece is for my Mum, Dad and Sam. Thank You.
Thanks to Grace and Hannah for your all round awesomeness and creative genius. Thanks also to Steve for your creative genius. Thanks to all at LCDS, and all at Birkbeck…thank you, thank you. Thanks friends…wouldn’t be here without you.
Up On Two Legs
Choreographed by: Hamish MacPherson with Vicky Frayard, Colm Gallagher, Sarah Gero, Steph Horak, Matthew Percy, Eva Percy, Amaara Raheem and Martin Shead.
Performed by Vicky Frayard, Colm Gallagher, Sarah Gero, Eva Percy and Martin Shead.
This piece was developed as part of Speeching, a choreographic project looking at political speeches as a performance. The project is based around three core issues: Where the performance takes place; who the performers and audience are; and what the performance is.
Thanks to Alexandrina Hemsley, Gillie Kleiman, Lalitiraja, James Martin, Danai Pappa, Vasiliki Stasinaki, Reynaldo Young, Paradise Lost's Retreat 2013 and Roehampton Dance. http://speechingdance.wordpress.com
Three More
Choreographer: Stephanie Cohen
Dancers: David Colley, Giulia Coti Zelati, Josie Sinnadurai
Music/sound score: Zephyr by Loscali
7.39 by Global Communications
A work in progress, we began exploring ideas of devotion, but the improvisations quickly took on a life of their own. We are discovering an emerging sense of connection and need. I want to say a massive thank you to my dancers who have worked so hard and been committed, creative, open minded and patient with me during this process.
The Hall
Choreographers: Matthew Lackford and Nathan Johnston
Dancers: Stephanie Cohen, Hamish MacPherson, Richard Osborne, Jo Littledyke, Diana Robertson, Mil Vucovik, Joyce Kidd, Joanna Puchala
This piece is about putting your best foot forward and sticking together.
Music: Get Rhythm, Johnny Cash
Walk the Line, Johhny Cash
SPECIAL THANKS
Birkbeck Dance Programme Year 3 Tutors
Simonetta Alessandri Contact Improvisation and Choreography
Matthew Lackford Floor work Technique
Elena Yuan Arts Management
Alex Crowe Meaning and Movement
Jess Wynn Technique Co-ordinator / Classical Ballet
Danniel Pucher Piano and percussion
Maria Koripas Programme Director
Birkbeck, Department of Media and Cultural Studies Administration
Team Leader Paul McGowan
Administrator Celia Hatton
Assistant School Manager Sarah Lawrence
Production
Lighting Design Luis Fontana, Matthew Lackford
Stage Manager Abbeygail Crichlow-Morris
Technical Support Rebecca Greenwood, Diana Robertson
Venue Planning Julia Main
Off Stage Support Dawn Botchway-Kistruck
Adriana Peixoto
Photography Gosia Wilda
Video Kim Hardy
Top Norrington
Front of House
Box Office/Ushers Abby McFaul
Juri Nishi
Jeannine Fletcher
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