I invited 18 1st year students from Btec Dance at Lewisham College to come to no format gallery where I have my exhibition, they began to create a dance inspired by my work. The performance will be open to the public at 2.30pm on Friday 21st September.
Lewisham College dance students create a dance inspired by my work
Lewisham College will perform at the no format gallery 2.30pm on Friday 21st, all welcome.
My show will be open on Friday 21st 2.00 – 5.00pm, Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd 11.00 – 6.00pm
Yolande York-Edgell and Jack Jones of Yorke Dance Project danced solos surrounded by my work in the gallery. The sculpture, Marilyn, will be leaving the gallery early next week to join Yolande York-Edgell on stage at Bath ICIA when she dances in the company’s World Premier of Words Worth.
Thanks to Nicholas Carn for filming the performance.
If you can’t make tonight I will be at the gallery tomorrow 11.00 – 5.00pm and at the weekend, 15th and 16th September 11 – 6pm. Next week the gallery will be open Friday 21st 11.00 – 5.00pm with a performance at 2.30pm from Lewisham College dance students.
Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd 11.00 – 6.00pm will be your last opportunity to see the exhibition at no format gallery.
Yorke Dance Project has a stylish new web site giving all the details of their upcoming tour of Words Worth. Under the heading Productions, then Connections you come to Sally McKay.
Close up of long painted sketch of Yorke Dance Project rehearsing Anton Du Beke’s Easy to Love which will be shown at the exhibition along with 11 paintings on canvas, framed drawings and etchings and 4 life size wire sculptures.
Tomorrow I will start to hang the work for my solo exhibition at no format gallery with the academic and freelance writer Stephen Baycroft who has written about my practice (see his press release of the show) and Director of SFSA and no format Matthew Wood. The Exhibition opens Thursday 13th at 5.00 – 9.00 with performance from Yorke Dance Project at 7.30pm. Exhibition continues until 23rd September.
Day at Moving East Studios drawing Yorke Dance Project rehearsing Words Worth. Artistic Director, Yolande Yorke-Edgell will be dancing in no format gallery at the opening night of my exhibition on Thursday 13th September, Yolande will dance in the space with the life size wire sculpture I have made of her performing a solo inspired by a letter written by Marilyn Monroe to her psychiatrist after being committed to a clinic after suffering mental exhaustion.
Yorke Dance Project open in Bath ICIA on Thursday 20th, my sculpture will be leaving my exhibition on 18th September to go on tour with the company.
Yolande Yorke-Edgell rehearsing Noted
Anton Du Beke’s Easy to Love
Maurizio Montis and Valentino Porcu rehearse Sardinian choreographer Alessio Barbarossa’s speedy and beautiful duet
While I’ve been preparing for my exhibition I haven’t been able to spend time with the dance companies drawing and have been missing the live drawing, missing the dancers, missing the speed, energy and collaboration.
My daughter was one of the 350 children from 10 schools in the 6 east London Host Boroughs chosen to dance in the Closing Ceremony of the Olympics, they were auditioned had many rehearsals after school, at weekends and during the holiday. They delighted in being a part of something so big, so special and cloaked in secrecy.
The 12 and 13 year olds danced to Ray Davies of the Kinks singing Waterloo Sunsetforming a human dancing River Thames. Sadly the camera work was unimaginative and only focussed on the singer, but my daughter danced for me in the garden after the ceremony.
Just add another 349 kids and you’ll get the idea!
The Olympics is over and the Paralympic Games will soon begin. My kids and I had a lot of fun during The Olympics, living in Greenwich and my studio in Woolwich we felt like we were in the hub of it all.
We watched the races on the Big Screen in Blackheath, had a neighbors Olympic BBQ in our garden and because my daughter was dancing in the Closing Ceremony she was given 2 tickets to the dress rehearsal of the Opening Ceremony, so we had a great evening in the Olympic park. Here’s some quick snaps, taken along the way. I am continuing to prepare for my exhibition opening 13 September.
The approach to the Olympic Park is covered in wild flowers, including cornflowers and marigolds.
Anish Kapoor’s Orbit. My daughter and I waiting to enter the arena to watch the dress rehearsal
My favourite performers were the drummers of all ages – fantastic!
Singing goodbye to us as we left the Olympic Park!
I draw in response to activity, focussing on live performance. Dancers are my stimulus, I draw while they rehearse and perform, transcribing motion and stillness, balance and falling, solitude and chaos, into a series of marks on paper. The drawings are in the present, an immediate and direct reaction to the rhythmic movement.
The drawings inform the paintings, etchings and life size wire sculpture created in my studio while the memory of the movement is still strong.
Lewisham College dance students create a dance inspired by my work
The gallery ready for the evening opening
Sculpture, paintings, drawings, etchings and sketch books ready to be viewed this evening
Anton Du Beke’s Easy to Love
Just add another 349 kids and you’ll get the idea!
Anish Kapoor’s Orbit. My daughter and I waiting to enter the arena to watch the dress rehearsal
My favourite performers were the drummers of all ages – fantastic!
Singing goodbye to us as we left the Olympic Park!