Last day tomorrow, this is a wonderful insight into the work of dancer and choreographer Yvonne Rainer. Irina Baldini is one of the dancers, Irina modelled for my seated figure sculpture, title: Irina. Now installed in a Lawyers office in Essex
If you missed my live drawings in the multi-media performance installation Formed View on August 16, which you could have watched in the Arbeit gallery or via the live streaming, it is now available to watch on the Hackney Live web site.
See the drawings emerge as I draw, watch Lyle Wheeler while he dances and James Haswell-D’Arcy as he directs him.
On 21st September, 14 Lewisham College students from the BTEC Level 3 90-Credit Diploma performed a dance they titled “Live Art” in the no format gallery during my exhibition, dancing amongst the work. To watch the performance filmed by Jack Thrush Lewisham College Media & Music Technician please see:
The brief had been to create a new piece of work using my art work as a starting point and inspiration. The Project Leader is Robert Nicholson. The project was a collaboration between myself and Lewisham College Dance department.
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.
I met Victor Fung at the Greenwich Dance Family Cabaret, Victor and Ragnhild Olsen danced in the hour preceding the cabaret for Drawing Dance the activity I facilitated so the children could draw some dance before the ‘acts’ began. Victor invited me to draw him dancing the following weekend during the filming of his dance by PlatformDtv, at Chisenhale Dance Space in East London.
Graphite and watercolour
Graphite
Brush and ink
Remi and Anwobo of PlatformDTV with Victor discussing his life in dance
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.