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Saturday, April 26th, 2014
26 April 20014
The Supper Room: Hakeem Onibudo at Greenwich Dance
The charismatic Hakeem Onibudo invited me to join him and his vibrant dance company Impact Dance, at The Supper Room, Greenwich Dance, to capture the evening through Live Drawings of the event, I was to draw a large sketch that the guests to The Supper Room would be invited to interact with by adding their thoughts and comments to.
A small selection from the many drawings I made during the evening
It was a wonderful evening of Hakeem’s visually arresting choreography from the fabulous Impact Dance, delicious Caribbean food (from Island Flavours) and music you want to dance to
Some of the drawings will be at the next Art Show that I am taking part in:
Studio 75. 75 Lassell Street, Greenwich, SE10 9PJ
12 Artists. Bank holiday weekend. May 2nd – 5th, 10am – 4pm
Private View: Thursday 1st May 6 – 9pm
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Sunday, April 6th, 2014
6th April 2014
DIVERCITY
As they arrived the audience added to The Interactive Wall and made more wire figures to add to the City Scape
An evening of short dance works followed, completing with a disco. Performers included: Cathy Waller Company, Maxwell Golden, Dickson Mbi, Fully Functioning Individuals as well as a group from local school St Ursulas and the Laban Contemporary Level One.
Here’s a few drawings from the evening
Dickson Mbi
Above and below: Fully Functioning Individuals (FFI)
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
12 March 2014
I have printed an etching using the same images as the backdrops for No Strings Attached, the dance choreographed by Charlotte Edmonds in Yorke Dance Project’s Figure Ground. Edition of 30, printed on zerkall paper in burnt-orange coloured ink, can be supplied framed (floating in black box frame) or un-framed.
Print £110,
Frame £50
sales: sallymckay@btinternet.com
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
5 March 2014
Yorke Dance Project perform Figure Ground at the Lilian Baylis, Sadler’s Wells
A week ago at the Lilian Baylis, Yorke Dance Project performed a wonderful preview performance of their touring programme: Figure Ground, an evening of 3 dances from the company. I was commissioned to create the set for the first work of the evening: No Strings Attached, choreographed by Charlotte Edmonds. I spent 3 weeks drawing during the rehearsals in the summer of 2013. Working from the drawings I painted 3 backdrop panels using acrylics each measuring 4m x 2m. I negotiated 6 days in the high ceilinged No Format Gallery near my studio, to paint the canvas so had to have them complete in this time-frame.
It was great to paint on such a large scale – a first for me! In 2012 I created figurative wire sculpture to be on stage with Yolande Yorke-Edgell in Noted.
- No Strings Attached, choreographed by Charlotte Edmonds, for which I painted the 3 backdrops
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
On Tuesday evening fellow Greenwich Dance Resident Artist, Theo Clinkard, will perform with his company of 6 his life affirming and heart wrenching dance Ordinary Courage, at Laban S. London. I drew this work in 2013 when it was performed at Greenwich Dance in February with Amstatten choreographed by another Greenwich Resident Artist, Robert Clark. I displayed the drawings of Amstatten during the evening and entered the sketchbook into the selected exhibition Sketch 2013 at Rabley Drawing Center. The exhibition has now moved to Black Swan Arts in Frome, Somerset until 8 February.
So see Ordinary Courage, the dance, in London and the sketches of the dance in Frome.
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Friday, December 13th, 2013
13 December 2013
During the Autumn Term I worked 1 morning a week with the BTEC Dance students at Lewisham College, South London. They were devising short works for the Choreographic Platform examination and performance, I drew them as they progressed through the task.
In my studio, using my drawings of the students as reference I painted a back-drop for their performance of 3 banners, painting directly onto canvas with acrylic.
I asked the students to draw each other to encourage them to observe movement through a different means and look closer at their peers while they worked.
Student’s drawings of each other dancing
In September 2012 I invited Lewisham College BTEC dance students to dance in no format gallery where I had a solo exhibition, they created dances inspired by my work which were performed in the gallery at the end of the week. A video was made of their performance.
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Sunday, November 10th, 2013
10th November
A Sharing at a Sadler’s Wells studio to an invited audience to see sections of three of the dances Yorke Dance Project are developing for their 2014 Tour. Last year I created a life size wire sculpture to be on stage with Yolande Yorke-Edgell while she danced in Noted.
For the 2014 tour I am working on a backcloth for a dance choreographed by young choreographer Charlotte Edmonds.
No Strings Attached, choreographed by Charlotte Edmonds
Yolande Yorke-Edgell dancing Canciones Del Alma choreographed by Robert Cohan in 1978 and being reconstructed for her for the 2014 tour
Robert Cohan in the rehearsal
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Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
23 October 2013
Subterrain choreography Ashley Page
The Comedy of Change choreography Mark Baldwin
The Castaways choreography Barak Marshall
Rambert will celebrate the move to a new home on the Southbank with two weeks of free events, 2 -14 December
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Sunday, October 13th, 2013
11th October 2013
Trisha Brown Dance Company. Proscenium Works, 1979-2011
Platform Theatre at Central St Martins to see three works from the Trisha Brown Dance Company, part of Dance Umbrella 2013.
Astral Convertible (1989) with sound score by John Cage, Visual Presentation & costumes by Robert Rauschenberg.
Watermotor (1978)
I’m going to Toss My Arms – If You Catch Them They’re Yours (2011)
In the corridor entrance to the theatre a treat was in store, an exhibition from the enormously talented dance photographers Hugo Glendinning and Chris Nash.
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