I am at The Place, drawing choreographer Rosemary Lee and The Place students devising and rehearsing solos for Square Dances.
Rosemary Lee: “…make a gift of your dancing; a small but rich and delicate gift”
Rosemary Lee is rehearsing 4 groups of professional and non-professional dancers for her new large scale site specific community dance: The Place dance students, 50 men, 100 women and also children, each group will dance in central London squares: Gordon, Woburn, Queen and Brunswick Squares, repeating the dance 12 times over the weekend. Part of Dance Umbrella, the performance will take place 8 and 9 October.
Two years ago I drew during the rehearsals of Rosemary Lee’s Common Dance, the captivating community dance for over 50 dancers of all ages performed at Greenwich Dance. I feel so fortunate to be invited by Rosemary and welcomed by the dancers to draw the rehearsal process of Square Dances.
Rehearsal of The Featherstonehaughs Draw on the Sketch Books of Egon Schiele
Doublework, Gallery 10
Gregor (Edward Watson) 
Betinna Carpi rehearses with 
Grete (Laura Day)
Royal Ballet Principal Dancer, 
Gregor’s Father, 
Rehearsal, Fusional Fragments. 
Listening to 
The end 
Nocturne rehearsal