After Kaprow - The Silent Room + Book of Journeys - T0954616102After Kaprow comprises of two individual but strongly related works - The Silent Room and Book of Journeys. Conceptually, the pieces look at the notion of women inhabiting interiors and how these rooms are witness to the activities of the women over time. The performer represents the women who have lived out their lives amongst the changing premise of the ?room' - the repetitive, ritualistic and habitual movements that occupy the space. After Kaprow takes the form of a dual-screen installation in dialogue with a live performer, suggesting vectors of transition between past/present, and present/future. Book of Journeys draws on the history imbued in the rooms themselves ? a monastery and ruined castle. The film weaves a journey that moves from past to future on one side and future to past on the other, overlapping in the present. | |
| 15 Nov 12 to 17 Nov 12 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L1139952349 |
Festival of Minatures: Lapped Translated Lines - T0566076023Lapped, Translated Lines is an exciting new multi-disciplinary collaboration between internationally renowned choreographer Rosemary Butcher, artist-filmmaker Daria Martin, and emerging art collective Post Works (Matthew Butcher and Melissa Appleton). In a piece that seeks to extend the definition of dance, live performance is set against new film work and a sculptural installation. The choreography of Lapped, Translated Lines was created by Rosemary Butcher and born out of discussions with dancer Elena Giannotti about Darwin and the skeletal structure and morphology of animals. Daria Martin’s film captures the resulting performance in impressionistic fragments and powerfully depicts the inner world of the dancer as she navigates her way through the piece. Post Works’s stunning sculptural framework of steel and light will act as a viewing frame at the edges of the performance space and a register against which to view the physical movement. This remarkable new work will leave audiences questioning the boundaries between viewer and performer and event and memory; celebrating the processes of translation and transformation as we move between languages, spaces and disciplines. Destructive Navigations is a free event prior to Lapped Translated Lines, created by Butcher with visual artist Pablo Bronstein. | |
| 1 Oct 10 to 3 Oct 10 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L607817896 |
Festival of Minatures: Dialogue with Lucinda - Radical Courses/Interior Drama - T1407544426An evening of two dances By Nicole Beutler. Based on 1 Radial Courses (1976) 2 Interior Drama (1977) by Lucinda Childs. Fascinated by the radical and deceptively simple minimalism of Lucinda Childs' early work, Beutler chose to remake two of her silent dance pieces, Radial Courses (1976) and Interior Drama (1977), setting the latter to a specially composed work by Gary Shepherd. The underlying choreographic scores are captivating and indecipherably complex. Radial Courses is based on three movement sequences in a constantly shifting, circulatory composition. In Interior Drama five dancers conform to an apparently perfect system, moving in repetitive and hallucinatory patterns. Childs describes her own work as an ‘intense experience of intense looking and listening’. Beutler’s reinterpretations centre on the individual dancer’s efforts and responsibilities within the group patterns, revealing parallel realities and the ritualistic qualities of both dances. Nicole Beutler focuses unwaveringly on the person behind the performer, using musicality and subtle humour to draw in the spectator. She uses an articulate sense of detail to create minimal and highly visual works. | |
| 27 Sep 10 to 28 Sep 10 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L1111318701 |
Festival of Miniatures: Dead Reckoning - T0694368130dead reckoning is a choreographic work with three performers for camera and projection. Four video recordings are shown simultaneously on a freestanding structure of two intersecting screens via four cameras positioned in a square around the dancers. The interaction of the performers might appear legible as their hands are reaching out for other bodies, however the fragmentation of the space created by the screens means they never quite seem to connect to one another. The spectator has to set him or herself into motion and circle around the re-construction. dead reckoning offers the possibility of an overview, of a panoramic gaze on events, though hiding parts of it, the reconstruction of space through video leads to a fascinating fragmentation of sight and the body. | |
| 23 Sep 10 to 25 Sep 10 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L0951669359 |
Episodes of Flight - T1491078222 | |
| 3 Nov 08 to 4 Nov 08 | Riverside Studios, Outer London :: V331 listing details L0812338527 |
Images Every 3 Seconds/The Hour/Hidden Voices - T589792668Saturated with ideas of journey and navigation, Images Every 3 Seconds, The Hour and Hidden Voices (Place Prize finalist), is a triptych f solo performance, film and installation. Together they log a highly personal trajectory of choreographic identity and challenge all conventional expectations of dance. | |
| 24 Oct 05 to 25 Oct 05 | Tate Modern, Inner London :: V0639819942 listing details L1942902114 |
White - T02095224674Butcher's latest full-length work, White was inspired by reports of Captain Scott's ill-fated 1911-13 Antarctic expedition and descriptions of survival in the Siberian Arctic. In White, a work for three dancers, Butcher treads new choreographic and structure paths utilising a multi-screen video projection, featuring the work of German filmmaker Martin Otter, a specially composed soundscape score by British composer Cathy Lane and lighting design by Charles Balfour. The physical and emotional predicaments facing a polar explorer are the focal points of [Rosemary Butcher]'s concept. The dancers initially respond to various visual stimuli, including weather charts and maps of the polar region. The dancers develop the movement in counterpoint with the screen images, which they are surrounded by, and the contrast of live performance and recorded material provides the dynamic between the two. | |
| 12 Feb 04 to 13 Feb 04 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01650916815 |
T707087399A Jerwood Choreography Award showing, 'Excerpts from White' is the work of one of our most distinguished and through-provoking artists. | |
| 9 Apr 03 | Laban Theatre, Outer London :: V342 listing details L842484350 |
Still-Slow-Divided/Fragmented Landscapes, Fragmented Narratives - T0330367440Still-Slow-Divided, a new [Rosemary Butcher] quartet, individual dancers occupy separate light defined spaces with movement juxtaposed between one space and another, with the illuminated environment and a curtain emphasising the collision of physical energy around the proximity of the light installation. Fractured Landscapes, Fragmented Narratives is a duet exploring the transformation of the shape and identity of the body from actual to projected space, with the structure of the choreography exploring dependency and independence through weight and balance. Presented as an installation performance using new technology, emotional tension emerges from the physical complexity of the ensuing images. With a camera directed on the dancers within the performance, individual movements are frozen and emphasised, the image on the screen displacing and refocusing their bodies, resulting in the integration of the performance and the projection as a collage of sounds and images. | |
| 7 Jun 02 to 8 Jun 02 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L661269323 |
Scan - T850383291Inspired by X-ray photography in which light flooding out from body cavities magically reveals the body's interior and exterior at the same time, Scan engages us in a gradually unfolding and surprising exploration of the body's inner life and exterior physicality.Company Rosemary Butcher Dance Projects. Performer Paul Clayden. Performer Henry Montes. Performer Lauren Potter. Performer Rahel Vonmoos. | |
| 15 Nov 00 | Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton :: V653 listing details L1321719522 |
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| 22 Oct 97 to 23 Oct 97 | Riverside Studios, Outer London :: V331 listing details L01649950233 |
