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Since the mid-seventies, Rosemary Butcher has been the UK's most consistently radical and innovative choreographer, developing her own movement language and choreographic form. Much of her inspiration is allied with the concepts and ideas in contemporary visual art. Over the last twenty years her work has been presented in over forty countries and she is recognised internationally as one of the UK's leading choreographers. Butcher'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.