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Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

City Of London, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom

West Midlands

Encompass is a dance and digital media project connecting young people from around the world with ballet, contemporary dance, street dance and South Asian dance forms. The project is a collaboration between William Brookes School, The Edge Arts Centre, The Hive, Igloo Vision and Shropshire Council Community Arts and Festivals Team. The project includes online dance tutorials and facilities to upload your own dance, along with dance pieces for film and live performance. This will form part of a large-scale site specific digital dance installation event, culminating in a 360-degree dance film performance in the igloo dome.The event will be held in July 2012 at the Olympic Park in Much Wenlock, the birthplace of the modern Olympics

London

Choreographed a piece based on Sir Frederick Asthon's "Fred's Step" with Royal Ballet School students and Laban CAT Students.

Birmingham

Created a piece with professional dancers from Birmingham Royal Ballet and a multi-media artist to reproduce the ghostly dances from Giselle Act II, after the original 19th Century choreography. The dancers and choreography was filmed against a green screen, using multiple camera angles and the resulting footage composited on a moving forest backdrop filmed separately filmed on location in the West Midlands and presented on multiple screens hanging by clear wire (as if suspended in the air) as part of the installation. The performance of this work was on 9th June 2012 at The Patrick Centre, Birmingham

Birmingham

Working with Kathak soloist Sonia Sabri and tabla musician Sarvar Sabri to choreograph and present a digital projection of a traditional theme within Kathak called 'Pining for the Beloved'. Sufi poems (that express this yearning) will also be used as source materials to guide the expressive content of the piece. An additional aim is to capture the codified hand movements of Kathak in a 3D format, giving the audience the impression that the dancer (as part of their expression of yearning) is reaching out from the projections, towards, around and beyond them. The resulting installation will be presented on 9th June 2012 at The Patrick Centre, Birmingham

Specialist Dance Fellowship.Mentors: Tony Hall: CEO Royal Opera House and Peter Kyle CEO Shakespeare's GlobePlacement: The Ambassador Theatre Group (West Side Story Production)Research: Capturing the Cultural Value of Dance Consortium (research into Programming and Digital Strategies for Dance Consortium as they moved from project funding to regular funding)

Various freelance contracts for:The Royal Ballet SchoolBirmingham Royal BalletDance UKDance for All (South Africa)The Prince's Trust (Dance Live project)Salders Wells (Company of Elders)Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton Universities

East Midlands

Ma, Dance Crossing Cultural Boundaries

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