Jacky Lansley, Choreographer and performance artist has been practicing
for more than three decades; she forged her unique style from a rigorous
training in both classical work with the Royal Ballet Company
and in the radical, conceptual worlds of Performance Art and New Dance
practice, seen in early innovative works such as Dance Object
& Dancing Ledge (at X6 Dance Space)
Mounting & Park Cafeteria (with Sally
Potter & Rose English as Limited
Dance Company); I,Giselle (with Fergus
Early); A Child's Play and The
Breath of Kings.
The artist's work combines visual and theatrical disciplines and is concerned
with space and the site specific; she has made works in many different
kinds of indoor and outdoor environments and one of her most recent projects a View
from the Shore was inspired by the Cornish coastal landscape with
which she has had a long term special relationship. The artist was a founder
of UK's major Independent dance studios - X6 Dance Space
and Chisenhale Dance Space - and in 2002 she moved into
her own studio, the Dance Research Studio, which
has supported the making of more recent works including: Bird
(2001); Holding Space (2004); Floor (2004); View From the Shore &
Anamule Dance (2007); Standing Stones (2008); a short narrative dance film The
Life Class (2008) and Guests R&D (2010) - (see Choreographic Work for further details).
THE WISE BODY: CONVERSATIONS WITH EXPERIENCED DANCERS
Edited by Jacky Lansley and Fergus Early
Published by Intellect Books
In The Wise Body, choreographers Lansley and Early interview twelve distinguished dancers who continue to enjoy exceptionally long performing careers. In discussing the challenges of being older dancers in a profession in which youth is idolized, the interviews invite a radical reappraisal of the development of modern and postmodern dance.
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GUEST SUITES (working title)
New performance work for 2012 by Jacky Lansley in dialogue with the Bach Cello Suites
In 2009 choreographer Jacky Lansley began to research and develop a dialogue with The Bach Cello Suites at Dance Research Studio. Her new project Guest Suites stems from this dialogue and a parallel research project Guests R&D which took place throughout 2010 in Cornwall.
Lansley will be collaborating closely with composer Jonathan Eato and the experienced film maker Roswitha Chesher.
GUESTS R&D DOCUMENTARY FILM
Directed by Jacky Lansley and Tim Brinkman
Lansley has created a documentary film based on interviews, rehearsal and performance footage from the project Guests R&D, a partnership project between Dance Research Studio and Hall for Cornwall.
SDIPT
The professional development programme The Speaking Dancer: Interdisciplinary Performance Training (SDIPT) will restart again in 2011/2012. For more details about SDIPT or current workshops/classes, please see DANCE RESEARCH STUDIO, or email drs@jackylansley.co.uk to register interest.
image from
VIEW FROM THE SHORE
by JACKY LANSLEY
DANCER: TANIA TEMPEST-HAY