PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN 2008 - 1988

  • 2008 - Standing Stones, The Cathedral Tour premier York Minster and tour of 16 major UK cathedrals. Music: Mozart Clarinet Quintet performed by the Cornish Sinfonia, produced by Ascendance Rep.
  • 2008 - The Life Class short dance fiction film written and directed by Jacky Lansley; Director of Photography Hugo Glendinning; with actors Vincent Ebrahim and Katherine Pogson; Music from Stravinsky's The Firebird.
  • 2007 - View from the Shore and Anamule Dance premiered at the Hall for Cornwall and the Clore Studio, Royal Opera House. Co-produced with the Hall for Cornwall.
  • 2005 - Recipient of Lisa Ullman Travelling Scholarship to visit the USA for research with choreographer/dancers Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson; Body Mind Centering training with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and location research in New York (see LUTSF website report).
  • 2005 - Dance Research Studio received award from The Sasakawa Foundation to support: The Actor Dancer: Interdisciplinary Performance Workshops for Japanese and UK Performers, designed and directed by Jacky Lansley at the Dance research Studio.
  • 2004 - Holding Space music - movements from Schubert's Piano Sonatas, pianist Philip Gammon (Principal Pianist with The Royal Ballet Company). Premiere The Clore Studio at The Royal Opera House.
  • 2004 - FLOOR solo for the 25th anniversary festival of Chisenhale Dance Space.
  • 2004 - The Small Dance written and performed by Lansley and actor Vincent Ebrahim for LIFT 04: ENQUIRY at Bargehouse.
  • 2003 - Coats and Plays researched and developed at DRS; premiered at The Place Theatre Evolution Festival followed by residency at The Pegasus Theatre, Oxford.
  • 2002 - Lansley moved to the Dance Research Studio where she develops her own choreographic work, teaches and directs a professional development training programme.
  • 2001 - Bird, choreographed and written by Lansley, Premiere Purcell Room, The South Bank Centre and short UK tour. Produced by JLDT and King Alfred's College, Winchester.
  • 2000 - The Man Who Cried (feature film directed by Sally Potter) Choreographer.
  • 1999 - Les Diables 2. Awarded a Chisenhale Dance Space Bursary for further research on material connected to The Firebird leading to a performance and film showing at CDS.
  • 1998 - Through The Fire. A short documentary film about the research process of Les Diables, directed by Lansley with film maker Tamara MacLachlan. Funded by a Robin Howard Foundation award.
  • 1998 - Les Diables 1 research residency at The University of North London with experienced interdisciplinary performers to explore material from Fokine's The Firebird. Costume designs Paul Minter, music advisor Philip Howard.
  • 1998/99 - Do My Shoes Reflect The Quality Of My Intellect? Writer/choreographer; one woman 'lecture' performance - part of the 'Rough Magic' performance season at the University of North London curated by Anna Furse; and UK tour of other universities.
  • 1997 - L'Autre performed by Lansley and Philip Howard; a duet for dancer and pianist inspired by Michel Fokine's Petrouchka. Premiered at The Place Theatre as part of 'The Singular Voice of Woman' concert.
  • 1996 - Tales from the Citadel produced by Green Candle Dance Company/co-devisor and performer; national tour and Dance Umbrella Festival at Riverside Studios, London.
  • 1995 - British Council supported visit to Brazil for research activities and as a guest lecturer at the Brasilia V International Dance Seminar.
  • 1994 - British Council supported visit to Skopje, Macedonia and Belgrade, Serbia. Lecture workshops and exchange with local artists.
  • 1992/93 - Orlando (feature film director Sally Potter) Choreographer - filmed on location in Russia.
  • 1992 - Hiawatha, Co-Theatre Director with Lily Susan Todd, Bristol Old Vic.
  • 1991 - Rules of Engagement, interdisciplinary work written, directed and choreographed with Terri Diab, produced by Giselle Enterprises.
  • 1990 - The Crucible and the The Tempest, Choreographer/Movement Director, Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre.
  • 1989 - The Queue full length performance work for English New Dance Theatre.
  • 1988 - Earth produced by English New Dance Theatre with Sheffield City Polytechnic - large scale site specific community project. Theatre 1987 - 1990 Artistic Director of the English New Dance Theatre, Newcastle
  • 1987 - A Doll's House, Choreographer, Manchester Royal Exchange
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© Jacky Lansley 2009

Jacky Lansley's career as a choreographer, director, performer and teacher has spanned more than three decades. Throughout this period she has worked extensively in the UK and Europe, and in the USA, Brazil and Russia.

She has presented and performed work within a diverse range of sites, landscapes, festivals and venues, and has a special relationship with Cornwall, which has inspired several recent works. It is the translation of this wide experience of space and context into choreographic language which informs her current work.

Jacky Lansley is the Artistic Director of the Dance Research Studio, an Associate Artist at the Hall for Cornwall and an Associate Lecturer at The University of Plymouth.
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image from
HOLDING SPACE
by JACKY LANSLEY
performers:
LUCY TUCK / TANIA TEMPEST-HAY / GARETH FARLEY