GUEST SUITES

Clore Studio Upstairs, Royal Opera House, 17 & 18 February
York Minster Chapter House, York Minster, 3 March
Barbican Plymouth, 16 March

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 the 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.

The project will expand on the central idea of artists guesting in each other's worlds within a context where different disciplines of dance, music, film and writing work alongside each other. It will also take further the themes of displacement and cultural difference explored in the Guests R&D project (see Guests in Choreographic Works).
Interdisciplinarity is a hall mark of Lansley's work and she will invite experienced and high profile performers - dancers and actors - to make guest appearances within the project, working alongside a talented core ensemble. The Bach Cello Suites will be played live by an outstanding cellist of international repute.

Lansley will be working closely with composer Jonathan Eato who has shared a long term fascination with the Bach's Cello Suites and will act as music director/researcher on the project. Eato asks “To what extent can dance made to the Cello Suites hold the original cantus firmus whilst the musicians work with contemporary archaeology that re-imagines”

The experienced film maker Roswitha Chesher will collaborate with Lansley to create film for integration with live performance and also film as documentation. Lansley has worked on several projects with Chesher - who is an outstanding dance film maker and documenter.

The performances will be accompanied by the publication of a small book by Lansley of the same title – which explores themes, stories and images that are linked to and expand on the film and live work. Space and context, as always in the artist's work, will be crucial to the project.
More about GUEST SUITES

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. The essays reflect wide-ranging concerns, and connect the experiences of senior practitioners in areas as diverse as health, philosophy, psychology and crossart form research, giving an extraordinary picture of the worldwide network of independent dancers and their practice.
Contributers: Philippe Priasso, Lisa Nelson, La Tati, Julyen Hamilton, Yoshito Ohno, Steve Paxton, Jacky Lansley, Will Gaines, Jane Dudley, Pauline de Groot, Bisakha Sarker, Fergus Early.
View The Wise Body postcard.

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. The project took place throughout 2010 and a final performance was presented at HfC in September 2010. The film includes the following performers: Ursula Early, Claudia Hope, Brett Jackson, Angela Kelly, Polly Motley, and Tim Taylor; with music research by Jonathan Eato, design research by Fiona Chivers, camera work by Lucy Beech, and editor Roswitha Chesher. The film will be launched later in 2011.

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