Endings with Bricks and Lines

The link to my new video dance work, at little late in coming to this blog; but any regular bloggers may have noticed my infrequent approach to the activity. So to the dance film, feel free to leave comments on the Vimeo page or here. I've had some interesting responses so far, including notions of suicide which surprised me in that I had not seen that possible outcome; but hey its art so tell me what you think.

What is.... going on?

Endings with Bricks and Lines

Where have I been?! And whats coming up?

Its been some time since I posted here, Ill not go in to too much detail but suffice to say the start of my MA has like many studies been full of academia, reading and writing. But finally the time to connect with an audience is returning. 

In the next few weeks Ill be filming a new dance work at a variety of locations in Driffield East Yorkshire, the dance connects my last work 'It Never Lasts for Long with Bricks and Lines' with the history of Driffield and my ongoing developing dance practice. 

For those a little less dance initiated, its getting weirder, a bit closer to home and a lot more fun (for me for sure). 

These images are just small selection of the locations I plan to film, note the the dry square patch under the bridge. So long as health and safety rules don't spoil the fun, all I need now is a film crew and the 'ok you wont kill yourself or others' from the University (ignore the danger of death sign in the image above) and its time to shoot.

Graduation Day

 Here are a few pictures from my Graduation day, it was a great day well spent with Mum, Dad and the wife in waiting. All in all a beautiful day (as can be expected in North East England) at the Scarborough Spa and a real honour to graduate from the University of Hull alongside great friends; here is to the future.

Of course I had to have a little fun, we did all look like we were at Hogwarts after all. 

Some images from my portfolio.

My BA in Theatre and Dance is now finished and I graduate in less than a week. Thank you to all those that supported me over

Image by Neil Warhurst 2012

 the last three years and thanks to those that came to see my work. Whats next? Well I am hoping to study for an MA at Scarborough and I am planning to continue developing my work to perform at arts festivals; so hopefully I will be coming to a venue near you!


Want to get in touch? Drop me an email at gunieapigarts@gmail.com

Image by Neil Warhurst 2012

It Never Lasts For Long With Bricks & Lines

Not the clearest footage and of course not as good as the live event, but this is the footage I got. Perhaps I will get the opportunity to perform the work again and so many more may yet get to see it.

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Performance on Thursday

The work now has a name!

Wow its been a long time!

And a lot has happened. Sorry to disappoint you my many readers :p, it has been a hectic 6 months; as I'm sure anyone who has been a student in their final year understands.

Anyway the project; much has changed its now to be a solo performance, its a shame to not be working with the lovely Emily Loombe and Tasmin Phillips but sometimes logistics decide these things. Over the last few months I have been very busy, developing the work from material developed in experimental sessions and my various dance interests and experience. Here is a snippet of whats been going on.

This segment of the work is inspired by my time with Mehmet Sander at Fierce Festival 2012, a big thanks to Mehmet for all the great experiences at Fierce working on the Impact project and the starting of a great friendship.

How does this fit with the rest of the work? Well thematically it does so seemlessly, but practically? I could say the 'Impact' has fragmented the whole work in a way I am finding very exciting and I hope you do too.

2 weeks to go, 30 spaces for audience members and hopefully 20 minutes of good art dance; wish me luck!

More coming soon.

Its been a productive week, my dancers have played with some ideas and we have some nice video too. I also came up with a proper name, which was nice and fast; so its good bye project susan and hello 'Objects and Obstacles.

So here is a short clip of Emily and Tasmin hard at work.

Finally the Beginning!

A curious title that is probably more interesting than the blog that follows it, but if I have your attention dear reader than perhaps I should welcome you.

Welcome.

Now that the welcomes are done and everyone who reads this feels like its ok that they did, I suppose you expect something of value for having done so. Well I am sorry but its early days for my 'new' project, so much so that it doesn't even have a name yet and still gets 'new' written or said whenever I bring it up; so lets call it........ 'Resolution' for now. To be honest I'd rather call it 'Project Susan' but this project is a serious one for a real degree, my degree; so I'd best try to be sensible.

But what if I was not sensible?

What if my insensible nature was to destroy my work?

Well fortunately that's the most basic element of the project. My dancers and I will be looking at how destructive experiences affect our bodies and how the way we move changes, then at the end of our lengthy investigation all you lovely people that form our audience get to see a smashing dance within a live art performance! At least that is the theory.

So I hope you will keep checking for irregular updates (some may even have pictures) as the project matures towards the performance date that should be sometime in April 2012.