Artists
Chisenhale Commissions
Chisenhale Dance Space, with support from the Choreographers’ Gallery, commissioned two new performances made as collaborations between different generations of dance artists.
Grace Nicol – Grace Nicol is a choreographer, curator and activist. Her artistic practice has a particular focus on object-body relations and materiality, investigating juxtapositions and associations of objecthood and bodies to explore movement within socio-political contexts.
Jacky Lansley – Jacky Lansley is a choreographer, writer and performance artist who has been practicing for over four decades. She was a founder of UK’s major independent dance studios – X6 Dance Space and Chisenhale Dance Space – and in 2002 she founded the Dance Research Studio, which has provided a seminal and supportive context for independent artists.
Angela Andrews – Angela Andrews is a London-based Lindy Hopper, dance artist and blogger. For more than 25 years, she has taught and performed at dance and music festivals worldwide.
Othella Dallas – Othella Dallas was a principal dancer of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company in the early 1940s. 93 years young when she performed this work, she was a carrier of academic and corporal knowledge of the integration of African-centred dances. Othella died in 2020.
Dialogues
Choreographers’ Gallery commissioned a series of conversations between working choreographers of different generations. These were hosted by Resonance FM.
Meg Stewart – Meg Stewart is a dancer and performer with training in classical ballet, contemporary dance, Skinner Releasing Technique, Tai Chi, Qi Gong and Buddhist movement and meditation. Recently she has been a Mercury Mover at Rambert.
Harriet Latham – Harriet Latham is a movement director and personal trainer. She completed her professional dance training at London Contemporary Dance School and completed a Masters in Creative Practice at Trinity LABAN & Independent Dance.
Daniel Persson - Daniel Jeremiah Persson is a Swedish dance artist who received his Bachelor’s Degree at London Contemporary Dance School (2011–2014). He has danced for numerous artists/choreographers as well as presented his own choreographic works nationally and internationally. Key interests as a dancemaker revolve around the physical landscape of the body in exploration with costume and props, investigating themes around gender and cultural identity.
Lauren Potter –Lauren trained at London Contemporary Dance School (LCDS) and subsequently danced with London Contemporary Dance Theatre for eight years. She became a founding member of Siobhan Davies Dance Company in 1988. Since working as a freelance dancer and teacher she has been involved in a wide diversity of dance projects both staged and televised. Lauren now teaches at LCDS.
Tim Rubidge – Since 1975 Tim Rubidge has explored and devised many new dance works, presenting solo and small ensemble choreographies and performances nationally and internationally in cities and communities in the UK, Europe, USA and South Africa. Tim has conceived, collaborated and directed a series of site-specific performances that have developed and drawn on imaginative, physical and sensory experience.
Gillie Kleiman – Gillie Kleiman is an artist. Her work starts from interests in dance and choreography and manifests in various forms. Gillie’s activities take place in the fields of dance and live art and sometimes in related disciplines.
Flora Wellesley Wesley – Alongside making her own work Flora Wellesley Wesley collaborates with a variety of choreographers, visual artists and directors as a performer and researcher on projects for camera, stage, and gallery and site-specific spaces.
Colin Mclean – Colin McLean is a member of AMICI Dance Theatre Company. He works as a freelance Contemporary and Butoh dancer in UK & Europe. Colin attended the SRT Summer Intensives in the US and has a diploma in Dance Studies from LABAN.
Wolfgang Stange – Wolfgang Stange is the founder, director and principal choreographer of AMICI Dance Theatre Company. He was born in Berlin and came to Britain in the late 1970s to train at the London Contemporary Dance School. At this time he worked with the distinguished dance expressionist Hilde Holger who became his mentor.
Mary Prestidge – Mary danced with Ballet Rambert 1969–1974. As an independent, she was a member of X6 Dance Collective and co-founder Chisenhale Dance Space in London. Mary continues working as a teacher, performer and organiser supporting development and contexts for new dance. She has been based in Liverpool since 1995.
Rachel Gildea – Rachel Gildea is an independent dance artist doing socially engaged work in diverse communities. She is Co-Director of BLINK Dance Theatre and has a regular practice in improvisation. Rachel performed in the works of Gaby Agis, Florence Peake and Janine Harrington amongst others.
Amy Voris – Amy Voris is a contemporary dance-maker based in Manchester. Her practice is process-oriented and collaborative, driven by the desire to develop enduring relationships with people, with places and with movement material.
Solo Studies
Angus Balbernie – Angus Balbernie has created around 85 pieces, directed, performed, taught and improvised around Europe, North and South America, Canada and the Far East.
Joan Davis – Joan Davis’s work is centred around the enquiry of bringing the practice of Authentic Movement into Performance. Her work is a natural outcome and progression of many years’ work exploring dance, movement, body, nature, art, therapy, community and spirituality. Joan is based in Gorse Hill in Ireland.
Adam Hougland – Adam Hougland is the principal choreographer for the Louisville Ballet and has created seven critically acclaimed original works for the company including Rite of Spring. Adam lives in Bristol, England with his husband Ashley and their dog Liza.