Book Launch at The Coast is Queer, Brighton
Come and say hello next Saturday 12th October at 5.30 in the Jane Attenborough Studio at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) @ Sussex University, Brighton.
I’ll be talking about my work, 40 years of The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs and signing books.
The Featherstonehaughs Draw on the Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele was originally created in 1998 as a live work, it was remade in 2010 with new music by Steve Blake and Will Saunders. The film has never been publicly aired and will be a world premiere for Dance Umbrella 2024.
The film of the last performance has been made in collaboration with Deborah May of Kinoki.
Choreography- Lea Anderson, Music- Steve Blake and Will Saunders, Costume Design- Sandy Powell, Lighting and Staging Design- Simon Corder.
Dancers: Neil Callaghan, Gary Clarke, Sebastien Elias Kurth, Jacob Ingram-Dodd, Ryen Perkins-Gangnes and Ronny Ming-Hei Wong.
Announcing a book launch at TACO! Gallery in Thamesmead on Saturday 3rd August 7.30-11pm.
There will be an exhibition, book signings, special drinks and other stuff. All are welcome.
See you there!
The Cholmondeleys 40th Anniversary Book
Please pledge to our Kickstarter campaign and receive a copy of the Cholmondeleys and the Featherstonehaughs’ full colour hardback birthday book, featuring photos by Chris Nash, Pau Ros, Eddie Monsoon, Matilda Temperley, Pete Moss and the Douglas Brothers of works featuring costumes by Sandy Powell, Emma Fryer, Simon Vincenzi, Joanna Parker, Marie & Maria, Jess Hooks, worn by the extraordinary dancers.
New work for National Youth Dance Wales premieres Riverfront Theatre and Arts Centre, Newport, Wales. Choreographed by Lea Anderson, music composed by Steve Blake, costume design by George Hampton Wale. Photos by Sian Trenberth.
In summer 2021- Chelsea Theatre in West London invited Lea Anderson to create a bespoke project to mark the end of lock-down.
Lea created the first DANCE-CAPTURE collection. Inspired by her residency at the Horniman museum, London and her Creative Fellowship at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum Exeter 2019/2020, Lea and Chelsea theatre set up a bespoke outdoor film studio and invited anyone who had a dance that they wished to donate to the Dance-Capture collection to come and be filmed by a professional crew.
The response was overwhelming and unpredictable. The crew filmed street dance, tango, ballet, capoeira, disco, contemporary and traditional dances from England, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico and Bulgaria.
Some contributors started dancing in lockdown, others had a history of dancing with groups or alone.
https://vimeo.com/showcase/tadaas
Lost Duets from Yippeee!!! 2006, Performed from Hidden Locations for your Entertainment by students from Trinity Laban as part of the Historical project.
In this work the dancers were taken through the same process to create duets as the original dancers in Yippeee!!! 2006. The huge difference of course was that the dancers were in lockdown. We used this opportunity to examine the nature of a duet and to ask the question- How can a duet be created when the partners are not in the same location? This is result of that investigation.
Credits:
Choreographer & director: Lea Anderson
Rehearsal Director: Valentina Formenti
Original music by Steve Blake, played by Yum Yum Band
Original design & quarantine proposition: Simon Vincenzi
Film tutorials by Frances Scott & Phil Coy
Dancer Duets:
Charlotte & Andrea
Anna & Harriet
Emma & Julia
Emily & Amelia
Eleni & Chloe
Frankie & Megan
Maitland & Niamh
Stephanie & Brittany
Ciara & herself
Charlie & Inka
Rebecca & Bethany
Premiere of our new lock-down film project, funded by our wonderful supporters & hosted by Pavilion Dance South West
Thursday July 9th 2020
Maho Ihara in Elvis Legs (Quarantine Mix)
https://www.pdsw.org.uk/digital-content/elvis-legs-quarantine-mix-premiere/
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