All posts by Lea

How To Do Stuff

How To Do Stuff

New work created by Lea with 3rd year students at Northern School of Contemporary Dance is now available to view on the school website.

This project started immediately after lockdown and all the work has been created by students in their homes.

The students each created their own “How To” video, copying and improving internet content.

Images above by Niamh Milligan, Louis Thato Partridge, Reynaldo Santos, Colette Kite, Amber Howells and Nicole Nevitt

Elvis Legs (QM) We made it!

Thank you very much to everyone who generously supported our Kickstarter campaign to create Elvis Legs (Quarantine Mix). We raised £13,134 in total and we have already started work on the film. No release date yet but coming very soon.

Elvis Legs (Quarantine Mix)

I have launched a Kickstarter campaign to create a new filmed version of Elvis Legs, first created for The Featherstonehaughs Go Las Vegas in 1995. This project will incorporate 3 casts of Elvis legs (9 dancers) who will perform and film the dance at home, creating a 9 panel Quarantine Mix. This project will pay unemployed dancers languishing at home to dance and will be free to watch for a lockdown audience. !8 days to go to raise the full sum. . . .

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hands-in-glove/elvis-legs-quarantine-mix

Laberinto Gallery

Laberinto

Peruvian contemporary dance company’s first commissioned work tours to the UK in January 2020

Laberinto, Lea’s work for Danza PUCP in Lima Peru with music by Steve Blake, costume design by Alonso Nuñez and staging and lighting design by Mariano Marquez will be touring the UK for the first time with performances at:

Bristol Old Vic Studio- 16, 17, 18 January 2020

Swansea, Express Yourself Festival, Elysium Gallery- 21 January 2020

Newport Riverfront Theatre- 23 January 2020

Creative Fellowship at The Bill Douglas Museum

Lea has been awarded an Arts and Culture Creative Fellow at the Bill Douglas Museum Cinema Museum at Exeter University and will be conducting research into peepshows, lantern slides, stereoscopes, panoramas and other optical objects, looking at ways this collection might inspire live work.

Fat Blokes

Nominated for UK Theatre Awards 2019

Achievement in Dance 

Scottee: for Fat Blokes an uplifting collaboration with choreographer Lea Anderson and cast

Duckie Loves Fanny

September 6th 2019: Walthamstow Assembly Hall

Harry Alexander, Gary Clarke, Valentina Formenti, Daniel Hay-Gordon, Maho Ihara, Frauke Requardt, Temi Ajose-Cutting, Makiko Aoyama, Katy Baird, Charles Chan, Iro Costello, Tamar Draper, Sue Frumin, Carl Harrison, Keith Heywood, Keran James, Robyn Johnson, Nando Messias, Sean Murray, David Ogle, Claudia Palazzo, Eleanor Perry, Charlie Wood, Photos by Holly Revell

Horniman Museum

Lea will be in residence at The Horniman Museum in partnership with The Place from 16th -20th September 2019, in conversation with people from all departments researching ways to work with the museum in the future.

FAT BLOKES at The Edinburgh Fringe

Fat Blokes is a work directed by Scottee with choreography by Lea Anderson. Performances at The Assembly Rooms,22:40, 18 – 22 AUG 2019