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Hand In Glove

Hand In Glove at the Victoria and Albert Museum ended today.

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In Conversation at The V&A

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Lea and Jane Pritchard (curator of dance for the V & A museum), will have a conversation about costume and choreography and the Hand In Glove exhibition in the Lecture Theatre at the museum at midday on Sunday 24th 2016. Free entrance

Hand In Glove at Duckie Tonight

DSC_0136xThree excerpts from Yippeee!!! will be presented at Duckie at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern at 11pm tonight, performed by students from London Contemporary Dance School. These fragments will form part of the Hand In Glove, performed exhibition at The V & A museum next weekend (Friday 22nd 6-9pm, Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th 1-4pm)

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Kickstarter Campaign

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‘Hand-in-Glove’ at the V&A
Kickstarter campaignThe news is that my Kickstarter campaign has now launched and has got off to a great start.
I now need your support to reach my target and there are only 27 days left to do it.
Please support my Hand In Glove project at the V&A museum by pledging donations using this link.
There are some great, very special rewards for you.
All the information about the project and this campaign can be found on the Kickstarter page, so use the link and have a look now.
Please, please share the link with friends and colleagues who might be interested in supporting this unique event.

Thank you. See you there. Lea Anderson

Please visit: 
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hands-in-glove/hand-in-glove-a-performed-exhibition-of-costume-an?ref=email

Phone Pictures from Dance Limerick


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Repertory Performance at Dance Limerick

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STEP UP DANCE PROJECT: REPERTORY PROGRAMME 

Lea is working with young dancers in Limerick for five days to reconstruct excerpts from Yippeee!!! and The Featherstonehaugh’s Big Feature. The presentation on Saturday will also include work by Liz Roche.
Performance Sharing | Sat 30 Jan | 5pm | Dance Limerick Space | Adm Free

 

Hand In Glove at The V&A

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Hand In Glove is a performed exhibition of choreography by Lea Anderson and costume for dance designed by Emma Fryer, Sandy Powell and Simon Vincenzi that was first shown at Candidarts in Angel, London in October 2015. A larger version is planned to be presented at the V&A Museum, London 22nd, 23rd and 24th April 2016 in the Rafael Cartoon Gallery. This is in association with London Contemporary Dance School and will be performed by 3rd year students.

Dance Rebels

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Dance Rebels: A story of Modern Dance

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“A documentary which tells the story of the mavericks like Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch, whose radical ideas created modern dance in the 20th century”

This is a  BBC documentary featuring work by Lea Anderson, originally created for her companies The Cholmondeleys, The Featherstonehaughs and The Victims of Death, will be broadcast on Sunday 13th December at 9pm. Afterwards it will be available on BBC player at:

http:/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06spm22

Excerpts from Smithereens are performed by students of Trinity Laban, London.