Following on from the success of last years full length work ‘Gameshow’ the Manchester based Company Chameleon return to the touring circuit with a double bill of new work. One piece, ‘Eden’ from Gemma Nixon and Jonathan Goddard and ‘Pictures We Make’ from company AD’s Anthony Missen and Kevin Edward Turner. For this year the […]
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Manchester based Company Chameleon have been working and touring for years now but just recently they became one of three newly anointed “National Portfolio Organisations” for dance by the big bad ACE. Their latest work, as the title might suggest, is a riff on the cheesy game show format deployed by many television companies to […]
Choreographer Ben Wright’s company bgroup have been quietly moving their way around the dance world for a few years now, creating and touring intricately crafted pieces of dance theatre for all the world to see. ‘The Lessening of Difference’ covers all the bases with dance making, acting, singing, projection and snow provided courtesy of no […]
The Coda Oslo International Dance Festival held in Oslo Norway from October 11th to October 23rd 2011 and featured works by Anjelen Preljocaj, Yvonne Rainer, Ervi Sirén, Carte Blanche and many more.
Retina Dance Company are back on tour in the wide and wacky world of dance with six dancers, a live band (sometimes) and and ever changing ensemble of community and local professional dancers in their brand new work ‘Layers of Skin’ As the work tours around the UK and Europe it morphs into various configurations. […]
Almost a year to the day since we brought you another site specific work from the stable of dance maker Helen Parlor. Now she’s back along with three dancers this time with a work inspired by the science of movement. Working with actual scientists, otherwise known as boffins from Oxford Brookes University, the company haver […]
The performance is an adapted reconstruction of Har du sett min oldemors grónne korsett – det kan fly (“Have you seen my great-grandmother’s green corset – it can fly”) from 1992 which premiered at Scenehuset in Oslo. Four individual solos were created on the theme of foremothers. Dancers: Snelle Hall, Steffi Lund, Olga Papalexiou, Hege […]
Gunhild Bjórnsgaard has in recent years worked with choreography concerts, in which the musician performs choreography as a dancer would. With this new piece Bjórnsgaard probes the depths of the world of composer Georges Aperghis. Dancers: Nina Biong, Silje Aker Johnsen. This performance was recorded at the Coda Oslo International Dance Festival in Oslo Norway […]
Peter Sparling is Thurnau Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan and active independent dance artist. As former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, chair of the U-M Department of Dance from 1988-93 and Artistic Director of Peter Sparling Dance Company from 1993-2008. This performance was recorded at the Coda Oslo International […]
Peggy Jarrell Kapplan, a New York based photographer, has been taking portraits of dance makers since the 1970’s. From Trisha Brown to William Forsythe there is barely a choreographer she has not captured on her (film based) camera. The Coda Oslo International Dance Festival is hosting an exhibition of the photographers work with many participants, […]