shift

claire marshall

Taking an eight-minute duet situated in various locations and repeated four times, choreographer Claire Marshall investigates how the sense of story shifts with the consideration of location, cinematography and digital editing. The duet features dancers Richard Causer and Lucy Hood as a discordant couple stuck in a rut, looping manipulative behaviour as the four stories converge into one.

Homing in on home

Irene fiordilino

Two people inhabit a surreal, ‘Escherian looking’ room that serves as a container for linguistic clues and gravitational paradoxes.
The notion of space as a fixed system of coordinates is suspended, letting emerge the perspective-dependent relations amongst bodies and objects.
Foldable architecture is given a human dimension: if 'space' is a tangle of flexible coordinates, a 'place' is where the threads of space tangle with the ones of life, weaving a carpet of human narratives.

woman

tsai hsi hung

Three women - each isolated in their own room. They look within to find strength and use their experiences as women to communicate a hope for the future.

The Knight Errant {Orlando

antonia grove

The Knight Errant {Orlando seeks to present an intimate portrait of an eleven-year-old boy engaged in honing his two passions, football and piano, and to show how their contrasting energies work together to create an equilibrium between the physical, mental and creative sides of the human. Created from the perspective of a dance maker seeking to communicate human energy through the shaping of movement, timing, pace, phrasing and dynamic within the frame and integrated sound.

communications

dan fontenelli

 Communications is an experimental film bringing together a drummer and dancer, meeting for the first time, to simply communicate through rhythm, reacting instinctually and interpreting intuitively. Half way through the film the drums fade and we focus on the breathing of the dancer. The idea of the rhythm and movements relating to breath, the inhalation and exhalation thats so core to our being, was unexpected but became central to the film and an idea that Fontanelli is carrying into new photographic and film work.

belly dance vogue

hadi moussally

 Hadi’s birthday landed on the 3rd of April, 2020 during lockdown and for the first time he celebrated it all by himself.

Sea Change- on loss at sea

Lizzi Kew Ross/ Roswitha Chesher

Sea Change- on loss at sea, was filmed on Spurn lighthouse near Hull. The Cutty Sark, now a memorial to seafarers killed in the two world wars, would have passed the lighthouse on it’s maiden voyage from Dumbarton to London in 1869. Sea Change was inspired by the surrounding landscape with poetic resonances on loss and memory; the physical relationship between the horizontal and vertical and shifting horizons.

‘Full fathom five thy father lies…Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea- change’

Ariel’s song, The Tempest, 
William Shakespeare