[Extension 'scheme-3' (56364) on page 'arts-performance_in_profile-2009-british_council-anushiye_yarnell.htm'] Line 1: TypeError: assignment to undeclared variable strScheme
 
[Extension 'outputScheme' (56370) on page 'arts-performance_in_profile-2009-british_council-anushiye_yarnell.htm'] Line 50: ReferenceError: strScheme is not defined
 
[Extension 'Hide Nav' (8930) on page 'arts-performance_in_profile-2009-british_council-anushiye_yarnell.htm'] Line 1: TypeError: assignment to undeclared variable showNav
 
[Extension 'Hide Nav 2' (71380) on page 'arts-performance_in_profile-2009-british_council-anushiye_yarnell.htm'] Line 1: TypeError: assignment to undeclared variable showNav2
 
[Extension 'Show Slot 1' (8800) on page 'arts-performance_in_profile-2009-british_council-anushiye_yarnell.htm'] Line 1: TypeError: assignment to undeclared variable showSlot1
 
[Extension 'Show 2 Links' (8867) on page 'arts-performance_in_profile-2009-british_council-anushiye_yarnell.htm'] Line 1: TypeError: assignment to undeclared variable noOfLinks
 
[Extension 'Show 8 Slots' (8818) on page 'arts-performance_in_profile-2009-british_council-anushiye_yarnell.htm'] Line 1: TypeError: assignment to undeclared variable noOfSlots
 
[Extension 'Show Slot 3' (9109) on page 'arts-performance_in_profile-2009-british_council-anushiye_yarnell.htm'] Line 1: TypeError: assignment to undeclared variable showSlot3
 
[Extension 'Hide Slot 4' (42266) on page 'arts-performance_in_profile-2009-british_council-anushiye_yarnell.htm'] Line 1: TypeError: assignment to undeclared variable showSlot4
ANUSHIYE YARNELL / Image: Sugar Blood / Photographer: Cathy Boyce

Image: Sugar Blood
Photographer: Cathy Boyce

ANUSHIYE YARNELL

Dance theatre

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director/Dancer/Choreographer
Anushiye Yarnell

ARTISTIC POLICY
Anushiye Yarnell’s performance works create an alternative territory for the audience and performer to co-habit. She unfolds a dimension synergising fantasy and reality, reconstructing fragments from the realm of everyday life into existential, functional daydreaming. The frictional romance between choreographed and improvised movement generates a process of transformation, a kind of deliberate, accidental self-deconstruction. Her works draw on personal experience, past and future mythologies, notions of paradise and civilisation, dreams, and cultural diversity.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
An innovative, tantalising and provocative performer…far from conventional...wonderful, disturbing and physically impressive.
Theatre Wales (Exotica)
In her distinctive, quirky, gauche yet elegant style… It steered a course between the erotic and the absurd with a fine sense of intriguing ambiguity.
David Adams, The Western Mail (Bear)
Yarnell still has the power to entrance and she has that magic ingredient that makes out the creative genius.
David Adams, The Western Mail [Sugar Blood-(BOXING)]

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Bear
An examination of the mysterious identities and interconnections of love, human and animal. Investigates Yarnell‘s emotional state when inhabiting an animal’s outer skin and layers that with her personal inner reflections of a love affair. Ambiguous in its exploration of female sexuality, Bear treads a line between the sensuous and the absurd, reality and fantasy.
30 or 50 mins, no interval, 1 on stage, 1–2 on the road
Sugar Blood-(BOXING)
Contrasts three forms of beating – the beating heart, the beating of conflict, and the beating of a butterfly’s wings in flight. The piece explores the tension between embrace and violence, sex and love, attachment and freedom, and searches for a common source for these energies in the human heart.
33 mins, 1 on stage, 2 on the road

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Pas-de-Deux with Shopping Trolley (working title)
Transforming the constructed fantastical apparitions of ballet romancing death, eternal love, the underworld, good and evil, our fear of falling, tragedy and the happily ever after through everyday interactions, interwoven memories of touch and embrace within the mobile solitary caged space of a shopping trolley.

WRAP-AROUND
Post-performance discussions and workshop available which explore the dialogue between improvisational and choreographed movement. A 15 minute film accompanies Bear.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 France: Sugar Blood-(BOXING)
2008 Japan: BEAR
2007 France, Peru: BEAR
2006 Germany: Sugar Blood-(BOXING)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details on request