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WENDY HOUSTOUN / Image: Happy Hour / Photographer: Chris Nash

Image: Happy Hour
Photographer: Chris Nash

WENDY HOUSTOUN

Text-based: Heavy|Performance|Dance theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
2–3 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artist
Wendy Houstoun

ARTISTIC POLICY
To investigate and create work that combines language and movement in a way that is direct, meaningful, and not without humour.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Both of these insightful, innovative works speak clearly to audiences while remaining sophisticated and meaningful, making art accessible even for the most inexperienced festival-goer.
The Age (Happy Hour and Desert Island Dances)
A little gem with an effect far beyond its means. Just beautiful.
The Australian. (Desert Island Dances)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
50 Acts
An umbrella title under which smaller acts will appear, The first being Actions. A celebration of energy with text and movement.
Times vary, currently 1 on stage, 2 to 3 on the road
Desert Island Dances
Words to take you back, moves to calm you down, dances to remind you of home. Wendy’s own idiosyncratic take on the castaway theme works with snatches of conversation and familiar gestures drawn from everyday life.
60 mins, no interval, 1 on stage, 2 to 3 on the road.
Happy Hour
A site-specific piece for a bar. A blend of movement and text about the bittersweet state of England. Live performance can be accompanied by a 15 minute film, Touched, directed by David Hinton.
45 mins, no interval, 1 on stage, 2 to 3 on the road

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Swan song
A new duet with Matteo Fargion. This unlikely pair are in the throws of making a new duet involving singing and some dancing.

WRAP-AROUND
Wendy is available for workshops but prefers to keep performing and workshops separate. She also prefers to lead intensive sessions lasting a number of days (5 to 8 days), rather than one-off, short sessions. Presentations/talks and discussions of her work are also possible.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Germany, Desert Island Dances
2008 Australia, Desert Island Dances/Happy Hour
2007 Lithuania, Desert Island Dances
2007 Austria, Workshops for Impulstanz
2007France, Desert Island Dances

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Please contact for availability