SIZE OF COMPANY
Varies

SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Rosemary Lee

Artists’ Producer, Artsadmin
Nicky Childs

ARTISTIC POLICY
Rosemary Lee’s work is characterised by her desire to work in a variety of contexts, constituencies and media which range from site-specific work with mixed age casts numbering up to 250; solos for herself and other performers; short films for broadcast; and installations and commissioned works for dance companies. She creates projects that venture into new contexts or settings or form new partnerships with other artists or participants, always seeking to interact with new audiences for dance and performance.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘Remote Dancing cunningly strips you of your inhibitions... an ingenious installation.’ Judith Mackrell, The Guardian

‘Lee's art achieves a transcendence that has little to do with commonly held aesthetic values in dance. It is about engaging with a life force that is expressed, not through words but through the innocence of a body with no preconceptions of itself.’ Catherine Hale, Dance Theatre Journal

‘Everything Rosemary Lee does is intriguing.’ Allen Robertson, Time Out

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Remote Dancing A video installation made in collaboration with Nic Sandiland, where the interaction of viewer and on-screen dancer becomes an intimate pas de deux. Using sensor and projected video, each visitor can become both choreographer and dancer, creating duets of endless possibilities with the six on-screen partners of varying ages.

Stereo Dances An interactive sound installation made in collaboration with Nic Sandiland. Listening to a choice of four different sets of instructions played through headphones two partners can create their own private dances together.

Snow An 8-minute dance film made in collaboration with David Hinton. Originally commissioned Arts Council England, the BBC and NPS for the last Dance for the Camera series, the film is created from fragments of black and white archive footage from the 1890s to 1960s of ordinary people moving on the snow or ice.

Rosemary’s other short films Boy, Infanta and Greenman are also available for presentation

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Weather Dances (In Development) Developed in collaboration with Nic Sandiland, large-scale images of moving solo figures are projected on big buildings/screens in cities over a period of a year. Each on-screen performer is affected in real time by the wind, rainfall and temperature in the immediate surroundings.

Common Dance Commission by Dance Umbrella and Greenwich Dance Agency, London currently in development. Exploring traditional forms of folk dance structure, Rosemary Lee will be working with 50 mixed age, professional and non-professional dancers, a live choir and musicians to create a site-specific performance for the Greenwich Dance Agency.

WRAP-AROUND
Workshops can accompany presentations of all works. These could include practical workshops with cross-generational groups, working with video or talks/discussions on the use of video/new technology with dance.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 France (Remote Dancing/Stereo Dances)
2006 France (Remote Dancing/Stereo Dances and films), Slovenia (Remote Dancing/Stereo Dances)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Remote Dancing/Stereo Dances available from January 2008
Weather Dances available for commission from January 2008 onwards
Films continually available