SIZE OF COMPANY
4–6 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Rosemary Butcher
Lighting Designer
Charles Balfour
Sound Composer
Cathy Lane
Dancer
Elena Giannotti
Tour Manager
Gesine Geister

ARTISTIC POLICY
For the past 30 years, Rosemary Butcher has sought to challenge conventional notions of dance. On the basis of conceptual art, pure movement, and the complex handling of space, she creates her own movement and new choreographic forms, working on performances, installations, and films. Teaching also forms an important part of her work.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
A stunner...a superlative fusion of choreography, sound and light, all equally perfect...an on-the-edge intensity.
The Independent
Radically, uncompromisingly, and indefatigably expanding the limits of dance.
Katja Schneider (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Rosemary Butcher’s [Hidden Voices] was a brave, unorthodox, completely imagined miniature...worthy of the Turner Prize.
Daily Telegraph (Ismene Brown, The Place Prize)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Episodes of Flight
A meditation on a personal archival journey to the own sources of inspiration,an interaction with a remembered past, specific to the urban environment of New York in the late 60s and early 70s, presented as an interweaving of moving image and performance.
60 mins, no interval, 1 dancer, 4–5 on the road, middle to large scale
Woman and Memory
Choreography enters into a dialogue with visual art and film. Four pieces are presented as an installation like series, forming a visual choreographic entity. The work is saturated with ideas of journey and navigation and logs a highly personal trajectory of choreographic identity.
Images Every Three Seconds (solo)
Vanishing Point (film)
The Hour (live performance and film)
Hidden Voices (solo)
Total:75 mins, 1 dancer, 4 on the road, small to large scale
White
Inspired by descriptions of survival in the Arctic and the experiences of polar explorers: a dialogue between three dancers and their giant images on screen, evoking emptiness, transparency, appearance and disappearance.
60 mins, 3 dancers, 7 on the road, venue: middle to large scale
Undercurrent
Short film using the natural movement of a big woman.
10 mins
Vanishing Point
Short film reflecting on navigation, journey and travel, the predicament of a traveller's fluctuating relationship, past to present. The experience of a woman traveller presented as an abstract journey that places itself in the visual landscape.
(15 mins)
WRAP-AROUND
Public talks with the audience.
Teaching (Choreography/Technique/Choreography and Film) and Choreographic Coaching.
Academic Research.
Lecturing.
Different installation work (including film) might be possible in future.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Germany, United Kingdom, Episodes of Flight
2008 France, Woman and Memory
2007 France, Germany, Canada, Woman and Memory
2006 Austria, Netherlands, France, Woman and Memory
2005 Germany, United Kingdom, Austria, Woman and Memory

TOURING AVAILABILITY

Episodes of Flight – 2008/2009/2010
Woman and Memory – 2008/2009/2010
White – on request
Films – on request