Performance
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2018
Passage for Par
Rosemary Lee
Rehearsal assistant and performer. Outdoor work for 30 women as part of Groundwork, international art for Cornwall.
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2017
The Landings
Stacked Wonky Dance stackedwonky.com
Director Sarah Shorten. New large-scale work on a five-kilometre stretch of English coast.
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2012–18
Free Falling · Air Hunger · In the middle with you
Hagit Yakira Dance hagityakira.com
Dancer in three works: Free Falling, quartet, production and touring 2015–18; Air Hunger, duet, 2014–18; In the middle with you, for five dancers, 2012–15.
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2017–18
Mesh
Vanessa Grasse
A site-responsive participatory choreography travelling through indoor and outdoor public spaces, exploring interdependence and collaboration.
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2017–
Exercises in Telepathy
Annie Hanauer
The Place, 2017 and ongoing. Research into collective improvisation and compositional performance approaches.
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2016
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2015
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2014 & 2016
Studies for C · Display
Candoco Dance Company candoco.co.uk
Guest artist. Studies for C choreographed by Javier de Frutos; Display for the Wellcome Trust gallery by Mirjam Gurtner.
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2013–16
Everyday Hero · Strictly Cycling
Bicycle Ballet bicycleballet.com
Dancer in two outdoor productions performed at festivals across the UK.
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2012–14
The Look of The Thing · The Claim
Hannah Bruce and Company
Dancer and choreographic advisor for two promenade, immersive dance and digital works.
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2013
Dear Lido
Rosie Whitney-Fish rosiewhitneyfish.com
Dancer. Dance theatre promenade work celebrating the past and present of British swimming culture.
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2012
The Cunning Little Vixen
Glyndebourne Opera
Director Melly Still, choreographer Maxine Doyle. Dancer for the new production for Glyndebourne Festival.
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2011
Bodies in Urban Spaces
Willi Dorner (Austria)
Performer in urban site-specific work for Turner Contemporary, Margate, and Bristol May Festival.
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2010–11
Fiançailles au Couvent
Paris Opéra Comique and Toulouse Opéra Capitole
Director Martin Duncan, choreographer Ben Wright. One of eight dancers for the new production.
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2011
Square Dances
Rosemary Lee
Dance Umbrella, London. Dancer in a cast of 100 women.
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2011–12
The Traipse
Harry Theaker
imove and Quay Brothers commission. English rapper folk dance in contemporary movement contexts, touring the UK.
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2006 & 2010
Gravity Project · Fisike
Toni Mira, Nats Nus Dansa (Spain)
Rehearsal director for the opening of Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, 2010. Dancer in Fisike, a multimedia piece for children, Wales Millennium Centre, 2006.
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2006–11
WoCalling · The Happy Place
Ingri Fiksdal (Norway)
WoCalling, a European and Zimbabwean ensemble, Harare International Festival of Arts and festivals in Germany and Norway, 2010–11. The Happy Place, dance theatre created, performed and toured in Norway, 2006–07.
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2008
Supernova
Rosie Kay Dance Company
Dancer in the new work performed at The Place.
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2007
Shopafrolics
Attik Dance Company
Dancer in outdoor piece for cities, South West UK tour.
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2006
Winter Garden
Daria Martin
Choreography by Henrietta Hale. Dancer in film for the opening of the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, and Tate Britain.
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2004–05
Works by Rafael Bonachela, Crystal Pite, Henry Montes, Thomas Lehmen and Alicia Herrero Simón
Transitions Dance Company
Performed in Japan, Singapore and the UK.
Choreography
Average Height Ladies is the company under which I make work with Elizabeth Barker. Four commissioned dance theatre works: concept, choreography, design and performance by Sophie Arstall and Elizabeth Barker.
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2016
To the Ends of the Fingertips
Average Height Ladies
Channel 4 and Big Dance short film commission.
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2015
Alice's Imaginarium
Average Height Ladies
Commissioned by Southbank Centre for Imagine Children's Festival. Site-specific immersive dance theatre.
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2014
A Curious Cakewalk
Average Height Ladies
Outdoor promenade dance theatre commissioned by Greenwich Dance, Trinity Laban and the Horniman Museum for festivals.
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2012
Dancing Tales
Average Height Ladies
Big Dance and City Noises Festival, a European Culture Fund project. Performances in London, Helsinki and Budapest.
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2012
The Tree of Light
Charlie Morrissey with Block9
One of ten choreographers for a large-scale outdoor production with 1,000 dancers celebrating the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
Teaching
Professional and open adult classes in contemporary technique and improvisation at Greenwich Dance, Trip Space, Danceworks, Independent Dance, Siobhan Davies Studios and The Place. Drama and dance for all ages and on outreach projects for Lewisham College, Dance in Devon, English National Ballet, Camden Council and Shed@thepark, an inclusive performing arts company. Co-Artistic Director of Devon Youth Dance Company. More about teaching.
Professional development
- Nominated by Independent Dance and selected for the One Dance UK Dancers’ Mentorship Programme for mid-career artists, 2017.
- Workshops with Deborah Hay, Daria Fain, KJ Holmes, Fabulous Beast, Julyen Hamilton, Kirstie Simson, Ivana Müller and Frey Faust (Axis Syllabus). Some study of Aikido and Tai Chi.
Education
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2004–05
MA in Dance Performance, Transitions Dance Company
Laban Centre
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2001–04
BA (Hons) Dance, First Class
Northern School of Contemporary Dance
Languages: English, French, some Italian.