Creative Works
The following dance works range in length and genre from short inter-disciplinary pieces to longer contemporary dance pieces involving performers of diverse ages: synopses to follow.
Gomer
Length: 15mins
Sound: Julie Valenzuela
Costume: Kate Townsend
Choreography: Lucinda Coleman together with Katie Chown and Caroline Stevenson
Using the narrative from the Book of Hosea, Gomer explores what it means to be human: to be loved, feel unloved, to run away and return home.
Breath
Length: 5mins
Sound: original music by Julie Valenzuela- Desert Breath
Choreography: Lucinda Coleman
Camera: David Coleman
Film editing: Trevor Wright
Breathing... Desert Breath; holding in.. releasing
place to rise; grace to rest. Desert Breath.
Giving life: hope to joy; free to fly.
Desert Breath.. Spirit-led.. breathing
If the shoe fits
Length: 20min
Sound: Toby Twining Music- Shaman: ‘Shaman, Sanctus, Between Stars, Hee*oo*oom*ha’
Costume: Kate Townsend
Choreography: Lucinda Coleman
If the Shoe Fits, Wear it! Or so the saying goes.
This is the starting place for investigation into whether we comfortably wear the trappings of culture and willingly share the things that fit us - or whether we force others into things too tight and uncomfortable.
Using the shoes as a metaphor for cultural morés, If the Shoe Fits invites you to deconstruct culture by exploring what people choose to ‘put on’ and ‘walk in’. What fits? How do we share the wisdom and knowledge of our cultural heritage?
How do we reconcile loss and deal with injustice? How does grace season the conversation of danced dialogues and offer a way to walk together, regardless of the footwear chosen - or perhaps because of it?
