Locate
July - August 2011
The locate festival features a programme of brand new site-specific dance commissions and workshops from some of the most exciting choreographers in the UK. Working in collaboration with sound, visual and digital artists, the four choreographers have created individual responses to various locations around the borough of Richmond.
Locate takes you on a journey across the Borough, through shopping precincts, via tunnels and underpasses and a disused swimming pool to a final destination inside a stately garden.
Each choreographer brings their chosen site to life with new dance performance, digital installations and evocative soundscapes.
Discover the history and romance of the former lido on Twickenham embankment in ‘Dear Lido’ by Rosie Whitney-Fish while the students of Hampton Academy create imagined stories in an urban landscape in ‘Behind the Door’ by Robert Hylton.
Megan Saunders creates fairytale adventures in the grounds of Orleans House Gardens and Darren Johnston’s installation at Hampton Court Palace brings a playful touch of summer madness to the gardens.
For further details, please check back the website closer to the event date or alternatively, contact Orleans House Gallery on 020 8831 6000 or at artsinfo@richmond.gov.uk
Programme
Behind the Door
4:45 - 5:45pm Tuesday 5 July, Tangley Park Road, Hampton TW12 3YH
Choreographer - Robert Hylton
Sound Artist - Jan Hendrickse
Local students investigate how, as a dancer and choreographer, you can be inspired by the local area. Using the garages of Tangley Park Road as a starting point, the piece created invites the general public to view the seemingly everyday surroundings as a new experience. Become a voyeur on an unexpected journey to the garages and ask the question, what's behind the door?
The sound for this piece is constructed from field recordings made in the location and captures, amongst many others, bits of half-heard conversations, birdsong and the sound of children playing. These form the raw material for the composition and create the sense that the listener is overhearing an unseen, impossible or imagined situation.
Admission: Free
Dear Lido
2pm and 7pm, Saturday 23 July, Twickenham Lido, Jubilee Gardens, The Embankment, Twickenham TW1 3DU
Choreographer - Rosie Whitney-Fish
Dear Lido arrives at the disused Twickenham Lido to mark the one year Olympic countdown. This nostalgic dance-theatre piece and film celebrates the past and present. A theatrical spectacle, with witty scenarios grounded in the stories which retell the Lido’s history in a vibrant way. The piece brings together visually beautiful moments overlaid with a sense of nostalgia and escapism.
Admission: Free
'Once Upon a Time' dance films and choreographic workshop
10am - 3pm, Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 August, Orleans House Gallery, Riverside, Twickenham TW1 3DJ
Cost: £25. Book tickets online or call Orleans House Gallery on 020 8831 6000.
Age: 8-12 years
Choreographer - Megan Saunders
Film Director - Emma Frank
‘Once Upon a Time’ is a selection of dance films made for BBC learning based on classic fairytales. We will watch and work with the films and then use them as inspiration to create site specific performances in interesting spaces in and around Orleans House Gallery. We will be working creatively, using our imaginations and developing movement and performance skills.
This two-day workshop is open to young people aged 8 to 12 years and will be led by choreographer Megan Saunders. These beautifully crafted dance films will show young people how to create their own imaginative dance performance using ideas and themes from the films.
The participants will be inviting friends and family to a short informal performance at the end of the second day of the workshop.
An informal performance showing ideas the group have been working will take place at Orleans House Gallery at 2pm on Sunday 7 August.
Parkadia
Performances run at regular intervals between 1.00 and 5.00pm, Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 August
Hampton Court Palace (20th Century Gardens), East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9AU
Admission: Normal entrance costs to gardens apply(Adult £4.80; Concession £4.20; Child up to 15yrs Free.)
Choreographer - Darren Johnston/Array
Award winning choreographer and digital artist Darren Johnston and the multi-disciplinary Array collective, return to the 20th Century Gardens of Hampton Court Palace to create a multi-sensory installation inviting the audience into playful spaces and across thresholds into alternative realities. The lush tranquil surroundings beckon the curious and the intrepid into hidden worlds of the imagination.
