Friday 5 July. AniCo. is a recently formed company under the direction of Anna-Lise Marie Hearn. Her work has been developing over the past few years during her training at London Studio Centre. The work of the company is complex, strong and physically articulate. Anna-Lise hopes to push the future development of the company, and strives to continue to create work with AniCo.
When Paolo Mangiola originally applied with Nuclear Romances, I was thrilled to see that Fukiko Takase would be performing in it; she'd performed in Devaraj Thimmaiah's Arranged Marriage, which was one of our favourite works of the previous festival. But Fukiko was not available for the festival, so Chihiro Kawasaki had to quickly learn the role, before Paolo left for Japan for a study trip funded by the Lisa Ullman Travelling Scholarship Fund.
Chihiro brought a very fresh and engaging quality to the role, and as you can see from the photos, this was a very light-hearted rehearsal indeed! It's been hard resisting the urge to post far more photos...
Nuclear Romances was performed on Friday 5 July, and you can read more about it here.
Merritt Moore and Adam Kirkham are fast becoming the most popular part of this festival, so it was wonderful to catch the start of one of their rehearsals last weekend. Merritt's friend Erica Fletcher was visiting from Texas and photographing and filming the rehearsal, so here are photos taken by her.
Merritt and Adam will be performing A Timeless Duet on Saturday 6 July, and you can read more about it and them here.
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Although this is the first time Gary Rowntree, from Belfast, will be presenting work at Cloud Dance Festival, this will be his second festival, having performed at our last festival in Antony Lo-Giudice's company, then called Exquisite Corpse | Dance Theatre.
Gary's new work is a solo called The Light, which will be performed by Oona Doherty on Saturday 6 July. For further details about Gary and his work, please visit here.
Photos of the various works for Lacuna in preparation for the festival...