Biography
Angela Woodhouse trained in Dance and Visual Art at the Metropolitan University of Manchester. She has an MA (dist) from University of Surrey. She received the Lisa Ullmann Scholarship to study with Alwin Nikolais and Murrey Louis in New York. She has since worked with Reinhild Hoffmann (Berlin) and Sara Pearson (USA).
Angela’s practice has been exploring detail and intimacy through site and installation. Works include The Waiting Game made in collaboration with artist Caroline Broadhead for Rochester City Arts Festival (1997), a life altered (2000), an installation with dancer Stine Nilsen created for one performer and one viewer within a small confined space, Court, (2003-6), a touring installation for two performers and three viewers (venues include Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Angel Row Nottingham, and Sadler’s Wells London), and Dreams and Ruins, a site work for Witley Court, Worcestershire (2005) commissioned by DanceFest and English Heritage. Angela was selected as one of the commissioned artists for the inaugural Place Prize 2004 with Threshold. A development of this work, entitled Fine Line was commissioned by Trinity Laban for The Bonnie Bird Theatre (2006).
Recently Angela, with Caroline Broadhead, created Sighted commissioned by The Royal Opera House Deloitte Ignite Festival 2009 and The Place Theatre, and completed a commission for Woking Dance Festival 2010 entitled Censored in conjunction with The Lightbox Woking and Tate Artists’ Rooms (Jenny Holzer).
The most recent installation work Between (2011), produced by Trinity Laban, is touring gallery and theatre venues through 2011 and 2012.
Angela has taught at the Tanzhoff Akadamie, Switzerland, Trinity Laban, Wimbledon School of Art, London, Central St Martin’s School of Art, London, and London Contemporary Dance School.
In previous works I have interwoven movement with visual and aural material. I am concerned with stripping away to discover simple, clean visual statements. While drawing attention to both the art object and the environment my work is firmly rooted in the exploration of rhythm, space, and the intensity of the live event.
