Collaborating Artists
Caroline Broadhead
Caroline comes from a background in applied arts. Over her 30 year career she has gained a reputation for her use of clothing as metaphor and more recently, her distinctive installations.
Her work has been exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally including Hayward Gallery, London; Kunsthaus, Bergen, Norway; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. In 1997 she won the Jerwood Prize for Textiles and in 2004, the Textiles Open, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.
She has lately become concerned with the architectural aspects of her installations, for example, Still Light 1999, in which threads from a window to a floor mark out the shaft of light coming in, and Breathing Space, 2005, York St Mary’s, which offered two different experiences of the low ceiling of fabric which covered the entire former church – from under and from above.
She has collaborated with choreographers in the past, including Rosemary Lee on Stranded (a South Bank commission, 1991).
Caroline is Reader in Textiles and Jewellery at Middlesex University, and is a regular Professor at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg.
Marcia Pook
Marcia trained at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, graduating in 1996. Her performance credits include V-Tol Dance Company By Force of Fantasy, Nothing but the Truth, and The Snowball Effect created for BBC2 Dance for the Camera. Recently Marcia has been a member of Union Dance Company and theatre company Trading Faces. She has also worked for Frantic Assembly (Underworld) and Attik Dance (Knock the Balance). Marcia performed with Angela Woodhouse on The Waiting Game in 1997.
Marcia is also a qualified Craniosacral Therapist and practitioner of Chi Gung.
Stine Nilsen
Stine trained at the Trinity Laban Centre for Movement and Dance. She has performed with Candoco Dance Company for 6 years, working with such choreographers as Fin Walker, Stephen Petronio, Javier de Frutos and Doug Elkins. Stine has previously danced with Jeremy James & Company, BANK-project 2004, Catherine Seymour and Angela Woodhouse. She is currently Co-Artistic director of Candoco Dance Company.
David McCormick
David completed a BA Hons in Dramatic Arts at Bretton Hall before training in dance at the Trinity Laban Centre. He has danced professionally for a number of choreographers including Lloyd Newson, Wayne McGregor, Richard Alston and participated in the first BANK Project with Siobhan Davies Dance Company.
Since 2002 he has been working with dance and video and was an associate artist at The Place Dance Theatre. David worked with Angela Woodhouse on Court for Sadler’s Wells in 2006.
Martina Conti
Martina is originally from the Republic of San Marino, Italy, where she trained in ballet at a local school. In 2006 she gained her Ba (Hons) in Dance –Theatre from Trinity Laban. Martina has been working as performer with theatre director Firenza Guidi (ELAN Wales), Plumes dans la tête, Romeo Castellucci (Inferno).
She has presented her own work as choreographer at the XIV Biennial of Young Artists of Europe in Skopje, Santarcangelo Festival and Florence Art Factory (Italy). Martina has performed for Angela Woodhouse in Fine Line, Sighted, and Between.
Henrietta Hale
Henrietta has worked as a dancer for theatre, film and installations with Rosemary Lee Projects, Ricochet Dance Productions, Angela Woodhouse, Yolande Snaith Theatre dance and in her early career for Russell Maliphant and Diversions Dance Company. She has made choreographic work since 1999 and formed a choreographic collective in 2004, The Dog Kennel Hill Project, with dancers Ben Ash and Rachel Lopez de la Nieta. Henrietta has worked collaboratively with visual artists, including 2 films for Daria Martin; a theatre piece directed with visual artist Matti Braun (Germany) and a site specific performance with artist Polonca Lovsin (Slovenia). Henrietta currently teaches choreography at Laban.
