Angela Woodhouse

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Desire Lines at the Winter Light Festival

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Performance 19th November 5pm and 7pm – free


Desire Lines in collaboration with artist Nathaniel Rackowe for the Winter Light Festival at The Southbank, London.

Desire Lines is a sculptural installation originally conceived by artist collaborator Nathaniel Rackowe for The Winter Light Festival, Southbank Centre. It will be on show until February 2025. In response we have created a performance work to be shown on 19th November.

The title refers to a term more commonly used to describe alternative pathways and routes through space, and the worn trace of footsteps that gives them away.  

Desire Lines explores the intersection of nature with the urban. It consists of nine cubes of light placed within nine trees along the riverbank. A light sequence flows across all nine trees to create a single dynamic installation. This horizontal flow echoes the movement of people and the dancers, a sense of journey that exploits an interaction with the space and with the public.

Join us by the trees next to Hungerford Bridge (leading from Embankment to Southbank).

Artist: Nathaniel Rackowe
Choreographer: Angela Woodhouse
Dancer/ collaborators: Alice Labant and Masumi Saito
Sound design: Severin Black
Costume design: Lily Baik 
Costume makers: Yue Yu  and Kei Sekiguchi
Producer alexa.seligman@gmail.com

Commissioned by Southbank Centre

Additional financial support from Middlesex University

Event support from Amici Art @amici_art

Who Cares on Kingston’s Riverside

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Who Cares, a video work by Angela Woodhouse and Caroline Broadhead which uses dance and thermal technology to explore our sense of touch, will be screened as an 11m long single-screen installation on Kingston’s riverside. 

The video work joins Mat Collishaw’s permanent work, Echolocation, which employs data gathered by LIDAR (pulsed laser) to visualise nearby All Saints Church. The original extreme wide screen installation was commissioned by Canadian & Portland Estates and was created in collaboration with students from Kingston University and Kingston School of Arts.

Dancers: Alice Labant and Martina Conti
Producer: Alexa Seligman

Dates: 3rd-25th October 2024 

Times: nightly – between dusk and dawn

Location: The undercroft/tunnel between Cote Brasserie and The Bishop Pub,

Riverside Walk, Kingston, KT1 1QN

https://riversidewalkkingston.co.uk

Still image from Who Cares by Caroline Broadhead and Angela Woodhouse

Image of Mat Collishaw’s work Echolocation (image credit: Jeff Moore)

(Un)touched in Malta

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(Un)touched to be presented at ‘Performance Knowledges: Transmission, Composition, Praxis’

The School of Performing Arts’ seventh annual international conference in cooperation with the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, UK School of Performing Arts

University of Malta 12th and 13th March 2020.

https://www.um.edu.mt/events/performanceknowledges2020

(Un)touched in Oslo

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(Un)touched continues to tour following the successes of previous iterations most recently at The National Museum in Belgrade. The work was originally commissioned by Canary Wharf PLC ‘Sculpture at Work’ 2016.

Dancers Martina Conti and Alice Labant.

‘The two bodies seem suspended in the changing lights, making their shapes and forms flit between transient beauty and our own figures peering into the glass, our reflections descending to the ceiling. The entire performance challenges our mode of interaction with the subject, from voyeuristic distance to the intimacy of regard and tentative physical communication.’ Nicholas Minns 2017 Writing About Dance, Fold Gallery

https://www.codadancefest.no/untouched

Photo – Milovan Džumanski Ilić

(de)figured in Dubai

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We are pleased to announce that our project was selected for this special event. We are creatively refiguring the work in different locations following the very successful events in White City (supported by Elephant Magazine) in June 2018 and again at the Royal Society of Sculptors this year.  For Alserkal Lates Nathaniel will also be installing a new work Luminous Territories in Alserkal Avenue. The project is supported by Lawrie Shababi Gallery.

Dancers Martina Conti and Alice Labant.

‘The meditative pace of Woodhouse’s choreographic movement, like a silent line-drawing, figuratively conflates durability and transience, contrasting the solidity of walls and interior surfaces with the pliability of bodies and soft materials’  Caterina Albano 2019 Writing About Dance

https://alserkalavenue.ae/en/event/alserkal-lates-2019.php

Photo – Brian Slater

Shed, Shroud, Exchange, Stroke, Spread

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Thermal Duets (2019)

In collaboration with Caroline Broadhead

Performers Martina Conti and Alice Labant

Angela Woodhouse in collaboration with artist Caroline Broadhead explore notions of detail, image-making and identity through their development of Thermal Duets, a dance on screen project comprising of 5 short videos (each individually titled Shed, Shroud, Exchange, Spread, Stroke.)  that manipulate thermal imaging technology.  The purpose is to reveal an expanded body, and the potential of thermal imaging technology to develop a metaphoric language that exploits body heat. In this respect, there is a desire to extend the understanding and lexicon of dance work for the screen.

Marsden Woo Gallery, London until 29th June. http://marsdenwoo.com/