Dance Artist
(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.
(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
Photo – Milovan Džumanski Ilić
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
Photo – Brian Slater
In collaboration with Nathaniel Rackowe. A reconstruction of the work originally performed at White City Place (supported by Elephant Magazine) for The Royal Society of Sculptors building as part of ‘The Great Exhibition Road’ Festival 29th June 2019. Performances 7pm and 8.30pm https://sculptors.org.
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/
Caroline Broadhead, Nic Sandiland and Angela Woodhouse
8 March – 1 May 2017
Wollaton Park
Nottingham
NG8 2AE
Close Distance has been commissioned by Nottingham City Museums and Galleries.
Created for the magnificent rooftop Prospect Room at Wollaton Hall, with its views across the surrounding park and city beyond, this new commission offers visitors a unique experience of an area of the house rarely visited by the public.
Artists Caroline Broadhead, Nic Sandiland and Angela Woodhouse have taken inspiration from the building’s history and inhabitants. Sandiland and Woodhouse have worked with image, sound, and movement to create a series of intimate film works that are integrated with Broadhead’s reinvented found objects. All these elements find synergy in this atmospheric installation.
“…Images will shift from the open landscape to the enclosed and restricted spaces in which the servants were confined, indicating the labours and life that differentiated the people, their roles and their position in the 17th century household.”
To visit Close Distance, please book on to one of the special ‘Talk and View’ events, taking place every Wednesday and Saturday between 8 March and 1 May 2017, please see details below.
Concept and direction Angela Woodhouse
Performer Alice Labant
The viewer is caught in the gaze of the performer through a mirror. This is an intimate exchange where the complication of the physical and reflected image is made apparent. Through the doubling and the singular questions are placed about how this relationship is forming. Visitors are invited to respond via a Visitors’ book. This is a one on one event lasting 5 mins approx. for each individual.
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