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Graeme Miller
is a theatre maker and composer. A co-founder of Impact Theatre Co-operative in 1978, his theatre works have included, Dungness, the Desert in the Garden, A Girl Skipping, The Desire Paths and Country Dance. He has also made several sound based works specific to their place: The Sound Observatory in Birmingham, Feet of Memory, Boots of Nottingham. With artist, Mary Lemley, he has made Listening Ground, Lost Acres in Salisbury and Reconnaissance in Norbury Park, Surrey - both geographical works.
Alongside further stage work, he is currently preparing an aural memorial at the site of the M11 Link Road. He writes music for TV, dance, theatre and film. Forthcoming areas of research develop 'Memory Theatre' works - as much concerned with where the theatre is as with what happens within it.
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Ghislaine Boddington
graduated from Middlesex University in Performing Arts and has been working in direction, dramaturgy and production for the last 15 years. In 1989 she co-founded shinkansen, an active creation unit for innovative sound and movement and has since directed over 250+ shinkansen projects including the Club Research series, Sound Works Exchange and the renowned European model for artist exchange and process development, Butterfly Effect Network, directing annual forums for choreographers and digital artists at the Dartington International Summer School.
Her direction work takes her throughout Europe and is based in the integration of digital technologies and performing arts in new cultural environments. Recent work includes the direction of koerper.technik/ /body.technology for Theatre Der Welt Festival Berlin 1999. Her research is into group co-authoring processes and virtual interactions for performance of the future and she writes and lectures internationally.
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Shobana Jeyasingh
was trained in Bharatha Natyam under Valluvoor Samaraj Pillai in Madras, South India. Following a career as a soloist in this classical form, she set up Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company in 1989 to pursue her interest in more personal and contemporary choreography which has, over the years, been linked to issues of cultural hybridity and urban identity.
She has collaborated with composers like Michael Nyman, Orlando Gough, Glyn Perrin, Graham Fitkin and Django Bates. Her work as the artistic director of SJDC has included lecturing and writing on both dance making and its cultural implications. Shobana Jeyasingh was awarded the Prudential Prize for excellence in 1993, an MBE in 1995, an Honorary Doctorate from DeMontfort University and an Honorary Masters Degree from the University of Surrey.
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Richard Layzell
studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. He has a proactive approach to audience engagement, which has led him into the fields of video art, installations, performance art, large scale public events and television. Many national public galleries in Britain including the Tate Gallery and Serpentine Gallery in London, the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and Kettles Yard in Cambridge have commissioned him.
He has had residencies and performance tours in the USA, Canada, Italy, Poland and France. Since 1995 he has been working as an artist with AIT Plc, a computer software developer, where he has input into communication strategies, company culture and the physical environment. He is the author of Live Art in Schools (1993) and Enhanced Performance (1998), an autobiographical monograph, edited by novelist Deborah Levy.
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Rosemary Lee
graduated from the Laban Centre London and has been choreographing, performing and directing for twenty years in a variety of contexts, constituencies and media: site specific work with mixed age casts numbering up to 250; solos for herself and other performers; films for broadcast and television including three works for BBC2 and commissioned works for dance companies in theatre settings which tour internationally.
Her work whether it be for hundreds of performers or only one, live performance or film, is concerned with the relationship with the audience, the role and prominence of the performers themselves, and the ways in which she can continue to discover and reveal the human condition.
Rosemary has received two Digital Dance Awards, a Time Out Dance Umbrella Performance Award and is currently the recipient of a 2 year fellowship from the Arts Council of England.
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Errollyn Wallen
studied at Goldsmith's College and King's College London University. She is known as one of the most versatile composers of her generation writing orchestral, opera, chamber and popular music. She has extensive experience of working in theatre, with dance companies, bands and in films, radio and television.
Commissions include works for the BBC, The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House, Women's Playhouse Trust and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
She formed her own group, Ensemble X whose motto mirrors her own aesthetic 'we don't break down barriers in music - we don't see any.'
Errollyn Wallen has worked with many artists across different genres and is a regular performer of her own music. Wallen has been awarded a Radcliffe Trust Composition Studentship for research at King's College, Cambridge University.
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Christopher Bannerman began his career in dance in Canada where he danced with the National Ballet of Canada. Deciding to pursue his interest in South Asian art forms and culture, he left the company and traveled extensively in South Asia. On returning to the west he came to London where he retrained at the London Contemporary Dance School.
During this time he danced and choreographed for a number of companies both in Britain and internationally, before joining the London Contemporary Dance Theatre where for fifteen years he performed numerous principal roles, was active as an arts education worker and choreographed many works. He performed throughout the world including at the Olympic Arts Festivals at both the Los Angeles and the Seoul Olympics.
In 1989 he became Head of School of Dance at Middlesex University and in November 1992 he received the title of Professor of Dance. His Inaugural Lecture contained sections of live dance, one of which he performed himself; the lecture was repeated as a public performance which was part of the Dance Umbrella Festival.
He has served as a judge for the Digital Dance Awards, the Prudential Awards for the Arts and the Paul Clarke Memorial Award, as a panel member on the Drama, Dance and Performing Arts Panel for the Higher Education Research Assessment Exercise. He has also served as Chair of Dance UK, Chair of the National Dance Coordinating Committee, as a member of the Trustee's Committee of Akademi (formerly the Academy of Indian Dance) as well as an Advisor to the London Arts Board. With Dance UK he worked to improve the profile of dance and helped to organise conferences and seminars on issues of concern to the profession, from dancers' health to housing for dance. In addition, he currently serves as Chair of the Arts Council of England's Advisory Panel for Dance and serves as a member of the Committee of the Theatre Museum.
In 2001 he choreographed a quartet section of the South Asian Dance celebration Coming of Age at London's South Bank Centre and also returned to the stage in a duet with a South Asian dancer Mavin Khoo in Cast in Stone?
, the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts at Middlesex University reflects his deep interest in the creative powers of artists and the ways in which these activities link and intersect the art forms.
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Head of Centre: Professor Christopher Bannerman
The Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts
Middlesex University, Trent Park, Bramley Rd, London N14 4YZ
Tel/Fax: 020 8411 6288
e-mail: @mdx.ac.uk
