MA Performance
Dance
Lea Anderson has a longstanding relationship with the University of Chichester Dance department where she has been a Visiting Research Fellow for the past 10 years. In this role she frequently visits the university participating in residencies making work for students and in December 2006 she conducted a choreographic lab for the MA students. Yippeee!!! (2006), her new Busby Berkeley-inspired spectacular reunites her two separate companies, The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs, in a faux Hollywood spectacular.
Frank Bock, a performer and choreographer with several dance and theatre companies including The Featherstonehaughs has been working with director-designer, Simon Vincenzi since 1995. Their Invisible Dances series is typical of their conceptual art approach to theatre/dance performance.
Mark Jeffery is a member of Goat Island, a collaborative international performance-group based in Chicago, whose work was shown at the 2005 Venice Biennale. His work, which incorporates performance, installation, object, text and video, is often site-sensitive/relational in nature, reflecting a response to the context of space, time and the body and the memory it evokes. He has shown his work in numerous spaces and contexts including Chicago Cultural Centre, Nottdance, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, ICA London, Arnolfini Bristol. With Goat Island, he has performed and toured throughout the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia and the Czech Republic.
Mark is currently an adjunct associate professor at the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches Performance and he is also the department’s MFA Co-coordinator. In February 2007, he co– curated OPENPORT, a month-long International, national and local Performance Sound and Language series in multiple venues in Chicago.
Rosemary Lee has been choreographing, performing and directing for over twenty years. Known for working in a variety of contexts and media, she has created large-scale site-specific work with cross-generational casts; solos for herself and other performers, installations and films.
Over the past ten years Rosemary has increasingly worked with film and video, closely collaborating with a range of artist/filmmakers (Peter Anderson, Nic Sandiland and David Hinton). These projects have included short films for broadcast (boy, greenman, Infanta & Snow) a 40-minute documentary (Dancing Nation), live performance merging with video projection (Passage & Brink) and installation (Apart from The Road & Remote Dancing). She brought The Suchness of Heni and Eddie, an improvised duet between performers Henrietta Hale and Eddie Nixon,to Chichester. The performance includes live commentary by Rosie revealing the processes of making and performing in situ.
Liz Aggiss
Liz Aggiss is a performer, choreographer, film-maker and Professor of Visual Performance at the University of Brighton. She makes live performances, dance films and screen dance installations. From cabaret, vaudeville, opera, live art, dance theatre, her work is eclectic, borrowing from a range of performance styles and is inherently cross-genre, unclassifiable, dodging categorization blurring the boundaries between high art and popular culture. She has toured nationally and internationally as a solo artist and with her company Divas Dance Theatre since 1986.
Nik Haffner
Nik Haffner was a dancer with Frankfurt Ballet from 1994 until 2000 and is now a freelance choreographer, making work for stage, film and exhibition. He is a member of the group commerce and is a regular artist in residence at ZKM (Centre for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe where he realizes projects combining dance and technology. www.timelapses.de
Hanna Gillgren
Originally from Sweden Hanna trained at London Contemporary Dance School 1991-1994. As a performer she has worked with among others Bedlam Dance Company, Physical Recall, Istoc Kovac, Colin Poole and Cie Tandem/Michele Noiret, Belgium. Hanna formed h2dance in 1999 together with Heidi Rustgaard and they have since created a body of touring work.They are currently on tour with their new full length evening production To Die For which premiered at Laban, London November 2007.
Kerry Nicholls
Kerry is Director of Education for System R1and her experience spans a diverse dance practice spectrum. She has been a member of faculty at both Laban and LCDS and as a dancer and teacher has performed and taught for many companies in Britain and Europe including V-TOL, Charleroi, DV8, Rambert and RADC.