Visiting Artists
Lea Anderson
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.
The Cholmondeleys and the Featherstonehaughs in Lea Anderson’s Yippeee!!(2006) photographer, Pau Ros
Frank Bock
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.
Bock and Vincenzi, Invisible dances... from afar: a show that will never be shown, photo: Henrik Thorup Knudsen
Mark Jeffery
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 its 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.
- www.goatislandperformance.org (external link)
- www.artic.edu/~mjeffe/ (external link)
- www.openportchicago.com (external link)
Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey, Circulation Room, A Site Sensitive 3 hour Performance and Installation (physical and virtual), Site Unseen Festival, Chicago Cultural Centre, November 2006, Photo Credit: Irina Botea
Rosie Lee
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.
Henrietta Hale and Eddie Nixon in the Suchness of Heni and Eddie directed and devised by Rosemary Lee. Photo: Vipul Sanjoi
