My work is aiming to create an art that loosens boundaries between the disciplines, an art which can be a metaphor for opening up perception, experience, time and focus. To find ways to offer insight, feeling, and moments of timeless beauty, whether in performance, site-specific work, text, music, visual art and landscape. With a source in movement, dance, and gesture, I respond, interpret and collaborate. As an artist I am always looking for ways to encourage, ignite and inspire creativity in others.
Updated 25 August 2014
Performance 1997-2014
Bread
Gifts 6
Blackthorn Bakery, Maidstone
Collaborators Jane Trowell, Marina Tsartsara, Kay Syrad, John Forrester
October 7 2012
July 2012 Southwark Splash Birds Eye View
Royal Festival Hall Production with 700 Southwark school children and choirs
Conceived and Directed by CW Based on the magpie theme one for sorrow, two for joy and about birds - Peacocks, birds of Paradise, crows, eagles, dodos, doves
Music Director Hannah Conway
Design Matt Deeley
Animation Patrick Blower - script CW
Watch film on Vimeo here
Performance poet Lemn Sissay
Where the Wildflowers Are City of London Festival Commission
Description from program book, 16 wildflowers and list of composers, poets, musicians, performers & churches
June 30
The Visitor
The Redoubt, Eastbourne
Three years. Four locations. An installation of works from a roaming collaboration between artists Clare Whistler and Judith Alder. Exhibition of photographs, installations, videos and site specific performance. Solo with music Freya Wynn -Jones, Libretto Mark Hewitt
Commissioned writers: Seb Doubinsky, Martin Welton, Kay Syrad and Martha Stutchbury
April 7 to May 12. Performances April 7 & 26, May 9 & 12
February 2012 Shadowball
Hackney Empire Theatre Hackney Music Development Trust children's opera with 150 students from Hackney schools about the Negro League in baseball last century. ‘Shadow Ball’ refers to a common pre-game feature during which Negro League players warmed up by staging mock games with an imaginary ball.
Director CW
Composer Julian Joseph
Musical Director jenny Gould
Libretto Mike Phillips
Design Neil Irish
Photo Clive Barda
Tagore Festival Performance Modern Art Oxford
With Alice & Peter Oswald, Tom Paulin, Jamie McKendrick, Ansuman Biswas
Performance Clare Whistler with Composer Katherine Gilham
October 29
Pieces to Fit Coastal Currents Performance
Hastings
With Sophia Campeau-Ferman and Marina Tsartsara
September 17 www.coastalcurrents.org.uk
Candle
Gift series 5
Pett Level
July 3
With Tamsin Currey, Joanna Haigood, Sam Sharples, Raphael Whittle
Sexing The Cherry
Movement Director
Metta Theatre, London Southbank
July 1, 2 www.mettatheatre.co.uk
Improvisation with Yumino Seiko
Opening of Stade Hall, Hastings
May 27 2011
Edward Thomas Celebration
Bunces Barn
May 8
With Robert Bathurst, Alan Judd, Jane Metcalfe, Freya Wynn-Jones, Lloyd Thomas, Carla Earthrowl-Gould, Ben Jordan, Martha Stutchbury, Joanna Lawrence, Scarlett Lassof
Much Ado Books Poetry performance
With Lloyd Thomas
April 2, 3, 9, 10 Much Ado About Books
Down A Garden Path
Performance with Jen Mitas
April 10
The Foundry Lewes
Dancers in Landscape Collective First meeting SEEDS Bunces Barn Dec (South East Dance)
December 5
Performance with Sophia Campeau-Ferman ZU Studios Lewes
October 9
Embodied Emotions, Beyond Text, ARHC grant
Queen Mary, University of London Performance at the People's Palace
November 4 with Osmani School, preceded by three weeks of rehearsal with violinist Joanna Parker
'Tree' website launch Ali Campbell, Queen Mary University of London, Cherry Tree ceremony performance solo
October 27
Solo Performance for 24 Chairs Exhibition The Foundry, Lewes
Sept 18
Invisible Exhibition/Film/three Performances Lucy Bell Photography Gallery
St Leonards on Sea
Sept 4-18
Salt Gift Series Event with Kjell Torriset
Film performance voice installation
St Leonards on Sea
July 10
Chichester Festival Performance Poetry For writer Meredith Andrew
July 2
Bee Event Bunces Barn Angie Biltcliffe, Mark Pappenheim, Olivia Bishop, Katherine Gilham, Matthew Oglesby, Sophia Campeau-Ferman, film by Rebecca Marshall
June 12 Go to Bee page >
Shaping Voices A Weekend Away Rehearsals, March 29, April 13
Performances, April 14 at Hydro Hotel Eastbourne,
June 25 at Redoubt Fortress Go to Shaping Voices >
Embodied Emotions ARHC Research Beyond Text, Queen Mary, University of London Five solos created for History Seminars
Sessions Osmani School, April 1 whole school Takeover, Filming solos with musicians Suzi Zumpe, Olivia Bishop, Nick Sharratt, Joanna Parker at Osmani, Jan-Dec Grant Go to Loud Minority webpage >
Birthday Wish
Roof of Wainwright's House, Deptford
Music: Handel
July 2009
Yews and Eternity
Gifts Series No.3 With Kate Adams, John Agard, Richard Davies,
Wycliffe Stutchbury, Jane Buckler
February 2009 Flickr slideshow ...
Navigators and Ghosts Conceived and directed by CW in response to the Blue Monkey Studio Artists
and their site specific work for the Redoubt Fortress, Eastbourne.
April 2009 Flickr slideshow 1 ...Flickr slideshow 2 ...
My life as a Bat RPS Hear Here Project. With Suzi Zumpte, JB, Jo Shapcott
April 2009
Coal Gifts Series No.2
With Alex McInnis, Victoria Rance, Sophia Campeau-Ferman
November 2007 Flickr slideshow ...
Egg
Gifts Series No.1
Written by Alisdair Middleton, sculpture designed by Margaret Higginson,
performed by CW and Jen Mitas
Keats House, October 2005 Flickr slideshow 1 ...Flickr slideshow 2 ...
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