Event overview
Organised by the Department of Art
In nearly four decades Rosemary Butcher has made over 50 works presented in more that 40 countries worldwide and is internationally regarded as one of Europe’s most consistently radical and innovative choreographers. Profoundly influenced by her time in New York from 1970-72 where she encountered the work of The Judson Group at its height, she subsequently introduced those ideas to Britain at her 1976 ground breaking concert in London’s Serpentine Gallery. Since then, Butcher has developed her own movement language and choreographic structure. By her determination to remain an independent artist, her use of cross arts collaboration in music, visual arts, film and architecture within the choreographic process and her frequent choice of non-theatrical spaces to present her work, she has forged her own place within the European contemporary dance scene. Unlike many of her British contemporaries who see their work as Dance-Theatre, Butcher’s influence has followed the ideas and concepts of the visual arts, particularly in painting and sculpture, and has engaged with the developing philosophies within those movements. Rosemary Butcher was awarded an MBE in 2014 for services to Contemporary Dance. She is a Research Fellow at Middlesex University. Her work has most recently been performed at Kunstbau at Lenbachhaus, Munich in 2014; After Kaprow – The Silent Room shown at COMMA 40, a season of performances curated by The Place at the Bloomberg Space, London in 2011; Destructive Navigations and Lapped Translated Lines at Sadlers Wells, London in 2010. Rosemary Butcher: Choreography, Collisions and Collaborations, a series of essays on her work, co-written with Susan Melrose was published in 2005.
Image: ‘Vanishing Point’ film still, Rosemary Butcher, 2004. Photo: Martin Otter. Courtesy of the Artist.
http://www.rosemarybutcher.com
Dates & times
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| 11 Mar 2015 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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