In this series, Industry Interviews, we have honest conversations with people within The Place’s community of artists to map the current climate of dance today. The next video in this series is with Rosemary Lee where she talks about her practice, how dance practice can be seen as a way to live our lives and the importance of being yourself.
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About Rosemary
Rosemary Lee, choreographer, and film maker has been making work in a variety of contexts, constituencies and media for four decades. These include site specific works in settings ranging from a disused tyre factory, a vast windswept beach, to the canopies of mature urban trees. She is known for working with professionals and non-professionals, from children to elders, working with soloists to huge casts. Her award-winning films and installation have been made for broadcast, and toured galleries and festivals internationally.
B-Roll Footage from:
boy a film by Rosemary Lee and Peter Anderson 1995
Rehearsal of Under the Vaulted Sky 2014 Filmmaker Factotum
Circadian performance (and film by Rosemary Lee and Roswitha Chesher) 2019
Rehearsal of Threaded Fine, Scotland 2023 filmed by Eoin Carey
Performance of Under the Vaulted Sky 2014 Filmmaker Factotum
Rehearsal of Common Dance 2009 filmed by Roswitha Chesher
Infanta a film by Rosemary Lee and Peter Anderson
Liquid Gold is the Air video Installation Rosemary Lee and Roswitha Chesher
Without video installation 2013
Performance of Common Dance – film by Roswitha Chesher with Rosemary Lee) 2009