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Dance: Ian Dolan

Published on April 5, 2016April 29, 2019 by DWC Imagery

Amongst Ian’s many anxieties is the sneaking suspicion that his face is never quite doing what it should be when he’s being photographed. He has self-confessed loves of both the floor and of being upside down. Having reached 32 and managed to maintain a career in dance he’s currently taking some time to reassess what he wants to do with his body before bits of it start to refuse to work – and while he figures it out he’s happy to indulge himself in the thing that he secretly suspects he’s going to be doing for the rest of his life.

Ian Dolan, man contemporary dancing in the street in front of a door

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Tetrad Us & Them: In Flux

Published on March 29, 2016April 29, 2019 by DWC Imagery

Tetrad is an artist collective, who put on Us & Them, every so often at Attenborough Arts in Leicester, and I am lucky enough to photograph it. Us & Them can include performance art, dance, live art, spoken word, and a few other things. There is also a Tetralude, where the collective & performers improvise on a theme.

The Tetrad Collective:

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People Of Performance Art #11: Sophie Swoffer

Published on March 14, 2016April 29, 2019 by DWC Imagery

Sophie Swoffer recently graduated a MA degree in Performance Practices, and is now an associate artist with De Montfort University in Leicester. She’s taking her last piece, ‘Take The Shot!’ to a conference in Rome, and is looking at a new piece on monstrous women in horror films.

I sometimes think that this project should be sponsored by Poundland…

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Dance: Yu He Lin & Mauro Sacchi

Published on March 9, 2016April 29, 2019 by DWC Imagery

Yu He Lin & Mauro Sacchi were studying at De Montfort University, Leicester when I managed to photograph them. I had seen them dance in a piece created by Yu He Lin, which was part improvised, but fluidly part of the piece. I knew I had to photograph them, seeing the way they both synchronised their creative movement, with playfulness and emotion.

They have both returned home now to Taiwan and Italy. There was something special happening while they were in the UK, and I’m privileged to attempt to capture it.

Yu He Lin

Mauro Sacchi

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People Of Performance Art #10: Dan Nicholas

Published on February 13, 2016April 29, 2019 by DWC Imagery

Dan Nicholas is better known as a comedian, but he also has a bit of performance art in his blood. He’s a theatre maker/ writer/ creative producer as well as a member of the arts collective Tetrad.

One thing you notice about Dan, is, he likes to explore. Finding new ways to present comedy, and mixing his various mediums. That’s why I thought Dan would make an interesting subject for PoPA

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Attenborough Arts New Gallery Opening

Published on February 7, 2016April 29, 2019 by DWC Imagery

Attenborough Arts, part of The University of Leicester, has a new gallery, and I was lucky enough to be asked to photograph the opening.

The late Richard Attenborough was the founding patron, who handed the patronage to his son Michael. Richard’s brother, Sir David Attenborough formally opened the new gallery.

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Dance: Danni Spooner

Published on December 27, 2015April 29, 2019 by DWC Imagery

Danni Spooner is a vegan, a feminist, a human who is currently indulging itself in the practice of movement. A gender fluid form who hates relying on politically correct terms. A plant obsessor and object empathiser. A human being who’s attention could only be satisfied by dance.

The shoot was ably assisted by Lorna Whitlock

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People Of Performance Art #9: Amy Nicholson

Published on December 7, 2015April 29, 2019 by DWC Imagery

Amy Nicholson is a puppeteer, musician and set designer for film and theatre. She also creates wonderful kids interactive theatre with Handmade Theatre.

I don’t usually write about the subjects that we are trying to convey in PoPA, but this one was a bit different. Amy wanted to try some surrealist poetry, and use that to give us the themes for the day. So we sat in Lee Rosy’s, drinking unusual teas, with odd names, and created weird poetry.

One of the phrases that came up was ‘ping pong ball’. That gave us our location for the day, as Das Kino, with it’s ping pong tables, seemed to be an obvious choice, and they kindly let us photograph the whole shoot there.

Here’s Amy with some of the poetry we created:

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People Of Performance Art #8: Jack Britton

Published on October 20, 2015April 29, 2019 by DWC Imagery

Jack Britton is a member of the arts collective Tetrad. As as a creator, he works on subjects as diverse as parkour and the paranormal, using the equally diverse mediums of dance and comedy, live art and devised theatre..

After the customary café discussion, we seemed to walk most of Leicester, experimenting with ideas, before settling in Peter Pizzeria, which proved an inspiring environment for our photos.

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People Of Performance Art #7: Nicky Daniels

Published on September 16, 2015April 29, 2019 by DWC Imagery

Nicky Daniels comes from a theatre background, but decided to move from playing fictional characters, to expressing herself, so got herself a First Class BA Hons in Drama Studies from DMU, Leicester. She’s now pursuing an MA Arts, again at DMU.

I’ve photographed Nicky before, doing her piece ‘Nicky Daniels – Violet Persephone Marina and Me’, so knew that her visual approach would fit People of Performance Art. Although Nicky does live art, and I’m still learning the difference.

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