Opening the Dance Art season
Falling Wide presents

Paper Portraits by Florence Peake
Thursday 4th October 2007
National Portrait Gallery
6pm: Gallery opens
7pm: Performance

Falling between dance and the visual arts, Paper Portraits explores dance’s relationship to artists’ materials; how movement influences art, the choreography of construction and how line, colour and sculptural form can bear its mark on movement and space.

Paper Portraits is an unusual performance event considering portraiture from a dance perspective. Within the gallery itself five dancers will create life-sized self-portraits influenced by the paintings and characters of the permanent collection; these improvised paper portraits are translated into dances and transformed into large sculptural forms.

'Moments of pin-drop perfection'
- San Francisco Daily Starr

Paper Portraits is performed by Florence Peake with dancers ‘Fumni Adewole, Katye Coe, Rainer Knupp and Joe Moran.



Florence Peake is a dance artist creating work of an interdisciplinary nature. An Intimate Contenders artist, her performance work has been performed nationally and internationally; including The Bird Trilogy (Prague Festival), Eight Moments Wake Me (London; San Francisco) and Ghost Dress (New York). As a performer she has worked extensively with a wide and varied range of choreographers, filmmakers and performance artists including Gaby Agis, Jane Turner, Gary Stevens and Miranda Pennell.

Paper Portraits is the opening performance of Dance Art, a short season of dance by Intimate Contenders in London gallery spaces. The season continues over the Autumn with works by Joe Moran and Kirstie Richardson.

Dance Art is produced by Falling Wide, with support from Coventry University, The Jerwood Space, National Portrait Gallery and individual patrons.