Continuing the Dance Art season
Falling Wide presents the double-bill

Unnamed by Intimate Contenders +
Intimate Contenders by Kirstie Richardson
Tuesday 13th November 2007
Herald Street gallery
6-9pm: Unnamed video installation
7.30pm: Intimate Contenders live duet

Three adults and a baby occupy quiet isolation at home. Yet something in their chance encounters suggest something else at work. Unnamed is a triptych video installation, combining virtual choreographic interruptions with a painterly approach to composition. The result is a gently unsettling yet compelling work that induces the claustrophobia of domestic life.

During the evening, audiences will have another chance to see Intimate Contenders’ self-titled, signature work. Complete, contained, and confounded, Intimate Contenders is “an athletic, progressive and stuttering” duet (Lindsey Clarke, londondance.com), by Kirstie Richardson, performed by Joe Moran and Florence Peake.

Intimate Contenders creates events that inhabit the space between dance, performance and live art. A collaboration between dance artists Joe Moran, Florence Peake and Kirstie Richardson, the group involves a range of independent artists, artforms and ways of making.

Dancer and choreographer, Kirstie Richardson has performed for numerous internationally recognised artists including Bill T Jones and Gaby Agis. She choreographed and performed in Sarah Miles' film No Place and has taught extensively for CanDoCo Dance Company, the English National Ballet and The Circus Space.

Unnamend + Intimate Contenders is the second event in Dance Art, a short season of dance by Intimate Contenders in London gallery spaces. The season opened in Oct 2007 with Paper Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery and completes in Jan 2008 with My Father's Grace, a new solo by Joe Moran.

Unnamed has been created by Intimate Contenders with filmmaker Jane Barnwell. Dance Art is produced by Falling Wide, with support from Coventry University, The Jerwood Space, Herald Street, National Portrait Gallery and individual patrons.

Image: Virginie Litzler