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Home > Dance > The power of gathering, cooperation and belonging explored in dance film

The power of gathering, cooperation and belonging explored in dance film

By Caroline King - July 2, 2020Posted in : Dance

This month, watch a moving dance piece performed by an inter-generational cast of 50 professional and non-professional dancers and a choir of 70 young people.

Rosemary Lee’s Common Dance

A film of Rosemary Lee’s Common Dance, created especially for Greenwich’s historic Borough Hall in 2009, is now available to watch online.

Choreographer Rosemary Lee was inspired by the expansive ‘common ground’ of the Borough Hall in Greenwich to create Common Dance. She brought together an inter-generational cast of 50 professional and non-professional dancers, and a choir of 70 young people from Finchley Children’s Music Group singing Terry Mann’s specially commissioned choral work.

The film was created by Roswitha Chesher and Rosemary Lee and shot over several performances. It has been edited to give the viewer a sense of being in the audience themselves.

When: Available until 22nd July 2020
Where: Online via YouTube
£: Free

More info: www.youtube.com

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