From tomorrow I'll be in the studio for a whole week being metored by Peter Boneham.
This is part of a festival of live and experimental art in Glasgow called New Territories. They have winter schools as part of the programme and I was selected as one of three Choreographers to mentored by Peter Boneham. I'm very excited about it yet a little apprehensive as I've heard many things about him, an interesting and challenging character who apparently can really help you to bring out the best in your work and practice. We'll see.
Here's a little information about Mr Boneham that I found on the festival's website.
In a career spanning over five decades, Peter Boneham has won international acclaim as the choreographer of over 40 works, inspired teacher of generations of dance artists, and Director of Le Groupe de la Place Royale, Canada's foremost modern experimental dance company. He is the visionary creator of Le Groupe Dance Lab, and is the longest-serving artistic director in Canadian contemporary dance. Boneham's awards and honours include the inaugural Jean A. Chalmers Award for Creativity in Dance in Canada (1991), Dance Ontario Award (1992), Victor Tolgesy Award (1996), the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement (2005), Chevalier des Arts et letters (2008), and The Order of Canada (2008).
I'm trying to prepare things for the week ahead but somehow I'm not quite sure what I need to prepare. I'm working on this new solo by myself and did a showing of it on Friday, seemed to go down well, it's fairly experimental, I think I'm going to show him what I did and then go from there. AHH!
Here's a few photos of the new solo, which was orginally a solo, then a duet and now it's a solo, it's going to stay that way now.
The photos are by my good friend, Anna Zatonow.
