Rosemary Lee  

Common Dance was a large-scale work created as part of Dance Umbrella 2009 specifically for Greenwich’s historic Borough Hall (GDA) by Rosemary Lee, with a specially commissioned score by Terry Mann.

Using the space as a symbolic ‘common ground’, Rosemary brought together a cast of four professional, four recent graduate apprentices and over 40 non-professional dancers aged 8 – 83, with a choir of 70 young people from Finchley Children’s Music Group. This bold production was both poignant and telling, walking the margin between the traditional and the contemporary.

Common Dance was co-commissioned and presented by Dance Umbrella & Greenwich Dance Agency in association with Artsadmin. Funded by Arts Council England, with additional support from RVW Trust, PRS Foundation, Big Dance, Futures Charitable Trust, Austin and Hope Pilkington Charitable Trust, The RPS Drummond Fund, The Margaret Guido Charitable Trust, The Marina Kleinwort Charitable Trust, The Searcy Charitable Trust, Rescen, and The Mercers’ Company. Choreography and concept : Rosemary Lee
Composed : Terry Mann
Lighting design : Chahine Yavroy