Rosemary Lee  

1. MEMOIRS OF A CAST OF THOUSANDS
1992

Sally Sykes and Rosemary Lee devised a structure that allowed casts of any age  or number to become involved in the performance. They would work with the cast for a week and the participants contributed their own material to the work. This work was a development of their early working method for  Mirror Mirror.  Both pieces toured extensively to 30 or more venues and reached huge numbers of participants from all ages, including adults with special needs, seniors and children. Jon lever created the soundscore, their first of many collaborations.


CREDITS
Directed by Rosemary Lee in collaboration with Sally Sykes
Music composed by Jonathan Lever
Costumes found by Rosemary Lee, Sally Sykes and performer

2. NEW SPRINGS FROM OLD WINTERS
My first large scale site specific work.  I had the luxury of research time for several months, reading about spring rituals, the research still feeds elements of my work now, Common Dance for example.
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The piece involved a wide array of 57 participants from Physics PHD students, to Oxford dons to children from the estates. It was performed in the town all and was preceded by a dancing procession through the city involving Morris teams and bell ringers. The dance company Jointwork hosted the residency and featured in the work itself.

New Springs was performed for 2 nights by a local cast of all ages and abilities at Oxford Town Hall. It was preceded by a procession through the city involving 200 performers.

A distillation of that work resulted in Egg Dances.


CREDITS
Music —a compilation of a variety of music related to spring rituals, assembled by Rosemary Lee
Costumes and props designed by Rosemary Lee