Ludus Dance Company 1986 - 1994

 

Dancer and Education Officer

 

Based in Lancaster, devising original dance work for young people since 1975, originally formed as a co-operative by a young group of performers and teachers. Britain's leading Dance In Education Company and Community Outreach Company, establishing “the power of dance as a vehicle for communication and creative expression both across the school and also in the broader community”

 

https://www.theplace.org.uk/blog/place-blog/conversation-sir-ken-robinson

 

Dancer in:

Gobstopper -  director/choreographer Gill Graystone

Whale In Your Back Yard - director/choreographer Wendy Houstoun

Winds Of Change   artistic director Jane Mooney:

      Breathing Space - choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh   

      Power Play - choreographers Kevin Finnan and Louise Richards        With The Wind - choreographer Scott Clark

TimeTrax   - director James Mackie, co-choreography the company

Turned To Stone - choreography Jane Scott Barrett

Crying Out loud - artistic director Jane Mooney, co-choreography   Jane Mooney and Philippa Donnellan

 

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Shows taken to KidsFest Hong Kong, Adelaide Children's Festival and regular performances at Edinburgh Children's Festival.

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Reviews:

 

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Crying out loud  - The Glasgow Herald, John Linklater

 

A genie-like figure makes an entrance in silhouette behind a screen before sliding through it to assume the fully dimensional figure of performer TC Howard, a diminutive figure of rare eloquence of movement. She is a spellbinder.

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Gobstopper - The Guardian, Bill Harpe

The manipulating figure, in shiny black and silver with an exploding red wig  - in a charismatic perfomance by TC Howard which suggested both Tina Turner and Boris Karloff - was seductress, censor, boss, bureaucrat, molester, and Bluebeard all rolled into one.

 

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Turned To Stone  - The Stage   Ann Nugent

TC Howard became so small and vulnerable……..she must have made her entire audience warm to what it is that Ludus is trying to do in alerting young audiences to the communicative power of dance, and of dance’s relevance to contemporary dance.

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