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What shapes our cultural identity? Future Movement London talk to Rambert dancers Naya Lovell and Antonello Sangirardi and visit the home sign in of broadcast journalist Ben Hunte.
This film was made by and features:
Augustin Shaw
Estelle Sannoh
Hilary Senou
Chatchan Khabthong
Annabelle Montagu
Erhus Digba
Andria Digba
Rose Marie Stephenson
Dami Telefusi
Neithan Chua
Tallulah Miel
Savannah Wilson
Maria Mintah
Directed and edited by: Emily Badescu
Co-produced by: Chloe Young & Daniel Fulvio
Executive Producer: Helen Shute
Filmed by: Emily Badescu
Additional filming: Darryl Daniel
Drone filming Mike Rumsey
Camera Assistant: Acacia Daniel
Sound mix: Ben Sims
Colour grade: Lita Bosch
New York born Naya Lovell is magnetic as our Grace in Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby – but in real life, she’s just as captivating.
Discover her motivational force, what she’d be if she wasn’t a dancer – and what she thinks of the British weather in this dancer portrait.
Filmed at The Paxton in London and the Black Country Living Museum in Birmingham (which might look familiar if you’re a fan of the Peaky Blinders series), with a team of 40+ dancers, creatives, and freelancers.
We think our Artistic Director (and Director/Choreographer of the show), Benoit Swan Pouffer, sums it up best when he says it’s just a taste of what’s to come…
Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby is coming to theatres in the UK and London from this Autumn. You can find out more about the show and book tickets at PeakyBlindersDance.com
Credits:
BTS Filming/Editing: Dan Lowenstein
Trailer Direction: Sebastian Whyte
Music: The McGonigles
Brawls. Combat. Danger. You can’t go full Peaky Blinders without packing a serious punch.
Look back in the rehearsal room where our dancers worked with Fight Director Adrian Derrick-Palmer for Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby.
Created inside Mayfield, Manchester’s iconic former railway depot, Invisible Cities was premiered at Manchester International Festival by Rambert, Leo Warner, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Lolita Chakrabarti and 59 Productions and is a collision of theatre, choreography, music, architectural design and projection mapping.
Marco Polo imagines a succession of alternative worlds: Zenobia, a city of joy; Beersheba, a celestial city of gold; Isadora, a city of promise, seduction and desire…
City by unseen city, the young explorer conjures from the ether a vast and spectacular empire. All for the benefit of its emperor – Kublai Khan, the volatile head of a vast empire and his master – who may never get to see it for himself.
Director: Leo Warner
Co-Director & Choreographer: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Adaptor: Lolita Chakrabarti
Concept & Design: 59 Productions
Composers: Dustin O’Halloran & Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie of A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Set Designer: Jenny Melville
Video Designer: Nicol Scott
Costume Designer: Laura Hopkins
Lighting Designer: Fabiana Piccioli
Sound Designer: Gareth Fry
Casting Director: Sam Jones CDG
Creative Advisor: Benoit Swan Pouffer
Produced by Manchester International Festival, 59 Productions, Rambert and Karl Sydow. Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, Brisbane Festival, Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival, Sadler’s Wells, SMG Live, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Cultural Centre (JACC) and Karl Sydow.
Winner of the FEDORA – VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet 2019.
In this short film Goldfish (featuring Rambert Dancer Aishwarya Raut), Director and Choreographer Charlotte Edmonds explores mental deterioration from sensory overload, all from the claustrophobic confines of a station waiting room.
Influenced by research from Crawford Winlove (Neuroscientist at University of Exeter), the film examines the metaphoric value, or lack thereof, of having the “attention span of a goldfish” by creating a physical and artistic response to the question of deteriorating mindfulness. It’s a testament for mental and emotional grounding in moments of sensory overload and how to mute the overwhelming noise.
“As the noise around her builds the dancer’s facade falters and her internal struggles are revealed; the undulating curves and ripples, and electric currents running through the body forces us to see her in her rawest form.”
– Director and Choreographer Charlotte Edmonds
Edmonds evolved the film’s choreography from live performance, Generation Goldfish, premiered with the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich – who supported the film’s creation along with Arts Council England.
Credits
Starring: Aishwarya Raut and Edwin Louis
Director & Choreographer: Charlotte Edmonds
Director of Photography: Kyle Macfadzean
Producer: Cathy Hood
Editor: Thomas Brigden
Composer: Katya Richardson
Sound Designer: Ryan “Sully” Sullivan
Calling all over-thinkers. Or perhaps you’ve suffered imposter syndrome…
In honour of International Day of Women & Girls in Science, 11 Feburary, this episode of our Super Humans podcast features soon-to-be Doctor of Neuroscience Julia Ravey in conversation with Rambert dancer Aishwarya Raut as they take a fascinating dive into how our brains work.
Julia is a neuroscience PhD researcher studying Alzheimer’s disease with a passion for making science understandable. Alongside from her vlogging and blogging, Julia has worked as television presenting, most recently for BBC Bitesize, and is a writer for a worldwide learning community, Kwik Learning.
Image credits: Aishwarya Raut by Camilla Greenwell
We took Rambert dancer Guillaume out and about on the South Bank for a chat to find out how he arrived at Rambert and what makes him tick.
DoP – Tom Walder | Dan Löwenstein
Directed & Edited – Dan Löwenstein
Working with a partner and working alone is very different, with a partner you have another half.
We’re back inside our Peaky Blinders Rehearsal diary shorts with Angélique and Joseph this week, looking at the dynamic of partnering.
In a show as action-packed as Peaky Blinders, this takes a huge element of trust. Whether it’s combative and physical or sensitive and emotional, our dancers rely on and trust each other every day – in the rehearsal room and then on stage.
Watch what happens when Rambert dancers got into the salon chair with Sassoon to create a style and cut based on their own very distinct vibes.
We loved how the creative team from Sassoon brought out our dancers’ individuality through these styling sessions, and how the results inspired them to move and feel.
“My hair makes me feel powerful, it’s representative of so many lives of people that look like me” – Cali Hollister
Thanks to Sassoon for these bold and daring looks.
Credits:
Director: Sebastian Whyte
Producers: Alexandra Desvignes, Linda Pēterkopa
Post Production Producers: Lauren King, Kate Eastham
Movement Director: Winifred Burnett-Smith
Director of Photography: Sebastian Whyte
Camera: Dom Ellis, Georgios Tsamis
2nd Unit Camera: Ben Chapman, Luke Lentes
Camera Assistant/Focus Puller: Valentina Catenacci
Sound Mixed: Sofia Del Carmen
Gaffers: Louis Sparks, Nicolas Waldvogel
Makeup Artists: Naomi Serene, Tellica Roseway
Editor: Sebastian Whyte
Colourist: Cody L Sandberg
SASSOON:
International Creative Director: Mark Hayes
UK Colour Director: Edward Darley
Senior Creative Director at Sassoon Academy: Silvia Salerno
Assistant Creative Director at Sassoon Academy: Zsolt Nagy
Colour Director at Sassoon Academy: Carla Salceda Vázquez
Coloring Instructor at Sassoon Academy: Janice Hunter