Henri Oguike Dance Company。

Check this performance from the website below, my friend is in the company.

http://www.rfh.org.uk/main/events/131859.html

Henri Oguike, one of the most musical choreographers of his generation, returns with his eight-strong troupe to offer a mixed bill of grandly expansive dancing and intuitive choreography. Green in Blue, performed with a live band, is Oguike's first foray into jazz and a new collaboration with saxophonist and composer Iain Ballamy. By contrast, two of Vivaldi's violin concertos breathe fire into Little Red. Inspired by Blake's poem The Tyger, the plucked strings of Steve Martland's score are reflected in the dancers' sinuous and feline movements in Tiger Dancing. Set to the quiet Saharan blues of guitarist Ali Farka Toure, Expression Lines sees Oguike evoke the harsh contrasts of equatorial sand and sky in a reflective solo.



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Certificate Stage Prsentation。

12th Jan 2007
Wimbledon College of Art
Small Seminar Room
Douglas O'connel
Jordan McKenzie
All VLP students


Don't really know the result for mine was good or bad for everyone apart from myself.

The dance piece weren't very nice due to the small space and the different floor that I practiced before. Few mistakes happened, and didn't show the best of me( tho it won't be much more difference from the one I presented anyhow). The oral part wasn't that well which was exactly I expected. Things could not be clear enough throught my language ability, and answers to the question from people seemed to confuse everyone a bit. I would say, I hope I can do it better for next time. Few notes from the questions.

1. Gendre issue, which is quite big and serious problem that I have been thinking the way to explain and give a good reason for it. The inspiration came from "role play" as the idea from Muller's "Quartet". Through one actor, or I would say one body to express the idea of accusations, struggles and the debat of oneself. Now am thinking of let Valmont appears on stage shortly to make all the idea stronger and can be questioned next time. The same body will represent the all the human but not only for any specific gender.

2. End of MY story. I think I sould change 'non-narrative' to somthing less extreme. There will definitely be a narrative of my performance, but compare to the origrinal story and the play from Hampton, it will be closer to the idea of Muller's which he left only the basic relations between characters and abstracted all the plots and events that happened. The narrative will be in between real and surreal.

3. Should be more and more problems. Will do them later on.

Marquise de Merteuil。

A woman who knows how the world in men and women runs when she was a child. She trained herself into a perfect performer in front of everyone. She follows and listens to her desire, shameless and tough. For her, ‘love’ is the emotion from the inferior level, and only losers who will believe in love. That is a word of joke, she does not be bother to say it, or even think of it. In the play and screenplay adopted by Hampton, they all show a very tough feeling of her and has all kinds of scheme to what she wants. But in film ‘Valmont’, Marquise de Merteuil who played by Annette Bening, expresses another possibility of Merteuil: a naïve, lovely and very feminine. The most extraordinary part is how complicated she is, how many masks she has and how she can change them easily. She is like a bottle of well-made red wine which has the best quality. Thousands of flavours in it, and from the very beginning when you taste it until you swallow; those flavours just surprise you in different part of your mouth and throat. What a sensational treat! However, she actually needs someone to love and always be with her desperately, and she thinks she is born to be the avenger for women. The two extreme philosophies made her the Merteuil she is.

Dance Improvising。

At the End of the holiday with working in theatre, finally decided to do some right things: My own project.


Still stick with the very dangerous liaisions between the two female.


Instead of thinking of my "research", I rather say it's my piece. In that case, I will like it more than doing "research". It's quite hard to explain this feeling. Anyway, it's odd that you create somthing to "research" a very acdemic topic by performance. Art is what I want to do, to express, to explain. Very difficult to decribe indeed, cannot be bother to say more.

Back to the piece.


With the help with my friends, we had two short dance concept been choreographed few days ago.

Describing two different mantality from the characters in the novel mentioned in one archive I wrote before.


Things need to done:

I have to find some words translated to express the concepts.

Story Board.

Draft of costume or dance or just research for all the performance.



Special thx to Yun-Hsuan, Wei, Kuo.


You are all fu*king brillian, Hooray!