First Drummond Fund Awards
The Drummond fund has chosen to support two contrasting projects, both to be performed in 2009:
Rambert Dance Company - Comedy of Change
Julian Anderson – Composer
Mark Baldwin – Choreographer
Premiere: 16 September 2009, Theatre Royal Plymouth, then touring UK until June 2010
Concert premiere of Julian Anderson’s new work: 8 September, Amsterdam
Comedy of Change is a new work of dance and music commissioned by Rambert Dance Company to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, choreographed by Rambert’s Artistic Director Mark Baldwin to a new score by Julian Anderson. The production is designed by the acclaimed French/Algerian artist Kader Attia with costumes by Georg Meyer-Wiel. The music is a joint Rambert/Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam commission made possible through the financial support of the Drummond Fund and the PRS Foundation.
Julian Anderson’s score will receive a concert première by the Asko Ensemble in Amsterdam on 8 September, with the première of the Rambert production, Comedy of Change, at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth (the city from where the Beagle first sailed) on 16 September. An UK tour will take the work to 17 venues nationwide between September 2009 and June 2010, including London’s Sadler’s Wells from 3 November 2009.
Rosemary Lee Projects - Common Dance
Terry Mann - composer
Rosemary Lee – choreographer
Premiered during Dance Umbrella 2009 at gDA (Greenwich Dance Agency), London
29/30/31 October & 1 November 2009
Informed by notions of shared experience, Common Dance is a large-scale work by one of Britain’s leading choreographers, Rosemary Lee. This bold production involves 50 professional and non-professional dancers aged 8 to 80, a choir of 70 young people from Finchley Children’s Music Group and a specially commissioned score by Terry Mann.
Created specifically for Greenwich’s historic and striking Borough Hall, the space will be used as a symbolic ‘common ground’, bringing together performers from across the generations. Walking the margin between the traditional and the contemporary, Common Dance is both poignant and telling.
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