Corali Dance Company premiered their new piece about dreams at Creative Minds Project Conference on 10th March 2014. As a result, The Times art critic Donald Hutera who attended the conference, booked them for his event below: CHELSEA ARTS COLLECTIVE (CAC) kicks off on a wing and a prayer in St Luke’s Church Hall Chelsea Arts Collective (CAC) is a new, grassroots initiative masterminded by the painter Lilia Pegado (liliapegado/) and veteran arts journalist Donald Hutera (The Times, etc). Operating under the auspices of CATS (Chelsea Association of Tenants), and with minimal but very welcome initial funding from City Living, Local Life, CAC aims to provide residents of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea – and any and everybody else – with opportunities for stimulating creative expression and exchange. CAC is organising a series of wide-ranging and engaging live performances, curated by the talent-hunting Hutera and spotlighting artists who span generations and genres. The initial, pop-up venue is a lovely church hall in Chelsea (chelseaparish.org/stlukeshall.htm) At press time the launch of CACs performance strand on March 22 features the fresh sounds of the all-female musical quartet Palisander; improvisational dance from both contemporary movement explorer Zoi Dimitriou (working in close conjunction with the musicians Dani Cali and Franck Alba) and the daring John Livingston (who, as a member of Daniel Vais Culture Device Dance Project, can also be seen at Londons Chisenhale Dance Space on April 3); a work-in-progress world premiere of Tango Lessons by the irrepressible writer/performer Lorna V; the semi-acoustic middle-aged British-East Asian folk-rock charmers Wondermare; a scintillating solo by bharata natyam specialist Anusha Subramanyam; and members of Opera In Space winging their way through Stabat Mater (fragments). Hutera characterises the evening as eclectic, non-formulaic, laboratorial and fun - and maybe, just maybe, so diverse its almost perverse. Artists involved in upcoming CAC presentations will likely include (on March 29) the visual arts journalist turned kick-ass performer Sarah Kent, going solo but also in tandem with onstage partner Yong Min Cho; the fearless Avatara Ayuso teaming up for the first time with balletic octogenarian erstwhile physicist Alex Fuchsmann (in his performance debut); the flamboyant and classically-trained Kali Chandrasegaram; stand-up and song from Rambert-schooled dancer Ishimwa Muhimanyi; and a darkly lyrical solo from actor-dancer Vanio Papadelli. Meanwhile among those on the docket for April 12 are London-based dance company Corali with a reworking of their poetically playful and immersive piece centred round dreams (and premiered at Creative Minds in Brighton!) and Simon Rices troupe of mature ballet dancers Sage. As a budding but deeply enthusiastic curator Hutera is unapologetic that the CAC programme is still in a state of flux, especially for its final date. Im doing this on a wing and prayer, he avows, and having a great time with it, too, but its certainly a learning curve. What Im most struck by, as was the case with GOlive, is how willing and/or needy people are to have their work go public. Artists are hungry for opportunities. Its a reflection of the financially uncertain and restrictive times were in. Im getting a kick out of doing what I can to combat that in as energetic, supportive and transparent a way as possible. CACs performances are March 22, March 29 and April 12 in St Lukes Hall, SW3 3RP. Doors open 7.45pm with ‘curtain up’ at 8pm. Admission is free (although donations are gratefully accepted). Suitable for ages 12+. For more detailed info please see catsinfo.co.uk/ nearer to show time but, Hutera advises, please be sure to put CAC in the latter sites search engine.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:50:23 +0000
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