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Friday 25 May

After-performance talk with Zoi Dimitriou

Moderated by Nina Alcalay, dance theorist

Chahine Yavroyan

Over the years he has worked with some of the most interesting choreographers in the UK: “Roadkill Café” and “Jammy Dodgers” for Frauke Requardt, “7734”, “Yesterday”, “Justitia”, “Park”, “Lullaby” and “Ticklish” for Jasmin Vardimon, “The Stepfather” with Arthur Pita and “Imperfect Storm” with Wendy Houston for CanDoCo, “Here As If They Hadn’t Been, As if They Are Not”, “L’Altrove”, “Prelude”, “Invisible Dances”, “A Show That Will Never Be Shown” and “Forest Dances” with Bock & Vincenzi, “Snap”; “Utopia”, “Camp”, “Bugger and Boom’She’Boom” with Arthur Pita, “The Box Office”, “Bad Faith”, “Nobodies Perfect” and “Cool Memories” with Colin Poole, “Man Or Fish” with Henrietta Hale, “The Odd Honesty Code” with Dog Kennel Hill Project, “Man & Woman” with Ricochet, “Cult” with Hofesh Schecter, “Common Dance”, “Beached”, “Passage”, “Banquet Dances”, “Ascending Fields” and “Haughmond Dances” with Rosemary Lee, “Jardin Blanc”, “Maximum Machine” and “Blind Faith” with Yolande Snaith.

Other work with Kate Brown, Anatomy Dance, Naheed Saddoqui, Bedlam Dance, London Childrens’ Ballet, High Spin, etc.

As well as dance, he has lit for theatre, buildings, the odd opera, fashion, concerts, shows in the back rooms of pubs as well as main stages, site-specific, indoors and outdoors. He’s a long-standing People Show person.

Ingrid Hu

Ingrid trained with Petr Perina, disciple of the renowned Czech scenographer Josef Svoboda. She received her MA in Scenography from Central St Martins College of Art and Design in London in 2002 and has since been working in theatre and in multidisciplinary design in the UK and internationally.

She was one of the early members of the award winning Heatherwick studio in London. During her 7 years engagement with the studio, Ingrid held various roles and had involvement in a wide range of projects with clients such as the British Council, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the V&A Museum.

Through Heatherwick studio Ingrid has established a network of specialist collaborators/makers in various fields, from metallurgy, ice construction, balloon technology to rammed earth building, in addition to professional trades and consultants in the design industry.

Ingrid seeks fresh perspectives in every project by drawing poetic inspiration from her experiences in nature and the built environment, and underpinning her concepts through creative research. This approach has also led her to explore other disciplines that she believes are fundamental to her understanding of humans and the space they inhabit, think about, and feel.

She works with a wide range of materials and techniques and is particularly interested in the interplay of textures, light and colour. Her scenography work often employs kinetics as a visual language.

Ingrid is originally from Taipei, Taiwan, and has lived in Hong Kong and Canada before settling in the UK. Currently based in London, she is a member of Society of British Theatre Designers

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