Rosie Kay Dance Company

“Rosie Kay is a maverick performer … with The Wild Party she created a rare gem of theatrical magic in August's Fringe mire. Mixing good old-fashioned stagecraft with dynamic modern dance-theatre Kay's created a heady brew of sexual jealousy, revenge and general debauchery.”
 he Sunday Herald

"Kay's choreography is a strenuously sensual marriage of polished recklessness splattered with lascivious amusements."
Donald Hutera, The Times, 30th October 2007

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"Kay's own amazing choreography and dancing, coupled with the edgy live playing of the jazz trio, riskily captured those nights when the drink flows freely and relationships grow dark."
Jane Coyle, The Irish Times, 2nd November 200

”…We all live in hope of spotting a promising young talent headed towards the big time… the performance honours went to Rosie Kay"
Allen Robertson, The Times

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Links

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Interview with Londondance.com for Dance Umbrella

Interview and video clip on Sky Arts TV

Interview with Donald Hutera

Review of The Wild Party in ballet.co.uk

Guardian Review of The Wild Party, The Place, April 08

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Current News

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1st Prize for choreography in Cagliari, Sardinia
Rosie Kay was awarded first prize for choreography and dance at the first CORTOinDANZA, National and International dance competition in Sardinia on the 29th March, for her solo Patisserie, which was partially translated into Italian for the event.

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The Wild Party at The Place
The Wild Party kicks off in London as part o0f Spring Loaded Festival at The Place, 4th and 5th March.  See 'Performances' on right for box office details or follow the link below.
The Place website

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Double Points: K
The new work Double Points: K premieres on the 2nd May at The Patrick Centre, Birmingham Hippodrome in a unique collaboration with Emio Greco | PC.  Using the original work Double Points: Two, Rosie Kay will re-interprete Emio Greco's seminal work to make something that is uniquely hers, but based in the grounding of Emio's  physical technicality.
Festival Website

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Review of the Year

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Rosie Kay in Asylum performed at Dance Umbrella Autumn 07

The Wild Party
The Wild Party was reworked in September with a fabulous cast that included Sung-Im Her from Korea, Morgan Cloud from Hawaii, Nick Carter from Leeds, Rosie Kay and the three jazz musicians, Percy Pursglove, Alcyona Mick and Dough Hough.  The cast were assisted, cajoled and beaten by a fantastic support team that included the stunning theatre director Lorne Campbell, kick-ass rehearsal director Joanne Moven, dramaurg Ben Payne, uber-designer Chloe Lamford and all under the watchful eye of manager Hannah Sharpe. 
The company went on tour and sold out in Warwick Arts Centre, Belfast Festival (5 nights), Birmingham Patrick Centre and the Arc Theatre, Trowbridge.  We also had fabulous audiences in Portsmouth, Rotherham, Taunton, Derby and Wolverhampton.  The company are resting for Christmas and can’t wait to get back on the road to go to Wales, South Shields, Basingstoke and London.  See the reviews on the right- a fabulous review in The Times and Dance Europe.

The company on tour in Ireland!  From top left, Fuzzy, Morgan, Bottom row from left musicians Alcyona and Percy, then Rosie and Sung-Im.

 

Dance Umbrella
Rosie Kay joined with former dance partner Guilherme Miotto to reprise their very forceful duet Asylum for this years Dance Umbrella.  Much as it was great to dance the role, Rosie Kay feels it may be the last time they perform Asylum together.  See the great interviews above in links.

The Rayne Foundation
Rosie Kay was awarded a Rayne Foundation Fellowship. The Fellowships have been set up to support and encourage choreographers who want to connect more strongly with society, widen their intellectual and emotional curiosity, and develop their entrepreneurial skills. By helping them experience creativity within a range of contexts, the Fellowships aim to enhance the choreographers’ careers, and stimulate choreographic approaches that are performance and audience aware, outward-looking and engaged with the wider issues of humanity. The Rayne Fellowships are a partnership between The Rayne Foundation and Arts Council England and are administered by Dance UK.   Rosie Kay's first three secondments are below;

Emio Greco and Bertha Bermudez in Double Points:Two

Emio Greco Residency
Rosie Kay went over to Amsterdam in June 07 to work with Emio Greco, Bertha Bermudez and Peter Scholten.  She learnt Double Points: Two and performed an extract at the Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam.  This work with go on to be developed as Double Points: K as premiered in a double bill with the company at the International Dance Festival, Birmingham, May 08.

The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency
Rosie spent two weeks on location in Botswana, shadowing the Oscar winning film director Anthony Minghella as he shot his adaptation of the novel the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency.  It is with the greatest saddness that this was the last film Anthony was to make, and its beautiful results were shown very recently on BBC1 on Easter Sunday in the UK.  Anthony was truly an utterly memorable man, who was incredibly loving and generous and touched to the heart every person he encountered.  It was truly a unique and beautiful experience for Rosie to get the chance to see Anthony at work; a man who inspired love and confidence from all around him.  When even the hardest of South African crews start hugging each other and praising each others work, you know that a great director has an influence way beyond the end result seen on screen.  It was his thouroughness, his attention to detail in his work combined with his humanity, his humour, his willingness to please others which will mark him as one of the greatest UK film directors of all time.  He will be terribly missed by all who knew him and all those who loved his films, as they really do inspire love.

Westminster Week
A further secondment involved Rosie Kay shadowing MP’s Clare Short (Independent), John Barrett (Lib Dem) and Ed Vaizey (Conservative Shadow Arts Minister) both in their constituencies and in Westminster.  An article has been published in The Guardian and Dance UK magazine.

Royal Opera House 2
Rosie Kay collaborated with director Roswitha Gerlitz and composer Harvey Brough and a cast that included an opera singer, an aerial artist and a violinist.  This was performed in November 07 as part of Firsts Festival at ROH2.

Birmingham Royal Ballet and Ballet on the Buses

Ballet on the Buses
Rosie Kay combined forces with Birmingham Royal Ballet and Fierce! Festival to create a unique ballet for children.  An old London Routemaster bus was converted into a travelling lost circus as 5 BRB dancers awoke and entertained audiences across Birmingham with music by Shostakovich.

Choreodrome and Touchwood.
Rosie Kay, composer Annie Mahtani and five fabulous dancers spent their summer in dark studios researching ideas on Rosie Kay’s new work ‘Supernova’.  This work will be created in June/July 08 and premiere next summer.  It will have a cast of 7 dancers and a string quartet and sound score composed originally by Annie Mahtani.

Other events have included- working in Dubai for a week and performing to a sheik, two new board members, Frances Clarke and Farah Baksh have joined Rosie Kay and Stefan Kay (Chairman) as directors of Rosie Kay Dance Company.

Rosie Kay in Asylum

 

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