Laura’s projects have manifested across performance, installation and print.
Read on…
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What we whispered and what we screamed (2018)
A trio for 2 dancers and 1 drummer.
Created with Stephanie McMann and Rachel Barreda-Horwood (Trashit / Bamboo)
Compass Commission + part of a Leverhulme Scholarship through Bristol Old Vic Ferment
image: Manuel Vason
Trailer here
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The Secret Slowness of Movement (2016)
A surprisingly profound encounter. Part installation, part meditation, part ritual, part post-party. This is a delicately orchestrated gift of a piece. Kate Yedigaroff
Like taking a little dimensional shift. Somewhere between meditation and after-party, there was something beautifully unselfconscious and dreamlike about the experience. It felt like an invitation to feel my nerves and heartbeat and muscles in the way that normally only happens as the sun comes up at the end of a party. Tanuja Amarasuriya
Presented at Mayfest 2015 & Dance Umbrella 2016 image: Dan Canham
Trailer here.
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Feel it Festival (2016)
Instigator and co-curator of a three day long festival investigating pain and breath; in collaboration with the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute, Bristol.
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Hardy Animal (2014)
‘A dance with words. A funny dance. A dance without a safety net. A dance that isn’t a dance, a generous dance, a fucking fuck you of a dance. A dance that looks you in the eye and says ‘you can’t fix this’ -James Stenhouse
‘Entirely blown away by it. Hardy Animal is a spoken word and dance piece about a woman dealing with and working through her chronic back pain. I know. I know how it sounds. But it is entirely excellent. Its defiant and angry and sad and funny and beautiful, really beautiful and brave and just so very very good indeed.’ -Daniel Kitson
Hardy Animal was selected as part of The Aerowaves Twenty for 2016 and toured the UK circuit & Ireland.
Video documentation here.
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The Secret Slowness of Movement (2016)
A surprisingly profound encounter. Part installation, part meditation, part ritual, part post-party. This is a delicately orchestrated gift of a piece. Kate Yedigaroff
Like taking a little dimensional shift. Somewhere between meditation and after-party, there was something beautifully unselfconscious and dreamlike about the experience. It felt like an invitation to feel my nerves and heartbeat and muscles in the way that normally only happens as the sun comes up at the end of a party. Tanuja Amarasuriya
Presented at Mayfest 2015 & Dance Umbrella 2016 / Trailer here.
image: Dan Canham
Feel it Festival (2016)
Instigator and co-curator of a three day long festival investigating pain and breath; in collaboration with the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute, Bristol.
Hardy Animal (2013)
‘A dance with words. A funny dance. A dance without a safety net. A dance that isn’t a dance, a generous dance, a fucking fuck you of a dance. A dance that looks you in the eye and says ‘you can’t fix this’ -James Stenhouse
‘Entirely blown away by it. Hardy Animal is a spoken word and dance piece about a woman dealing with and working through her chronic back pain. I know. I know how it sounds. But it is entirely excellent. Its defiant and angry and sad and funny and beautiful, really beautiful and brave and just so very very good indeed.’ Daniel Kitson
Hardy Animal was selected as part of The Aerowaves Twenty for 2016 and toured the UK circuit & Ireland.
Video documentation here.
Hardy Animal - bookwork (2014)
a limited edition fine print book work accompanying the performance designed with Jono Lewarne of City Edition Studio
Printed using an original risograph (black & blue ink + an original drawing in each copy)
Perfect bound; blind embossed cover
Dance Dark Dance (2013)
An invitation to dance in the dark: a private ritual, a solitary step. Participants shaped their own experience as they plunged into darkness for a quiet of a wild moment. The only thing that remained were a self-portraits created by the dancing participants after their dance.
‘Basically the most fun I’ve had in years’ (participant)
Commissioned by MAYK & Ferment for Bristol’s Mayfest 2013.
In the Making (2010)
A solo adaptation of the score Art and Life by choreographer Deborah Hay (Solo Performance Commissioning Project 2010.)
‘like a ballet dancer whose been possessed by the spirit of David Byrne and Ian Curtis’
Trailer here.