Recent Work
The Art of Taking Tea or 'Illicit Liaisons' : June 2009
"You need to go on tour. Infectious performance" - Angharad James
"Fabulous! More please" - Sara Beer
"I don't usually attend things like these becuase I never know when/where to look, but I can honestly say it was great! Very entertaining performance!" - Lewis
"Great fun. Enjoyed by both audience and performers (it seemed). Well done" - Julia Martin
"Mastery of etiquette descending into mayhem brilliantly crafted. Vital, characterful dance" - Julie Barclay
The Art of Taking Tea: A 1930's tea shop - five women wait in eager anticipation for illicit liaisons that never materialise. As their unfulfilled desire turns first to disappointment and then to angst, it seems only the taking of tea followed by a large plate of the sweet stuff will appease the anger of these spurned women and satiate their appetite. Five rebellious waitresses compound the chaos that ensues as each makes her own desires and cravings felt.
Community Dancers: Waitresses - Jen Angharad, Linda Bullock, Olivia Jones, Liz Harris and Geraldine Hurl. Ladies who take tea - Carol Brown, Lynn Hoare, Jill Kirkpatrick, Karen LeBeau and Shirley Stansfield
Original 1930's recordings with live keyboard from Julian Martin and supported by the music of Miles Behind
The Art of Taking Tea is a 20-minute enjoyable and lively performance by the Striking Attitudes Community Dancers (1 hour with supporting music by Miles Behind) and is available for bookings by calling Anne Keeling at 02920-597954
Remains To Be Seen : Premiere Screening - May 2008
Remains To Be Seen is a short film celebrating the particular skills and attributes of the more mature dancer, featuring compelling, moving and intimate images set by the sea, the weathered exteriors of Caerphilly Mountain and the atmospheric interiors of Cardiff’s Victorian architecture.
Imprinted in our bodies and creating an inner and outer landscape is the map of our life’s experience. This experience and the passage of time inform our being and tell of the person we have become. As older performers we draw on this inner landscape to offer something rich and unique – something very different from the athleticism and bravado of the younger dancer.
Striking Attitudes’ film Remains To Be Seen tells of times past, times remembered and times to come. It evokes images of the journey from innocence to knowledge, our human frailty and an increasing awareness of our fragile mortality and contrasts these with our continuing quest to find ways and means to remain potent beings who still have a voice in our youth obsessed culture.
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Facts about Remains To Be Seen
8 professional dancers and 8 community dancers, age 42 to 75 took part in the making of Remains To be Seen . Alongside the highly experienced professional dancers were some dancers from the community who had never danced before in their lives.
The professional film crew Wyndham Price, Zoran Veljkovic, Chris Buxton, Luke Jacob and Oanis Rawbone had several community film –makers working alongside them, who helped film footage for the documentary about the making of the film.
19 community film-makers took part in two film-making workshops with Co-Director of Striking Attitudes, film director Wyndham Price.
Remains To Be Seen was filmed on location at the Norwegian Church in Cardiff Bay, in a Victorian house in Roath, Cardiff, in the rain on Caerphilly Mountain, the sun at Dyffryn Gardens and the snow at Southerndown beach in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Remains To Be Seen was choreographed and directed by Caroline Lamb and produced by Wyndham Price.
Remains To Be Seen was created for the Gwanwyn Festival 2008 with the support of Arts Council of Wales, Film Agency for Wales, NIACE, Age Concern Wales, and Dyffryn Gardens.
Remains To Be Seen Credits
The Ghost Dancers (professionals):
Caroline Bunce, June Campbell-Davies, Dylan Davies, Janet Fieldsend (assistant choreographer and rehearsal director), Nigel Gilvier, Russell Gomer, Miranda Knight, Frank Rozelaar-Green
The Women in Floral Dresses (community dancers):
Carol Brown, Linda Bullock, Liz Harris, Geraldine Hurl, Olivia Jones, Jill Kirkpatrick, Karen LeBeau, Dilys Price, Shirley Stansfield, Diane Stanton
Copies of Remains To Be Seen
DVD copies of Remains To Be Seen and the documentary of the making of Remains To Be Seen can be purchased from Striking Attitudes for a cost of £15.00 including postage and packing (within the UK).
Copies of Remains To Be Seen can be loaned for a cost of £10.00 including postage and packing (within the UK).
For more details please contact Striking Attitudes at 02920-495-079
Three Parts Iced Over : November 2005
Three Parts Iced Over was a large-scale total theatre production conceived, choreographed, written and directed by Caroline Lamb and Wyndham Price using a 75 strong cast of professional and community dancers and actors aged 7 to 70.
Three Parts Iced Over was an atmospheric work at the heart of which was the birth to death journey of a twenty first century man, Rhys Williams tragically orphaned at an early age. As his life unfolds, he becomes mysteriously entwined with “Victorian” Catherine Helstone who lives to dance.
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This production by Striking Attitudes explored the frailty and frustration of the human condition, questioned the point of human endeavour and asked what happened to the “long since forgotten soul of man” in an age dominated by material greed.
“ It’s excellent - so simple, so complex, so wonderful. Go and see it please. The network of emotions that runs through it is marvellous. A wonderful marriage of movement and the spoken word. It was so gripping. Everyone must go and see it .” - S4C TV review of Three Parts Iced Over .
