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About Me

We are a project-based contemporary dance company in London. The company crosses art forms...collaborates with anyone how is interested and willing to experiment...we like artists, designers, musicians, photographers, writers, inventors, creators, experimentalists, extreme performers, weird people, eccentricity, super heroes, people who fly, people who dance, people who laugh, people who enjoy...things that frustrate, anything that makes you think in weird ways...Doing things backwards.Paper Pushing...red tape! why the fuck is there red tape????Turn off the computerThere's a world of red tape and in this world the challenge is to get to that place you always desire to get to. You would think this would be simple but think again.Stand on your head, turn around, throw paper at someone, what happens.

My Interests

Movement, music, fashion, big time collaborations with other artists and people especially with big characters!, contact work, momentum, gravity, personalities, anything weird, funny things, quirky moves, craniopagus twins, cities, body and the mulitude of types, flying, being in flight. PAPER PAPER PAPER PAPER, forms, type writers, space suits, monkeys, laughter, feet, socks, words, paper, phones, phone cords, funny noises, sun glasses, high heels, paper

I'd like to meet:

Paper, people who make paper, people who eat paper, people who dance with paper, people who talk to paper

Music:

Sleater Kinney, Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, Prince, Michael Jackson, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Soul Wax, Beastie Boys, Missey Elliot, Jurassic 5, The Roots, Roots Manuva, Gorillas, Bjork, Portishead, Fiest, K-Scape, Gnarles Barkley, Timberland, Tiga, Dj Shadow, Four Tet, 4 Hero, Brian Eno, Prodigy, 2 Many DJ's, Pixies, Madona, Janet Jackson, Nine Inch Nails, Jose Gonsales, Souixe and the Banchies, Susan Vega, Tori Amos, Apphex Twin, Kelis, and the list goes on and on and on.

Books:

Its not a book, but they are series of cards that make you change your creative thought pattern...they are made by Brian Eno

Heroes:

Merce Cunningham, Wim Vandekeybaus, William Forsythe, Pina Bausch, Akram Khan, everyday people..

My Blog

2 Male Dancers Needed Urgently

I've just been awarded the Blueprint Bursary from East London Dance, London Youth Dance and Sadlers Wells to make a new piece of work and perform it at Lilian Baylis on 5th March and Stratford Circus ...
Posted by Space Monkey Dance on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:34:00 PST

Light Designer and Costumer Designer Needed!

I'm looking for a light designer and costume designer to work with me on a new piece of work as part of the Blueprint Bursary. The work will be imprinting images of London Graffiti into the body and e...
Posted by Space Monkey Dance on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:35:00 PST

Blueprint Bursary Winner

Blueprint Bursary WinnerBlueprint Bursary Winner 2008!I've recently been awarded the Blueprint Bursary!Here's a little blurb on what it is and what it entails:Blueprint is a performance platform put o...
Posted by Space Monkey Dance on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:33:00 PST

’why can’t we just be...?’

GDA Cabaret February 2007'why can't we just be...?'Choreographer: Leila McMillanDancers: Leila McMillan, Lindsey Carter, Sophie ArstallCostume Designer: AngieThis was Space Monkey Dance's first perfor...
Posted by Space Monkey Dance on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:31:00 PST

The Company

Since the company is project based we work with a lot of different types of artists...Leila McMillan: Artistic Director/Choreographer/DancerDarrell Aldridge: DancerLindsey Carter: DancerSophie Arstal...
Posted by Space Monkey Dance on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:48:00 PST