Member Since: 09/06/2007
Band Website: salamanda-tandem.org
Band Members: salamanda tandem is an artist-led company that nurtures collaboratons between artists and audiences. Principally, we're dedicated to making dance and music performance, but we also work with poets , sculptors, painters and many others artists who are fundamental to our daily work. This year is our 20 year birthday!! and yet it feels like we have fresh eyes to view the creative process. Since 1994 we've been strategically funded by Arts Council East Midlands and are grateful for their support - without which we couldn't survive. ............................................................ ...................................... We collaborate very widely as a group of dancers, musicians and visual artists with artists in Nottingham, around the UK, in Hungary, Germany, America, Japan, China and Australia - expanding and contracting according to what our creative output demands and the resourses we have. We're always open to new collaborations. .................................................... The first 3 sound tracks playing on this site are from our latest album Corrosion which derived from a commision given to our director Isabel Jones by Opera North, UK in 2003. The music for the album is co-composed by Isabel Jones and Duncan Chapman with texts by poet; Tony Baker and the CD mastered by Dallas Simpson. Isabel, Duncan and Tony have collaborated together for 15 years through salamanda tandem. To order aa CD or book the live show; send an email to [email protected]. In Isabel's original concept for Corrosion she brought together 5 other singers, sculptor Gerard Renvez and Duncan to make an installation and live performance within it for the Bonnington Art Gallery. ............................................................ .......................... The Fourth sound track on this site is called Motet and is from Triptych a 1 1/2 hour voice/ dance /sculpture performance by salamanda tandem which toured cathedrals - the motet was researched by Vivien Ellis and is sung here by Vivien, Isabel and Moira Smiley, the image is of Maria Fuk Law a dancer in Triptych. ............................................................ ................................... The Fifth is an excert from Isabel and Duncan's Dark January's project - a concept dreamed up by Isabel on the break up of ensemble 8 ............................................................ .................................... The last track is a spontaneous song by Gwilym Jones and Isabel Jones - an improvisation inspired by a book on the shelf. ............................................................ .................................. Salamanda Tandem was founded and is directed by Composer/singer /choreographer/dancer: Isabel Jones. We also work with a number of freelance curators / project managers who help run the company; Kevin Hodgetts: Curator/Arts Development, Richard Hughes: designer, Esther Harris PR, Geoffrey Fielding: IT. In 2008, after 14 years with us, Lisa Craddock left the company to join The Foundation for Community Dance - we're grateful for her years of support for us. Importantly we have a strong and vibrant group of board members from education, arts and disability fields who take an active role in guiding the company; including Chair Stella Coloutbanis ( curator), company secretary: Lyn Watson ( management accountant). In addition to our small staff the company depends on a number of Salamanda Tandem Associate Artists have worked closely with Isabel and the company for many years. These artists all relish collaboration and embrace the ethos and the polical dimmension of the company. These include: Dancer /Choreographer: Julie Hood; Designer: Richard Hughes; Photographer and holistic health: Geoffrey Fielding; Composer: Duncan Chapman; Poet / musician /composer: Tony BakerPhotographer: Kate Houghton, Film Maker: Stuart Collinson, Multi Media Artist: Andy Eathorne; Sculptor: Rosalind Stoddart, Dancer/ choreographer Helena Nikolao, performer Patrick Beelheart, Sound Mastering: Dallas Simpson, board member, academic and performance researcher: Mick Wallis, ongoing partnership with Architects Of Air company and their creator Alan Parkinson, and partnership projects with Diaspora and directors Kate Luxmoore and Lecan Babalola . Guest Performance Artists: Corrosion and Triptych co-composer and singer Moira Smiley; Triptych co- composer and singer Vivien Ellis who worked closely with the company for 8 years; Other artists who have worked closely with the company or on projects are: Triptych musician / arranger: Mike McInerny, singer / composer Jeremy Avis: percussionist: Emma Williams, Triptych, Light House and House Is my Reflection Sculptor: Jo Fairfax, Corrosion Sculptor Gerard Renvez, Composer: Andrew Williams, Architects of Air Luminiarium designer Alan Parkinson, Ensemble 8, Triptych Singers are; Bryony Jones, Arec Prentice, Richard Lindsay, Rachel Line, and Naomi Line. Corrosion singers are Bryony, Richard, Arec and Martine Lyons....................................................... Dancers featured in the photographs on this site (in order of volume) are: Isabel Jones, Julie Hood, Mickel Smithen, Naomi Mutoh, Tamami Yamada, Karen Mok, Pamela Leung, Maria Fuk Law, Martha Wildman, Neil Callaghan, Zoe Brown, Adam, Victoria, Alice and Eeva Maria Mutka. ............. ....................................... Musicians featured in photographs on this site are, Duncan Chapman, Kate Luxmoore, Andrew Williams, Pretam Singh..................... Additional Photographers not mentioned in associate artist list but have photos featured here are; Black and White Photographs of Luminarium - Alan Mitchel, Black and White photos of Isabel: Dario Rumbo, Black and White Photo of Naomi in House is My Reflection: Geoff Young, ............................................................ ..............................