Emma Sandall - Ludwig
Emma's international career as a performer spans fifteen years and includes work with companies Béjart Ballet Lausanne, The Royal Ballet, The Scottish Ballet and The West Australian Ballet.
In 2010 Emma became an independent dancer and choreographer, driven to utilise her diverse performance experience and her unique artistic sensibilities towards the creation new dance work.
In 2010 Emma co-founded Ludwig with partner and fellow performer Cass Mortimer Eipper. Since then she has worked with WA choreographer & director Jo Pollitt (during a STRUT dance SEED residency) on processes allowing Emma to experiment with contemporary improvisation techniques, extending her ability as a performer and as a choreographer. Following on from this residency, Emma developed the short solo work entitled Crossing Satie. The work journeys through seven stages of life (in reference to Shakespeare's The Seven Ages of Man). Crossing Satie was presented by STRUT in Perth, WA (in 2011) and also in Rome, Italy (in 2011) as part of the Rome International Choreography Competition, where it was awarded the bronze medal for choreography.
Most recently Emma has undertaken an Impulstanz artist residency in Vienna where she and fellow Ludwig director Cass Mortimer Eipper developed a new mid-length work entitled Fleck and Flecker. The work is inspired by Austrian artist Karl Anton Fleck's portrait painting of the same name and is based on the psychology of partnering and companionship. Fleck and Flecker is scheduled to premiere in 2012.
www.ludwig.com.au
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Premiere season planned for August 2012.
Performed and choreographed by Cass Mortimer Eipper & Emma Sandall (Ludwig).
Developed during an artistic residency at Impulstanz Festival, Vienna in 2011 Fleck and Flecker is a new dance work by Cass Mortimer Eipper & Emma Sandall exploring partnering and companionship, from the personal to the political.
The work reveals the pair's penchant for animation, as they transform themselves into two dimensional cartoon-esque characters whose lives and emotions play out on-screen and onstage.
Ranging from the intimate, the abstract, the scientific and the absurd, the choreographers tease apart these ideas of what it means 'to be together' often using their personal and creative relationship with one another as a guide for their journey.
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Crossing Satie began during a STRUT SEED residency in 2010 where Emma worked with WA director & choreographer Jo Pollitt. Jo's mentorship, specifically her response process and improvisation techniques inspired Emma to choreograph this short solo work. Crossing Satie references William Shakespeare's The Seven Stage of Man, and charts seven stages of Emma's life in an intimate, exquisite personal journey.
Improvised scores entwine with more intricately choreographed sequences throughout the work, highlighting Emma's unique physicality as well as her exciting potential as a creator of new, dynamic dance work.
In 2010 Emma became an independent dancer and choreographer, driven to utilise her diverse performance experience and her unique artistic sensibilities towards the creation new dance work.
In 2010 Emma co-founded Ludwig with partner and fellow performer Cass Mortimer Eipper. Since then she has worked with WA choreographer & director Jo Pollitt (during a STRUT dance SEED residency) on processes allowing Emma to experiment with contemporary improvisation techniques, extending her ability as a performer and as a choreographer. Following on from this residency, Emma developed the short solo work entitled Crossing Satie. The work journeys through seven stages of life (in reference to Shakespeare's The Seven Ages of Man). Crossing Satie was presented by STRUT in Perth, WA (in 2011) and also in Rome, Italy (in 2011) as part of the Rome International Choreography Competition, where it was awarded the bronze medal for choreography.
Most recently Emma has undertaken an Impulstanz artist residency in Vienna where she and fellow Ludwig director Cass Mortimer Eipper developed a new mid-length work entitled Fleck and Flecker. The work is inspired by Austrian artist Karl Anton Fleck's portrait painting of the same name and is based on the psychology of partnering and companionship. Fleck and Flecker is scheduled to premiere in 2012.
www.ludwig.com.au
Fleck and Flecker
(full length work in development)Premiere season planned for August 2012.
Performed and choreographed by Cass Mortimer Eipper & Emma Sandall (Ludwig).
Developed during an artistic residency at Impulstanz Festival, Vienna in 2011 Fleck and Flecker is a new dance work by Cass Mortimer Eipper & Emma Sandall exploring partnering and companionship, from the personal to the political.
The work reveals the pair's penchant for animation, as they transform themselves into two dimensional cartoon-esque characters whose lives and emotions play out on-screen and onstage.
Ranging from the intimate, the abstract, the scientific and the absurd, the choreographers tease apart these ideas of what it means 'to be together' often using their personal and creative relationship with one another as a guide for their journey.
Crossing Satie
(excerpt)Crossing Satie began during a STRUT SEED residency in 2010 where Emma worked with WA director & choreographer Jo Pollitt. Jo's mentorship, specifically her response process and improvisation techniques inspired Emma to choreograph this short solo work. Crossing Satie references William Shakespeare's The Seven Stage of Man, and charts seven stages of Emma's life in an intimate, exquisite personal journey.
Improvised scores entwine with more intricately choreographed sequences throughout the work, highlighting Emma's unique physicality as well as her exciting potential as a creator of new, dynamic dance work.
