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| Jane founded her dance company - originally titled Turning Worlds dance theatre company - in London, 1990. Now based in the Eastern Region, she creates group dance works drawing on diverse themes and using cross-disciplinary performance techniques. Her aesthetic identifies with: * foregrounding the epic in the everyday * emergence: from simplicity comes complexity * performer centred, an inside-out perspective CURRENT PRODUCTION : HERD (2009) See NEWS for more information and next performance date Created with grateful support from the National Lottery, the Facility London Metropolitan University, Arts Council England. TROOP (2007)  An erotic, exotic projection evolving in time, the Showgirl is a chameleon, adapting her look to the frame. She glories in your gaze and returns the stare. 'Troop is a classic seduction parade.' The Guardian This vibrant digital dancetheatre work brings together a large cast of fabulous dancers with cutting edge visual technologies to create iconic dance theatre. Taking the fast pace and tight structure of a revue spectacular TROOP celebrates the theatricalised female form and the power of the dancing line as the dancers’ differences of identity, desire and experience interweave into a matrix of dazzling dance and digital wizardry. See TROOP section for further information. Baby (2003/6)  "wonderfully wild and touching and not a moment of baby googoo" Lucy Richardson, Theatre Director "disturbingly funny, thought provoking and, ultimately, beautiful to watch."Sargasso News Babes, Babies, Babyish Bodies, Biology and the Big Bang, Five international performers evoke the rites of passage from puberty to pregnancy that make us who we are. BABY mixes delicious dance, stunning imagery and revealing confession, with the latest performance technologies to create stunning performance of wit and invention. The Baby-ence that creates Life An accessible, intimate theatrical exploration of the extremities of experience that make us flesh and blood. The two night premiere at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, May 2003, was a sell out and received an overwhelming response. Consequently Baby was reworked and presented at The Junction, Cambridge and The Cut, Suffolk in 2006. Created with grateful support from the National Lottery, the ICA, City of Westminster Council, London Metropolitan University, Arts Council England. BIRDS, BODIES involved seven dancers in work for London Metropolitan University's professional performance programme and as part of The Facility's Labyrinths and Mysteries symposium during 2005. This work used Isadora software and integrated audio systems devised by Nick Rothwell that responded to the performance's evolution in real time. The piece consisted of a number of clusters of devised dance material that explored the social and familiar. The different clusters were performed in varying orders. The order being shifted by critical state shifts. e-Merge (2004) See>emergence  St.Albans (2001) Places we come from and possible selves. Movement, image, projection, suggestion Nash & Brandon rooms, ICA, The Mall, London SW1  Hybrid (1997)  In the common or garden centre humanity and botany collide. Strange fruits flower. n. & a. 1. offspring of two animals or plants of different species or varieties: person of mixed origins; thing composed of incongruous elements, esp. word with parts taken from different languages. 2. bred as hybrid from different species or varieties.  Created and premiered at Jacksons Lane Arts centre, London. Toured: Alsager, Glastonbury Dance Festival, Neuesteater - Munich, ICA-London. Five Performers. Dance. Music (Daniel Biro). Film. Costume. Dolly Boom Wrap Cut (1996) Camera, Speed, Action! Celebrating the Centenary of Cinema in 1996 this 'witty, well observed interpretation of a film crew on a busy shoot captures the moves of motion picture making in this highly accessible dance piece'. Maggie Pinhorn, Alternative Arts. Commissioned for the Westminster Summer Dance Festival. Toured extensively from Epsom Playhouse, Portsmouth Festival, Guernsey Street Arts Festival, Glastonbury Dance Festival, to many Westminster schools and London Theatre venues. Four Performers.Dance.Music (Malcolm Boyle). Props. It's a Wonderful Life (1996) a Waltzing Christmastime Performance Installation at Marylebone Station, London supported by the Arts Council, Westminster. Desert (1995)  Four Mad Dog Englishwomen Go Out in the Midday Sun Caught in the divide between night and day, earth and sky, these nomads are propelled into a labyrinth of dream and distortion, memory and mirage by the vast hot foreign vista that is Desert. Time and space suspended, past and future merge into an endless enveloping presence, revealing surprise; our just desserts. Created with support from the London Arts Board. Premiered at The Place, London and toured Turtle Key Arts Centre, Luton College Four Performers.Dance.Music (Daniel Biro). Film. Come on in, its lovely (1993) An outdoor dance installation commissioned by Westminster City Council performed at alfresco sites in the City. Four Performers. Dance. Music (Malcolm Boyle). Objects, Props. Costume.  Beauty and the Beast (1992)  A tale of love and obsession A look into the mirror to face the myths that make this timeless fairy tale and to see reflected contemporary notions of beauty and horror. Truly a tale about love. Premiered at the Steiner Theatre, London and toured Hammersmith Palais, Chats Palace, Tom Allen Centre, Turtle Key Arts Centre. Four Performers.Dance.Music (Daniel Biro). Set and Costume. Soho Square (1991) A dance theatre work sited in a grassy square in the heart of LondonS a place where paths cross, where separate worlds both real and imaginary converge. Characters and forms overlap in a dynamic and visually rich display. Premiered at Chisenhale dance Space, London as part of the New Choreographers II Festival, London, and toured The Place, The Studio Theatre, Soho Square, Maltings Arts Centre, St.Albans. Five Performers. Dance.Music (Daniel Biro). Projected Visuals (Ashley Potter). "at the still point of the turning world" (1990)  A meditation on the infinite spiral, the essence of motion, the endless momentum of movement in time. "simple, natural movements built from within, generated strong shapes and organically created patterns. Even in its most complex moments, the piece retained a spontaneity that reaffirmed its improvisational basis. Here the rigour of ensemble work was fruitfully married to an inventive and imaginative concept. Jane Turner's choreographyS revealed a capacity to give vivid and concrete embodiment to an abstract idea." Patrick Campbell, MTD Journal of the Performing Arts. Does the world turn us or do we turn the world? Created in residency at Morley College, London and toured The Place, The Steiner Theatre, Maltings Arts Centre. Four Performers.Dance.Music (Daniel Biro). Projected Visuals As an integral part of its creative performance programme, the Company has initiated multiple projects that build bridges between professionals and enthusiasts, artists and organisations, via education, community and cross-arts collaborations. |
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