Arts & Events Documentation
I love collaborating with arts and heritage organisations, festival co-ordinators, artists and folk in general. I aim to sensitively capture the journeys of projects on film, then distill stories to engage audiences emotionally, long after lights have dimmed, sounds have faded and moments have passed.
Freedom (2022)
I’ve recently collaborated with the choreographer Lisa Simpson to create a film together for BBC Dance Passion 2022.
Lisa holds a unique position in dance. She trains, mentors and supports others using a revolutionary technique that enables people of all abilities to choreograph their own work.
The project also involved me mentoring and collaborating with a student film crew from the University of Central Lancashire, which you can read about here.
You can read more about the project and watch the film by clicking the button below.
‘Quite Unfit for Females’ explores the astounding story of the Preston based Dick, Kerr Ladies football team, arguably the most successful women’s team of all time! Established in 1917, they played to raise money for soldiers and local Preston Hospitals during World War One.
This brand new performance by About Time Dance Company celebrates the incredible achievements of the pioneering Lancashire women and how they went on to defy a ban on women’s football in 1921, when the FA delivered the bitter blow that football was yes, ‘Quite Unfit for Females’.
‘Bursting with teamwork, resilience, determination, and fantastic footwork!’
This short film documents the creative process of bringing this story to life.
Waders is one outcome of About Time Dance Company's artist residency in Morecambe Bay, directed and curated by Deco Publique.
‘Exploring the entangled movement patterns of flight, tide and weather at Heysham Head, Morecambe Bay.’
Choreographed and performed by Ellen Jeffrey and Jenny Reeves.
In the summer of 2021, ordinary and extraordinary people of all ages took part in creative writing workshops and dance workshops to explore the rich history, memories and dreams connecting King St. in Wigan and Church St. in Blackpool.
These are the voices you will hear. The movement you will see. The imagination you will glimpse.
‘Street Dreams’ is a Twin Towns Connect Commission in partnership with Historic England.
A short documentary telling the story of a Research and Development project by Lisa Simpson Inclusive Dance, featuring members of Rosie Kay Dance Company during lockdown 2020.
An artist development week with UK theatre company imitatingthedog, who teach a group of creative practitioners the basics of projection-mapping. Funded by Great Place: Lakes & Dales.
Longways & Crosswise is an immersive, site-specific dance performance taking place on the coastline of Morecambe Bay. Inspired by David Cox’s provocative paintings of the crossings, join a cast of professional dancers and local participants as we imagine the stories and tales of those that once crossed the sands in the last of the light. Commencing an hour before sunset, together the audience and performers will witness the phenomenal transformation of the bay at day’s end.
Through the intrinsic choreography of this 1-hour performance, the many movement patterns of the bay are described in the bodies of the dancers as they trace the folds of the sand and the flow of the tide, dancing the ridges and ripples of the bay’s unique, ever-changing landscape. Between water and land, between day and night, between those that once walked the sands and those that still do, Longways & Crosswise creates a tangible, lived encounter with the shifting, sifting world of Morecambe Bay.
This is a brand new commission by About Time Dance Company, for Morecambe Bay Partnership Trust and funded by the Heritage lottery. The work is co-choreographed by Jenny Reeves and Ellen Jeffrey.
On The Patterns We Gaze is a time-specific choreography by Ellen Jeffrey. Filmed in Grubbins Wood, Cumbria, in March 2019, the performance takes place in the last of the light, spanning a site's durational shift through nightfall.
The work was performed by Jenny Reeves, Lucy Starkey and Aimee Williamson, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and supported by Lancaster University and Cumbria Wildlife Trust.
The film has been screened online at the following festivals:
Cumbria Dark Skies (2021)
Beast Feast (2021)
Photography by Rebecca Richards.
A community arts project by the Dukes Theatre in Lancaster, which explores the city’s maritime heritage. Participants worked with artists to conduct their own research, discover untold stories and unearth lost lives, culminating in producing their own creative responses to the findings.
A short documentary on Gone Fishin', a schools dance performance created by About Time Dance Company, which explores the fishing heritage of Morecambe Bay. Commissioned by Morecambe Bay Partnership and funded by Heritage Lottery.
A short documentary following the journey of About Time Dance Company’s Cotton: a captivating exploration through dance and sound, illuminating processes of cotton production in Lancashire.
Highlights from the second year of A Life More Ordinary, an innovative programme of creative activity for people living with dementia by the Dukes Theatre.
This project from Mirador Arts explored the fascinating history and everyday world of the Standfast & Barracks site in Lancaster.
For more info on the project, please visit http://miradorarts.co.uk/behind-the-wall/
A bespoke passenger greeting service that ran for a week at Preston Train Station. Artist Lowri Evans met over 25 passengers off trains and offered a menu of meetings that had to be booked in advance. Whether you were after a cheering crowd or your own personal bodyguard; a red carpet or a brief encounter; there was something for all tastes. A chance to have a fleeting, filmic moment in an unlikely place.
It was a co-production with Derelict Sites and They Eat Culture’s Hit the North project. Supported using public funding via Arts Council England and UCLan.
Read more about Lowri’s experiences on the project here.