Contemporary dance choreography

Indian dance choreography

CU Offbeat Dance Team

Theatre and Musical Theatre

Hiphop and Breakdance

Dance shows (as Producer)

 

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Images: Duncan Grisby and Claude Schneider
 

Themes for my contemporary dance choreography have included: musical play, communication in human relationships, and the interplay of classical and contemporary dance forms.

I have also appeared as a performer in recent contemporary dance works by Tom Roden, Jiska Morgenthal, Amy Vorris and Will Thorburn.

 

 

Images: Duncan Grisby and Paul Troughton
 

Bharatnatyam, Bollywood (filmi), and fusion with folk styles and Western Contemporary dance. Themes for dance works include play with ideas of cultural translation and audience expectations, fusion of Eastern and Western movement vocabularies, play with Indian dance styles and Western music. My Indian dance works have been performed in the theatre, at cabaret evenings, at public events, and on film.

 

Images: Claude Schneider and Lise Smith
 

The Cambridge University Offbeat Dance Team compete annually at the regional (SUDA) and national (IVDA/BUDC) student dance competitions. In addition, they perform demonstrations at balls and events, including those hosted by the Cambridge Dancer's Club, and in the theatre. They have also performed for the student RAG charity event.

 

 

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Images: Dave Ayerst Davies and Lise Smith
 

Dance choreography for musicals including The Boyfriend, Argonauts and Peace, and the operas The She-Devil and Moses and Pharoah; choreography and movement characterisation for Kathie and the Hippopotamus and En attendant Godot.
Lise was recently Company Choregrapher on Tony Blair the Musical at the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe 2007 ("wonderfully entertaining and skilfully written" - The Stage; "the Blair and Brown routine à la Fred and Ginger will ensure Tony hangs around in the memory" - Musical Theatre Matters).

 

Images: Claude Schneider, Duncan Grisby and Lise Smith
 

I have performed as a dancer in Hiphop dance for the theatre since 2000, and in Breakdance performances since 2003, in works created by my friend and collaborator Trubl Roc of SIN Cru. For more details, please see www.sincru.co.uk

 

 





Please email me at lise@lisedance.co.uk