Dudendance
Physical Theatre Company
Founded in 1984 by Clea Wallis and Paul Rous as an experimental physical theatre company, Dudendance has built a reputation in the UK, Europe and South America for combining live performance with filmmaking.
Dudendance first came to Huntly in 2002 for a six months dance artists’ residency and have stayed ever since. The town has given Dudendance a platform in North East Scotland to develop touring productions and to run extensive summer-school programmes in filmmaking for children and young people.
The work is cross genre - suitable for theatres, galleries, dance, live-art and performance festivals and as specially commissioned site-specific events.
Dudendance Theatre 1984-2006
Dudendance have pioneered an original voice by layering film, soundtrack, narrative and movement. The performance work defies singular interpretation creating complex theatrical environments combining humour with a foreboding desperation. Each new piece exists within an ongoing and ever evolving narrative whereby characters are created to then re-emerge in later work. The starting point remains physical and is devised from rigorous research aiming to express the unique language of each group. Dudendance work with international collaborators as well as non-professionals.
Collaborators have included Anna Duden (writer), Jan Feddersen (composer), Fabiana Galante (composer), Carlos Lipsic (director), Tina Ehrenhaus (singer) and Sandro Nunziata, Clarisa Garcia, Anna Krzystek, and Fabrik Potsdam.
Having established an international reputation for live performance through its work in Germany, Belgium, Canada, Brazil and Argentina the company are now crossing theatre with film production. The company’s films have been shown at International festivals- the most recent: IMZ< Monaco Dance Screen, Claremont Ferrand France, Mar del Plata Festival Argentina, Latin American Film Festival London, Vancouver Film-Festival, Canada.
Dudendance are researching for a feature length film to be shot in Brazil and Argentina which will be devised through a series of live performance projects: Detour on Route to a Movie.