Connecting Stories was a commission of the National Portrait Gallery, with two iterations Connecting Stories: Innovation (April 2022) & Connecting Stories: Generations (June 2022), developed to reflect the exhibition “Shakespeare to Winehouse”.
A physical and ephemeral experience of visiting the NPG and the themes within this prolific exhibition, inviting you to feel and think and be kinaesthetically engaged with the importance of people – figures in our world and across time that have shaped it, and the incredible ways artists have evolved to capture their essence.
Connecting Stories built from YGEN to IGEN, a project which began in 2020 with ADP and QL2 working together across ages of dance artists to create together, learn from each other, and be inspired by all that dance brings to their lives – across our lives.
Details
Connecting Stories: Innovation: April 2022
Connecting Stories: Generations: June 2022
Where: National Portrait Gallery
Artists
Artistic Directors: Ruth Osborne(QL2 Dance), Alison Plevey (ADP) & Cadi McCarthy (Catapault / Flipside)
Choreographers: Ruth Osborne, Cadi McCarthy, Alison Plevey, Craig Bary & Olivia Fyfe
Composer: Adam Ventoura
With dancers from QL2 Dance, the Australian Dance Party, Catapult Dance, QL2’s Quantum Leap ensemble and Catapult’s Flipside Project.
Photography by Lorna Sim
Connecting Stories: Innovations and Connecting Stories: Generations was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery and made with the support of QL2 Dance, Cataupault Dance Choreographic Hub, and the Flipside Project.
