IMPROVISATION

NEAT TIMOTHY 

 

Neat Timothy are dancers, actors, musicians and technicians. They weave broken stories, dance animal rituals, sing quiet scenes and light up the dark. Every movement, word, note, and light is carefully improvised.

Neat Timothy are: Rick Nodine, Jamie McCarthy, Jane Leaney, Seke Chimutengwende, Gabriele Reuter, Bryony Perkins and Gareth Green.

Extracts from an improvisation performance by Neat Timothy at Freistil at Uferhallen, Berlin April 2009. Featuring Jamie McCarthy, Rick Nodine, Jane Leaney, Seke Chimutengwende and Gabriele Reuter. Video by Andrea Keiz
 

ONGOING 

 

Premiered at Darlington College of Arts in 1999 and performed throughout Europe until2012

Ongoing was a structure based around the ongoing Contact Improvisation dialog between Jovair Longo and Rick Nodine.
A 2006 tour of Scotland include a live collaboration with turntablist / composer Philip Jeck.

Ongoing was devised and performed Rick Nodine and Jovair Longo

 

5 MEN DANCING

 

5 Men dancing arose from an original idea by Thomas Mettler, when he was artistic director of "on.off Werkstatt" in Bern. Mettler was interested in performers and makers experienced in dance, theatre, voice and movement and, having invited numerous artists from around the world to teach in Switzerland, it was his long held dream to bring some of these people to work together.

5 Men dancing arose from an original idea by Thomas Mettler in 2004 (Bern).  Jordi Cortés Molina, Rick Nodine, Christos Strinopoulos, Christian Panouillot and Adam Benjamin, created dance out of the synergy of events, ideas, accidents and occurrences with a fierce commitment to pure improvisation without script or structure.


"5 Men, playfull, keen, unpredictable, poignant, surprising, funny, mean and bittersweat were literally tearing the dance floor apart."

 

ESP (Experiments in Spontaneous Performance)


ESP was a company of dancers, actors and musicians working collaboratively to find a language of improvisation that draws from all three disciplines.  The company formed around an original research project of theatre director/ improvisor Chris Johnston worked and performed from 2002 to 2008, presenting work at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry Centre for Performing Arts, Chisenhale Dance Space and elsewhere.  Performances involve a mix of music, dance and theatre, and are unpredictable, funny, and challenging.  The company included Rick Nodine, Rex Hossi Horan, Danielle Allan, Chris Johnston, Gaby Agis, Mark Phoenix and Alison Blunt.

 

IMPROVISATION PHOTOS