Mark Lorimer

Mark Lorimer is a British dancer / choreographer best known for his work with the Brussels-based choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Thomas Hauert.

Training and start as a dancer

Mark Lorimer was a student at the London Contemporary Dance School, and graduated in 1991. After that, he joined the dance company The Featherstonehaughs (a sister company of The Cholmondeleys) of choreographer Lea Anderson. Until 1993, he worked with them on various stage art projects, but also on films, local projects and an adaptation of Pasolini's Teorema with theater and opera director Lucy Bailey. In 1993, he moved to Brussels to work with the Compagnie Michèle Anne De Mey on Pulcinella, a dance production with a live version of the Italian Suite from Igor Stravinsky's Pulcinella.

Collaboration with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas

His most important (and longest) collaboration, however, was the one he started with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas in 1994. From Amor constante, más allá de la muerte (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 1994) to En Atendant (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 2010) he danced in ten new productions. He also performed in restagings of Bartók / Mikrokosmos (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 1987), Kinok (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 1994) and Mozart / Concert Arias. Unmoto di gioia. (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 1992), and was a repetitor on In real time (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, TG Stan and AKA Moon, 2000) and Vortex Temporum (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 2013). In 2009, Mark Lorimer, with Rosas dancer Cynthia Loemij, also performed a choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker on Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy for the film Prelude à la Mer by Thierry De Mey.

Collaboration with Thomas Hauert / ZOO

Another important collaboration of Mark Lorimer was that between 1997 and 2005 with Thomas Hauert / ZOO. He danced in six new productions of the dance company, from Cows in Space (Thomas Hauert / ZOO, 1998) to Modify (Thomas Hauert / ZOO, 2004). For 5 (Thomas Hauert, Mark Lorimer, Sara Ludi, Samantha van Wissen and Mat Voorter / ZOO, 2003) the various then core members of the company created their own choreographies. For Mark Lorimer, that was Nylon solution, a collaboration with Chrysa Parkinson.

Own choreographies

In addition to Nylon solution, Mark Lorimer has created some other own choreographies. Based on a duet with Cynthia Loemij, Mark Lorimer made the video installation Mirror Modulation for the exhibition The Time That Is Left by artist Manon de Boer at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. [1][2] His best known choreographies are the two choreographies he created with Cynthia Loemij: Dancesmith - Camel, Wheat, Whale (Cynthia Loemij and Mark Lorimer, 2013) and To Intimate (Cynthia Loemij and Mark Lorimer, 2011). These productions toured in Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland. He created To Intimate (Cynthia Loemij and Mark Lorimer, 2011) for Ovaal vzw, a Brussels dance organization he founded together with Cynthia Loemij. His most recent choreography is Darwin's Gypsy Dance (Mark Lorimer, 2016), that he created for five members of BODHI PROJECT, a dance company for postgraduate students at SEAD, the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance.

Collaboration with others

In addition, Mark Lorimer also collaborated as a dancer with other choreographers: Bock and Vincenzi, Mia Lawrence, Jonathan Burrows, Deborah Hay, Alix Eynaudi and Boris Charmatz.

Work as a teacher

Mark Lorimer also regularly teaches at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival (Vienna), The Laban Centre (London), London Contemporary Dance School, Panetta Movement Center (New York), Movement Research (New York) and Manufacture (Lausanne).

Productions

Own work:

  • To Intimate (Cynthia Loemij and Mark Lorimer, 2011)[3]
  • Dancesmith - camel, weasel, whale (Cynthia Loemij and Mark Lorimer, 2013)[4]
  • Darwin’s Gypsy Dance (Mark Lorimer, 2016)[5]

With Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas:[6]

  • Amor constante, más allá de la muerte (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 1994)
  • Erwartung / Verklärte Nacht (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 1995)
  • Woud, three movements to the music of Berg, Schönberg & Wagner (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 1996)
  • Repertory Evening (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 2002)
  • D'un soir un jour (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 2006)
  • Bartók / Beethoven / Schönberg Repertory Evening (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 2006)
  • Steve Reich Evening (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 2007)
  • Zeitung (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas en Alain Franco, 2008)
  • The Song (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, Ann Veronica Janssens en Michel François, 2009)
  • En Atendant (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 2010)

Mark Lorimer also participated as a dancer in restagings of Bartók / Mikrokosmos (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 1987), Kinok (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 1994) and Mozart / Concert Arias. Un moto di gioia. (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas, 1992). He was a repetitor on In real time (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, tg stan and AKA Moon, 2000) and Vortex Temporum (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 2013).

With Thomas Hauert / ZOO:[7]

  • Cows in space (Thomas Hauert / ZOO, 1998)
  • Pop-Up Songbook (Thomas Hauert / ZOO, 1999)
  • Jetzt (Thomas Hauert /ZOO, 2000)
  • Verosimile (Thomas Hauert / ZOO, 2002)
  • 5 (Thomas Hauert, Mark Lorimer, Sara Ludi, Samantha van Wissen and Mat Voorter / ZOO, 2003)
  • Modify (Thomas Hauert/ZOO, 2004)

With Alix Eynaudi:

  • Monique (Alix Eynaudi, 2012)[8]
  • Edelweiss (Alix Eynaudi, 2015)[9]

With others:

  • Pulcinella (Compagnie Michèle Anne De Mey, 1994)[10]
  • Schreibstück - Version Jonathan Burrows (Thomas Lehmen, 2002-2004)[11]
  • The Match (Deborah Hay / The Deborah Hay Dance Company, 2004)[12]
  • manger (Boris Charmatz / Musée de la danse, 2014)[13]
  • 20 Dancers for the XX Century ((Boris Charmatz / Musée de la danse, in: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2016)[14]
  • Gerhard Richter, une pièce pour le théâtre (Mårten Spångberg, 2017)[15]

References

  1. ↑ Page about the exhibition Manon de Boer. The Time That Is Left on the website of the Frankfurter Kunstverein
  2. ↑ Biography of Mark Lorimer on the page about Monique (Alix Eynaudi , 2012) on the website of workspacebrussels
  3. ↑ Page about To Intimate (Cynthia Loemij en Mark Lorimer, 2011) on the website of SeventySeven
  4. ↑ Page about Dancesmith - camel, weasel, whale (Cynthia Loemij and Mark Lorimer, 2013) on the website of SeventySeven
  5. ↑ Page about Darwin’s Gypsy Dance (Mark Lorimer, 2016) on the website of SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance
  6. ↑ Overview of productions on the website of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
  7. ↑ Overview of productions on the website of Thomas Hauert / ZOO
  8. ↑ Page about Monique (Alix Eynaudi, 2012) on the website of Hiros
  9. ↑ Page about Edelweiss (Alix Eynaudi, 2015) on the website of Hiros
  10. ↑ Page about Pulcinella (Compagnie Michèle Anne De Mey, 1994) on the website of deSingel
  11. ↑ Page about Schreibstück - Version Jonathan Burrows (Thomas Lehmen, 2002-2004) on the website of Thomas Lehmen
  12. ↑ Page about The Match (Deborah Hay / The Deborah Hay Dance Company, 2004) on the website of The Deborah Hay Dance Company
  13. ↑ Page about manger (Boris Charmatz / Musée de la danse, 2014) on the website of Boris Charmatz
  14. ↑ Page about 20 Dancers for the XX Century (Boris Charmatz / Musée de la danse, in: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2016) on the website of Boris Charmatz
  15. ↑ Page about Gerhard Richter, une pièce pour le théâtre (Mårten Spångberg, 2017) on the website of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts

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