DANCE / DANCE THEATRE
with Second Stride
I met the brilliant Ian Spink in 1980. He had come over from Australia in the early 1970s and formed the dance company Second Stride with Richard Alston and Siobhan (Sue) Davies. Richard and Sue left to form their own companies, and Ian continued to direct Second Stride. Our first piece was Secret Gardens (1981), a collaboration between Ian, Antony McDonald, Tim Albery, Geraldine Pilgrim, Andrew Poppy and me. After that Ian and I (and in most cases Antony) went on to make a series of full-length dance-theatre pieces together for Second Stride.
New Tactics (1982)
Further and Further into Night (1984)
Bosendorfer Waltzes (1986)
Weighing The Heart (1987)
Escape at Sea (1991), co-choreographed by Ashley Page, co-directed by Antony McDonald
Lives of the Great Poisoners (1993), libretto by Caryl Churchill, co-directed by James MacDonald
Badenheim (1995), libretto by Sian Evans
Hotel (1996), libretto by Caryl Churchill
Two Nights (1997), libretto by Caryl Churchill
with John Lunn, Antony Minghella and Jonathan Lunn
Goes Without Saying (London Contemporary Dance Theatre, 1989)
with Ashley Page
Savage Water (C4, 1989), directed by Terry Braun and Peter Mumford
Currulao (Rambert Dance Company, 1990), with costumes by John Galliano
Touch Your Coolness To My Fevered Brow (Dutch National Ballet, 1992) designed by Antony MacDonald
Sleeping With Audrey (Royal Ballet, 1996), designed by Stephen Chambers
Room of Cooks (Royal Ballet, 1997), designed by Stephen Chambers
When We Stopped Talking (Royal Ballet, 1998), designed by Jon Morrell
This House Will Burn (Royal Ballet, 2001), designed by Stephen Chambers
with Shobana Jeyasingh
Late (SJDC, 1991)
Duets With Automobiles (BBC2, 1993), directed by Terry Braun
Axaxaxas Mlö (South Bank Centre,1999)
City:zen (SJDC, 2008)
Just Add Water? (SJDC, 2009)
Staging Schiele (SJDC, 2018)
with Carolyn Choa
Go (BBC2, 1993)
with Jennifer Jackson
Earth Bound (English National Ballet ,1995)
with Siobhan Davies
Of Oil and Water (SDDC, 2002), designed by David Buckland
with Charlie Morrissey
The Tree of Light (Cultural Olympiad, 2012), designed by Block9
The Way It Works (Place, 2012)
What Happens When (Joint Adventures, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, 2016)
by Luca Silvestrini
May Contain Food (Protein Dance Company, 2018), designed by Yann Seabra