PAST REPERTOIRE
“THE OLDER YOU GET, THE MORE RADICAL YOU BECOME”
- Dora Frankel, April 2020, for Dance Art Journal.
Dora’s choreographic works span 50 years ; her creative process is layered, well researched and deeply intuitive. Her works are relevant, socially radical and accessible, often using live music. Search the timeline below to explore the many works made here and in Scandinavia.
Timeline of Works
Independent Works
Figures in a Floating Landscape
Music: P. Coyte
Musicians: P. Coyte, Martin Elliott, Helen Rathbone
Actor: Isabelle DeFaut
Costume: Kate Blakely
Lighting: Kirk Sim
Dancers: Luca Braccia, Becky Horne, Livia Massarelli, Zara Sands
Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury
1st November 2019
Touch The Beast screendance
Film: Andy Wood
2nd camera: Kevin Wong
Music: Roma Yagnik
Costume: Kate Blakely
Lighting: Kirk Sim
Dancers: Dora Frankel, Giacomo Pini, Livia Massarelli
Jacksons Lane, London
7th March 2019
Metafora
Music: David Lancaster
Singer: Emily Rowan
Dancer: Dora Frankel
St Peter’s School, York
February 2019
Trio
Dancers: Katherine Whale, Alyssa Lisle, Giulia Coti Zelati
International Women’s Day, Shieldfields Art Centre, Newcastle
8th March 2018
Figures in a Floating landscape: Turner in the South
Collaboration with composer Peter Coyte
Dancers: Dora Frankel, Katherine Whale, Josh Hutchby
Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable
February 2018
FERTILE GROUND
2014 -2018
Dora Frankel Dance CIC 2007 -2014
Door Dance Wave
Dancers: Alys North, Emma Palmer
Community Project Helix Arts, Walker Park
September 2016
For Dancing the Road touring triple bill.
Elephant Dances.
Music: Ludvig van Beethoven, Ake Parmerud, Stravinsky, Klezmer
Costume: Kate Blakely
Dancers: Emma Palmer, Abby Ross, Emma Robinson, Niall Tyzack-Carlin
2016
Fertile Ground
For Spring Tour: NOW and On the Darkened Wing.
Music: Peter Coyte, Kroke, Bach
Costume: Kate Blakely, CCAD final year students
Dancers: Alicia Meehan, Kayleigh Fisk, Alys North, Holly Bellamy
2015
By the Pricking of my Thumbs
Dir. Peter Lathan
KG Productions and Customs House, South Shields
August 2013
The Unfolding Sky: Turner in the North
Music: Peter Coyte
Costume: Kate Blakely
Dancers: Luca Rapis, Audrey Rogero, Sonia Zini
Bamburgh Castle (part of Festival of the North East)
June 2013
Borderlands:
(Choreographer Jarek Cemerek) Creative Producer
January 2013
Letters from Yelena:
book launch ‘Letters from Yelena’ author Guy Mankowski
Dance City, Newcastle
October 2012
The Jacket and Friends Forever:
Dancers: Sammy Haighton, Ben King, Holy Irving, Natasha Kowalski
Big Dance and Mouth of the Tyne Festival (through Big Dance) throughout
July 2012
Adrenalin Rush
Youth project N. Tyneside
April 2012
One Small Step/One More Step:
Music: Peter Coyte
Installation: Sam Goodlet
Costume: Kate Blakely
Dancers: Holly Irving, Natasha Kowalski
Apollo Pavilion Peterlee
July 2011
Lucifer
Music: Ake Parmerud
Dancers: Dora Frankel, Holly Irving
Dance City, Studio 1
March 2011
The Wind in the Willows:
Dir. Erica Whyman. Northern Stage
November 2010
Dance Bites, 10 schools, ten sports!
Opening Ceremony UK School Games Sage Gateshead. Commissioned by Gateshead Arts
September 2010
Bitter, Sweet and Dark
Triple bill Trio, Sweet Swathes of Time, Angel of the Odd
Music: Bach’s Aria from Goldberg Variations, P. Callow,
Sound edit: P. Callow
Set: Fi Russell
Costume: Kate Blakely
Dancers: Paul Chantry, Oliver Wood, Holly Irving, Natasha Kowalski, Dora Frankel
Musicians: Penny Callow, Simon Wood
Gateshead Town Hall and regional tour
April - May 2010
April 2011
The Tempest:
Dir. Peter Lathan Movement Direction, choreography
KG Productions and Customs House, South Shields
August 2009
The Poe Project:
residency Gateshead College
June 2009
Different Spaces/Different Sounds:
Music: Bach, Penny Callow Arranged by P. Callow
Costume: Kate Blakely
Performers: Penny Callow, Asgeir Magnusson, Dora Frankel
Saltwell Park Gallery, Saltwell Park, Gateshead and Regional tour
May 2008
Independent works UK
Tales and Postcard (from another country):
Music: Postcard (from another country) Arctus Canticus E. Rautavaara
Tales: music collage
Music Edit: Adam Riley
Set: Jon Codd
Costume: Sarah Riley
Dancers: Paul Chantry, Rejane Gracia, Rosa Stourac McCreery
Caedmon Hall, Gateshead
February 2007
Tyne and Motion Trilogy
Music: Adrian Evans, Thomas Sjostrand, Corelli
Costume: Dora and Emma Frankel
Projections: Pamela Parrish and Dora Frankel
Dancers: Paul Chantry, Rejane Gracia, Helen Williams
Caedmon Hall, Gateshead
October 2005
The Shadow Between:
Music: Adrian Evans
Dancer: Helen Williams
Durant Hall, Newcastle
October 2004
Tyne Span:
Music: Adrian Evans & x
Dancers: Jason Jones, Emma Dunn, Claire Prinn
Gulbenkian Studio Theatre Newcastle
Spring 2004
The Connecting Web
Music arrangement: Thomas Sjostrand
Dancers: Sarah Elisabeth Baker, Sally- Anne Donaldson, Tamara Mclorg, Pia Nordin
Programme: Maud Karlsson
London Buddhist Arts Centre
4th May 2003
Duel
Music: Thomas Sjostrand, A. Corelli
Music edit: Anton Sjostrand
Dancers: Yael Loewenstein, Nick Watson The Robin Howard Dance Theatre, part of Resolution!
The Place, London
January 2003
Continental Cabaret. Pustervik’s Theatre, Jarntorget
Ett + Ett =Tre (One + One = Three) Site specific Outdoor performance with live band Angereds Gymnasium, Gothenburg 1994
Hemliga Tradgarden (The Secret Garden), Café de Sombra 1995, Livet och Doden (Life and Death) 1996 Angereds Gymnasium, Bla Stallet
Du – ett, Circle and Invitation to the Dance, Objects of Desire Leap Out! 1999
Quattro Stagioni 1997, Three x Three + Four 1998, Behind the Mirror 1998, Resan (The Journey) 1999, Running Figures/Eclipse 2000 Angereds Gymnasium, Bla stallet
Icebreak, collaboration with among others Hulebecks Gymnasiet, Scandinavium March 2001
Centre Point and Millennium project, site specific May 2001
‘O’ Tir Na Nog May 2001
1994-01
Spring Concerto and After Rain Comes Sunshine – Gothenburg Opera Ballet School
Resan (The Journey) – solo touring
Landet runt Hornet (The Land around the Corner) - Dir: M. Hellerstedt-Thorin, Lund Cathedral, Lund
Tid och Rum (Time and Space) – Site specific collaboration with visual artist Annika Gustafsson, Culture House Bagaregarden
Sagan om ett trad (Story of a Tree) Movement Direction Atelierteatern
1989-93
Nalle Puh (Winnie the Pooh - Dir: J. Sjoberg
1892 (rockmusical version of Spring Awakening by Wederkind) – Dir: J. Sjoberg
Peppar, peppar (also co-direction), touring out-door Commedia dell’arte
Mio my Mio, A. Lindgren Dir: Simeon Rabinovitz (dance theatre)
Ett Dromspel (A Dream Play), A. Strindberg Dir: L. Engstrom
Trettondags Afton (Twelfth Night), W. Shakespeare. Dir: A. Harmon
Les Liaisons Dangereuses Dir: A. Harmon
Cyrano de Bergerac
Harlekins Dag (Harlequin’s Day) - solo touring
1984-89
Flute-playing of reapers, At Once, Nightwalking, Banana Dance
Dancers: Fatima Cerquiera, Johannes Botros, Dora Frankel
Dance Out! Garderobs Theatre Malmo 1984
1984
Dance Out!
1 st independent project
Music: Flautist Simon Desorgher
Performers: Dora Frankel, Debbie Thomas, Simon Desorgher
Greenwich Festival 1982
Malmo Theatre restaging 1983
1982-83
Bench Dancers Anonymous Edinburgh Festival 1979
Inspired Imbalance Dancers Anonymous Edinburgh Festival 1981
Train Suite Nin Dance Company, Jacksons Lane Theatre London 1982
1979-82
Images for Two
Music: Gamelan
Design: Nicola Gregory Dancers:
Sally Owen and Mark Wraith Ballet Rambert Workshop, Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, London