Three cargo cranes dance a choreographed routine in synchronisation to music performed by choirs and musicians on the water, bringing the Bristol harbour-side skyline to life.
Mass Crane Dance was devised and choreographed by Laura Kriefman as part of the inaugural The Space/ WIRED Creative Fellowship and supported by the Watershed.
After dark. Breaking the rules. Fuelled by Plymouth’s passion for drift cars, footwork, flips, MC’s, show cars and dancing the night away.
Turning the key on a combustion engine of engineering, imagination, hybrid cars and rebellious dancers.
Hellion takes the percussive sounds of tap dance and turns them into samples of different instruments from flutes to cellos to tables.
Hellion straddles the worlds of music, dance and tech, combining live tap dance, looping and a fully sound reactive LED dress to create a show that is breaking all the rules.
Hellion takes the percussive sounds of tap dance and turns them into samples of different instruments from flutes to cellos to tables.
Pangea opened at Glatonbury 2019 with all of Arcadia’s anticipated impact: fire, lights, killer sound system, dazzling lighting design and 360 projections by Astral Project and Heckler. With her expertise in choreographing industrial machinery, Laura Kriefman was invited to join Arcadia’s team to design a movement palette, and choreographed their 50 metre tall crane. Weighing 140 tonnes, the crane will be the centre of the new Arcadia’s Pangea Field, which will be exclusive to Glastonbury festival, and evolve over the next 5 years.
Star Light, Star Bright mapped the star constellations visible above Oxford in the months of January and February. With each star represented as individual, step-activated lights, people were invited to work together to turn on whole constellations in locations across the city.
Winner of the Smart Oxford Playable City Award 2017, this city-wide intervention brought life to dark winter streets, connecting strangers for a shared moment of discovery and wonder.
Dance experience meets sculpture park meets soundscape experience. Rolling Stones are Henry Moore-esque sculptures that make music which changes when you spin, stroke or lift the sculptures up. Suddenly your walk in the park is full of music. Caressing smooth marble as never been so fun. A chance to participate with your environment in a completely new way.
Press Play is a musical billboard.
Press Play links strangers to each other, individuals to urban space and creates moments of surprise, delight and connection. All through High-Fives that let you make music.
It has toured around the UK and Brazil.
Hidden Fields is a unique sci-art collaboration that has attracted significant national and international attention. This augmented dance project gives people the chance to see how their energy fields interact with the otherwise invisible atomic world. Fusing 3d imaging and rigorous quantum mechanics, Hidden Fields brings together gaming, science, dance and people.
Laura Kriefman and Tom Mitchell of University of the West of England join forces to celebrate the physical book as the centrepiece of information exchange.
