05-07 2024 10:27
wrote:
I was a student at LSCD when I first met you; trying to watch as much of your theatre programme as I could.
You were a legend even in 1991.
Eiko and Koma I will never forget.
Forward 20 or so years I was so lucky to become your colleague.
What you did for contemporary dance is incomparable.
How you did it even more so.
The sun and moon? A lighthouse perhaps? A beacon? An engine? My dance – dad? and always very much a human being.
A human being with endless capacity for conversation and curiosity; for investing in artists and young people.
Visionary, unparalleled in pure passion for the form, for dialogue, criticality.
For taking risk, activism. Supporting female makers; driving international collaboration; always testing out new ideas.
Your leaving do at The Place; all those t-shirts coming off one by one, the joy, the passion the rage – undimmed!
Then Aerowaves; without doubt THE single most important source of my inspiration over 15 years at the helm at Yorkshire Dance.
An evening spent outside a theatre was a wasted opportunity: conversations about new work until deep in the night; in fact: us watching dance shows until gone midnight! All those Aerowaves videos: You set the bar high John!
We are all so indebted to you, you are much missed but your uncompromising commitment and humanity lives on in us.
Thank you for being there, in all your kindness, generosity, knowledge and sheer stubborn love for dance of the now.
05-07 2024 10:27
wrote:
I was a student at LSCD when I first met you; trying to watch as much of your theatre programme as I could.
You were a legend even in 1991.
Eiko and Koma I will never forget.
Forward 20 or so years I was so lucky to become your colleague.
What you did for contemporary dance is incomparable.
How you did it even more so.
The sun and moon? A lighthouse perhaps? A beacon? An engine? My dance – dad? and always very much a human being.
A human being with endless capacity for conversation and curiosity; for investing in artists and young people.
Visionary, unparalleled in pure passion for the form, for dialogue, criticality.
For taking risk, activism. Supporting female makers; driving international collaboration; always testing out new ideas.
Your leaving do at The Place; all those t-shirts coming off one by one, the joy, the passion the rage – undimmed!
Then Aerowaves; without doubt THE single most important source of my inspiration over 15 years at the helm at Yorkshire Dance.
An evening spent outside a theatre was a wasted opportunity: conversations about new work until deep in the night; in fact: us watching dance shows until gone midnight! All those Aerowaves videos: You set the bar high John!
We are all so indebted to you, you are much missed but your uncompromising commitment and humanity lives on in us.
Thank you for being there, in all your kindness, generosity, knowledge and sheer stubborn love for dance of the now.
