Lea Anderson

Lea Anderson MBE is a British dancer, choreographer and artistic director. Anderson is a co-founder along with long-term collaborators Theresa Barker and Gaynor Coward of the Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaughs dance companies, she has choreographed over 100 dances with the two companies. In 2002 Anderson was awarded an Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her contribution to dance. She specialises in pedestrian dance, a style of dance formed from everyday movements. For the majority of her dances Lea will begin by creating a scrapbook on a topic that has interested her in day-to-day life, for example something she has seen in the street or on an advert. Andersons style has been described as " ...this most accessible of choreographers (feeds) not on the esoteric and obscure, but on the readily available debris of media culture". [Dodds, Sheri [http://www.dancing-times.co.uk/dancingtimes0201-2.html "Lea Anderson - Breaking the Boundaries of High Art"] Dancing Times, Ltd. retrieved 2007-12-10] The works she has choreographed have also been described as "Political without being dogmatic, irreverent but not lightweight... [Watson, Keith [http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,,268491,00.html "Dance without the boring bits."] "The Guardian." 1999-09-11 "Top of the shake-up were DV8 and the Cholmondeleys. Political without being dogmatic, irreverent but not lightweight, this was dance shot through with pop sensibilities."]

Career

Anderson is a graduate of the Laban Centre, prior to that she attended St Martins College of Art and Design as a visual arts student, but decided eventually to focus on movement and dance.Mangalanayagam,Tanja [http://www.londondance.com/content.asp?CategoryID=2255 Lea Anderson Q&A] ]

In 1984 Anderson formed The Cholmondeleys an all female dance company. In 1988 she formed The Featherstonehaughs, at that time they were the only all male dance company in the United KingdomFact|date=December 2007.

References

External links

* [http://www.thecholmondeleys.org/ Official website]

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