DOG KENNEL HILL PROJECT is Henrietta Hale, Rachel Lopez de la Nieta and Ben Ash. Their work is performance, dance, embodiment, choreography and lived philosophy. In collaboration and alongside selected associate artists and partners, they develop investigative projects to specific contexts or communities including theatres, galleries, screenworks, and non-traditional or outdoor sites. 

 

'In 2004 we each had careers as contemporary dancers, but were hungry for something more. We decided to form a lab to support and challenge each other artistically and we collaborated that year on our first piece - a Place Prize commission - under the Dog Kennel Hill Project umbrella title. Since then it has been a slowly evolving journey characterised by the need to trust, respect, re-learn, deconstruct, push, be bold, throw everything away, move away from the theatre, understand why we are doing this, understand commitment, find joy, come back to the theatre and fall in love with ideas.....'  

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Work is characterised by its subtle wit, resistance to definition and ability to surprise and intrigue. It has been described as intriguing, slippery, mind-blowing and laugh-out-loud funny. We see it as both formalist and anarchic. 

 

The work is a series of relationships, negotiations and experiments. These have been collected under umbrella titles that we call “projects' from which many shows, productions, screenings, talks can emerge.

 

Projects start with a social, political, historical or philosophical curiosity  and involve practices of meeting people, moving, shifting locations, interviewing, writing and framing things that exist naturally. They usually span a few years and inform many of our shows, commissions and education work like a web of intersecting pathways.

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ASSOCIATE ARTISTS AND PEOPLE over 15 years include:

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Video-maker - Tony Wadham: Tony is responsible for much of our video and photography material, and for constructing sets and generally solving technical problems in creative and inspiring ways. A close and brilliant collaborator - see his work as actor and film-maker here - www.tonywadham.com

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Composers - Jules Maxwell, Angie Atmadjaja, Sianed Jones, Matteo Fargion

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Producers - Claire Hicks, Nikki Tomlinson, David Morgan

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Mentor/outside eyes - Charlotte Darbyshire, Rosie Lee, Marina Collard

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Performers - Graeme Miller, Rosemary Lee, Charlie Ashwell, Helka Kaski, Erik Nevin, Monsur Ali/Rukaya Kuthi, Scott Smith, Kate Brown, Seke Chimutenguende, Stella Papi, Marina Collard, Joan Clevillé, Jim Barnard, Antonio de la Fe, Rohanna Eade, Colin Poole, Lizzy Le Quesne, Luke Birch and many more.