Adam Russell, Sharing for Fairground Reminiscence May 2018
Adam Russell is an independent dance artist based in the North of England.
As a choreographer, Adam aims to make work that is both accessible and challenging for audiences. He creates atmospheric, other worldly performance experiences for both traditional and non-traditional performance spaces. Communities and local people are often centred in his creations making them at the heart of what the work is about.
"His work opens the richness of human relationships through an exploration of language and metaphor, informed by a strong visual and theatrical sensibility, powerful and strange beauty." University of Cumbria on Grotesque in Light
He was awarded a Space/Time Bursary from Space Six in partnership with The Empty Space to support the R&D of Fairground Reminiscence alongside a Grant for the Arts through Arts Council England.
In 2017 Adam was awarded a Lisa Ullmann Traveling Scholarship Grant for Lost in Translation, a cultural dance exchange between communities of Santiago, Chile and Newcastle, England.
As a choreographer, Adam aims to make work that is both accessible and challenging for audiences. He creates atmospheric, other worldly performance experiences for both traditional and non-traditional performance spaces. Communities and local people are often centred in his creations making them at the heart of what the work is about.
"His work opens the richness of human relationships through an exploration of language and metaphor, informed by a strong visual and theatrical sensibility, powerful and strange beauty." University of Cumbria on Grotesque in Light
He was awarded a Space/Time Bursary from Space Six in partnership with The Empty Space to support the R&D of Fairground Reminiscence alongside a Grant for the Arts through Arts Council England.
In 2017 Adam was awarded a Lisa Ullmann Traveling Scholarship Grant for Lost in Translation, a cultural dance exchange between communities of Santiago, Chile and Newcastle, England.
The Glass House Dance Ahead
Following the success of Living History In August 2015 at Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust, Adam met a number of cumbrian dance artists including artistic director of Dance Ahead Zoe Leigh Gadd.
Adam has continued to collaborate with Dance Ahead since 2015 to create a number of community performance projects as both a choreographer and performer. This first included #HiddenSpaces15, a site specific immersive performance in the hidden spaces underneath Carlisle Citadel Railway Station working with performers aged from the age of 6 to 79 years old. This was the beginning of a new successful collaborations for future productions. In 2017 Dance Ahead created The Glass House developed from a Adams Dance City commission for Edits in 2015 called Looking Outside From the Inside, a contemporary dance theatre production on the themes of poverty, the vulgarity of bourgeois spending, and the social isolation caused by the wealth gap.
‘The Glass House, shimmers with style, talent and visual intrigue. Managing to simultaneously entertain, perplex, challenge and confront its audience, the Glass House is a theatrical offering that is impressive and refreshing.’ A. Hughes
Adam has continued to collaborate with Dance Ahead since 2015 to create a number of community performance projects as both a choreographer and performer. This first included #HiddenSpaces15, a site specific immersive performance in the hidden spaces underneath Carlisle Citadel Railway Station working with performers aged from the age of 6 to 79 years old. This was the beginning of a new successful collaborations for future productions. In 2017 Dance Ahead created The Glass House developed from a Adams Dance City commission for Edits in 2015 called Looking Outside From the Inside, a contemporary dance theatre production on the themes of poverty, the vulgarity of bourgeois spending, and the social isolation caused by the wealth gap.
‘The Glass House, shimmers with style, talent and visual intrigue. Managing to simultaneously entertain, perplex, challenge and confront its audience, the Glass House is a theatrical offering that is impressive and refreshing.’ A. Hughes
Lost in Translation Project, Working with Better Days at Dance City, Newcastle
Adams highlights as a performer includes dancing for balletLORENT, performing in the critically acclaimed production of Rapunzel as an apprentice continuing as a dancer for the duration of the national tour. Through his work with balletLORENT he worked with a number of young casts in education and participation which influences his work and practice to date. Other highlights includes Darren Pritchard's Body Of Light, a dance and technology solo using the Microsoft Kinect sensor to integrate human movement with computer generated imagery.The work is continuing to tour various dates and venues throughout 2016/17.
His training includes The BRIT School for Performing Arts and technology, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance graduating with a BA (hons) in Dance Theatre and postgraduate training at Northern School of Contemporary Dance.
Adam teaches on a freelance basis, he designs and delivers bespoke workshops for all ages and abilities. "It has enriched our curriculum topic perfectly, providing just the right amount of interest, challenge and engagement. The children and staff have had a great time and really enjoyed the sessions" Linton First Primary School, July 2018
His training includes The BRIT School for Performing Arts and technology, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance graduating with a BA (hons) in Dance Theatre and postgraduate training at Northern School of Contemporary Dance.
Adam teaches on a freelance basis, he designs and delivers bespoke workshops for all ages and abilities. "It has enriched our curriculum topic perfectly, providing just the right amount of interest, challenge and engagement. The children and staff have had a great time and really enjoyed the sessions" Linton First Primary School, July 2018