Falling
(Duration: 5 minutes)
World Première: 8 April 2008 on on ABC TV Australia
A groundbreaking dance-film directed by Dan Farberoff and inspired by NASA astronaut Steve MacLean’s space walk. A moving and mesmerising duet choreographed by Oguike, featuring an original soundtrack of piano and voice by Errollyn Wallen, with narration by Steve MacLean.
Finale
(Duration:15 minutes)
World Première: South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
A full Company work which brings pure sunshine to the stage. Set to the carnival rhythms of René Aubry's music, this joyous piece will send you home on a high!
'Oguike's dancers frisked with infectious abandon, the steps seeming to bounce spontaneously from bodies that glowed with vitality in Guy Hoare's sunny yellow light'. The Sunday Telegraph
Front Line
(Duration: 20 minutes)
World Première: 31 January 2002 - British Dance Edition, Birmingham
Oguike’s signature piece is a sextet danced to Shostakovich’s 9th Quartet in E Flat. The moods are constantly shifting, the instruments squeal like animals and engage in wild stamping dances. Played live by the Pavao Quartet.
Green in Blue
(Duration: 16 minutes)
World Première: 19 January 2007 - Laban, London
Green in Blue sees the choreographer’s first foray into jazz and a major collaboration with the internationally renowned saxophonist Iain Ballamy. Rhythm is obsession in Green in Blue; the dancers spark off Ballamy’s band to infuse a crisp yet playful energy into this full company work.
Played live by internationally renowned saxophonist and composer Iain Ballamy and three leading jazz musicians.
Little Red
(Duration: 21 minutes)
World Première: 19 January 2007 - Laban, London
A wild and explosive work for six women. Witchy in red velvet, they strut the stage in passionate dialogue with Vivaldi's violin concerti.
White Space
(Duration: 22 minutes)
World Première: 28 January 2004 - Wyvern Theatre, Swindon
Dancers strut and preen with a teasing competitiveness in White Space. Abstract and coolly modern, yet possessing a distinctive courtly air, this satirical septet is set to Scarlatti’s bright and rhythmic pieces for harpsichord and laced with a Mondrian-style film backdrop.
