Henri Oguike is setting a blistering pace. No other choreographer working in Britain today can provide an evening of such fertile musical and visual variety - each creation has its own colour, pace and distinctive mode of movement.' The Daily Telegraph
Henri Oguike Dance Company marked its 10th Anniversary in Spring 2009. Over the last decade, many thousands have witnessed the imaginative and inspired dance creations of Henri Oguike as the Company has toured both in the UK and abroad.
Rambert Dance Company's Commission
Rambert Dance Company's Comedy of Change Tour featuring Henri Oguike's new work Tread Softly
Inspired by W B Yeats and John Grey and enhanced by the live sound of a string quartet, Tread Softly uses light and Schubert's Death and the Maiden to take us from one illusion into another. What is real and what is imagined?
The world premiere of Tread Softly is at the Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe on 7 October 2009; the London premiere at Sadler's Wells on 3 November 2009.
Showing At:
Theatre Royal, Brighton 3rd - 6th February 2010
Theatre Royal, Newcastle 21st - 23rd April 2010
Lyceum, Sheffield 28th - 30th April 2010
Music:
"Death and the Maiden" String Quartet No 14 by Schubert
Costume Design:
Asalia Khadjé
Lighting Design:
Yaron Abulafia