Charlie Morissey
Associate Lecturer
Website: www.charliemorrissey.com
Charlie Morrissey is a performer, teacher, director and researcher and he lives in Brighton. He trained at Dartington College of Arts in the England, and has been working in the UK and in many other countries around the world for 18 years. He creates large and small-scale site-specific and theatre and gallery based performance work in diverse contexts working with set and improvised materials. His teaching is informed by ongoing and long-term collaborative working relationships with Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Scott Smith, Kirstie Simson, K.J.Holmes and others including Henry Montes, Gill Clarke, Christoph Lechner, Christian Burns, Jean-Hughes Miredin, Adrian Russi, Becky Edmunds, Katie Duck and many others. Charlie co-organises a group called Movement 12 in Brighton – a group of artists who curate an international professional development programme for dance artists. Find out about them at www.movement12.org Charlie has been practicing dance and Contact Improvisation for over 20 years.
Current 2009 projects include: From Here I can Almost See – a new performance piece for Brighton Festival playing alongside his solo ON off; The Swimmer – a new site specific performance for swimming pools - now in development for 2010; 10,000 – a new site-specific performance for 10,000 people in 2012 – a 1,000 version is being commissioned by Brighton Festival for 2010, Moving Men - a trio with Adrian Russi and Jean-Hughes Miredin being performed in Bern, Warsaw and Rotterdam; Tuning Scores - A research and performance project with American dance maker Lisa Nelson at TanzFabrik in Berlin; Teaching and performance projects in Romania, Kiev, Ibiza, Bern and across the UK; Deep Time – creating a series of site specific projects along the Jurassic Coast, A finale event with pyrotechnic company The World Famous for Exeter Festival; Working as rehearsal director for pieces by Hofesh Shechter and Russel Maliphant and Adam Benjaminon on the Destino tour in the UK and Ethiopia.