Charlotte Eatock
Kate Lunn
About the artist
Charlotte Eatock trained at London Studio and graduated with a BA Honours in Theatre Dance. She created 'Secret Event' for Resolution 2008. 'Kate Lunn' and 'Music Box' were shown as part of the London International Dance Film Festival 2007. Charlotte worked with Didi Veldman on a production of 'Peter and the Wolf' Amsterdam 2007 and worked with Henri Oguike Dance Company from 2003 to 2006 performing and teaching. Charlotte was commissioned to create a dance piece for the National youth Festival in London with a performance at the National Gallery 2006. She performed an improvised solo as part of 'Dance Beats: Live Beats' at The Place 2005. Charlotte has also performed with Jazzxchange, Akademi and Bimba Dance Theatre. She has choreographed work for London Studio Centre's Dance Overture both in 2006 'come again?' and 2004 'I have no name'. She has worked with National Youth Dance Wales choreographing in 2004 and 2005, and teaching in 2006. She created 'good news' for a platform at The Point in 2005 and created 'Slaughter' for Resolutions 2004 and choreographed and appeared in The Beta Bands music video 'Human Being' 2002.
About the work
This work is my first collaboration. Johanna Levy and I decided to work together in a way that I had been working independently and catergorised the work 'Kate Lunn' as a 'do it yourself project'. We choreographed the movement together and decided to both appear in the video, we created the music, filmed it and edited it. The idea evolved around a bench in Hampstead Heath. This bench was in memory of a girl around the same age as us when she died and so we decided to go to this bench often as though we were meeting a friend. We would change into our rehearsal clothes, warm up, improvise and then structure our movement material, film, eat our lunch, discuss ideas even sit under an umbrella when it rained and we couldn't film. The outcome is a young playful dance / music video, created to entertain and offer Kate Lunn companionship.
Additional credits:
Originally from France, Johanna Levy trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon, Rudra, the school of Maurice Béjart in Switzerland and at Paris VIII University. She has produced her own pieces and worked with various choreographers. In London Johanna has taught Ballet and Creative Dance to children and adults. As an independent choreographer she is a founder member of Gaudier/Levy Dance Theatre and Jack.
