Movement & Choreography

Female dancers dressed in white flowing tunics dance in a circle around two female actors in victorian coats and top hats and a an actor in modern day dress. They are in a marbled art deco style entrance hall.

Ulyssa

Pascal Theatre Company

Writer and Director: Julia Pascal

Cast: Esther Caplin, Sarah Thorogood, Jessica Claire, Anna Savva
Dance and choreography by The Ensemble: Marzena Krywult, Zoe Czavda Redo,
Winnie Lange, Elaine Thomas, Hollie Whitford

Researcher: Sally Mijit
Designer/Musical Arranger: Anna Hayward
Production Assistant: Alexandra Hart

2024

Senate House, Bloomsbury, London

Photo: Shane Aurousseau

A dancer in white lies on a black floor which is marked with orange tape patterns. To her side a performer stands reading from a book. there is a projection of trees in the background.

MAking S p a c e s

Movement direction: Elaine Thomas

Text: Alison Gibb

Video projection and images: Elaine Thomas & Alison GIbb

Lighting: Josh Tomalin

A performance that proposed 'making spaces' as a methodology to explore poetry and movement, gesture and language, and the operation of performance as an evolving site of production

2018

Vital Signs Festival, Salford University

An image of circular diagram with intersecting lines drawn vertically and horizontally across it. Text runs across horizontally. 'You sit down opposite me and twiddle my memories between your thumbs'.

Thus in the crossing

Movement direction: Elaine Thomas

Text and diagrams: Alison Gibb

Thus in The Crossing is a text, a series of diagrams, and a performance, combining spoken word with sound recordings and movement to create multiple expressions of the concept of Performative Poetics.

2013

Epoetry Festival, Watermans Arts Centre , London

A female dancer runs n the foreground. A male dancer bends his torso to the side n the background of a dark stage. There are bright white lights shining from behind the two dancers.

Outpost

Choreography: Elaine Thomas

Writer: Alison Gibb

Musical Director: Laurie Blundell

Cello: Laura Anstee

Violin: Emma Wragg

Voice: Maya Sapone

Dancers: Holly Dixon, Aneta Hymka, Rachael Nanyonjo, Deimantė Prišmantaitė, Steph Rossiter, Georgios Tsagdis

Lighting and sound: Mike Toon

Derived from Shakespeare's Tempest, Outpost evokes the characters of Caliban and Miranda, conjuring an ancient storm

2010

Village Underground, London

Two dancers dressed in red shiny costumes with gold body paint and long black lizard gloves move in a dark, high ceilinged studio space. There are large abstract video projections around them and an installation of shattered materials hung in the air.

Syzygy

Movement Direction & Costume:

Elaine Thomas & Holly Davey

Visuals, live video projection, installation, curation and production:

0(rphan)d(rift>)

Original sound:

Kode9, Apache61 and Ocosi

Syzygy was a series of 5 performances embedded within an installation and framed as an alternative calendar in response to the mythic and looming Y2K. Components of the project were organised around five avatars as embodiments of different combinations of elemental and technological characteristics.

1998

Beaconsfield Gallery, London

Two female dances dressed in dark blue dresses stand centre stage. Their heads are turned to look to the side. They both stand with one leg poised at the side.

Song for Sorrow endings

Choreography: Elaine Thomas

Dancers: Anna Melander & Elaine Thomas

Lighting and sound: MIke Toon

2007

The Place Theatre, London

A dancers leans backwards with her arms outstretched. Only her torso and arms are in view.

Natural Planes/Hope

Movement direction: Elaine Thomas

Film & Edit: Felix Fuller-Kerley

2024

Masbro Centre, London for 'Sharing My Space' a Creative Circle project

A group of dancers and musicians stand in a high ceilinged gallery space. They look at paintings on the walls. A seated audience watches. A red large cloth is spread out on the floor between them.

When I see Your face

Choreography:

Elaine Thomas, Rosie Leak, Gurpreet Dosanjh

Text: Rosie Leak

Music: Vespertine Quintet/ Alice- Mary Jelaska

2021 & 2019

Joy Festival, The Lyric Hammersmith, London

Uillin Art Centre, Skibbereen Arts Festival, Ireland

Photo: Kevin O'Farrel

Two performers stand in a studio. One is folding a paper script, one dances at her side. In the space are two chairs and a table. On the floor is a wooden mirror stand and a video projector. There is an image of the same wooden mirror stand projected onto the wall behind, showing a reflection of a torso and hand in the mirror image.

Texture Aesthetic production

Movement direction: Elaine Thomas

Text: Alison Gibb

Video projection: Elaine Thomas & Alison Gibb

A performed lecture including, sound, video, dance and text, exploring texture as an experience of language, and disruption as a method of theatrical production

2015

Dance Fields Conference, Roehampton University