DANCE COLLABORATION ~ 2011
This year I will be working with Andrew Wilson-Dickson and the Welsh Baroque Orchestra, culminating in a performance of a new work on Thursday 20th October. The Concerto in E minor for flute, recorder and strings by Telemann did actually feature in last year’s festival, as part of the performance on the Sunday night. However on that occasion it was performed by a small group of 6 musicians, lead by Rachel Podger, whereas this year we will have a fuller orchestral sound. I chose this piece of music because of the contrast and development within the 4 movements, which have inspired me to create a piece about a changing relationship. Andrew has been generous in allowing me to add a musical addendum to the suite, which I hope will “round the piece off” within the context we have chosen, allowing the piece to “come full circle”.
This year’s piece will explore the relationship between a mother and a daughter and will be an intensely personal piece, as I will be choreographing and performing with my own daughter, Josie Sinnadurai. I am reaching the end of my performing career (unlike musicians a dancer’s career necessarily ends when our instrument wears out!), but as I retire from the stage, Josie is about to embark on professional training to begin her career. This seems like an ideal time to work together. We will be bringing our own respective experiences of motherhood and childhood/young adulthood to the choreography - and as anyone with a daughter will know, there are joys and tensions in varying measure…..our rehearsals are full of collaboration, compromise, disagreement, stubbornness, intensity, frustration, but most frequently, laughter! It is fascinating to work with someone so like oneself, and yet so different.
Although a personal piece of work, I hope that the audience may recognise elements of their own experience within it. I am very grateful to the Festival for giving me the opportunity once again to introduce a dance element into the proceedings. Given the financial constraints of the world we live in, dancers and choreographers must work for much of their lives with recorded music, so it is a privilege to perform with “live” musicians of this calibre and I look forward very much to this year’s collaboration.
Katy Sinnadurai 2011
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