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Clare Whistler Freelance Artistwww.clarewhistler.co.uk Training,
Dance andChoreography, 1968-1994 Training Elmhurst Ballet School
1968-1977Rambert School of
Dance 1975-77 Toronto 1977-78 Danced with Ballet Ys affiliate
dance company to theNational Ballet of Canada . New York, 1978-80
Own productions at Merce
Cunningham Studio, Riverside Dance Theatre,
DanceTheatreWorkshop, Dancedwith Chiang Ching Dance Company. San
Francisco 1980 1994 DanceArtCompany,own duet dance company , 40
choreographers created pieces for us ,which touredinternationally,
worked with Merce Cunningham, Lucas Hoving, Cliff Keuter,
Joanna
Haigood among others. Positions since 1994 include Artistic
Director ofGlyndebourne Youth Opera 1997 - 2007 Outreach Artist for
the De La Warr
Pavilion, Bexhill 1996-2000 Co-founded Shaping Voices in 2000, a
company thatuses creative reminiscence and heritage projects to
bring the arts to older people.Funded by Heritage Lottery, Grants
for the Arts, Social Services* Founded 'True
North' unusual pieces in unusual places with Deirdre Gribbon
& Katie Tearle
Visiting Artist at University of Brighton and at Queen Mary
(QMUL) Opera: asDirector, Associate Director and Movement Director,
1996-2013 Work as Associate Director
for Peter Sellars included iconic productions such as Tristan
and Isolde (with BillViola), which premiered at Paris Opera in 2005
and the Theodora premiere at
Glyndebourne Opera in 1996. Other opera work has been undertaken
for:Glyndebourne Opera, Paris Opera, Canadian Opera Company,
Toronto, Den Jyske,
Denmark, Theatre Colon, Buenos Aires, LA Phil, Los Angeles,
Barbican, London,Vienna Festival, Opera Holland Park, Scottish
Opera, Opera North, Garsington
Opera, Finnish Opera, Helsinki, State Opera, Tallin, Prague
Opera House,Strasbourg Opera. Community Projects Clare's community
projects, as Director, Writer,Choreographer, Collaborator have
ranged from 1 to 700 people, include all ages andabilities, amateur
and professional, in performances spaces to historical and
outdoorsites and using all arts forms to create performances. She
has worked on communityprojects with the Royal Festival Hall,
British Museum, Hackney Empire, Imperial War
Museum, Handel House, Sadlers Wells, Utrecht Festival,
Aldeburgh, NorthlandsFestival, Nuremberg, Goldsmiths, Queen Mary,
University of London, schools
throughout London especially Hackney and Southwark, at
communities all over theUK especially Sussex, and prisons including
Wormwood Scrubs, Holloway, Lewes
and Feltham Young Offenders. Examples of Recent Residencies and
Collaborations Artist inResidence, Bunces Barn 2009 2013 2013 The
Library of Lost Books
Exhibition/Installation Birmingham LibraryFabrica, Brighton
Residency 'CreepingButtercup' Matchpoint, Kulturhus ,Munich 1 to 1
installation 'Listen to Air'The Library
of Water, Iceland, Residency, film makers Rebecca E Marshall
& NicholaBruce'Footage' film installation project with Martin
Welton funded by
LCace 2012 'Bread' The Gifts 6 , Blackthorne Bakery, Maidstone
,Kent'Where theWildflowers Are' City of London Festival Commission
for 3 City Churches , 32
composers and poets, 32 performers and musicians'Birds Eye
View', 700 childrenRoyal Festival Hall'The Visitor' collaboration
with artist Judith Alder Installation with
videos, photographs and commissioned writing, Redoubt Fort,
Eastbourne 2011 'Bird'for Tagore Event at Museum of Modern Art
Oxford'Candle' The Gifts 5, Pett Level,
Sussex 'A Clear Eye', an evocation of Edward Thomas, performance
at BuncesBarn'Down A Garden Path' performance with Jen Mitas, The
Foundry,
