Signdance History & Archive
History of Signdance Theatre Major performance works by Signdance Collective’s Directors Signdance Theatre Trust 1986-1999 and Signdance Collective International 2000-Current
The Sign Dance Theatre Trust 1986-1999
1986 – Light Cycle 5 – Choreography Isolte Avila cast - Jenny Sealy Tim Morrison Alan Landle and Isolte Avila premiered The Place theatre
1988 Children's Project- Our Town In-Collaboration with The Unicorn Theatre London .Direction Rebecca Lublinski
1987 –1989- Enraptured. Choreography –Isolte Avila premiered Stirling Youth Dance festival ,and The Blackie Liverpool .cast- Golda Dahn , Tony Baynton Isolte Avila Rebecca Lublinski Christoffer De Graal
1990-1991- Since Then Chantalle Nassari Rebecca Lublinski Isolte Avila and Denise Armstrong Based on Te Mayan Bible The Popul VuMusic- Christoffer De Graal Toured throughout the UK
1989 – 1992- A Stranger Disintegrates – Premiered Place Theatre Choreography Loyd Newson and Isolte Avila through a Digital Award. cast-Golda Dahn , Tony Baynton Isolte Avila Rebecca Lublinski Christoffer De Graal Arts Council London Funded/ Digital Award Toured Nationally
1991 – 1992- Parttraps Premiered at The Place, London choreographed by Royston Maldoom and Isolte Avila cast - Golda Dahn, Tony Baynton Isolte Avila Rebecca Lublinski Christoffer De Graal Toured Nationally Supported by Arts Council England
1993-1994- Waiting – Choreography Isolte Avila dancer - Chris Wilks National tour of Venezuela with the British Council and ChoreoArte
Premiered CoreoArte – Venezuela
1992 –1996 -Lunera Choreography- Isolte Avila Premiered Battersea Arts Centre/ Gallaudet University Washington DC. cast - Denise Armstrong Isolte Avila . Highlights –Toured- internationally
1992-1994- An Angel or The Old Dream Of Flying Choreography- Ismael Ivo- cast Isolte Avila, Denise Armstrong, Rebecca Lublinski Christoffer De Graal Premiered Dorset Several Venues Arts Council South West Funded Toured Regionally
1994-1997- What We Want To Say To Juan Jose Choreography- Isolte Avila Dir – Carl Proctor – cast Isolte Avila , Denise Armstrong music Christoffer De Graal Premiered Edinburgh Fringe Festival Toured Nationally
1994 – 1996 - Let The Painter Sing Choreography- Isolte Avila Premiered Gallaudet University Washington DC cast Isolte Avila Denise Armstrong David Bower Toured Internationally
1994 -1995- Ferias choreography Isolte Avila dir Joke Menssink with Diagonal Theatre Groep cast- David Bower, Isolte Avila, Denise Armstrong and Members of Diagonaal Toured Internationally EU Funded
1995 – 2000 Distant Sisters premiered Manchester Xtrax Festival cast- Denise Armstrong, Isolte Avila Music David Praties Toured Internationally
1996 Billie Can Written by David Bower and Kaite Oreille performed at Liverpool Deaf Club and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival
1996-1997 Borders and Freeways Premiered at The Ana Desetnica International Festival Choreography –Isolte Avila cast – David B oilower, Wayne Sharples, Stuart Sinclaire, Music Isolte Avila Shropshire Arts Funded Toured Internationally
1997 Aisha Rising Part 1- Premiered at Budapest Deaf Arts Festival and Xtrax Festival Choreography Isolte Avila. cast Wayne Sharples, Isolte Avila , David Bower, stuart Sinclaire Music – David Praties British Council Funded
1997 Answer Me With Silence Choreography –Isolte Avila Dir- Bill Hopkinson Written By Kaite Oreilly and Isolte Avila. Music- David Praties premiered –National Tour U.K
SDCI Signdance Collective International 2000-2017
2000 – 2005 Caliban And Miranda direction Garry Robson, Choreography Isolte Avila – Transposition of Tempest – David Bower . Premiered at Ana Desetnica Street Theatre Festival ) music Luke Barlow. Over 300 performances Arts Council England Ana Desetnica Festival Funded
2002-2004- You Hide and Ill Go Blow Up The Generator direction Goro Osojnic/ Cho-Isolte Avila , David Bower
Premiered at Ambersekii International Youth Theatre School Turkey , and Amsterdam Cameleon Theatre , cast – Isolte Avila , David Bower music –several artists 100+shows City Of Amsterdam Funded toured internationally
2003-2006- Aisha Rising direction –Goro Osojnic Music Sially Yalciner , Luke Barlow , Choreography-Isolte Avila, David Bower cast – Isolte Avila , David Bower Premiered Holton Lee Dorset UK over 150 performances British Council Funded Via Tour
2005-2009- But Beautiful based on the Life of Art Pepper Arts Council England Funded
Dir Garry Robson , Choreography , Ornella D’Agostino cast – Isolte Avila , David Bower and The Luke Barlow Band Arts Council England –Funded Internationally Toured to over 50 cities
2006-2008 Named Space –dir –Goro Osojnik – Wring Brandon Astor Jones , from incarceration on Death row , Music Luke Barlow, Sihally Yalciner USA Clwyd Theatre Wales. Choreography –Isolte Avila – cast- Isolte Avila , David Bower Premiered Graz International Street Theatre Festival – fiunded by The Barlow Family
2009-2012 - Dances For A Lost Traveler direction /choreography- Isolte Avila , Primoz Beycek, Ornella D’ Agostino , Music - Luke Barlow , Mark Holub, Liran Donin Arts Council England Funded over 150 performances internationally
2010-2012 New Gold (Outdoor) (Cultural Olympiad Programme / Performance ) direction- Goro Osojnic , Choreography-Isolte Avila cast – isolte Avila, Fran Osimani, Laura Goulden, Pedro De Senna, Dexter Hamlett, David Bower. Music Frognal, and Dead Days Beyond Help 250 performances Internationally Arts Council England and Creative Campus Funded Through Create Compete Collaborate . part Of The London 2012
2012-2015 Half A Penny & The Other Side Of The Coin – Direction – Pedro de Senna, Dramateurg – David Bower , Cho- isolte Avila , Music- Dead Days Beyond Help . Cast- Francesca Osimani , Laura Goulden, isolte Avila , David Bower , Dead Days Beyond Help . Premiered , Kulturr WerkStaat , Graz and Ethos International Festival Ankara/On International Tour
2014 Bad Elvis Collaboration with BBC Radio 4 Directed by Susan Roberts
Irina Kaplan Isolte Avila David Bower Pedro De Senna
Cast 1 – with Francesca Osimani and Hearns Seabuado
Premiered at BBC Salford 2013
Toured – USA – Miami 2014
Louisiana State University 2014
IRS Theare London Covent Garden 2015
Middle Sex University London 2015
2014-Current
Carthage Cartagena By Caridad Svich
Supported by Arts Council England and venue partners
Directors –
Beatriz Cabur
Joke Menssink
Pedro De Senna
Touring Cast- Isolte Avila David Bower Lionel Macauley
International Tour 2017 –
KulturInGraz (preview)
Middlesex University (premiere)
Utopia Theatre
Tour of North Wales 5 venues
Arts For Everyone High Wycombe
Kultur In Graz Festival
Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival
Oxford Playhouse
Liberty Festival London
TheatreLab New York City
Samarth Mumbai
Touring – R&D
R&D Artists- Paunika Jones Shane Shambu Hearns Sebuado Francesca Osimani
2014 -2015 Austria Ligist, Austria & Graz -
Watermans Theatre
Arts For Every One High Wycombe
Louisiana State University No Passport Conference
San Francisco Deaf Dance Festival
Transmitter Arts Festival Graz Austria
Carovana SMI Italy Culture Festival
2016 –The Juggling Gypsy
2016
Broken City Wall Street
Collaboration with Popup Theatrics
In 2016 SDC joined Pop Up for Broken City Wall Street in 2016 www.popuptheatrics.com
Choreography and Movement development Isolte Avila & David Bower
21 performances NYC
2017/2018 current Zsongs In Between spaces
Collaboration with Transmitter Performance with 73 Degree Films
David Bower Angelina Schwammerlin Isolte Avila
2017 R&D Zsongs tour – Cuntra La Cultura – Graz
Samarth Bohpal India North Wales Tingle Tangle Graz and InTakt Graz
2018 current Please Visit The ProjektZ Platform Arts Council England
The Turtle Trials 2018 -Current Direction Barbara Bulatovic and Mike Gould Arts Council Wales
Producers -R&D Wendy Paintsil
Production & Pilot tour Robert Corcoran
Partners Ucheldre Centre