Curation
Curation 2010 - 2021
>>Phosphorescence supported by Creative Scotland for The Barn, Banchory
How The Sun Lights The Earth & other works funded by Arts Council England
What Matters funded by Arts Council England, presented at Siobhan Davies Studios
What If… supported by South East Dance & funded by Arts Council England presented at Siobhan Davies Studios
Small Matters commissioned by Dance Umbrella / funded by Arts Council England
Stray Gifts commissioned by Dance Umbrella / Funded by Arts Council England / produced by Artsadmin
What if … [link to festival pdf] What Matters [link to festival pdf]
A fellowship award from South East Dance in 2009 offered Lucy the opportunity to expand her choreographic practice. She responded by thinking beyond her own immediate practice to consider ways of creating dialogue within an expanded dance community. At the invitation of Gill Clarke from Independent Dance she was able to gather together three other dance artists – Becky Edmunds, Claudia Kappenberg and Chirstin Whyte to co-curate a festival at Siobhan Davies Studios, London. The festival included a range of works across disciplines – dance, live art, documentary film and moving image – selected for the ways in which they reflected choreographic thinking or offered new ways of conceiving of movement and choreography. We called the festival What if…
Ten writers from different disciplines (including anthropology, dance, moving image, popular science and visual arts) were invited to attend and contribute articles to a special issue of Dance Theatre Journal edited by Lucy and Theron Schmidt. The festival opened with a screening of filmmaker, Sally Potter’s The Gold Diggers followed by a conversation with artist Rose English who co-wrote the film. Artist John Smith and composer Graeme Miller made a special edition (in 24 hours!) of Lost Sound with remnants of sound tape found nearby the studios. Dance Theatre Journal devoted a special issue to What If… (pdf)
After What if… Lucy formed straybird with Becky Edmunds as a platform for co-curation. Together they developed and curated What Matters (2012), followed by Small Matters (2012) and Stray Gifts (2013) both commissioned by Dance Umbrella. For Stray Gifts Becky and Lucy temporarily converted a mobile horse container into a tiny gallery for sound and video works. Stray Gifts toured to three sites across London in September 2013.
In 2015 Lucy curated How The Sun Lights the Earth and other works for Decoda’s Summer Dancing in three different venues: Warwick Art Centre, Café Rising and Gosford Books.
Response to What Matters from choreographer, Siobhan Davies:
“It was immediately easy to see and feel that Lucy Cash and Becky Edmunds had curated a thought-provoking collection of events and films which mattered to them and which scratched at all of those who came to experience them.
One of the scratches on offer was that a common rootage in all the works could be found in dance, choreography, and movement. The collected works, in the context in which they were seen, made the larger concerns and appetites of dance more present… What Matters 2012 will become a marker to remember and be an influence in the future.”
