Vanessa Abreu

2011
July 2011
Vanessa performs 'D-llusion' for Gerrard Martin Dance
Cloud Dance Festival

Gerrard Martin has toured nationally with Phoenix Dance Company, as well as dancing with Ballet Black, Union Dance Company, Aletta Collins Dance Company and Sakoba Dance Theatre. Apart from modelling and film engagements, Gerrard has also danced for the National Theatre (Mappa Mundi), English National Opera (The Faery Queen), The Royal Opera (Don Giovanni) and with many commercial artists or bands, including Lionel Ritchie, Misteeq, Jamelia, Eternal, Shola Ama and Shaggy.
Gerrard is an Associate Artist at UK Foundation for Dance.

'D-llusion' explores perceptions of body-image seen through a young woman's eyes. As she battles with her psyche she percieves herself through media sound-bites and through her 'mirror image'. An unheatlhy obsession with her reflected image results in her image being distorted. Is the reflection in the mirror an apparition, a psychological nemesis; is the image real, or a figment of a delusional mind?

Choreographer: Gerrard Martin
Dancers: Vanessa Abreu and Claire Talbot

Pleasance Theatre, 23 July, 7.30pm.

July 2011
Vanessa is invited to work with....
Dane Hurst // Rambert Dance Company

InTRANSIT launches with Three days of unique events staged at the former Commonwealth Institute from 15 to 17 July. Closed to the public for a decade, creatives from Rambert Dance Company, Opera Holland Park, London Contemporary Orchestra, Neo-Futurist Collective and others have come together to devise new audio-kinetic adventures within this iconic building on High St Kensington.

Sir Robert Matthew's building has been closed to the public since 2002. It teeters between the remembered, the future and the strange existence of a near 10-year pause. Responding to the rules and nature of the space, a diverse spectrum of artists operating at the forefront of their fields will work to form a cyclic narrative using music and performance that represents a decade of limbo and a building of many different ends.

The void will be explored, the vessel will make vessels of us all. Nature abhors a vacuum. It is not empty.

The Commonwealth Institute, 15 July, 7pm-11pm; 16-17 July 2pm-11pm.
http://rkbcartsteam.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/r/D63F927E6CE9EA40
for tickets click: http://bit.ly/iMSTK5

2010
April 10
WHITE FLAG
Atfer an accomplished performance at Green Room, Manchester part of Turn 2010, White Flag were short-listed for the Turn Prize!!!!

March 10
'FROM 1953 TO HERE AND THERE... AND THEN? AND NEVER AGAIN!'
Performances at Green Room, Siobhan Davies Studio and Cloud Dance Festival!

2009
November 09
WHITE FLAG - RESEARCH PROJECT
SOFT CUTS - performance Saturday 28th November, Blue Elephant Theatre

August - November 09
'FROM 1953 TO HERE AND THERE... AND THEN? AND NEVER AGAIN!'
A new project begins...

July 09
RESIDENCY
19th - 26th July - KOLT Bjällansås 2009, Bokenås - Sweden.