| | | | | | Sean Graham
Verse-Bebop
Choreographer/Director/Writer/Poet
Since 2004 Sean has been touring Nationally and Internationally with the Irven Lewis Dance Company.
As a freelance fusion artist Sean often works utilising dance and Spoken word. At Breakin’ Convention ’06 Sean debut as a soloist with ‘Buskin’ Boy’, In the same year he choreographed for the successful touring play ‘Locked In’ written by Finn Kennedy and directed by Angela Michaels. At the end of 2006 Sean was appointed Assistant Director for the East London Dance Youth Company.
At the beginning of 2007 Sean had just finished an international research and performance tour with the Adesola Akinleye Dance Company, reaching as far field as New York exploring the work of the author Ralph Ellison. Returning from this tour helped give form and insight to his mission as an artist exploring the socio-cultural identities of different communities and their co-existing diasporic journeys into the now and future.
Sean Graham is also a founding choreographic member of the D-physics collective. Choreographic credits for the company include ‘S.A.L 0.1’ performed at Small Dances commissioned by East London Dance and performed by guest appearance at the Move it! Dance exhibition at Olympia. Sean also choreographed ‘S.A.L 0.2’ commissioned by Sadler’s Wells and performed at Breakin’ Convention ‘07.
This year Sean has been on board with a creative team from the Royal Opera House and East London Dance. Artists include Robert Hylton of RHUC and operatic composer John Brown. This high profile project inspired by the classic opera ‘Don Giovanni’ will be showing in November 2007 at the Royal Opera House and Stratford Circus entitled ‘Demon Juice’.
In May 2008 Sean will be presenting a commission by The Big Mission Festival show casing new black choreographers. With this commission he will present a premier of Sean Graham Dance Theatre (SGDT), a narrative company that explores the techniques of diasporic dance movement and contemporary choreographic devices. |
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