Poster
1979 (made)
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Poster advertising London Contemporary Dance Theatre at Sadler's Wells Theatre, 1979.
The image on the poster shows Anca Frankenhauser in Robert Cohan's Eos, danced to music by Barry Guy with designs by Barney Wan. The work was first performed on 3 October 1978 and was described by critic Mary Clarke in the Guardian newspaper as 'inventive...a strange and very tightly structured work'. The programme note for Eos explained that 'The dance explores five hours of deepest night. Sleepless, anguished, painful hours of mixed oppressiveness, waiting for a new day to dawn.'
Anthony Crickmay, the photographer of this poster, had particularly close links with London Contemporary Dance Theatre and photographed their productions throughout the company's existence. He began his career as an assistant to the Austrian portrait photographer, Lotte Meitner-Graf, who had a studio in London's Bond Street in the late 1940s. Crickmay set up his own studio in 1958 where he built up a high-profile range of sitters, including members of the royal family, and developed an international reputation as a photographer of theatre, opera, and especially dance.
The image on the poster shows Anca Frankenhauser in Robert Cohan's Eos, danced to music by Barry Guy with designs by Barney Wan. The work was first performed on 3 October 1978 and was described by critic Mary Clarke in the Guardian newspaper as 'inventive...a strange and very tightly structured work'. The programme note for Eos explained that 'The dance explores five hours of deepest night. Sleepless, anguished, painful hours of mixed oppressiveness, waiting for a new day to dawn.'
Anthony Crickmay, the photographer of this poster, had particularly close links with London Contemporary Dance Theatre and photographed their productions throughout the company's existence. He began his career as an assistant to the Austrian portrait photographer, Lotte Meitner-Graf, who had a studio in London's Bond Street in the late 1940s. Crickmay set up his own studio in 1958 where he built up a high-profile range of sitters, including members of the royal family, and developed an international reputation as a photographer of theatre, opera, and especially dance.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Printing ink on paper |
| Brief description | Poster advertising London Contemporary Dance Theatre at Sadler's Wells Theatre, 1979 |
| Physical description | Photographic and typographic poster with the details of the season at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 15 May - 9 June 1979, at the top, above a costume portrait of a dancer wearing a sleeved lycra leotard, her head framed with a sunburst of white fabric. The poster is finished with a blue border. |
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| Summary | Poster advertising London Contemporary Dance Theatre at Sadler's Wells Theatre, 1979. The image on the poster shows Anca Frankenhauser in Robert Cohan's Eos, danced to music by Barry Guy with designs by Barney Wan. The work was first performed on 3 October 1978 and was described by critic Mary Clarke in the Guardian newspaper as 'inventive...a strange and very tightly structured work'. The programme note for Eos explained that 'The dance explores five hours of deepest night. Sleepless, anguished, painful hours of mixed oppressiveness, waiting for a new day to dawn.' Anthony Crickmay, the photographer of this poster, had particularly close links with London Contemporary Dance Theatre and photographed their productions throughout the company's existence. He began his career as an assistant to the Austrian portrait photographer, Lotte Meitner-Graf, who had a studio in London's Bond Street in the late 1940s. Crickmay set up his own studio in 1958 where he built up a high-profile range of sitters, including members of the royal family, and developed an international reputation as a photographer of theatre, opera, and especially dance. |
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| Accession number | S.3932-1994 |
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