Mark Lorimer
Mark Lorimer is a British dancer and choreographer, best known for his work with the Brussels-based choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Thomas Hauert.
Early life and education
Mark Lorimer was a student at the London Contemporary Dance School, and graduated in 1991.Dance career
After that, he joined the dance company The Featherstonehaughs of choreographer Lea Anderson. Until 1993, he worked with them on various stage art projects, but also on films, local projects and an adaptation of Pasolini's Teorema with theatre and opera director Lucy Bailey.In 1993, he moved to Brussels to work with the Compagnie Michèle Anne De Mey on Pulcinella, a dance production with a live version of the Italian Suite from Igor Stravinsky's Pulcinella.
Collaboration with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
His most important collaboration, however, was the one he started with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas in 1994. From Amor constante, más allá de la muerte to En Atendant he danced in ten new productions. He also performed in restagings of Bartók / Mikrokosmos, Kinok and Mozart / Concert Arias. Unmoto di gioia., and was a repetitor on In real time and Vortex Temporum. In 2009, Lorimer, with Rosas dancer Cynthia Loemij, also performed a choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker on Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy for the film Prelude à la Mer by Thierry De Mey.Collaboration with Thomas Hauert / ZOO
Another important collaboration of Lorimer was that between 1997 and 2005 with Thomas Hauert / ZOO. He danced in six new productions of the dance company, from Cows in Space to Modify. For 5 the various then core members of the company created their own choreographies. For Lorimer, that was Nylon solution, a collaboration with Chrysa Parkinson.Own choreographies
In addition to Nylon solution, Lorimer has created some other own choreographies. Based on a duet with Cynthia Loemij, Lorimer made the video installation Mirror Modulation for the exhibition The Time That Is Left by artist Manon de Boer at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. His best known choreographies are the two choreographies he created with Cynthia Loemij: Dancesmith - Camel, Wheat, Whale and To Intimate. These productions toured in Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland. He created To Intimate for Ovaal vzw, a Brussels dance organization he founded together with Cynthia Loemij. His most recent choreography is Darwin's Gypsy Dance, that he created for five members of BODHI PROJECT, a dance company for postgraduate students at SEAD, the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance.In 2021 he will choreograph a new piece for eight dancers for the ADC in Geneva to open the La Bâtie Festival - “Canon and on and on...”
Collaboration with others
In addition, Lorimer also collaborated as a dancer with other choreographers: Lea Anderson, Bock and Vincenzi, Mia Lawrence, Jonathan Burrows, Deborah Hay, Alix Eynaudi, Marten Spangberg, Kris Verdonck, Alain Buffard and Boris Charmatz.Teaching
Lorimer also regularly teaches at P.A.R.T.S., ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival, The Laban Centre, London Contemporary Dance School, Panetta Movement Center, Movement Research and Manufacture.Productions
Own work:To Intimate Dancesmith - camel, weasel, whale Darwin’s Gypsy DanceWith Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas:Amor constante, más allá de la muerte Erwartung / Verklärte Nacht Woud, three movements to the music of Berg, Schönberg & Wagner Repertory Evening D'un soir un jour Bartók / Beethoven / Schönberg Repertory Evening Steve Reich Evening Zeitung The Song En Atendant
- “The Six Brandenburger Concertos”
With Thomas Hauert / ZOO:Cows in space Pop-Up Songbook Jetzt Verosimile 5 Modify
With Alix Eynaudi:Monique Edelweiss
With others:Pulcinella Schreibstück - Version Jonathan Burrows The Match manger 20 Dancers for the XX Century
- ''Gerhard Richter, une pièce pour le théâtre''