Angharad Harrop - Blog

{150}

Thu, 12 Mar 2015 10:04:35 GMT

National Theatre Wales and Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru are coming together for the first time to create a new work celebrating 150 years since the Welsh settled in Patagonia in 1865. The performance simply titled {150} is directed by Marc Rees and will take place in the Welsh National Opera's Stores in Abercwmboi.
Last week we began the choreography working with scores, ponchos, flight cases and bonnets. Take a look at the {150} blog for a glimpse at the process.

New Work! - Voices in the wind

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:46:49 GMT

We are super excited to announce that The Arts Council of England will be supporting us working on a piece titled Voices in the Wind in February this year. This new work will be a collaboration between Angharad, Ruan de Varas, Mestre Toni Vargas, Henry Horrell and Ceri Rimmer.
It will be performed 21st February, at Cultural eXchanges Festival, Leicester and 28th February, at Dynamic Exchanges: Capoeira and Dance Conference, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk. Keep following this blog to find out more about the process and how it is going.

Open Class in North Wales

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:59:17 GMT

Dear All, We are opening out our Company Class for the International Exchange Project with artists from Brazil on the following dates:

Gwespyr Village Hall - Gwespyr Flintshire
1st July - 10-11.30
2nd July - 10-11.30
3rd July - 10-11.30
4th July - 10-11.30
5th July - 10-11.30

School Room Criccieth Chapel - Criccieth
9th July - 9-10.30
10th July - 9-10.30
11th July - 9-10.30

The class will be contemporary technique and will be lead by William Thorburn or Angharad Harrop and welcome for all abilities to attend. We ask for a small donation towards the production costs of the project in exchange for class.

If you are interested in coming please contact Angharad on angharad.harrop@hotmail.com . If you would like to find out more about the project please visit www.angharadharrop.com

Hope to see you soon

Angharad

Dance for Film

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:17:38 GMT

Taking the opportunity to film and dance in the snow. We have been snowed in the village this weekend and so had little access to equipment and filmed this an my iPhone.

Performances

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:28:06 GMT

Review

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:46:11 GMT

Another review from our performance at De Montfort University.
A need that is wordless

As the performers broke into the dance which I later learnt is called Capoeira, I was amazed by the use of their bodies as they entwined using graceful 'martial art' moves - always with eye contact, and always with a visible, natural enjoyment. Both male and female performers combined beautiful balance with heroic muscle strength to conjure a vision of graceful gymnastics.

As the performers sat to sing, the music that surrounded me took me to a different place. I was no longer in a dark studio but in a hot and serene setting that brought a genuine smile to my face. I let their voices drift over me.

There was time for questions and answers at the end of the performance and this was equally enjoyable. We met each performer in turn (including Angharad Harrop - formerly of DMU). Some spoke through a translator but all were filled with talent and love for the project they have embarked on. They described the ideas behind the project which expresses the sense being physically apart from somewhere or someone while a wordless need keeps drawing you back. And that is exactly what the performance conveyed to me.

Celia Wilding

Reviews

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:44:14 GMT

Here is a review of our performance Hiraeth Saudade performed as part of Cultural Exchanges festival at De Montfort University 28th Feb
Hiraeth/SaudadeThe spotlights switch on. It is perfectly still in Studio 1.

A group of young people enter the space. People, whose hometowns are spread over two continents. Only one of them speaks English as a first language. But there is something that unites them.

A harp starts playing and they start to dance. Slowly, beautifully; quicker as the harp sounds get enriched by singing and samba beats; energetic, as it changes into a clogging.

But all the time powerful, moving and in entire harmony.

Showing a melting of different cultures. Showing a story of time and distance, question and answer, Welsh tradition and Brazilian capoeira, contact and togetherness.

We wanted to explore the collaboration of music and dance”, explains Angharad Harrop, the leader of this international project. Rehearsing across a distance over 8000 km was anything but easy - even the internet has its limits: “We tried to work via Skype, but there is always a delay of two or three seconds, so it was nearly impossible to put the piece together.”

Angharad Harrop is a Dance Artist born in a small fishing village in the North of Wales. She left her home to study at De Montfort University and to do research in Brazil, but she has always returned. And that, finally, is what the Welsh-Portuguese title of their performance means: a feeling of homesickness, nostalgia, wistfulness and longing, something that's in your blood, something that always draws you back home:

Hiraeth/Saudade.

Katharina Maria Kalinowski

http://demoncrewreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hiraethsaudade.html

Performance Queen's Diamond Jubilee Visit to De Montfort University

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:59:00 GMT

We were invited by De Montfort University to performance on the Cat Walk for the Culture and Fashion show the Queen's Diamond Jubilee visit to Leicester. We were joined by Henry Horrell from Anglesey. This was our first rehearsal, this extremely promising start lead to a week of incredible rehearsal full of laughs and emotion shared through a genuine love for music, dance and our homelands.

Capoeira ar y bryn

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:04:42 GMT

Dipyn bach o Capoeira ar Y Gogarth Fach

Studio

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:49:37 GMT

Edgehill kindly provided us with some studio space to record some tracks from the performance.

Lisa Lan

Sung by the talent Ynyr Roberts (also on bousouki) and Ruan de Vargas (also on guitar).

Areia

Voice and guitar Ruan de Vargas. Ynyr Roberts on bousouki. Feinho on pandeiro, Pedro on drum and chorus from Angharad, Cris and Ceri.