Arbeit Macht Frei - Work will set you free.
Inverted Mobile Phone pics from the shoot.

By Tim Lorlor

By Radka Dolinska

We worked on a subway shoot after midnight. We looked like criminals. Ste was sneaking about with his camera, peeking behind walls and bushes. Lee looked like fascista and was marching. Whilst we set up he was dancing about.

Thank you everyone who worked hard at it.

by Radka Dolinska

I find Chris fascinating and crazy, he gets very serious when talking about work but gets so excited about things most people dont notice. Always with different car noises, sounds of air conditionings, fridges, many noises. Different colour coordinations, muds, different lightings, the flow of people in shopping centre. Speaking about Gaza strip, the Nancy Sinatra song bang bang i shot you down played in the background, it was a perfect timing. I told chris this story about guy who could not voted due to his religion but insisted on voting so he traveled on donkey for many miles just to vote. As punishment they cut off his nose and ears. It was so sad and bad it was funny and Chris was trying to be serious but i saw in him that he wanted to laugh but because he didn't know me well I thought he was shy maybe.
when we were talking about ideas me and Chris we saw pigeon who crashed into a window and it knocked itself unconscious. It looked like drunk

by Radka

A visit to the top of the Anglican Cathedral Tower during the Long Night and AND Festival

by Radka Dolinska

It was the first time we met up and Chris had everyone working right away. Chris insisted we meet at the Mad Hatters tea party table sculpture where he got excited over the fact that someone had vandalised it by drawing a Hitler moustache on Alice. He then insisted on quickly finding a location with glaring flurescent lights. Both Lee and Chris wanted to explore choreographed lines they had sketched out in a stark, bleak urban landscape.

Chris Boyd and Lee McLaughlin were working on ideas for future collaborations.

Lee McLauglin is a Choreographer who has worked with Cheshire Dance since the age of 13 years old. He is a graduate from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds (UK) and Halton College (Widnes, Cheshire, UK). McLaughlin has performed in numerous shows, including a re-working of 'Stravinsky's Firebird Concerto' at Liverpool Cathedral (UK) with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Other places he has been enaged as professional Choreographer and Dander are The Place (the UK’s premier centre for contemporary dance), Chester Gateway Theatre and the Random Dance Company at the Menai Centre. McLaughlin has collaborated with Tom Roden (Choreographer and Artist Director of the Air Dance Company) and the New Art Club. He has bee contracted across many of the UK’s leading dance companies, institutions and venues. Taking inspiration from other artistic practices, he explores the expressive possibilities of everyday environments, movements within these spaces and the bodies relationship.

by Radka Dolinska