Joining dancer choreographer Caroline Bowditch for a day’s Push Me filming with her team in 3 Mills in Bromley by Bow, I’m struck by the enormity of her task and the steps she is taking as a choreographer in this vast expanse.
It’s spectacularly cold in the space with an industrial heater the size of a small sofa doing its best. Luckily this woman is furnace enough for the day ahead and absolutely at the helm of what she herself would describe as ‘the most ambitious project of my life.’
Leaving Limbo Landing is all about moving, as she herself did – from one country where you live to a new one to settle. It’s about transition and what we all do at some point in our lives.
The feelings of departure, excitement and fear are evident too in the ambition of the piece. Caroline working as choreographer, not dancer, with an ambitious set of metal, rope, plastic, an evocative score, heaven sent costume design, all woven into the proceedings and all of it designed for the great British outdoors. No mean feat and no, we’re not going to let you into any more, we’ll be leaving you in suspense for now.
‘This has been in my head for 8 years and here we are!’ she tells us. And in what better company than East London Dance who alongside her team will do anything to be part of platforming this artist’s particular way of sharing something we can all connect with.
Watch this space and see Caroline Bowditch in The Space in June.