Flying Low & Passing Through: Leila McMillan

R&D documentation

In May-June of 2014, I spent some time over a 4 week period with seven dancers, a choreographer, producer, DJ and photographer on a research and development project on the dance technique, Flying Low and Passing Through. Conceived by choreographer/dancer Leila McMillan, one of the many aims of the R&D was to see if there was a way to develop the technique, created by David Zambrano, and develop it further, whilst also seeing the effects of working with a creative team for an extended period of time.

The project was an absolute pleasure to work on, there's a few short films to come out from it, but here is one as a taster, which offers a snapshot across the whole project.

Longer performance of R&D

Directed by Leila McMillan in collaboration with

Dance Artists: Faith Prendergast, Karl William Fagerlund Brekke, Mansoor Ali, Martha Passakopoulou, Kraczkowska Karolina, Typhaine Delaup, and Ben McEwan.

DJ - Damien Smith,

Photographer - Manuel Vazquez

Filmmaker Emma Crouch.

Produced by Gail M. Schock, Ducky Productions,

Supported by Arts Council England, Greenwich Dance, TripSpace Projects, Muxima