Performer / Movement Director / Dance Artist
‘December 19th – 23rd at Four Elms, Cardiff:- Following on from last years A Curious Zoo, Caroline Sabin returns with another Christmas delight. With Benjamin Britten’s Carnival of Carols at its heart and a cast of multi-skilled performers, this promenade performance at the Four Elms, …
In August 2014, Lara travelled with Earthfall to teach master classes and perform lecture demonstrations of extracts from Chelsea Hotel at the Retrospektywy Festival at Art Inkubator in ?ód?, Poland. Here is an image from one of the rehearsals, to learn Rosalind and Alex’s ‘violent …
Response Time were invited to Artes Mundi 6 at the National Museum Cardiff in October this year and given 24 hours to respond to the work.
Response artists included Naomi Heath, a bi-lingual, inter-disciplinary performance artist who recently exhibited at Moma Wales as part of Cymylau Tystion/Clouds of Witness, James Baker an emerging performance maker with his unique and indefinable exploration of textual, physical and comic response, Hannah Pullen a recent graduate of Coleg Ceredigion currently studying at Aberystwyth University’s Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Sandra Bendelow an inter-disciplinary scriptwriter and producer, Mar Shro Gora a performance artist who works with self documentation and time, Lara Ward a theatre practitioner and choreographer and Petra Barberini, who is a cross disciplinary creator.
See Sandra’s blog post below for more detail:-
http://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/m/blogpost?id=3152760%3ABlogPost%3A209477
September 2014 saw a return to the studio for Earthfall’s Research & Development for Stories from a crowded room with a team of 8 dancers and 2 musicians. Artistic Directors Jessica Cohen and Jim Ennis worked with the company to explore the themes of spacial …
The third Blysh Dance commission from Coreo Cymru as part of Wales Millennium Centre’s annual Blysh Festival. This time Javier De Frutos was at the helm, Choreographing a new site piece, ‘The Bomb in my Pacific’ with four Welsh Performers, Lara Ward, Rosalind Brooks, Iain …
‘The Response Time project is a 48 hour challenge for performance makers from a wide range of mediums to respond to the art, space and environment of the Gas Gallery producing a performed response which is shared with an audience.’
In March 2014 Lara worked with 12 writers and performance artists to curate Response Time, a gallery performance produced over 48 hours, responding to the works of 12 Sculpture Cymru artists in their exhibition, Journey: A Response to Place at Oriel Nwy Gas Gallery, Aberystwyth.
In April 2014 Lara returned to the gallery to collaborate with Writer, Sandra Bendelow and Composer, Nick Jones, on a week-long residency, responding to the work of Annie Morgan Suganami. Leading morning class, choreographing and offering movement direction for actors working with new writing and performed responses.
During the week she produced a short solo film, shown as an installation, with live performance from Cet Haf and a soundtrack produced by Nick Jones. The work became a response to a written response by Sandra Bendelow – with the recorded text the structure for the soundtrack.
In Spring 2014 Lara undertook two weeks Research and Development as a performer for Ruckus, Kitsch & Sync’s wrestling extravaganza directed by Kylie-Ann Smith. 26 performers – dancers, actresses and two bands – were brought together over two weeks to produce an hour long work …
Lara has devised, performed and toured UK Theatres with Earthfall since 2008, with yearly productions; Gravitas (2008/2009), GiG (2209/2010), The Factory (2010/2011) and Chelsea Hotel (2013). In Autumn 2011 and Spring 2012 Lara took a break from performing and toured with Earthfall’s performers, At Swim …
Moving Frames is a dance and film collaboration between Lisa Spaull and Mediapod. Lara joined the process in February 2013, performing alongside Lisa for the fourth Moving Frames short film. The process of filming uses a series of improvisational rules, which also include filming in …
A choreographic research and development project at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, culminating in a photographic collaboration with welsh Photographer Keith Morris at Tanybwlch Beach, Aberystwyth.
Chloe Loftus, Associate Artist at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, with Lara Ward.
The vision of Choreographer and Visual Artist Beth Powlesland, Built to Last – an exploration of movement and sound – was first created in 2011, within a framed installation of melting frozen paint balls. Choreographically Lara explored mark making and worked with memories of childhood …
With Kitsch & Sync Collective welcoming and celebrating the planes arrival in Wales at Swansea, Ebbw Vale and storming Llandudno seafront in 2012. With costumes designed by RWCMD undergraduate, using bespoke fabric woven especially for Adain Avion at Melintrgwynt Woolen Mill. Here’s a link to …
Branches: The Nature of Crisis, the 22nd production by National Theatre Wales, took place in the ancient woodlands of Wepre Park, Flintshire, North Wales. Directed by Argentinian Choreographer and Artistic Director of DorkyPark, Constanza Macras.
In addition to the promenade performance, which ran from September 5 – 15th 2012, a special additional Branch was created and filmed, for a livestream event to both Cardiff St Mary’s Street and BBC’s The Space, Arts website.
Watch this online here until the 31st October 2012.
Adain Avion, is a mobile arts space created from the fuselage of a DC9 Aeroplane. Adain Avion is Wales’s Artists taking the lead commission led by Marc Rees and funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council of Wales, which was included in the London 2012 Festival and part of …
Willi Dorner was commissioned by Marc Rees to produce Bodies in Urban Spaces, for Adain Avion, which also coincided with Swansea Dance Days, as part of Wales’ Cultural Olympiad Celebrations in June 2012. Lara was one of the 20 performers forming sculptures throughout the city, …
Choreographer, Dance Scientist and Sacro-Cranial Therapist Tanja Råman, designed a pilot training programme for her dancers to improve strength, power, stamina and mental preparation, prior to a choreographic period of work. In 2011 Lara took part in choreo5, as one of five dancers, on a …
Dance/visual artist Caroline Sabin’s work LifeDeathLife, combined three years of Caroline’s own work and writing on developments in science, ranging from microbiology to cosmology. Caroline invited Lara to cartwheel in sand dunes, create solo movement, imagine hanging from a big tree in the woods, make …
