OliviaHayesDance

Working in collaboration with Theatre Director Alan Lyddiard "Love Me (Tender)" took place as a part of GIFT Festival on Saturday 4th May 2013 with 100 white chairs, Elvis Presley and the latin spirit taking the Gateshead Metro Inerchange by suprise. Further Media will be available soon. "In Spain, most bullfights start 'a las cinco de la tarde' - at five o'clock in the afternoon. In 1934 the famous Spanish bull fighter Ignacio Sánchez Mejías was gored to death by a bull shortly after five o'clock in the afternoon at Plaza of Manzanares, La Mancha - His story was told by Federico Garcia Lorca in his epic poem "Weeping for the Death of Ignacio Sánchez Mejías" "At five o'clock in the afternoon. It was exactly five o'clock in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet At five o'clock in the afternoon. A trail of lime ready prepared at five o'clock in the afternoon. The rest was death, and death alone." In Gateshead at five o'clock in the afternoon on May 4th 2013 Theatre director Alan Lyddiard will create a one off event at Gateshead Bus & Metro Interchange especially commissioned by GIFT - It will be beautiful and tender...

"In Our Hands" Created and performed at the Dioniz International Student Theatre Festival in Dakovo, Croatia. Each year, one group win an award for their performance in the festival and this year "In Our Hands" was chosen as the winner. Using everyday gestures, actions and the many ways we find to say everyday things, In Our Hands is an exploration into non-verbal modes of communication; the 'unspoken'; the art of conversation; and the importance of making connections. Devised in response to the theme of this year's festival, from gesture to play, this new piece of work was created by Olivia Hayes in collaboration with the performers and Kate Craddock.

Choreography - Olivia Hayes Performers - Charlotte Hagen, Chris Goodwin, Catherine Muckle, Rosie Watt

Choreography - Olivia Hayes Performers - Hannah Goggin, Feliciana Robles-Acosta, Katrina Wood

Research says that people experience the same feelings when losing an iPhone as they do whilst breaking up from a relationship and "@Caretocomment" is a piece of Dance Theatre that explores the feeling of disconnection we get as a result of modern technology. @Caretocomment also explores audience interaction via Twitter by inviting them to tweet before, during and after the work using the tag @caretocomment as they please to comment on day to day life and if they so wish, the work itself. Choreography - Olivia Hayes Performer- Feliciana Robles-Acosta

The concept of Virtual VJ is to allow two or more users to control different aspects of the sound and video environment with their movements. One tracker is set to trigger sound and video and the other is set to manipulate the sound and video initiated by the first tracker. The focus of the media integration is on the development of observable connections between the audio and video mediums in order to assist the users with ease of interaction. The key conceptual idea that is explored in Virtual VJ is the idea of cooperation and the sense of personal space in ephemeral, virtual systems. This is achieved by programming the trackers so that dramatic events happen when the two trackers are close together or far apart. For example the environment has been programmed so that the trackers apply distortion to the audio when they are proximate to each other. At the same time video effects are added when the same proximity of the two trackers is observed. This can result in a game of cat and mouse where the users determine whether they will chose to closely follow the movements of the other participant or decide whether they wish to...