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CHAREMAINE SEET
Curriculum Vitae
Charemaine Seet is a dancer, choreographer and teacher with a career spanning 4 continents. She is trained in and has researched diverse styles of movement including Classical Ballet, Graham technique, Cunningham technique, Klein technique, Bharata Natyam (Indian Classical Dance), Baroque dance, Capoeira, contact improvisation, and hip hop. She also studied Iyengar and Ashtanga yoga, and Tai Chi.
In July 2011, she helped to develop new work with choreographer Doug Elkins in NYC.
Performance Career
2011/12 Working with Doug Elkins on solo works to be performed at a future date.
2010 Assisted Doug Elkins Dance Company in auditions for the 2010 season of “Fraulein Maria”
2010 Guest artist in Short Sweet & Dance Festival, Sydney.
2007 original cast member in the critically acclaimed “Fraulein Maria” performed in NYC.
2000 – 2008 creative collaborator, dancer and rehearsal director for the Doug Elkins Dance Co, NYC.
1993 – 2000 principal dancer and company choreographer with Union Dance, London
Among others, she has worked with: Graham Vick, Ian Spink, Ron Howell, Bunty Mathias, Jacob Marley, Doug Elkins, Anna Williams, Maria Ribot, Gilles Jobin, Isabel Bustos, Ellen van Schuylenburch and Laurie Booth.
1997 danced with Gilles Jobin, production “A+B=X”
1995 – 1996 founding member of Bunty Mathias Dance Company
1992 member of Moana Nepia and Dancers
She has also danced with:
The Royal Opera (Covent Garden)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera, “The Queen of Spades”, (director Graham Vick, choreographer Ron Howell)
The English National Opera, “Inquest of Love”, “Macbeth”, (choreographer Ian Spink)
Teaching
Charemaine was a key member of Union Dance’s renowned education team, instrumental in developing their innovative teaching style.
Union Dance is a professional dance company and educational charity nationally and internationally acclaimed as the UK’s most accessible and culturally diverse dance company. Union Dance showcases an eclectic mix of Contemporary Dance, Hip-Hop and Martial Arts in performance repertory, which is the basis for its educational provision. Their education programme for youth is considered one of the best in the UK.
Choreography
2010 Movement coach for Ms Emma Booth, Channel 9 Australia, tv series “Underbelly – The Golden Mile”
1997 “Dance Tek Warriors – 3 Young Blades” for Union Dance (From Sept 2009, “Dance Tek Warriors” will be part of the UK’s GCSE syllabus and will be taught in schools throughout the country).
1998 “The Thrill Is Gone” for Union Dance
1997 choreographic commission for Nubian Steps, South Bank Centre, London
1996 Dance Film “Maintenant Vous savez”, director Chris Gibbons
1992 Dance Film “Breakdown”, director Chris Gibbons
1991 “Hunting & Gathering”, Rotate Dance commission for the Duke String Quartet.
1990 “Problems in Materialism and Culture”, Rotate Dance: dancers Anna Williams, Mark Lorimer, Marianna Kavalieratou, Shamila Mukerji, Kay Richards.
1990 Dance film “Kalikathakali”, director Mark Keanne
1990 director and choreographer for Rotate Dance
Formal Education
2000 – 2001 Scholarship student at Merce Cunningham Studio, New York City
1987 – 1990 Degree course at the London Contemporary Dance School, London
1986 – 1987 Modern dance with Paul Saliba, Sydney Dance Co studios, Sydney
1985 – 1987 Classical ballet with Joan and Monica Halliday, Garth Welch, Sydney
1983 – 1985 Classical ballet with Valerie Bayley and Elsie Seguss, Australia
1979 – 1983 Classical ballet training in Singapore
Certificates:
Advanced Executant, Royal Academy of Dance
BA (Hons) Degree in Dance, University of Kent, UK graduated with 1st class honours.
REVIEWS WITH ONLINE LINKS
Union – South Bank Show 1995 review The Independent, London
“… the highlight of the opening night was Charemaine Seet’s solo, involving kung fu poses, lightning fast flying scissors and apparently impossible changes of direction.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/dance–the-quentin-tarantino-of-dance-1572398.html
Most recently, Charemaine has been a creative collaborator with Doug Elkins and a member of The Doug Elkins Dance Company in New York City. She was an original cast member in the critically acclaimed “Fraulein Maria”, performed in December 2007 in New York City.
“It’s heavenly to watch, and probably even more delicious to perform.” The New York Times
“Fraulein Maria” was featured at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2009.
From New York Times article
“Mr. Elkins, who took dance classes at Purchase College but spent extramural time mastering the arts of club and break dancing, first burst onto the dance scene in 1988, when he auditioned forDance Theater Workshop’s Fresh Tracks series with his just-created “Patrooka Variations.” It was a whirlwind, witty invocation of flamenco, break dance, martial arts, ballet and more, set to snippets of Bizet’s “Carmen” and James Brown.
“It just blew the panel off their rickety seats,” said David White, then the executive director of Dance Theater Workshop. “It was funny and smart, postmodern and topical. He had this incredible way of combining ideas that Roland Barthes would have been proud of, but with all the classical structure needed to fabricate a choreographic web.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/arts/dance/09sulc.html?_r=2&oref=slogin
Elkins – NY Sun Review “Fraulein Maria”
http://www.nysun.com/arts/smirking-at-the-sound-of-music/44946/
Elkins – Village Voice Review – Photo : Charemaine in the foreground
http://www.villagevoice.com/2001-11-06/dance/tiger-balm/
In London, Charemaine was principal dancer and company choreographer with Union Dance. Union Dance is a professional dance company and educational charity nationally and internationally acclaimed as the UK’s most accessible and culturally diverse dance company. Founded in 1986, Union Dance showcases an eclectic mix of Contemporary Dance, Hip-Hop and Martial Arts in performance repertory, which is the basis for its educational provision. As the only UK dance company along with the English National Ballet to receive education funding from the City of Westminster, Union Dance straddles uniquely over its dual vocation of excellence in dance performance, and educational work at the service of disenfranchised youth.
From September 2009, Union Dance’s production”Dance Tek Warriors” will be part of the United Kingdom’s GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) syllabus and will be taught in schools all over the UK.
from Union Dance promotional material
“Union Dance is the UK’s most accessible and exciting dance company. In just one performance its stunning dancers expertly mix hip hop with the Brazilian martial art capoeira, the grace of ballet and tai chi, through to the sharply intelligent moves of contemporary dance. Union Dance integrates its choreographic content and athletic performance style with visuals, sound and music ranging from hip hop, Missy Elliot, Talvin Singh and Sitar Funk to the rich traditions of the Indian and African continents.”
“[Union Dance] builds a bridge across the dance of the studio and the dance of the streets” – The Guardian
BAM—Union Dance review
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06EFDD1F31F93AA25751C0A9669C8B63
Union – South Bank Show 1995 review The Independent, London
“… the highlight of the opening night was Charemaine Seet’s solo, involving kung fu poses, lightning fast flying scissors and apparently impossible changes of direction.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/dance–the-quentin-tarantino-of-dance-1572398.html
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