A BODY OF WORK (2009/10)

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From Me to anOther (2009)
Performance devised and performed by Dawn Rose
Creative consultant - Jon Harris

This was performed on the Forth Plinth in London's Travalgar Square at 0500 am as part of Antony Gormley's One and another project.

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So she said (2008/9)
Film devised by Jon Harris
Directed by Jon Harris
Assisted by Darren Fox

Dawn: The Crying Door (2009)
Devised, performed and edited by Jon Harris

A digital projection and series of photographs displayed as part of the Daw Door D'or group exhibition, Daylesford.

TWO NIGHTS OUT - 2006

Performed by Jon Harris
Written, directed and designed by Jon Harris, Dawn Rose and Jo Somervell

Some nights are so extraordinary you have to mark and remember them. In this case, two violent attacks separated by months and by two different people.

One started with a pill in a drink and the other started with a man going into a London pub called The Admiral Duncan with a bag.

Using a table, three cardboard boxes, a glass, some water and Clinique facemask, the first half of TWO NIGHTS OUT tells how a man deals with a violent assault on his best friend and how his own day-to-day life is changed.

The second night is a reworking of the performance 'Admiral' - please see the description below.

This was a fundraising performance that raised over £400 for a Colchester Rape Crisis Help Line.

Below is an extract from the short film 'what now?: Admiral Duncan'.

SWANSONG 2 - 2003

Performed by Dawn Rose
Written by Dawn Rose
Devised and directed by Jon Harris and Dawn Rose

swansong 1 & 2 consider the theme of domestic violence. they examine the plight of the victim especially at two 'flash points' within a domestically violent relationship.

swansong 1 was based on misplaced romanticism and hope. dawnrose interacts with a partner depicted by a black mackintosh.

swansong 2 dwells on the difficulty of pregnancy, miscarriage and the danger at the point of seperation.

For more information on the work of Dawn Rose, please see www.dawnrose.com

ADMIRAL - 1999 & 2003

Written and performed by Jon Harris
Devised and directed by Jon Harris

Someone is targeting different minorities… but so far no one has been killed… Until May 1999, when David Copeland sets a bomb off in the Admiral Duncan Pub in Soho - the heart of London's Gay Community. 3 people (all of who knew each other and one of whom was pregnant) are killed.

ADMIRAL examines and marks this terrible night, showing how that fateful event of May 1999 unfolded through the use of a sheet, a photograph, some clothes, some paint and a newspaper cutting. Jon lays the night out on the floor, resulting in visual tribute to those who died and the utter conviction that it should never happen again - anywhere.

It is impossible to imagine what it was like in the Admiral Duncan, yet it is important to mark the event and the effect it had on a huge variety and number of people - even if they weren't there.