BORN: PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA 1951 nee: FRIEDMAN
PASS PORT: BRITISH
STATUS: British Citizen
MARRIED: Chris Hamblin & 1980 Musician, CHILDREN: Miriam , Stephen & Thomas (Twins)
CONTACT: viviennehamblin@gmail.com

CURRICULUM VITAE: JULY 2018

TEACHING EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION, ARTISTIC DIRECTION, CHOREOGRAPHY, FILMS, ARTICLES & REVIEWS MEMBERSHIPS

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2008 -
TESOL teacher part-time at Embassy English, Hastings and with Etta Ermini on the Moving Words Project at Chisenhale Dance Space, London (2008-10). Studies continue with language learners in understanding the traditional culture of movement in English Country dance and music with the Twin Arts Barn Dance Band.

2003-2008 GCSE Dance for twilight group at Helenswood Girls's School, Hastings.
Pt-time Specialist Dance for Special Needs (Torfield, Elphinstone)
Workshops: Icklesham Primary
2002 Company contemporary dance classes for DANCE PEOPLE. Technique for adults and children in Harare Centers. Choreography course on the use of space for DANCE PEOPLE for the show "WING IT". Initiating contemporary dance project for AIDS orphans in township centre taught by DANCE PEOPLE members.
2001 June 01, Tutoring for visiting graduate students from University of Illinois
'92 -'01 Zimbabwe, Harare The Twin Arts Educational Trust. Lecturing and teaching, Contemporary Dance Technique, Choreography Courses for young adults and classes for senior, primary and nursery schools in dance clubs as an extra mural activity.
Country dancing and line dance courses run in conjunction with parent bodies and to set up Social and Fund Raising Barn Dances
Schools: Alexandra Park, Prince Edward, Blakiston, Harare International School, The French School, Arundel, Borrowdale, Sharon, and small school Southern Lights.
Organization of workshops for visiting teachers in Jazz Dance, Salsa and Hip-Hop.

1991-2002 Barn Dance Caller for the Elastic Band, Zimbabwe.

1998 Contemporary Dance and Choreography Courses for National Ballet of Zimbabwe Dance Foundation Course (Part Time).

1989-91 NATIONAL BALLET OF ZIMBABWE - Founder and Director of The Dance Foundation Course at National Ballet - initial research, outreach teaching, recruiting and founding of City Youth Group and implementation. The Dance Foundation Course performed extensively in Harare and Schools in High & Low-Density areas. Graduate students have careers in Dance in Britain, Europe and have formed the first professional Contemporary Dance Groups in Zimbabwe.

1985 & 87 Two, two-week tours with Chris Hamblin, of Teacher Training Colleges in Zimbabwe, workshops and lecture demonstrations in Dance, Choreography & Music for Dance.

1988-89 MORLEY COLLEGE London
(1) Acting Head of Dance Department, responsible to the principal and 30 part-time tutors for arranging an adult education programme, including ballet, Contemporary, ethnic and historical dance.
1980-88 (2) Lecturer in Creative & Contemporary Dance Technique (Part Time)

1986-89 LONDON COLLEGE OF DANCE Bedford - Composition and Contemporary Dance for diploma (qualifying students for ISTD)

1985-86 NONNINGTON COLLEGE (Univ. of Kent at Canterbury), Lecturer (Grade II) in Dance, for their final year of dance degree students.

1980-87 Part Time Lecturer in Contemporary Dance and Composition at University and Tertiary Level (UK): Degree programmes at: GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE - (University of London) School of Humanities and Performing Arts also in the School of Adult and Community Studies; RICHMOND COLLEGE (American University in London); AVERY HILL teacher training college, LABAN CENTRE FOR DANCE AND MOVEMENT STUDIES. Diploma programme at the INSTITUTE OF CHOREOLOGY. THAMESDOWN Dance Foundation Course in Swindon.

1979 COLOMBO'S DANCE FACTORY, Zurich. December 1979

1975-77 SILVER LEAF PERFORMING ARTS GROUP, Cape Town. Dance classes for a group formed to train especially gifted black children.

1973-74 NORWOOD HIGH SCHOOL London. English, Maths and skills for Slow Learning Department of Inner City High School (ROSLA).

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EDUCATION

1977-79 New York University NYC, USA. School of Performing Arts
MASTER OF FINE ARTS (DANCE). Winner of Siedman award for Choreography 1979

1976 AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL (Summer School) Connecticut College

1970-73 University of Sussex Brighton UK
BA (Hons) Social Psychology, African & Asian School of Studies. Special study Cross-Cultural Psychology, Distinction in Statistics. Collaborated with guest artist in 'ILLUSIONS', performed in Gardner Arts Centre. (Awarded Rhodesian Government Scholarship).

1969 Salisbury Polytechnic
'A' Levels: Pure Maths, Applied Maths and Mechanics (C,C)

1963-69 Queen Elizabeth School (Salisbury, Rhodesia) Harare Zimbabwe
'A' Levels: Maths, Physics, Chemistry (A,A,C) 'S' Level: Chemistry (2)

1960-69 Performing Member of National Ballet, (corps de ballet for Giselle, Bayadere, Les Sylphides, and more Contemporary works)

1960-69 Stirling Academy of Dancing: Ballet, RAD up to Advanced

SHORT COURSES

2008 Trinity College TESOL Level 4 at Hastings College of Technology

2002 Zimbabwe International Film Festival - One week script writing course for winners of the ZIFF short film competition
1991 African Dance course with 'KOKUMA' set up by British Council
1989 Ranche House College (Harare) - Shona
1983 Benesh Institute of Choreology (London) - Dance Notation Course

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ARTISTIC DIRECTION

Most recently Vivienne has been exploring site specific dance on beaches, on the piers and in Art Galleries of the South Coast: Examples being the forthcoming hosting of an event in Coastal Currents Festival, Dancing to the sounds of the Sea, September 9, 2018, Movement for the frieze of Florence Peake’s ‘RITE’, at the DLWP and a moving response to the installaion by Roy Voss :The Way Things Are, a work with the gallery length sculpture of a Pier.

2000- Trustee, Twin Arts Educational Trust, Zimbabwe: to further the appreciation of the twin arts of Music and Dance. It enables creative work for performing groups Dance People and Twin Arts String Orchestras, runs a weekly Arts Events Listing in Zimbabwe, plus a web site, as well as dance and music teaching programmes

1989- Artistic Director of and Choreographer for Dance People. DANCE PEOPLE, a semi-professional, project-based group, aims to provide opportunities to show new dancers, choreography and new choreographers. In its first performance Dec 8th 1989, it was named to distinguish the first Dance Foundation Course at National Ballet. Notable productions include:

             

WING IT June 2002 Alliance Francais an programme of improvisation, games and choreography designed to expose 'dance' as 'the movement of the human body in space, over time, with weight shaped by energy and dynamics with the Elastic Band.

MOVING SILENCE March 2002 at Reps Theatre. Including 'Faure's Requiem' and 'Mai John' and guest appearance by Jimi Makurumbandi (best dancer of the year NAMA award)

   RETURN FLIGHT July 2001 DANCE PEOPLE @Reps

   Dance People @ IMM Awards Nov 2000

INTERNATIONAL MARKETING MANAGER OF THE YEAR AWARD CEREMONY, FANTASIA, and November 2000, Dance People commissioned for entertainment and fantasy performance for Meikles Hotel

INTERESTING TIMES, Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) , Dance People with the Elastic Band, chosen for the 'Best of Hifa' , 2000

DANCE PEOPLE, HIFA, May 1st 1999, 7 ARTS with the Elastic Band Winner of the Munn Publishing Award for the Best Local Production.

WOMEN IN DANCE, November 1997, Courtauld Hall, Zimbabwe College of Music (ZCM) and Alliance Francaise.

DANCE PEOPLE IN CONCERT WITH THE ELASTIC BAND, 1995, Courtauld Hall, ZCM, with guest artist Sandra Ashwin.

FIGURES FORMS AND FUEL, 1993, Courtauld Hall, ZCM. Dance People & Elastic Band

1990 Assistant Artistic Director to Alyson Bruce-Brand of the National Ballet & National Dance Company component for the 10th Anniversary Celebrations of Zimbabwe Indepence, a 40 min production funded by the NACZ and performed in front of The President and other Heads of State at the Harare International Conference Centre

1986 Artistic Director for Nonnington Dance Group in College Productions and Performances in Bristol Dance Centre and London

1980 Assistant Director for TANGRAM DANCE Co, Zurich, Switzerland

1977 Director of 'PLOT IV', 18th Street Studio Show, New York City

1976 Director of ' WITHOUT WORDS' - Group Performance at UCT

1973-76 Assistant Director, and soloist with Patricia Whittock for CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE OF CAPE TOWN

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FILMS

GIVE US PEACE (2002)
Nov 2002 in Harare, written and co-produced with director Ingrid Sinclair of Zimmedia. Set to the Pie Jesu from Faure's Requiem, the film chronicles the journey of Jonathan a father and dancer, across riot torn Harare, to a performance of a duet with a child in The Requiem.

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CHOREOGRAPHY

2002 'PLANES/PLAINS' Based on the use of different planes in the body and the space in the Alliance Francais theatre set to music by Dollar Brand, for the programme WING IT 'BEFORE THE BODY' an improvised structure using isolations of parts of the body where performers can take over the telling of the story at any point. 'RUNES' an improvised structure initiated by using the weight through the body and in creating duets. (Both of above with other improvised structures used to create the performance WING IT which allowed interactive games with the audience exposing DANCE as "the movement of the human body in space, over time, with weight shaped by energy and dynamics.
      'FAURE'S REQUIEM' for DANCE PEOPLE with childrens group set to music of the same name, for the programme MOVING SILENCE.
      'MAI JOHN' a contemporary story performed in a traditional style, telling of a mother's efforts to get medical treatment for her son during times of political and economic hardship in a mining/gumbooting area for the programme Moving Silence.

from Mai John

2001 Solos for Anna Morris, investigating balance, Solo Programme Moving Words.
LINE DANCES - arranged for Blakiston School (primary), grades 3 - 6 to show Line Dance Team in Westgate Shopping Centre.
TALE OF THE RING - dances for Alex Park School play on Lord of the Rings
NEPTUNE - Ultra Violet scene for Sharon School Show shown at Reps

2000 'COUNCIL OF ALL BEINGS' (see pictures) Set to a lecture illustrating the time line of the history of the creation of the universe, from the BIG BANG to the harnessing of nuclear power. Created for students from 'Southern Lights' a school for children for whom the traditional Zimbabwean education does not cater (i.e. students with learning problems and aspirations.) The choreography worked through the development of the spiral, cf. European Modern Dance Development from 1930's. Strong use of props to focus the students, including fireworks, streamers, bamboo poles, leaves and jungle gyms.

'ARC' to Albinoni's - Adagio in G, - work with cloth and stage space for 6 dancers
'RE-CYCLED' - Music composed by Chris Hamblin - work using recycled objects, puppet, costumes and myths
'RUN AND STOP' - Music by Chris Hamblin, based on 'AfroCelts' the dance work created on improvisation and choreographic structures that form the basis of a choreography course.
(The above three works initially made to carve stage space dynamically with a cast that had little dance experience. Eventually joined by a strong group of dancers, and chosen then for Best of Hifa 2000)
'ZEBRA 1,2 and 3' - development of a work inspired by a David Bintely solo from 'Still Life at the Penguin Café'. Original music by Justin Fletcher.
'SAVANNAH NINJA' - with hip-hop comedy section to "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles', for Dance Foundation Course Students for International Marketing Manager of the Year Award Ceremony.

1999 'THE DESERTER' - music: Fairport Convention.
'OKAVANGO II' - original composition by Chris Hamblin

1997 'A CONSCIENCE OF FOOTSTEPS'-music Gabriel Yared , idea taken from Chenjerai Hove's "BONES"
'SPOONERS CULTI MULTURALISTIC SOUL SUITE'- Sweet Honey on the Rock & Elastic Band, 'SKIN'- Leon Rosselson

1995 'FRENCH SUITE' - Traditional music arranged by Elastic Band,

1993 'KINDLING, A REMINISCENCE' - Johannes Brahms,
'MARCH OF PROGRESS' - Frankie Armstrong, Leon Rosselson, Red Buddha Theatre, and Penguin Café Orchestra arranged by Elastic Band

1991- Choreography for school shows, Prince Edward, Blakiston, Eaglesvale, Alexandra Park, and Chisipite; Productions include:
'LINE DANCES', Dec 1999, Blakiston School, Grade 4's, performed at their Prize Giving, Highlands Junior and Dance People Studio Show
'CATS', 1994, Alexandra Park School

1990 'O' FORTUNA' for National Ballet Season, to Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, performed with live music at the University of Zimbabwe Great Hall with Harare Choral Society & Orchestra Conducted by Peter Joyce.

1989 'RWIYO RWUNOFAMBA' (A Walking Song) for National Ballet Seasons to music by Kevin Volans, Mbira on Harpsichord,
'MUSIKANA AKANGANWA JEKO RAKO' - traditional music arranged by Chris Hamblin.
"The beginnings of Zimbabwean Classical Dance" (Deirdre Rowles, Herald)
'GRANITE MASS' - Benjamin Britten,
'GREETIN'S' - Benjamin Zephaniah, & 'VARWI' - Chris Hamblin

1983 'DESERT ANGELS' (Okavango I) & 'PRAISES' - Stan Glasser for National Ballet's December Mid-Summer's Christmas Production in Harare Gardens Park.

1979-89 Choreography for Contemporary Dance Groups and solo shows including 'Tangram Dance Company', (Nyon Dance Festival, Zurich, Winterthur) Switzerland, (Freibourg) Germany, Solo Show and groups including Bristol, Norwich, TOP DANCE SHOW, Jackson's Lane London.

1979-89 Choreography for Student groups in Professional Dance Schools, Universities and Colleges of Further Education, in UK, 'LE PENDU' for 1986 Premiere Rencontre de Danse, Pont a Mousson, France, and Zurich

1977 - 9 Choreography of pure dances and multi-media works for New York students. '50 Feet/sec/sec' & 'EMBRANGLEMENT'- to music for Home Made instruments based on images of Escher

1975 'FOREVER YOUNG' to music by Bob Dylan for the Silver Leaf Group, Cape Town. "Capturing the enthusiasm of these young dancers" ( Argus)

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ARTICLES & REVIEWS

PUBLISHED REVIEWS Own press material for DANCE PEOPLE, and copy for ARTS EVENTS LIST a weekly email listing circulated by own company TWIN ARTS.

'WE MISS YOU ALL' :: Reveiw of book by Noerine Kaleeba: AIDS in the Family by Noerine Kaleeba with Sunanda Ray 2nd Edition, Published by SAfAIDS, Harare 2002.

'STONE VIRGINS' - Review of book by Yvonne Vera for Weaver Press, published in Daily News, 5th, May 2002
'VANGONI' - Dance Company Review, Daily News, December 2000

UNPUBLISHED WORK 'Young Zimbabwean Choreographers' Work in Progress, 2002-

MEMBERSHIPS
National Ballet of Zimbabwe,
Small Schools Association,
New York University School of Performing Arts Alumni.

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