Bill Coleman

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Total Theatre Awards announce 2017 shortlist

The awards, overseen by a panel of 28, highlight the best in circus, dance and physical or innovative theatre as well as emerging companies

Bill and Gordon have been nominated for a Total Theatre & The Place Award for Dance based on their performance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The shortlisted shows will now move to a judging panel where shows are seen by leading arts industry figures from seven countries including critics, academics, artists and programmers.

The judging panel will announce their decisions at an awards ceremony on Thursday 24 August.

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Check out our guide to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, taking place 4 - 28 August 2017. We’re just one hour by car or train to the excitement of the capital.

Dollhouse is a pick of Doubletree by Hilton Dunblane Hydro for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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Bill Coleman and Gordon Monahan talk to ArtsFile about Dollhouse.

“The dance/sound creation called Dollhouse mixes the unique talents of choreographer/dancer Bill Coleman and the sonic skills of avant-garde composer Gordon Monahan, (brother of RBC Ottawa Bluesfest’s Mark Monahan and the winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts). In advance of their unsettling, stimulating and comic performance involving Coleman’s journey across snapping mousetraps, beside bubbling beakers full of boiling water and across sticky floor tiles, on July 15, they answered some questions from ARTSFILE.”

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What To See At The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017

The 16 best shows to catch this summer

Bill Coleman and Gordon Monahan’s Dollhouse is featured in @vogue UK’s ‘What To See At The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017′ 

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"What is being revealed are the nerve-ends of our shared humanity, and sometimes it’s clearly painful and even tragic and sometimes it’s hilariously funny and sometimes it can be both at once. Like the incredible mess in Bill Coleman’s Dollhouse (Canada) where everything is just falling apart." - Herald Scotland Dollhouse August 15-20, 22-17, 2017 Dance Base | Edinburgh Festival Fringe

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National Centre for Dance in Edinburgh;s Grassmarket. Courses, drop-ins and workshops for everyone. Community and Professional programme. Studios for hire.

Dollhouse by Bill Coleman and Gordon Monahan is featured on the cover of the Dance Base calendar for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017.

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From Fleabag to Forced Entertainment, with Shakespearean puppet shows, a dance marathon and a love letter to Dolly Parton, here’s a look at some of this year’s highlights

Dollhouse by Bill Coleman & Gordon Monahan has been chosen as one of The Guardian’s picks for Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017 as a part of the Dance Base lineup. 

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Dollhouse

Dollhouse is a work created for galleries, cross-disciplinary exhibitions, music centres, theatres, and all manner of other places of learning and discovery. One day set up, two performers, one technician.

Dancer/choreographer Bill Coleman inhabits the experimental music installation of avant-garde composer Gordon Monahan. Tap dancing, performance art and action intermingle with mechanical and electronic manipulated objects, handmade and found, rendering rhythms equally sonic and visual. Disruptive and surprising Dollhouse walks a unique line of Artaudan fiction and slapstick with the performer acting simultaneously as instrument and conductor.

Considering the situation we find ourselves in today the visual metaphor of a man drowning in his surroundings is timely. Bill Coleman, a master performer plays the role of modern fakir as he suffers through what at times are almost comic situations on his way to a symphonic chaos of sight and sound.

Concept, dance, performance: Bill Coleman Music, sound, visuals: Gordon Monahan Additional design: Pierre Lavoie & David Gaucher Creation: January 2016 Run Time: 60 minutes

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Beyond the Stage

Bill Coleman’s Beyond The Stage works are large-scale performance events that are designed for specific locations, reaching out to very diverse communities and audiences, and often presented in rural or remote regions.

Beyond The Stage events are one-of-a-kind experiences, transforming landscapes through performance, sound, and visuals. Events range in scale from the monumental to the intimate, and are made in collaboration with community residents and organizations.