Research, Residencies, Workshops in Education and Artistic Development
Since 2000 Macauley has undertaken several medium to large scale performance, research and educational projects in the UK, USA Canada and in Europe.
Project SILENT STEPS, an early stage dance work was created whilst undertaking a apprenticeship with Rambert Dance Company. Silent Steps was performed in New York, London, Turkey, Spain and Denmark. Created in collaboration with composer Richard Leonard with support from London Contemporary Dance School.
Restaged and created on Tavaziva Dance Company.
Titled e-HM-phasis (2018) To summarise and accurately define the essence of the work, this word e-HM-phasis has the added value of including the letters "H" and "M" that can be used with double meaning of highlighting (and "emphasising" by so much) the initials HM (Harriet Macauley).
Essentially the theme of this NEW digital dance work is to highlight and present the unseen, something we are not capable of perceiving; captured and presented through film.Created in collaboration with La Sala Mi - Barcelona 2018
SILENT STEPS was created with the support of Arts Council England, Dance Base Edinburgh, METU Turkey, Sadler's Well, Lilian Baylis, and DUMBO New York.
In 2012 Harriet Macauley was a winner of Masdanza Canary Island international and produce two productions and a workshop within the event.
IS IT POSSIBLE? Performer / choreographer - Harriet Macauley
Throughout process and development I experimented with phrases of passive movements. There were intervals and episodes in which I acknowledged the inner and outer edges of my body. A process began to slowly filter through both natural and manufactured, consciousness and unconsciousness. Movements that came natural remained constant and the awareness of the manufactured and authentic flowed between mind (thinking) and no mind (presence). The journey seemed to undertake a process of intricate layers fluctuating between what I could only describe as relational practice; interactions with other objects, location, time, space, light and so-forth.
Harriet Macauley - A day in the life
A day in the life Aug 2010 Interviews with Choreographer Harriet Macauley and dancers David Gerulla, Vasiliki Stasiniaki and Ayano Honda resident at The Bernie Grant Arts Centre, London.
Duality directed and choreographed by Harriet Macauley. United Kingdom 2012
DUALITY is a full length dance work, created with the support of Dance East, premiered at The Yorkshire Dance House Leeds, Northern Ballet and featured at ZOO Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland.
Harriet Macauley - eleven:35
Early stage choreographic work in development - 2007.
eleven: 35 was featured as part of Touch Wood - The Place, LCDS. As a supported artists Macauley undertook the creation and development of two medium to large scale works as part of a national and international development under Eddie Nixon - The Place artists development scheme.
Harriet Macauley - Duality - A Day In The Life
A intensive working period at Dance East a two week theatre residency with the use of all theatre, digital technology and marketing of new digital dance work DUALITY. Performed at The Yorkshire Dance House Leeds, Northern Ballet and featured at ZOO Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland.
Duality Choreographer and Director Harriet Macauley (2015) in rehearsal at Dance East Ipswich, UK.
A solo section from project Duality. This work is an abstract representation on how technology shapes how we communicate, think, move, play and act. It creates a fast-paced world of technological illusion realised through cutting edge digital media - Green Screen, Live Feed, 2D and 3D animation and Digital interactive triggers. Duality allowed for a investigation into the mechanisms of dance and technology. How do they co-exist and interact in atmospheric, enveloping worlds? Performers connect and recognise the ways in which technology shapes how we communicate, move, play and act.
Harriet Macauley - RUSH
RUSH was developed in collaboration with Sammi Fang and Jui Wei. Centred on commuter chaos, this work examines the notion of non verbal communication within a confined space. This work is created with the support of Arts Council England, Dance Base Edinburgh, The Cochrane Theatre London, Sadler's Well, Lilian Baylis, and the Joyce Soho New York. In 2012 Harriet Macauley was a winner of Masdanza Canary Island international and produce two productions and a workshop within the event. As a result of winning the competition Harriet Macauley was nominated to perform in Valencia and in New York as part of Joyce Soho with RUSH and digital dance work DUALITY.