Helene Cooper Blog

It's final...

So...we've decided upon it so there's no going back. This blog should be continuing on from the last, informing you about my history but as this is quite an important development in terms of my practice as a student choreographer I feel it best to share with you now.

Laura Asbury, is a fellow Postgraduate student at Laban and she also happens to live in the flat downstairs from me. She is one of those people that you bond with as soon as you meet them - the sort you are able to share private jokes with within days of knowing each other and, I may be premature in saying this but, the sort of person that you can envisage inviting to your kids party with her kids in years to come. In other words we get on very well having not known each other a very long time at all and to top it off we share a lot the same views about art, choreography, practice and intellectual debate on dance - correct me if I'm wrong Laura?

Laura Asbury and I ©Helene Cooper

Laura is completing the Postgraduate course in Dance for the Community for which there is a very packed schedule. As a result I only seem to see her late in the evening when we catch up on each other's news from the day. These catch ups now seem to be a regular occurrence in which we end up talking for hours until the wee hours about everything on life, choreography and dance. The most recent development in these discussions is our decision to form a company. I have been thinking about it for a long time as has she but have always held back. There is the worry that we're not experienced enough and still have much more to learn but then there's always more to learn, one never stops learning in fact. So we figure we might as well just go ahead and do it anyway.

The purpose of a dance company is to perform work. In this case the company need a venue in which to show this work and so before we do anything else we are going to research a possible platform in which we could premiere the company. Laura and I both have existing work that we could re-work for the company or show in its current form. So having found a venue, the next step will be to draw up a proposal for the venue and to heavily market ourselves as an emerging company including designing a website. We are very aware that running a company successfully is reliant on good business sense so let's hope we have enough of that.

Wish us luck!!!!!

Posted by Helene at October 9, 2007 01:19 AM