My CV
Barnaby O'Rorke Tree '66Performer, musician, visual artist and teacher.
Barnaby is a musican (cello, piano) and singer trained in the physical displines of improvised dance practises, yoga and chi kung. He started in 88 formal training at Brighton University in Visual and Performance Arts. Since then he has developed solo and collaborative work in experimental performance and music. He has produced three albums, Ravine(’94), Loose(’99) and Like nothing ever before(07) and regularly performs songs for cello and voice.
In ’06 he began developing “The formation of Clouds”, seeking ways to move between playing music and dance and in ’07, at M&DE (Music and dance exchange, Dartington Hall, UK) began the BodySong project with Ellen Kilsgaard and Alice Tatge ( both well trained dancers) using the premise “ what if my body were sound and my voice a physical presence?
In ’08 he will be performing and teaching in Barcelona, Berlin, UK and Italy at the Zip festival. Also in Israel as part of the Artness project lead by Shahar Dor. www.artness.org
I have trained in the following practises; chi kung, yoga (ashtanga, vinyasa), butoh muscle and bone, contact/release dance, dance improvisation,vocal development, pranayama and meditation, cello, piano and saxaphone.
Major acheivements:
received comissions from- Lisbon EXPO 98; Arnolfini, Bristol; De La Ware Pavillion, Bexhill; Green Room, Manchester; Rhythm Method Festival, London; Dance Umbrella. London; Brighton Festiavl and South East Dance agency; Podewil Theatre, Berlin; Klapstuk Arts Center Luverne Belgium and received funding from Arts Council GB, Skite 96 Lisbon and South East Arts.
Worked and Colaborated with:
Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton, Derevo, Miriam King, Charlie Morrisey, Becky Edmunds, Ginny Farnam, Rui Nunes, Shinkansen, Vera Mantero, Sophie Moleta, Liz Agiss and Divas, KJ Holmes, Scott Smith, Stephanie Maha, Sten Rudstrom, Peter Thompson, Sharon Lewis, Gesine Daniels, Valija Zinch, Sandra Navarro Casino, Shahar Dor.
Taught Voice and Body work at Brighton University, Visual and Perfomance Arts course.
2007 Participated in M&de, Music and Dance exchange, at Dartington Hall,met Alice Tatge, Ellen Kilsgaard and Sri and I will be working with them this year.....spent the second half of the year living in
Berlin working with Valija Zinck on the duet "Wenn ich allein bin tuer ich nicght besonderes", performing it in Koln, Berlin and Freiburg. While in Berlin i performed my solo work with cello and voice in clubs and for dance jams. In Bonn i collaborated with Gesine Daniels on her street dance project "Banke" (bench) and also went to the Czech republic for the festival held in Kostelec and performed "the formations of clouds" and other songs. Back in Berlin I played for the butoh festival lead by Adrian Shepherd at eh K-ita
2006- This year saw the production of my third album, LIKE NOTHING EVER BEFORE, a collection of 13 compositions ; a tour in the spring of house concerts in England and wales ( see www.healthy concerts.com) ; the developement of new live work The Queen of the Sky and The Formation of Clouds that was performed at Ponderosa LandDance Festival, Germany, Escapade, Dance Improvisation Festival, London, Dance Lab in Granada, Spain and The Angel House, Brighton ; played music for Moeno Wakamatsu, form the White School of Butoh, Mamen Agüera Pérez, Kirstie Simpson and Adrian Shepherd ; giged and played with Pete Thompson ( www.cutlassrecords.com) in Barcelona ; produced the comic ' Scarey Girl, the sentient babe' examples of which you will find under images.
#also continued a smattering of concerts with improvisation band OMNIVOR TREEKLE
1992 Awarded first for Visual and Perfomance arts, B.A. Honours Dergree, theatre studies, Brighton University.
1993 British Telecom New Contemporaries, award for artwork, touring show.
1992-1995, ran and toured with in England, Czechlands and Germany RAUKUS MIR, performance duet with Miriam King, supported by South East Arts, producing physical performance in unusual situations, Maraluna's Cabninet, We Straddle.
Much of 2004 and 2005 I spent living in Goa India helping to run a yoga center and writting. I had a short story, Bothgrin, publised by the Queenspark press, a Brighton based writters collective last year, 2005.
Over the years I have collaberated with many dance and theatre practioners making and perfoming music/dance in production. Along side this work I have developed my own skills as a solo perfomer and that has been a stable base for my work every since I was 18. I now have a large repetoire of original perfomance songs, which include movement, poetry and light.