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THE CAPTIVE
A short documentary film about Emma Tooth's painting, The Captive.
The painting was commissioned for Derby Museum and Art Gallery's permanent collection in 2012 and was inspired the work of 18th century artist, Joseph Wright.
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EXTRAORDINARY PORTRAITS OF ORDINARY PEOPLE
This is a promo for the documentary DVD about Emma's project Concilium Plebis. It is a sumptuous affair with fascinating footage of the paintings actually being created and amazing breakdance performances from B-boy champions, Bad Taste Cru as well as detailed interviews with Emma about her work.
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ART BEGETTING ART
A short interview with dancer Robby Graham about working with Emma Tooth, both as a performer and model, and how her paintings have influenced the work of world class breakdance team Bad Taste Cru.
note: This is the first web video Emma has ever put together herself - and in a great hurry at that - so please forgive her any spelling errors or poor craftswomanship! Also, Robby assures us that he got that shiner in dance rehearsals and not because of any artistic disagreements...
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PICKS OF THE HARVEST USA OPENING NIGHT 2012
Culver City gallery Thinkspace's annual Picks of the Harvest Show opening night. The eagle-eyed will spot Emma in there in a characteristically big frock.
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BAD TASTE CRU: TRIBAL ASSEMBLY
Awesome Irish breakdance team Bad Taste Cru created a piece called Council Of The Ordinary based on Emma's Concilium Plebis paintings and performed it at the opening of her exhibition at The Customs House. Their astonishing performance appears in full on Emma's DVD, Extraordinary Portraits of Ordinary People and has since appeared at Breakin Convention London, San Francisco Hip Hop Festival, and in Trafalgar Square Arts Festival.
The show was so successful in pushing the bounadries of what breakdance can do, Bad Taste Cru were commissioned by street arts consortium Without Walls to develop a sequel: Tribal Assembly (Comitia Tributa). It is thought that this will grow eventually to form a trilogy of dance pieces, each featuring the same archetypal British street characters originally inspired by Emma Tooth's paintings.
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BAD TASTE CRU: TRIBAL ASSEMBLY (COMITIA TRIBUTA)
Here's another promo - a particularly beautiful one - for the dance show by Bad Taste Cru inspired by Emma's work.
There is a fascinating review of the show here with some great photos. I quote:
"...four characters seem to belong to four distinct “tribes”: A chav, a businessman, a homeless man and a rocker... The show revolves around the power struggle and relationships between the four characters. The homeless man, played by Darren “Jelly” O’Kane, is portrayed as weak and of low social status. His character however has nothing to lose. He is free and this is reflected in his movements....
The chav character played by Rokas “Ruckus” Šaltenis begins aggressively. His intimidating toprock aimed at Jelly’s character is punctuated with powerful transitions between power moves, flips and air freezes. As Paul “P” Martin’s cocky businessman enters the frame a power struggle ensues, asking the audience to reconsider the roles of these “tribes” in society. A heavy metal rocker played by Robby “RawB” Graham carries off a powerful performance, not only in his effortless flips and power combinations but also through the emotion conveyed in his dancing. This emotional element is what makes Tribal Assembly truly unique amongst bboy shows... The show goes beyond what has previously been done and whilst Bad Taste Cru have taken a risk in drawing influences from contemporary dance, it has certainly paid off. "
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BAD TASTE CRU: TRIBAL ASSEMBLY (COMITIA TRIBUTA)
Part of what is so exciting about the Tribal Assembly performances is the way that they begin with just one dancer (but with other members of the team hidden amongst the crowd watching) and then as the dance progresses, other apparently ordinary, passive members of the audience step up and join in unexpectedly - watch for the man in a black suit in the audience in this clip.
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The Opening, the sumptuous film from Owen Tooth
What do you do when you are trapped? Trapped inside your own head because you have lost your voice. The Watchmaker wants to tinker inside and find the cogs and screws, take you apart and put you back together. The Blacksmith wants to use his hammer to beat out your screams... The Opening is about madness and fear; the claustrophobic terror that comes from within and turns every helping hand into an enemy. Starring the visceral Rupert Procter, lost alongside a cast of misfits including Elaine Davidson, the world's most pierced person with over 4500 piercings. The film also includes Emma Tooth's first performance.
Filmed largely on the grounds of Elvaston Castle, Derbyshire (location for the imfamous 1969 film 'Women in Love') The Opening made the most of beautifully mouldering rooms untouched for decades, inches deep in the crumbling ashes of the past.
Elvaston Castle is a popular haunt of mediums and psychics as it has had a very long and colourful history and many violent ends have been met there. The Castle as it stands today was created by the 3rd Earl of Harrington and his beloved wife Maria nearly 200 years ago - they wanted to create a gothic fantasy to celebrate their love.
The Opening is especially poignant since even as filming was taking place, arrangements were being made to bulldoze the grounds to make way for a private golf course and to turn the historic castle into a ghastly executive hotel.
We like to think we brought the place to life one more time...
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THE OPENING - trailer
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