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 Obstinate Choices
'Obstinate Choices' : London 1997: photo : Andrew Downs
The Five Andrews have been making work together since 1990.

Here's our chronology of work:

1990
  • Groundwork - performed at Dartington College's London studio in Rotherhithe, and at Chisenhale Dance Space, London.
  • The Colour of Silence - dir, Andrew Barker, performed at Chisenhale Dance Space, London.
  • Chaotic Behaviour
    • - dir, Nic Sandiland, performed at Chisenhale Dance Space, London.

    1991
  • Ladies' Fingers - dir. Andrew Downs, performed at Chisenhale Dance Space, London.
  • They also serve who only stand and wait (including my grandmother never told me life would be like this, otherwise to be known as a new way to play old spoons) - performed at
    • Arthaus, Turtle Keys, London.
  • Tembea - improv performed at Islington Arts Factory.
  • A Weekend in Wales - group workshop at Mother Nature, Sandersfoot, S, Wales.
  • The Lions of Yesterday and Today
    • - dir. Nic Sandiland Performed at Chisenhale Dance Space, London.

    1992
  • Fugitive Traces - dir, Andrew Barker, Performed Chisenhale Dance Space.
  • Warmer - dir. Andrew Downs. Performed in the squash courts at Tottenham Green Lesiure Centre.
  • A short film made on Rhodes - untitled & unpublished super 8 film project.
  • Warmb
    • - dir. Andrew Downs. Performed at Arthaus, Turtle Keys, London.

    1993
  • Travelogues from the Unfolding Curve - dir. Nic Sandiland. Performed at Highbury Roundhouse.
  • The Red Queen - dir. Nic Sandiland asst by Ed Birch. Performed at Chisenhale Dance Space, London.
  • The Silent Moon - dir. Andrew Barker. Designed for site-specific performances at at Camley St Natural Park, Kings Cross and adapted for performance at Chisenhale Dance Space, London.
  • Un Citron Andalou
    • , first performed in a Brixton nightclub.

    1994
  • More Light (in a contingent garden) dir. Andrew Barker, performed at Morley College, London.
  • Un Citron Andalou, performed at Waterlow Park, Highgate.

    • 1996
  • Vessel, dir. Andrew Barker,first performed at The Place Theatre, London. Also performed at Buoy-o-lux festival at Trinity Bouy Wharf, London.
  • Un Citron Andalou, performed at Buoy-o-lux festival at Trinity Bouy Wharf, London.

    • 1997
  • Obstinate Choices, dir. Andrew Barker,
    • performed at The Place Theatre, London.

    1998
  • Corps, dir. Andrew Barker,
    • performed at The Place Theatre, London.

    1999
  • Sicut, dir. Andrew Barker, peformed at The Place Theatre, London.
  • Metaphysics as a guide to table manners, performed at 291 Gallery, Hackney.

    2000
  • Chefs d'oeuf, performed at Chisenhale Dance Space, a sharing at the end of our period of artist development workshops with invited directors Thomas Kampe and Ernst Fischer.
  • On the way to mem. a work in progress showing in preparation for Mem. Again at Chisenhale Dance Space.
  • Mem., dir. Andrew Barker, performed at Chichester University.
  • Sicut


    • 2001
  • Hortulum tenebrum, dir. Andrew Barker, site-specific performance for Stromereien (Zurich, Switzerland)


    • 2003      
  • 8 October - 'IF_PERCH' Invitation Event with The Five Andrews and Rajni Shah at Curtain Theatre, Toynbee Hall, London, E1.
    The Five Andrews performed 'Sicut'
  • 1 November - 'Sprue' - filmed by Andrew James - a one minute stop-frame Super 8 film inspired by stop-frame photography of plant growth screened under the category '1 minute wanders' , part of Dance on Screen at The Place Theatre, London.
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    2004
  • Sprue screened at Danca Brasil, (Brasilia, Rio) Cinematheque de la Danse (Tokyo) and ReelDance (Sydney)
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  • 2 June - Some Unforeseen Eventualities
    E    vening of work by The Five Andrews at The Place, London. Sicut, Sprue and Mem. remake.

    • 'In a rare and eagerly-imagined event The Five Andrews presented an evening of work encapsulating the delightedness of their hypothetical lemonly realm.'
    We selected for this occasion two of our sporadic, ritual-like and perplexing performances, Sicut and Mem. ; the one inspired by body fluids bile and lymph, the other by a cyclical absence.
    Read reviews.
  • 2 October - Some Unforeseen Shopping
    Part of Chisenhale Dance Space 21st birthday gala.
    Four 2 min solos dispersed throughout the evening from 8pm. Each solo is taken from earlier works Vessel, Corps, Sicut and Mem. and is accompanied by a recording made in a different high street clothes store by soundscape artist Mark Horrocks
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      2005

  • July The Garden of Wrong at Stromereien (Zurich, Switzerland)


    • 2006
  • 11 February - The Garden of Wrong at The Place, London.
  • 25 May - The Garden of Wrong at Chimera,
    • a group visual art show at a gallery in St John's Street. Clerkenwell, London.
  • 15 July - Pneu. A five minute improvisation directed by Kate Brown. A London Improvisation in Performance presentation at 'The Small Dance' at Greenwich Dance Agency.

  • 11 November Chisenhale Dance Space
    'Perspectives' event: Interaction, Impact, Loyalty
    'The Five Andrews request you leave your judgment in the jar at the door, along with theirs.
    Don't forget to put your name on it.
    We can't be held responsible if you go home with someone else's.'
    In this 25 minute presentation The Five Andrews describe key ideas that have informed their work over the last 16 years which they had, at the time, the good judgment to bin.
  • 8, 9 December - Dunkel at 'Christmas Cabaret', Greenwich Dance Agency
    •  Greenwich Dance Agency
    The Five Andrews perform a new work Dunkel as part of the GDA Christmas Cabaret.     A still from the performance appeared on the front cover of Autumn 2007 edition of 'Attitude' magazine.

      2007

  • 24 June - Premiere performance of twin works Forfar and Fife made for the Rebecca Skelton Fund event at Ditchling Village Hall, East Sussex.

    •  2008

  • 12 April - Twin works Forfar and Fife performed as part of independent event Bricolage at Chisenhale Dance Space, East London.

    • 2009
    Sometimes it's right to take a back seat and clear some space to support and encourage newcomers in our highly competitive lemonly realm, proportionately balanced with our time-tested methods for subverting the success of any likely-looking upstarts.

    Members of The Five Andrews also appeared in choreographer Kate Brown's retrospective at Toynbee Hall.

    2010
  • 23 October - 'We sit reversed astride our hired horse' structured improvisation
    as part of evening hosted by soFt at Chisenhale Dance Space. With guest performer, choreographer Kate Brown.
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    2011

  • 30 July - 'swan' structured improvisation: Andrew Barker, Andrew Downs, Kate Brown perform swan made in memory of Charlie Meyrick and directed by Kate Brown. Part of Stranger than Fiction at Siobhan Davies Studios.

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