Clee Claire Lee

I participated in Third Bite Dance company film project in 2021 as dance participant collaborator. Third Bite Dance is a performance arm of 50+ Contemporary Dance Sheffield - Creative Director, Lucy Haighton.

Photography by David Wilson Clarke and Flyer design by Lucy Vann

See a trailer for the film here

Unwaning, 2021

A stop-motion animation I playfully created in response to one of our rehearsal sessions that affectionately became known as the ‘waning roboticists’

Contending with Covid Tier restrictions, I attached myself to my installation and filmed the almost invisible wire-work using drone videography by Mark Smith

This photograph is by Peter Griffiths.

See the film below

This is a wire/fern sculptural piece (Unfallen Fruit) installed at Loxley Common, responding to being a dance participant collaborator in this project by Dawn Holgate.

Over Summer 2020, Clee participated in Dawn’s project Autumnal Comings and Goings. Dawn is a Leeds-based dancer and choreographer, and invited women artists, dancers, educators and theatre artists to collaborate with her to think about visibility, the menopause and dance.

Clee collaborated with dance artist, Gerry Turvey from the end of 2019 to the beginning of 2020. They were working on performance pieces to accompany Clee’s sculptural work planned for shows in March and April 2020. The collaboration was cut short by the arrival of Covid-19.

For more information about the work Gerry does with artists and galleries, click here

Photos by Gerry Turvey.

This was a three-week residency in a shop front, enabled by Access Space, Sheffield, to examine the place between visibility and invisibility, inside and outside.

Clee invited women artists, dancers, musicians and academics to collaborate with her, for a day at a time, while she worked on an evolving sculptural installation in the space, incorporating work from her collaborators. Members of the public would glance in, stop and watch, sometimes dance, or hurry away.

The residency culminated in an improvised sharing and performance between the different collaborators.

Thinking about the crossover of the senses, this was an experimental collaboration between Clee and three other artists Shirley Harris, Gill Alderson and Gill Crow. Drawing evolved into movement, sound, installation and video work. The work took place at Exchange Place Studios.

Dance collaboration between Clee, Gill Crow and Alison Davis-Kurley.

Danse macabre, 2015

an experimental video

Following on from their sculptural installation/dance collaboration, A Void, Gill Crow and Ali Davis-Kurley again join Clee to put movement to her work. The sculptural work was part of a six-week evolving installation developed alone, and sometimes in collaboration with Debbie Michaels, and always in collaboration with the space and the energy of the other contributors to Work in Progress, conceived by Bryan Eccleshall.

Clee worked with Alison Davis-Kurley and Gill Crow to put movement to her sculptural installation, developed during a residency at Creative Arts Development Spaces, Sheffield.