Choreography, research + experimentation (incl. robots.)
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Art + film direction. Photography.
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Costume design + conceptual costume design for dance.
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Print design, children's + branding.
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Notable clients + placements: Harvard University, Vogue Italia, Freed of London, Staataballet berlin, Jelly cat toys, Southbank Centre, Makeshift Company
SELECTED PROJECTS:
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THE CONNECTION DRESS // 'EUNIOA' - BEAUTIFUL THINKING
CONCEPT COSTUME // CHOREOGRAPHY // PRINT DESIGN September 2020 // A project made out of the cravings: for friendships that go beyond digital gestures, for dance, touch and the wildness of being by the ocean ... EÚNOIA, meaning beautiful thinking, was created with dancers Kate Church and Nandita Devika Shankadrdass . It features the silk #somefish art scarves @shop_designedbyalice and ‘connection dress’ #designedbyalice ARE WE HUMAN OR ARE WE DANCER?
RESEARCH // CHOREOGRAPHY // ART Harvard ArtLab 2020 - Artists residency With Dr. Merritt Moore; The creation of a duet between a human dancer and industrial robot, exploring the possibility that elements will be choreographed by A.I. This is an on-going collaborative project for Alice and Merritt, which began in London, Oslo and now Boston. DANCE FILM 'SKELETON SONG'
CO-DIRECTION // COSTUME // CHOREOGRAPHY // PHOTOGRAPHY Live screening - Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London, July 2018 Digital premiere - CLASH Magazine Created in collaboration with singer/songwriter Ana Silvera and director/dancer Kate Church. Produced by Stephanie Moon Skeleton Song is song #2 from ‘Oracles’, a work by critically acclaimed singer and composer Ana Silvera (UK), which draws upon folkloric tales and images to express her personal experience of losing a close family member. LIMINAL BEINGS
PHOTOGRAPHY // ART + MOVEMENT DIRECTION // COSTUME Published by Vogue Italia, Dec 16 ‘Liminal Beings – Rebirth’ was the result of fruitful collaboration between Dancer & Writer Juliet Burnett and Dancer & Visual Artist Alice Williamson. Juliet and Alice both trained as classical Ballet dancers and were at respective transitioning points in their careers from ‘classical ballet dancers’ to something new; they were at the threshold of change. Liminal beings is the consequence of a mutually supportive and explorative artistic collaboration of on nature of liminality and its further reflection on our understanding of boundaries, of being; Of being reborn. SOMEFISH - 'DON'T GO WITH THE FLOW'
PRINT + SKIRT DESIGN // PHOTOGRAPHY // UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY Ft. Ballet skirts Designed by Alice. Concept shoot with ballerina Cira Robinson. Southbank, London 2019 |
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SOMEFISH - WATERDRESSES
PHOTOGRAPHY // ART-DIRECTION // COSTUME Featuring dancers of the Australian Ballet: Natasha Kusen, Amy Harris and Alice Topps. Lingerie by Elma Lingere ARABELLA
PHOTOGRAPHY // ART-DIRECTION // COSTUME 'Arabella' is a narrative photo series featuring Arabella (arachnid - spider, bella - beautiful). It features dancer Emma Lister and was photographed in an abandoned plastic factory near Manningtree on a warm November's day in 2017. Arabella was one of many. set in motion by daily tasks. “work with pride and take pride in your work!” suggested a sign on the wall. Around her, a hive of tiny tasks rung and clattered down labyrinthine hallways, carried by swift footfalls and flashes of paper. But arabella’s thoughts drifted with the slightest breeze; things unnoticed by others whispered poems to her... THEATRE SHOW 'INSOMIACS FABLE'
COSTUME Commissioned by MAKE//SHIFT Company Finland + London 2017-18 A non-verbal narrative performed by circus artist Sakari Männistö and dancer Emma Lister. Insomniac’s Fable is an intimate contemporary circus piece about the realities – or unrealities – of love. PRIMORDIAL
PHOTOGRAPHY Madeira 2019 TOUCHED BODIES
PHOTOGRAPHY // ART + MOVEMENT DIRECTION 'Artistic Public Health Campaign' for digital media. 'Touches Bodies ' was made in collaboration with campaign director Marie-Sophie Kiepe, MPH,MSc, complementary medical researcher, osteopath, gyrokinesis trainer. ORACLES
PHOTOGRAPHY // ART DIRECTION Album and performance art for Ana Silvera's album 'Oracles.' Produced by Gearbox records. Premiere Southbank centre London. July 2018 GHOSTING WEDNESDAY
PHOTOGRAPHY // ART-DIRECTION // COSTUME November 2019 A collaboration with MAKE//SHIFT Company. THE PERMANENT WAY
CO-DIRECTION / PHOTOGRAPHY / PERFORMER A collaboration with MAKE//SHIFT Company. The Permanent Way was photographed on an old train line in the Cotswolds on November 10, 2018. It features Alice Williamson as Agatha, Emma Lister as Phyllis and Sakari Mannisto as Clyde; three characters pursuing an unknown destination along a railway track. |
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EXQUISITELY CRAFTED
PHOTOGRAPHY // COSTUME // ART DIRECTION // DIGITAL CAMPAIGN Ballerinas, like pointe shoes, are made not born. They are years of refinement, and generations of absorbed heritage. #exquisitelycrafted ' Exquisitely Crafted' art campaign commissioned by Freed of London for 'World Ballet Day 2016'. It featured royal ballet Principal dancer Yasmine Naghdi. AFTER IRIS
PHOTOGRAPHY // ILLUSTRATION // PRINT DESIGN FOR 'SHOP DESIGNED BY ALICE' JUNE 2018 FEATURING DANCER ASHLEY SHAW ILLUSTRATION
Alice works with a range styles and approaches to telling a visual story - be that drawing or painting in the classic sense, working from an ipad or paper cutting, embroidering, photographing; even making tiny mobile characters*. She strongly believes that the method used to convey a story should be symbiotic with the story itself. Alice is a published illustrator working across the fields of children's illustration, editorial and branding. |