“Dance, theatre and drama work often spills over into my musical artistry, including playing the piano!”
Frances Gill.
Selected engagements for Frances Gill
2022 | Pianist
– for the digital single by Stephen Donald with Frances Flute the Bellows Mender called Let the Light in. YouTube @Thedon024.
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2020 | Movement artist
– with archaeologist and artist Anna-Karin Karlsson excavating the exhibition-installation Wayfaring: Excavating Memory portals, 10th October 2020, for the launch (vernissage) of the exhibition Memory portals, Ölands Museum Himmelsberga (Sweden), 10th October - 1st November 2020.
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2019 | Dancer
– in a group-dance ritual choreographed by performance-artist Maria Kerin, engaging a stone ship in the landscape on location at the Viking burial monument, Karums alvar, Öland (Sweden). Recorded on the 2nd April 2019 for the art film Moving The Ship (produced by archaeologist and composer, Hans Gurstad-Nilsson).
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2017 | Actor (culture soldier), drummer, and film interviewee
– in Ylva Magnusson’s Experimental-Heritage film Konstattack (featuring also the historian, and Rector of Linnaeus University, Professor Peter Aronsson), filmed on location at Eketorpsborg, 21st May 2017, screened first at Himmelsberg Ölands Museum, 16th August 2017.
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2016 | Performing-art flautist
– in the landscape-installation Flutings from the earth; an experimental performance delivered 5th October 2016, delivered from a pre-sculptured hole in the ground (custom-made for a human body), during the evening programme at the Experimentellt kulturarv och entreprenörskap Seminars and Workshops in Experimental Heritage, Yellow Box, Sättra (Öland), 5th - 6th October 2016.
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2016 | Performing-sound artist
– in collaboration with Helle Kvamme’s performance art for Kropp–Ekonomi–Ekologi to launch the summer exhibition Flätverk, at Näsby Nav, Öland (Sweden), 9th July 2016, commissioned by Helle Kvamme.
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2015 | Pianist
– for audio-visual presentation of the piece A Door at Sandby borg published on the YouTube channel called ‘Magnus Gudmundsson’ @magnusgudmundsson8931 uploaded 31st December 2015.
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2015 | Choreographer
– for performance-art piece staged at Sandby borg, Öland (Sweden), around a door placed on the threshold of Iron-Age house 40, in collaboration with performers, artist Helle Kvamme, and archaeologist Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay 2nd October 2015. Documented photographically, an audio-visual presentation of the piece is published on the YouTube channel called ‘Magnus Gudmundsson’ @magnusgudmundsson8931 as A Door at Sandby borg, uploaded 31st December 2015.
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2015 | Dondo drummer
– for experimental-drum performance, in collaboration with Helle Kvamme’s performance-art piece in the landscape on the theme of digitalisation, at Plats icke plats - Seminars and Workshops in Experimental Heritage, Yellow Box, Sättre, Öland (Sweden), September 2015. A mashup called Soundmound: Yellow Box (in E flat), using some audio material collected in situ of Plats icke plats at Yellow Box, features on the album Sandby Borg (‘Frances Flute the Bellows Mender’).
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1997 | Musical director, and onstage flute and piano performer
– for Club, a play with music, by Stephen Donald, King’s Head Theatre, Islington, London (UK), 22nd & 23rd February 1997.
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1998 - 1999 | Singer-pianist
– at the grand piano, performing original arrangements from the popular-music songbook, engaged weekly by Ask restaurants, The Grand Assembly Rooms, York (UK).
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