Ms Angela Woodhouse

Biography

Angela trained in dance and visual art at the Metropolitan University of Manchester, and has an MA (dist) from University of Surrey. In 1988 she received the Lisa Ullmann scholarship to study with Alwin Nikolais and Murrey Louis in New York. She has since worked with Reinhild Hoffmann (Berlin) and Sara Pearson (USA). 

Since 1997 Angela has developed many innovative dance performance and installation works.   Intrinsic has been the potency of intimacy and of near or actual touch between viewers and performers. Her work has toured nationally and internationally. Works include Between (2011-13), in collaboration with artist Caroline Broadhead, an installation performance produced by Trinity Laban and touring nationally  to  Yorkshire Sculpture Park and many other venues and galleries;  ; Censored (2010) commissioned by Woking Dance Festival in association with Lightbox Gallery and Tate Artist Rooms – Jenny Holzer; Sighted (2009), produced at The Place Theatre and commissioned by Royal Opera House Deloitte Ignite Festival with a revival at  Sadler’s Wells (foyer) as part of ‘Sampled’ and at Saatchi Gallery as part of Collect 2015; and endings (2009/10) commissioned by Transitions Dance Company and touring internationally. Angela was selected as one of the commissioned artists for the inaugural Place Prize 2004 with Threshold..

More recently Angela was commissioned by Nottingham Galleries and Museums and supported by Dance 4 to create Close Distance (2017), a new installation in collaboration again with Caroline Broadhead and with film artist Nic Sandiland for the 16^th Century manor Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire.  

Recent and current collaborations include (Un)touched (2016-2020) with sculptor Nathaniel Rackowe performed at Canary Wharf as part of ‘Artists at Work’ , and subsequently at Fold Gallery, London, and CODA International Dance Festival, Norway;  (de)figured (2018), an intervention of materials and bodies, performed both at Royal Society of Sculptors and for Alserkal Lates in Dubai 2019, and Expanded Landscapes, commissioned as part of Summer Lights Festival, Canary Wharf, 2022.  Other recent and current works include Thermal Duets (2019), a series of intimate films on ipods using thermal imaging technology, made in collaboration with artist Caroline Broadhead, and its successor, Who Cares (2023), using thermal technology to explore the role of touch as a signifier of care, contamination, intimacy and trust, which premiered in Wells Cathedral, UK, as part of Wells Art Contemporary 2023.

Angela's work is funded by Arts Council England, Middlesex University, and various commissioners

Teaching

Angela Woodhouse, Senior Lecturer in Dance, teaches choreography on both  undergraduate and MA programmes.  She is module leader for DAN 2533 Creativity and Enterprise (year 2), DAN 3644 Collaborative Practice (WCA partnership Year 3), and DAN 3699 Choreographic Research Project (year 3).  

Angela is also supervisor / tutor on the MAPP programme.

Expertise: dance making/ choreographic practice/ Improvisation/ collaboration/ practice as research/ theory/ philosophies in making.