‘Clubscapes and Dancerscapes’

Arts of Dance in association with Blackall Studios
are proud to present the art of 
OSCAR ROMP 

A unique collection of images exploring
UK clubdance culture from 1985-2011

Place: Blackall Studios, 73 Leonard St, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 4QS
Date: Wednesday January 25th - Tuesday 31st 2012
TIme: 10am - 6pm daily
Admission: Free
Press reception: January 25th 4pm - 6pm

Since the mid eighties Oscar Romp (Artist/dancer) has been employing his unique process at Jazz dance clubs, capturing the energy and vitality of the dancers. Drawing with pastel and charcoal on large sheets of paper taped to the dance-floor, Oscar fashions an image directly from what he sees (with no photographic intervention). The images are also informed by visual memory- (what he has seen and drawn in the past). Each drawing is an ‘on-the-spot’ improvisation, in which the key elements of the club event (The room, the lighting, the people and their movement) are played around with, moved about on the paper, erased and redrawn, as the evening progresses, until it starts to work as an image…Breaks from the drawing are taken to dance, and breaks from the dancing are taken to draw. Somehow the energy and insight brought by the one activity feeds
into the other.

Throughout the duration of the exhibition Oscar will be present, working on ‘Works-in-progress’
For the uninitiated we have a club night on Saturday 28th to be attended by some of the most accomplished Jazz dancers from across the UK, where Oscar will also be demonstrating his
technique in capturing the vitality of the dance floor.

Programme of Events | Oscar Romp Biography | Oscar Romp - Official Website

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