Becky Edmunds

 Becky Edmunds (b.1966) trained as a dancer and choreographer at Laban Centre, London in the mid 1980’s.

In 1988, she met with artist Michael Mayhew, and together they formed the live art company, Mayhew and Edmunds, in Manchester. Both artists were also founder members of the large-scale event company, Dogs of Heaven, in the late 1980’s.

Since 1995, Becky has been based in Brighton, UK.  She continued to produce live work, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with visual artists, photographers, scientists and dance artists until 2000, when she shifted to a screen-based practice. 

Her video work now has two distinct strands, which inform and influence each other. She works as a specialist dance videographer and has collaborated with dance and performance artists and organisations to produce video documentation, including Walker Dance Park Music, Ricochet Dance Productions, Gill Clarke, Fiona Wright, Girl Jonah, Gravity and Levity, Charlie Morrissey and Scott Smith, Arts Council England, South East Dance, Dance South West, Independent Dance and Springdance (NL).

She has made a series of documentaries including the installation Working Day (2003), and the short film Have You Started Dancing Yet? (2004) which toured national and international screen dance festivals.  In 2008, she completed Living Architecture - a 40 minute documentary on Rudolf Laban.

Becky Edmunds also has a research-led screen dance art practice, which seeks to deepen the screen application of dance practice.  In 2006, she was supported by an Arts Council International Fellowship to be artist-in-residence at the VideoDanza Festival de Buenos Aires (Argentina), creating during her time there, a series of dance shorts which have toured throughout 2007 and 08. In 2009 she will continue her video practice through a residency in Sweden as a guest of the SHOOT Dance for Screen festival.

Since 2005 she has been working with dance artist Gill Clarke and sound artist Scott Smith to create a multi-channel video installation, Stones and Bones, which previewed in December 2007. This has led to the creation of field - a new moving image arts collaboration. 

Becky has recently completed an MA by research, entitled Documents and Disappearance: The Documentation of Dance on Video, which she has undertaken at the London School of Contemporary Dance.

Becky is a member of Movement 12 and an Associate Artist with Blast Theory.