As well as several productions with orchestras, Pete has designed the lighting for many other large scale community projects around the world, working with people in very different situations:











Community

...children and young people in, and excluded from, mainstream education, street kids, the displaced, people with disability, men and women in prison, communities in conflict or marginalised or divided by cultural, religious, social or economic circumstances.

April 2019. Choreographed by Mags Byrne of DUDance, "Faoileoireach / Soaring , presented in Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich on Falls Road Belfast, is an intercultural dance project exploring the common experiences of those who lived in West Belfast in the height of The Troubles and those who have recently moved to the area from places of conflict or challenge.


May 2016. A return to Casa de Cultura in Transylvania sees Janice Parker create "¡Toata Lumea Danseaza! (Everybody Dance!)"a new work with a large community company of all abilities and ages.


March 2016. Directed by Simona Scotto (Italy), Migration Europa is presented by five choreographers from all around Europe exploring various aspects of migration.

November 2014. Mags Byrne and Tamara Mclorg collaborate with composer Ruby Colley to create "Fallen", in which women and girls, men and boys, aged nine to ninety commemorate the centenary of the First World War in Belfast's historic Titanic Drawing Offices.

July 2014. Under the direction of Royston Maldoom & Tamara McLorg "Four Seasons" is choreographed by Rhiana Laws, Amy Park, Gemma Williamson and Lucy May Wilson, presented by Aberdeen International Youth Festival in ACT, Aberdeen, as part of Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme.

May 2014. "Spectacol" sees Janice Parker choreograph a disability-lead project to celebrate the re-furbishment of the Kulturhaus in Fagaras, Romania.

March 2014. Lulu Arroyo choreographs "Serendipity", performed by an integrated company at Ramallah Cultural Palace, Palestine.

March 2014. Award winning duo, choreographer Janice Parker and designer Richard Layzell create "Glory", a large-scale, immersive dance event that celebrates Glasgow's rich Commonwealth community and Glasgow 2014. With an original composition by Michael John McCarthy.

March 2013. "The Rite of Spring", choreographed by Royston Maldoom, and performed by over one hundred young people from Palestine, toured five West Bank venues.

November 2012. St.Anne's Cathedral in Belfast sees an intergeneration, all-female company perform "Alternative Energies", a multi-media production with a live score created by Ruby Colley.


October 2011. "Merge", presented by Dance United Northern Ireland in an old industrial warehouse in Belfast's Titanic Quarter: a fusion of contemporary dance and hip-hop, opera and rap, with some free-running, BMX riders and flatlanders, skateboarders and fire performers thrown into the mix!

August 2011. "Ithemba" - Ithuba Community College's one hundred students from the townships of Kattlehong dance a new piece by choreographer Tamara McLorg and composer Christopher Benstead, performed over three nights at the Zonkizizwe Community Centre, South Africa.

August 2011. Royston Maldoom's "Exile" presented by 130 mostly under-privileged young Palestinians tours to four different venues across the West Bank.


May 2011. "BoX" - touching on the story of the holy Wiborada, Kinderdorf Pestalozzi produces a new piece by Josef Eder with seventy young people from St.Gallen, Appenzeller and around the world dancing to the musical arrangement of Karl Knopf Kopf, in Tonhalle - complete with lots of little boxes!

March 2011. "Sutemos" continues Dance United N.I.'s work of bringing together young people from across the divide with a choreography by Sheena Kelly in Tyrone's Craic Arts Theatre.

October 2010. "Watercolours" - over one hundred dancers perform the choreography of Royston Maldoom, with a live Chopin score played by renowned pianist Ferhan Önder in Hangar21, Detmold.


July 2010. ResiDance Sommer Festival. Youth dance companies from Belfast, Bielefeld, Detmold, Hamburg, Newcastle, Sunderland, and Vienna join local community dance groups of Lippe, to present a variety of works at Detmolder Sommer Theater, under the Artistic Direction of Tamara McLorg.


July 2010. "KHAK/KOFLGSCHROA", approximately 80 young people, from different social and cultural backgrounds in Tirol, dance the choreography of Josef Eder at The Innsbruck Tanzsommer Festival.

October 2009. "Exil", one hundred young people dancing to "Harmony Lehre" by John Adams at Gaswerks in Vienna, choreographed by Royston Maldoom and produced by Caritas.


September 2009. "Firebird" at Teatrul National, Bucharesti and Casa De Cultura, Sibiu, Romania, choreographed by Josef Eder and Royston Maldoom to the music of Igor Stravinsky, and produced by Jungen Rumänen eine Chance.


July 2009. "Making A Move" Choreographies by Janice Parker, Tamara McLorg, Royston Maldoom. Grone Netzwerk Hamburg. kampnagel, Hamburg.


June 2009. "The Wren" Choreography by Mags Byrne. Dance United N.I.. Ulster Hall, Belfast.

September 2008. "Across a Clear Blue Sky", choreographed by Tamara McLorg and Janice Parker with an original composition by Chris Benstead played by a thirty-strong band and choir was performed in a disused helicopter hanger in Detmold, Germany.


April 2008. "Residance - Rhythm to Dance" Choreographies by Josef Eder, Janice Parker, and Tamara McLorg. Peter Glaser Stiftung. Stadthalle, Detmold.


October 2007. "CanDoCanDance" Choreograpahies by Janice Parker, Tamara McLorg, and Royston Maldoom. kontextcultur (Germany). kampnagel, Hamburg.


March 2007. "Quest" Choreography by Mags Byrne. Dance United N.I.. March. The Waterfront, Belfast.

September and October 2006. "CanDoCanDance" Choreographies by Sus Broughton, Mags Byrne, Tamara McLorg, Royston Maldoom, and Janice Parker. kontextcultur (Germany). kampnagel, Hamburg; Schauspeilhaus, Hamburg; Kulturbrauerei, Berlin.


September 1999. Tamara McLorg, commissioned by East London Dance, created "Roadworks" a Community Dance piece set along each carriageway of a half-mile stretch of the A13, London, performed by 160 members of the local community to original live music by Barry Gamberg. 'The Independent' listed it as one of the dance events of the year.

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photos: "Merge", Belfast 2011 (copyright Joe Fox); "CanDoCanDance, Hamburg 2006, 2007; "Firebird", Bucharest 2009 (copyright Daniel Angelescu)