Dora Frankel

Dora Frankel Ensemble was started in autumn 2018, when she and non binary dancer, Giacomo Pini presented their first project Touch the Beast, a film and performance which premiered at Jackson lane London. The film went on to garner 20 awards globally. 

Since then the ensemble has created and recreated five works platforming Dora’s continuing choreography and filmmaking. The ensemble specialises is immersive, touring work with a low carbon footprint, highlighting the intersection between personal journeys and environmental collapse, as well as exceptional outreach. The ensemble consists of Luca Braccia, Becky Horne, Livia Massarelli, Giacomo Pini and Zara Sands with associate composer Peter Coyte and Roma Yagnik and costume design Kate Collins.

Dora Frankel trained at Rambert School of Ballet 1967-71 and later, as choreologist at Benesh International, London. She joined Rambert Company as choreologist, also performing in Cruel Garden chor. Christopher Bruce, among other works. During her 50 year career here and abroad, mainly America and Scandinavia, she has combined choreography and dance and theatre performance with education and outreach work, including most notably, the design and leadership of Angered Gymnasium’s dance programme(s). On her return from Sweden she gained an MA Choreography, Middlesex University and located to Newcastle upon Tyne, where she formed Dora Frankel Dance, before re-visioning it as Fertile Ground, touring contemporary dance company in 2013. She returned to an eclectic independent career in 2018.

The current project is The Poe Saga.