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 1993, 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 dance and performance videographer, and has collaborated with artists and organisations to produce video documentation, including Rajni Shah, Pacitti Company, Walker Dance Park Music, Ricochet Dance Productions, Blast Theory, 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).

Becky 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 toured international festivals. In 2009 she was invited to continue her research practice through a residency in Sweden as a guest of the SHOOT Dance for Screen festival.

In 2005 she collaborated with dance artist Gill Clarke and sound artist Scott Smith to create a multi-channel video installation, Stones and Bones, which previewed in London in December 2007. Becky also worked in collaboration with artists Lucy Cash, Claudia Kappenburg and Chirstinn Whyte to co-curate the What If...Festival, in London 2010.

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