THE BIG DANCE 2008 | 12 July | London's Trafalgar Square

Street Furniture are Peter Morris
and Mieko Shimizu

Mieko was born near Mt. Fuj Japan, performing initially, as a vocalist and pianist with her own band and subsequently scoring numerous Manga animated feature films.
Now living in London she has released three solo albums and founded Mekong Zoo with Japanese Violinist Aska Kaneko and in contrast the experimental Apache 61 and with visual artists D Fuse and One Dot Zero she established herself at the cutting edge of the art/club culture scene touring extensively in the UK and Europe, recently in Germany culminating in a headline performance in London for the launch of the album 4 Women No Cry (V2). Her new album “Phenomena of the Mind” features collaborations with David Cunningham, Barbara Morgenstern and with Robert Lippok of To Rococo Rot. She has also recently collaborated with Nitin Sawhney and other artists for Aftershock at the Royal Festival Hall and is now an Emerging Artist in Residence at the Southbank and will be supporting Massive Attack at this years Meltdown.

Peter born in Glasgow, Scotland, he trained in dance at Ballet Rambert and Central school of Dance. He was founder member of musical pioneers Supereal on William Orbit's seminal label Guerrilla Records, with many releases including the album Elixir as well as re-mixes for acts such as Depeche Mode. He then established 3rd Core with singer Anju Sharda as one of the leading lights of Asian fusion with the ground-breaking album Pandemic. He composes for film including the 'Palme D'or' winning film 'Floating', 'Shooting Fish', 'Long Time Dead' and documentaries such as 'Hungerford Massacre'. In dance he composed extensively with the Jeremy James Company also composing pieces for the 'Edinburgh International Festival' and for Ballet Rambert.

They are currently working on dance pieces with choreographer Aletta Collins for 'The Place Prize' at The Place Theatre in Sept and for the "Red Balloon" at The Royal Opera Houses Linbury Theatre in Spring '09.

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