Six O'clock Swill is an interactive and emotive solo that delves into Society's relationship with alcohol. This work takes inspiration from the sculptural work of Rodin, Mr Punch and William Hogarth's Gin Lane and Beer Street, and has evolved through London's Experimental Cabaret scene.

What begins as an amusing audience interactive characterisation of a drunken businessman, swiftly spirals into loneliness and alcohol-induced annihilation. Six O'clock Swill is a very emotional piece, questioning society's relationship with alcohol and the negative affects it can have on lives.

"Suitably alienating from the start... Smith's body-contorting choreography tells of the physical symptoms of alcoholism and the related mental health deterioration"

Sam Gauntlett (Resolution! 2010 Review)

"I really loved the atmosphere and story that was created."

Audience Member (Soft Cuts)

"Is it a man or a woman?!"

Audience Member (Soft Cuts)

"Difficult subject that I think people would prefer to avoid altogether. You evoke some very intense emotions which is great!"

Audience Member (Soft Cuts)

"You reminded me of one of our friends. He is 100 years old."

Audience Member (Accidental Festival 2010)

Choreography & Performance: Lorraine Smith

Variety Box The Others * Accidental Festival 2010 BAC * ArtEvict Lift & Hoi st * Resolution! 2010 Robin Howard Theatre * Soft Cuts Blue Elephant Theatre * Pandora's Box Albert & Pearl * The Shunt Lounge * parkroadpilot Boys Club * Freak Show Star of Bethnal Green * 15 Minute Factory Rag Factory

Originally created as a durational performance installation, Beloved of Henry has been developed into an interactive performance piece with live cello by Sophie Rivlin of string Quartet Alea. The work embodies the character of Ann Boyleyn to form a physical exploration that touches upon of issues of Fertility (the need to produce a male heir), the shame endured during Boyleyn's divorce trial and the fear of awaiting execution in the Tower of London.

Silversmith and Sophie Rivlin are currently performing the work as part of musical concerts to reach new audiences.

"The movements were touching and gentle."

Kirsty Hoyle, Producer (Pandora's Box)

15 Minute Factory Queen of Hoxton * Variety Box The Others * parkroadpilot Boys Club * Pandora's Box Albert & Pearl * Kranken House * Troy's Magic Piano The Harrison

(In)Formalities combines innovatively expressive movement, text, and a bunch of quirky characters to explore Englishness, formal events, and when nothing goes to plan!

Fanfares. Marches. Speeches. Dry coughs...

Original creation supported by No Strings Attached, Farnham Maltings.

Director: Lorraine Smith

Choreography: Lorraine Smith & performers

Composition/Musical Direction: John Chambers

Performers: Sylvia Ferreira, Dusty Payne, Catherine Pinhorn, Fiona Smith, Ianthe Wright

Musician: Chris Dowding

Seedbed Hackney Empire * Accidental Festival 2009 Roundhouse * GroundWork 7 Camden People's Theatre * Practice Salisbury Arts Centre * ScenePool 2009 Camden People's Theatre * Silversmith Dance Theatre Blue Elephant Theatre

Using dancers from the Newington Collective, this piece satirises the 21st Century obsession with beauty and the body.

Relax. Cleanse. Micro-minerals. No more wrinkles. Soothe. Transcend Mortality. Detox. Digestive transit. Refresh. Healing herbal highs. Botox. Bifidus Actiregularis. Believing is feeling. Placebo effect. Revitalise. Empty. Inside.

Director: Lorraine Smith

Choreography: Lorraine Smith & performers

Composer: Nico Bentley

Lighting: Jason Kirk

Performers: Lianne Dixon, Dana Kolesarova, Chris Mead, Dusty Payne, Ianthe Wright

Blue Elephant Theatre * Kosica Slovakia * Newington Dance Showcase NDS

This classic Grimm Brothers' tale is re-told through dark physical imagery and atmospheric music. Two dancers and four musicians conjure a world of power, greed, and sinister magic. A world in which a living thing is more precious than any treasure.

"Any of the Grimm brothers fairy tales could have made an excellent starting point for a piece of music and dance, but what I like about Rumpelstiltskin is that it contains certain ambiguities about the eponymous villain. The movement in this piece symbolises the shifts of power within the story as spatial relationships, and highlights the differences and similarities between the two main characters. The music draws much of its material from the structural elements of the story, as well as certain sounds and images (the spinning wheel, the weeping girl, and the crackling fire)."

John Chambers

"The choreography was intriguing and well executed, the music captivating and shocking, and both were technically inspiring."

Tanith Lindon, EXTRA! EXTRA!

Director & Composer: John Chambers

Choreography & Performance: Sylvia Ferreira & Lorraine Smith

Lighting: Jason Kirk

Musicians: Violin - Sharon Falk Sheye, Voice - Natasha Lohan, Percussion - Neil Morris, Bass Clarinet - Allison Rosser

Trinity Studio Theatre * Silversmith Dance Theatre Blue Elephant Theatre

A woman feels that her house and its memories are too painful, so she decides to move on and live in her garden for a while... Come and peek over the fence as she is left to ponder on her loneliness, and indulge in her imagination and environment.

Created through structured improvisation by both performer and composer, and using the life of Barbara Hepworth as stimulus, After They Left explores narrative, urban environments and the abstraction of emotions to immerse performer and audience in the world of this unresolved character.

"If Taxi Driver and, especially its legendary scene of the mirror, exposed you abruptly to the destructive power of a man's solitude, so does After they Left... A piece of dance and theatre that is beautifully disturbing, dark, poetic, raw and emotional... All at once..."

Tonny Ajoup  (Theatre Director & Reviewer)

Director: Lorraine Smith

Choreography: Lorraine Smith & Catherine Pinhorn

Composer: John Chambers

Lighting: Jason Kirk

Performer: Catherine Pinhorn

Independent Dance Feedback Forum Siobhan Davies Dance Studio * Silversmith Dance Theatre Blue Elephant Theatre * Cafe Choreographique The Point * Groundwork 5 Camden People's Theatre