Billy Cowie is a Scottish composer/choreographer/filmmaker.

'whose a freude?' sung by mealnie marshall from divagate

He works principally in the area of dance/theatre performance, screen dance and installation. He has made over twenty live performance pieces (in collaboration with Liz Aggiss) for the company Divas Dance Theatre which has toured Europe extensively and he has completed five major screen projects (two BBC Dance for Camera commissions and two ACE Capture projects and a Channel 4 commission). He has created commissioned work for 'Extemporary Dance Theatre',' Mantis', 'Transitions', 'Intoto', 'Carousel' and 'Hi Spin'. A book about this work entitled 'Anarchic Dance' was published by Routledge in January 2006.

Billy Cowie has composed music performed by Marie McLaughlin, Nicola Hall, Gerard McChrystal, Daphne Scott-Sawyer, Juliet Russell, Rowan Godel, Pammjit Pammi and Naomi Itami. He has composed music for three BBC Radio projects: 'The Tempest', Philip Pullman's 'Dark Materials Trilogy' (both dir by David Hunter) and Thinking Earth (dir Pam Marshall). He has also composed music for film directors Tony Palmer, Chris Rodley, Stephen Frears and Bob Bentley.

Billy Cowie's first novel 'Passenger' will be published by Old Street on 3rd March 2008.

He is currently Principal Research Fellow at the University of Brighton..

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