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Embodying a Connection with Van Abbemuseum
I am just back from the Netherlands where I gave a talk called Moving the Museum in relationship to one of my projects that I was attending to there and that has been in the museum since 2014. Punt.Point is a collaboration with architect Rennie Tang and was commissioned by the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven as part of…
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Role of Participation in Dance (and Museums)_Talk at TATE Exchange Room
As part of my TATE Learning Associate 3-month residency I have been connecting with events in the TATE Exchange room that align with my interest in exploring approaches to and critical discourse around dance in the museum. Today I attended an all-day talk where one of the many partners of TATE Exchange, Trinity Laban’s Learning and Participation programme (headed…
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TATE Residency
I very pleased to share that I just finished the second week of a 3-month residency at TATE Modern. As a TATE Learning Research Associate I will be working on my practice and research of dance in the museum from the perspective of the dance artist. As part of my time at TATE I am inviting individuals and small…
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Reflective time…evolving projects… and new spaces of inquiry
Some time has passed since my last blog entry. Some of this is due in part to the holidays/end of year activities and part of it has to do with some needed reflection time on my practice during this time of shifts in governance (both in my country of origin: the USA and current home country of…
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Dance and the Museum: Stretching the Boundaries
Following up to a full day conferences on 8th December called “Dance and the Museum: Stretching the Boundaries” hosted by Het Firmament in Mechelen, Belgium. I am reminded of the need for live inter-action, discussion and doing together in getting thoughts, ideas, provocations and critical thinking going. Too often, freelance dance artists – such as myself…
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Manifestos on the Future of Dance
Having just wrapped up 10 (short) weeks of teaching the course “Ways of Seeing” (a title possibly inspired by John Berger’s book by the same name) for 100 BA students at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance. On our last day I invited them to write a manifesto for dance. We first looked at…
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Dancing Museums at National Gallery
Dancing Museums is a partnership between five European dance organisations and eight museums. Its mission is to explore new ways of interacting with audiences. As one of those audience members yesterday (November 12th) I began to wonder what “interacting” might mean in today’s world. I ask this because my experience was more of one of isolation then…
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Autumn Season & Freelancing
As the Autumn days roll in quickly I am in the process of doing annual check-ins and outreach for the 2017 season. I also spent two hours making corrections on Wikipedia, a wonder of a source and I wonder who puts these things up there? In any case, I look forward to traveling in 2017 to…
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Contemporary Dance Festival, Human Movement & Alternative Approaches in Greece
I recently attended the Contemporary Greek Dance Platform at Megaron in Athens. It was a three-day event with performances running from 9pm-12.30pm each night. The programme varied each day with featured works by young Greek choreographers selected by an international jury. The work I saw on Sunday evening seemed influenced by post-modern aesthetics and infused with…
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Residency at Penpynfarch
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I just completed a 3-day residency at Penpynfarch in Wales. It was a self-created residency that included moving in the studio (see image), reading and writing. I am doing research into the experience of the dancer in gallery and museum performances. Starting with my own practice, I re-visited my creative practice for three works that I have…
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