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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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Open Letter to Artists (a reminder)
I attended the Skillshare on Freelancer Pensions and Career Longevity put on by Equity Freelance Dance Network yesterday in London. There was a begging-for-more-time conversation on confidence in negotiating and steps to support each other in that. For example, there is an audition at TATE Modern tomorrow calling for dancers that is being commissioned by Hyundai and the…
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The Politics of Collaboration European Currents
I recently attended the The Politics of Collaboration European Currents research event at Middlesex University. The event was hosted by Dr. Noyale Colin and Dr. Stefanie Sachsenmaier whose interest in collaboration with relation to current European dynamics. Key speakers included Rudi Laermans, Gigi Argyropoulou, and Bojana Cvejic with performances by Dog Kennel Hill Project, Alice Chauchat and Angela Woodhouse.…
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Transmitting Trio A at ImpulsTanz Vienna
I just finished a one-week intensive workshop here at ImpulsTanz in Vienna and enjoyed every minute of it! It is a live and vibrant festival with young dancers from all over the world coming together for a week to four weeks of training, performances and socializing. I especially liked the work of Alice Chauchat and…
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Rosas @ TATE
The new work, WORK/ TRAVAIL/ ARBEID, by Anna Theresa deKeersmaeker is a joy to experience. Walking into the upper level of the Turbine Hall at TATE Modern and hearing a crowd clapping has become part of the fabric of my experience at TATE Modern in London, my newfound home. I came here because of the…
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