The End of Choreography

Commissioned by BELLYFLOP Magazine and presented as part of CUE Positions Symposium at Chisenhale Dance Space in November 2013, as part of The Palest Light at Trip Space Projects in December 2013 and as part of Spontaneous Combustion Dance and Performance Festival at arbyte gallery in Hackney Wick in July 2014.

The End of Choreography at Cue Positions

I'm giving a short polemic on The End of Choreography at Cue Positions: A Symposium by BELLYFLOP on 23 Nov in session 3 from 2-5pm at Chisenhale Dance Space. Please see here for the full programme and how to book tickets for the 2 day event (22 & 23 Nov).

Choreographic Forum - October 2013

Join us in a discussion on Tino Sehgal’s These Associations one year after its installation in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern from 24 July—28 October 2012.

Discussion Forum: Thursday 31 October 2013 from 6.30 to 9.00 pm, London College of Fashion, Room JPS 105, 20 John Prince's Street, London, W1G 0BJ

Open to students, researchers, artists and practitioners   

Invited speakers:

Simon Glendinning

(Reader in European Philosophy at London School of Economics)

Danae Theodoridou 

(Performance-maker and Lecturer at the University of Groningen)

Book your place via http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/8124178637

Free for SDR members / £5 full price / £3 concessions (students/freelance)

The Choreographic Forum is an initiative aiming to support an exchange of thoughts on current dance and choreography. It is set up as a series of roundtable discussions, during which we reflect on a performance that we have watched together, in a theatre or elsewhere in London. We meet three times a year, and each session begins with two short statements by two invited speakers who then lead the discussion.

To be included in our email list or for any inquiries, email: sdr.choreographic.forum@gmail.com

The 2013 series is curated by Antje Hildebrandt, Efrosini Protopapa and Lise Uytterhoeven.

Jonathan Burrows & Ramsay Burt present 'New dance and somatics'

A panel discussion curated by choreographer Jonathan Burrows and academic Ramsay Burt, new dance and somatics with guest panelists Siobhan Davies, Miranda Tufnell and Antje Hildebrandt.

Chisenhale Dance Space       
Wednesday 20th June 6.30-8.30pm

Contact and exchange of artists and teachers between the US and UK during the 1970s and 1980s led to explorations by British-based dance artists of new ways of moving, particularly ones that encouraged a focus on sensitivity to somatic processes. These included (but were not restricted to) contact improvisation, release-based methods of movement exploration, body mind centering, the Alexander technique, Tai Chi, and Aikido. This talk, the last of three at different London venues during June, will start with a historical introduction by Ramsay Burt, from De Montfort University, who will contextualise British new dance and the developing interest in these somatic practices during the period. It will be followed by a roundtable discussion chaired by choreographer Jonathan Burrows which will consider the different ways in which these explorations informed the work of British-based dancers and their practices. The recently published collection ‘The Body Eclectic’ considers ways in which professional dancers in the US have embraced an eclectic diversity of different approaches to their training. To what extent and in what ways was this also happening in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s, and if so what if anything is different about the way the approaches are being explored by British-based dancers today?

This is the last of three talks in this series will take place at Siobhan Davies Studios on 1st June, and Lillian Baylis theatre, Sadler’s Wells on June 7th, each of which will feature different guest speakers and focus on a different aspect of British New Dance.

Please contact the Chisenhale Dance Space office team on 02089816617 to book your place. More information on all three talks can be found here: www.new-dance-events.org.uk

The audio recordings are now online:
http://www.siobhandavies.com/relay/events/remembering-british-new-dance/

falling still

Falling and stillness are the themes that I’m exploring in this work. I experiment with ideas around the physical and psychological act of falling and the impact it has on the body, and on the audience. I use task-based exercises that focus mainly on the physicality of the body and therefore my work becomes very visual. Here, I'm interested in relating the body and the mind, practice and theory, research and performance.

Choreography and Performance: Antje Hildebrandt

Composer: Julien-Robert Legault Salvail

Video: Ibrahim Kayoueche

falling still was presented as part of Summer Dancing at Coventry University in June 2008.

Hybrid

Photography: Michael Huxley

Hybrid is a contemporary dance piece exploring idiosyncratic movement material and performance qualities of five dancers. It is an investigation into the relationship between music and dance as well as choreography, time and space. Using improvisation as the main creative tool, the choreography has emerged through collaboration and a constant dialogue between the dancers, the choreographer and the composer. With a sound score born out of the hybrid relationship between dance and music, this piece seeks to contextualise and diminish the ascendancy between the arts - treating them as one and the same.

Hybrid was presented as part of University Dance Company at DeMontfort University in February 2007. It toured nationally and internationally in the Spring and Summer of 2007 and was re-presented as part of episodes10 at Nottingham Playhouse in February 2010.

Choreography: Antje Hildebrandt

Sound Score: Adam Weikert

Dancers: Sasha Eccles, Lisa Holmes, Selina Pagano, Chrissie Powell, Fiona Smith