Trio Collective: A Self-Interview

Conference presentations at:

'Performing Process: Sharing Practice' Symposium at C-DaRE at Coventry University on 6 June 2014 (live)

'Questioning the Contemporary in 21st Century British Dance' Symposium at Leeds Metropolitan University on 18 July 2014 (video)

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).

Autumn News

Things that I'm involved with this autumn:

Recherché Exhibition

I will be showing a series of video works as part of the Recherché Exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery from 21 Sept - 5 October. If you happen to be in the area, pop in!  

The private view is Friday 20 Sept 3-5pm. It would be lovely to see you! Pieces in the show include: 

Screen Tests (2013) , After the Future: A Homage to Bifo and Learning about the 60s (2012) 

Performance Hub Research Festival

I will have an installation with video works on at the Performance Hub Research Festival on 4 October at the Performance Hub in Walsall. For more information and to book your free ticket click here! 

New Visions on Dance Conference

As Newsletter Editor for the Society for Dance Research I'm involved in New Visions for Dance, a one-day symposium for emerging and early-career researchers taking place on 12 October at Middlesex University. For more details and to book click here! 

Lifting the Curtain - On Audience and Authorship
I'm invited to present and discuss my research at this event at the ICA on 25 & 26 October. For more information click here!

The Choreographic Forum

Together with Dr Lise Uytterhoeven and Dr Efrosini Protopapa I co-curate the Choreograpic Forum, organised by the Society for Dance Research. The next one on 31 October will be on Tino Sehgal's These Associations. Watch this space for more details!

P A N D E M I C Derby

After the Future: A Homage to Bifo will be exhibited at Pandemic in Derby from 25-27 October as part of a programme of visual art and SITUATIONS consisting of a combination of experimental music, film, lectures, talks, workshops, readings and performances. Go if you can, it will be great!

Cha Cha Cha 

Cha Cha Cha on 1 November at Chisenhale Dance Space will hopefully include a screening of Screen Tests (2013). For more information click here! 

The full collection of Screen Tests can be seen here! 

Cue Positions Symposium

I am giving a short 10 minute provocation on The End of Choreography (cheerful, I know) at Cue Positions, a symposium by BELLYFLOP on 22 & 23 November at Chisenhale Dance Space. Programme details will be published shortly!

Coffee Morning

Trio Collective will be leading a Coffee Morning on re: re-construction, re-doing, re-appropriation, re-staging, re-vival, re-enactment in dance/choreography in the new year at Chisenhale Dance Space. Watch this space and come to the Coffee Mornings in October and November! 

Dance and Critical Theory Group

I am the Associate Curator for the DCTG Autumn season, organised by Dance Art Foundation, which has as its theme:

Collaborators, Participants, Documents, Objects: Choreography as Expanded Practice.

If you're interested in joining the group please email Joe Moran (joe@danceartfoundation.com).

PSi Manifesto Lexicon

I have an entry on the German term Auseinandersetzung (English translation (the) sitting apart) in the PSi Manifesto Lexicon. Have a look here!

Summer Events

Slow Dance

by Laura and Lauren with Maisie Whitehead and Antje Hildebrandt

Friday 13th July, 5-7pm

Outside Clapham Common Tube Station, London

part of Lambeth's A-Z of Dance 2012

FREE

http://www.lauraandlauren.co.uk/slow-dance.php

Various works

Stereotypology (German version) with Nina Windisch, Learning about the 60s, After the Future: A homage to Bifo with Stella Dimitrakopoulou plus new work (tbc)

Thursday 19th July, 6-9pm

as part of The Industry Invites with work by Antje Hildebrandt and Hamish MacPherson + Martine Painter

Hotel Elephant Gallery, London, SE1 6BD

FREE

http://www.facebook.com/theindustry.hq

Tino Sehgal

Together with lots of other people I'm participating in Tino Sehgal's new work

24th July - 28th October

Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, London

FREE

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/unilever-series-tino-sehgal

A Self - Interview 

by Trio Collective

Friday 31st August

at In Dialogue - International Symposium, Nottingham

http://indialogue2012.wordpress.com/

http://triocollective.wordpress.com/category/a-self-interview/

Reading live performance: spectatorship and meaning-production in contemporary European performance practice (Paper)

Wednesday 5th September

at TaPRA Conference 2012 - University of Kent, Canterbury

http://seagullx2.com/TAPRA%20Conference%20Schedule%20-%202012.pdf

New work (title tbc)

with Stephanie McMann and Clarissa Sacchelli

Thursday 4th October, 7.30pm

Performance Hub, Walsall, University of Wolverhampton

as part of PhD Performance Series with work by Daniel Somerville, Gemma Collard-Stokes and Antje Hildebrandt

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/

Trio Collective: A Self-Interview

Trio Collective: A Self-Interview is a performance that takes the form of a self-interview of the collective, which acts as a mode for questioning, understanding and performing our collaboration. The text is based on several self-interviews that took place during our creative process and served as methodological tools for our performances. The performance derives from texts developed in June 2009 and in April 2012, therefore making explicit a gap in both our personal and collective memory, as well as interrogating our collaborative process through past, present and future times.

We will discuss issues arising from our collaboration including the relationship between talking and doing, different modes of communication, misunderstandings and failures, responsibility and decision-making. The members of the collective are both interviewers and interviewees –exchanging roles and seeking identities. Questioning issues of authorship and non-hierarchical working structures, we are trying to define and organise the fluid boundaries that exist within our modes of production.

Seeking alternative ways to work together (not always being able to be at the same place at the same time), we have formed a virtual rehearsal space that acts as a platform for collaborative performance practice. The resulting blog is a curious archive. It flattens the perception of time as a linear development and presents it as fragmented and incomplete. It gives the illusion of Trio as a coherent entity (we are all on here together), but has yet to overcome its differences and inconsistencies.

Conference Presentations:

4 May 2012: Symposium ON COLLABORATION at Middlesex University, London

http://mdxoncollaboration.blogspot.co.uk/

15 May 2012: CADRE Research Student Conference 2012 ON PERFORMATIVITY at the University of Wolverhampton

http://phdconference.wordpress.com/

30 July 2012: In Dialogue Symposium at Nottingham Conference - with a special performance by Michelle Lynch on Skype

http://indialogue2012.wordpress.com

Academic Summer

As I approach the end of the first year of my PhD, I am 'on tour' with my performance lecture Open Offer for Elbow Room - A Silent Lecture this summer. After an initial presentation at the postgraduate student conference 'Production' in Wolverhampton last week, I will stop at Central School of Speech and Drama this Thursday, 14th July, as part of the 'Authoring Theatre' conference, after which I will meet other postgraduate students at the 'Life Beyond the PhD' conference at Cumberland Lodge (Windsor) in Mid-August and my final stop will be York St John University on Thursday 1 September where I will present/perform at the 'Philosophy & ... ' conference.

I will also be performing in Metrology by Katerina Paramana presented as part of STOFF - Stockholm Fringe Fest 2011 on Friday 26 August.

For information on any of the events, please see below:

http://www.authoringtheatre.org.uk/
http://www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/our_conferences/forthcoming_conference_pages/Life+Beyond+the+PhD
http://w3.yorksj.ac.uk/arts/faculty-of-arts/events/philosophy-conference.aspx
http://www.stockholmfringe.com/

Happy (academic) summer everyone!

PRODUCTION - 3rd PhD Student Conference University of Wolverhampton