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)

Coffee Morning with Trio

Tuesday 14 January 2014

11am-2pm-ish

Discussing Discussions in/as Performance
Hosted by Trio Collective

Our discussion of Discussion will touch on current trends in integrating conversation into performances, in the form of pre-show talks, post-show Q&A’s, etc. as well as the recent emergence of certain conversational formats such as Choreographic Forum, Dance and Critical Theory Group, Coffee Mornings, Groundswell Meetings, etc. in the field of dance. It will aim to unpack ways that discussion can be a mode of production for researching, working, communicating, promoting, rehearsing, bonding, exchanging, and performing. Must we “do?” Can’t we just “talk?” Discuss.

We can talk about all of these things, none of these things, and more. You need not bring anything but yourself. And maybe some cake.

Chisenhale Dance Space, 64-84 Chisenhale Road, London, E3 5QZ www.chisenhaledancespace.co.uk 

Organised by Gillie Kleiman, an independent dance artist and proud member of the artistic community around Chisenhale Dance Space, kindly supported by and held at the organisation. All artists, members and non-members, are welcome to come and join in. Information about previous Coffee Mornings can be found here.

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!

Another Chair Dance at BAILED OUT

Trio Collective is presenting Another Chair Dance at Vibe Gallery on 14th June.

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Join us for an evening showcase of new works by young contemporary artists. Experience an eclectic mix of music, dance and performance art works in a relaxed gallery environment.

Tickets £3

Drinks available at the gallery’s bar.

For the full programme, please visit:  http://www.facebook.com/events/533621283340703

Another Chair Dance at circuit 2013

Trio Collective will be performing Another Chair Dance at circuit 2013.

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'circuit' is an exciting and free event showcasing new contemporary performance and Live Art. Bringing together practitioners, programmers and audiences, it provides the opportunity to see new performance and network.

Sunday 9th June 2013, 12-5pm, at De Montfort University, Leicester

Performances by Jack Britton, Rosana Cade, SC Durkin, Ehsan Gill, Robert Hardaker, mingbeast, Irresponsible Decorators and Trio Collective. 

6pm onwards:  Informal networking and attendance at performance festival Hatch: Scratch at Embrace Arts, Leicester

Confirmed professionals offering feedback are Nathaniel Miller (Artist/Hatch), Michaela Butter (Embrace Arts, Leicester), Aaron Wright (Live Art Development Agency), Helena Goldwater (Artist/Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University) and Rosie Garton (Zoo Indigo).

Please see our website for further information. http://circuitfestival2013.yolasite.com/

Or for further information contact Helena Goldwater, Senior Lecturer in Drama, De Montfort University:hgoldwater@dmu.ac.uk

Location details: PACE building, De Montfort University, Richmond Street, Leicester LE1 1BH

http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/how-to-find-us/how-to-find-us.aspx

The PACE building is number 26 on the Campus Map.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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Supported by De Montfort University and the Live Art Development Agency

Trio Collective publication

Trio Collective: A Self-Interview has been published in the Swedish Dance History Vol. 4

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

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

Trio at APT

This Thursday, 8th Dec, Trio Collective will be performing for the last time this year at the Private View of Q-Art's annual exhibition at APT Gallery (Deptford, London).

Another Chair Dance - A Duet will be on around 7.30pm but the space is open from 6-8pm. Come along and have a mulled wine with us!

http://www.q-artlondon.com/events/24-event/390-upcoming-event-q-arts-annual-exhibition-at-apt-gallery-thursday-8th-december

If I don't see you there, have a wonderful christmas and a very Happy New Year!

Trio Collective at Chisenhale Dance Space

Performing Sayings

Dear Elena, Michelle, Stella, World

TASK #3: Collect, perform and record three sayings.

Definition of saying: a well-known and wise statement which often has a meaning that is different from the simple meanings of the words it contains. (definition from Cambridge Dictionary Online)

Notes: You can choose to take sayings from your native language and directly translate them into English (they don’t have to make sense). The actual saying should appear written or verbally sometime/somewhere before, during or after the performance. You can choose whatever medium you feel fit to perform and record your sayings and you should post them online.

I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Antje Hildebrandt (Director)

Trio minus Michelle plus You

Concept and Creation: Trio Collective

Performance: Dimitrius Dimitrakopoulou, Stella Dimitrapopoulou, Antje Hildebrandt, Elena Koukoli

Presented at Southwark Playhouse (London) in October 2010.

Another Chair Dance

Concept and Creation: Trio Collective

Performance: Stella Dimitrakopoulou, Antje Hildebrandt, Elena Koukoli

Another Chair Dance was presented as part of Parallax 1 at the Old Police Station (London) and as part of Q-Art Convenor at the University of the Arts (London) in March and April 2011.

re-re-twothousandth-re

re-re-twothousandth-re incorporates dance, installation, text and video. Three performers move in front of four laptops where several performances made in 2003 are reproduced. Instead of learning the choreographies the dancers resist rehearsal choosing to copy the movement from the videos. Building upon pre-existing choreographies and a range of styles, this piece offers an unsettling, funny, playful and challenging landscape of movement, reflecting a response to different contexts of space, time and bodies and the memory they evoke.

Concept / Creation: Trio Collective
Performers: Stella Dimitrakopoulou, Antje Hildebrandt, Elena Koukoli
Lighting Design: Ruben Plaza Garcia

re-re-twothousandth-re was presented at The Place (London) as part of Resolution! 2011 and at the Arena Theatre (Wolverhampton) in January 2011.

Trio

Trio was developed using processes of reconstructing three artworks: Trio A (Yvonne Rainer), Triadic Ballet (Oscar Schlemmer), and France/tour/detour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 3: Connu/Géométrie/Géographie (Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville). Trio consists of several sections of task-based actions and simple movement. Language was crucial in the development and performance of the work, and appears in one form or another in each section. It is used to translate Rainer’s choreography, conduct on-stage interviews (taken from the Godard film from the 1970’s) as well as through playing filmed interviews throughout the entire duration of the performance. Language interacts with movement on-stage and becomes part of the theatrical set.From the contents of the three original pieces we present themes like geography, home, school and the relationships between them. Trio is intentionally un-spectacular and takes an ironic approach to presenting a traditional dance piece; on the threshold between seriousness and absurdity.

Concept, Creation, Performance: Trio Collective - Stella Dimitrakopoulou, Elena Koukoli, Antje Hildebrandt and Michelle Lynch

Trio was presented in June 2009 at Laban, London, UK and July 2009 as part of Sodaworks, Uferstudios, Berlin, Germany.