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

CADRE Research Student Conference 2012

On Performativity

14^th – 15^th May 2012

University of Wolverhampton

Admission free

This annual conference is intended as a forum for discussion, an informal survey of current PhD research and a social occasion for the facilitation of networking and exchange amongst PhD students in Art, Design, Craft, Performance and Social and Critical Theory.

More information: http://phdconference.wordpress.com/

Registration:

Please email cadre@wlv.ac.uk by 26th April 2012

Centre for Art, Design, Research & Experimentation

School of Art & Design

Lecture Theatre MK045 (Ground Floor)

University of Wolverhampton

City Campus North, Molineux Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1DT

Stereotypology

Choreographic Forum - Session I

Society for Dance Research

Choreographic Forum

Open to students, researchers, artists and practitioners

The Choreographic Forum is a new 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 four times a year, and each session begins with two short statements by two invited speakers who then lead the discussion.

Session I:
Lizzi Kew-Ross: Without Warning

Joint viewings:

Wed 1 Feb, 6.30pm & Sun 5 Feb 2012, 2.00pm

The Old Vic Tunnels, Station Approach Rd, London, SE1 8SW

Discussion forum:
Wed 8 February 2012, 6.00-8.30pm
The Old Vic Tunnels Reading Room

Invited speakers: Mary Ann Hushiak (dramaturg) and

Dr Jonathan Clark (Head of Research TrinityLaban)

Free for SDR members
£7 full price / £5 concessions (students/freelance)

[SDR membership costs £30 / £26 concessions]

To sign up for our session and/or to be included in our email list, email: sdr.choreographic.forum@gmail.com

Please let us know if you have any suggestions about future performances you would be interested in watching and discussing.

The 2012 series is curated by Efrosini Protopapa, Lise Uytterhoeven & Antje Hildebrandt.

* Participants should book their own tickets online or by ringing The Old Vic Tunnels Box Office under 0844 871 7628 [Tickets are £15 full price / £12 concessions]

Research Student Conference 2012 at the University of Wolverhampton

Open Call for Papers

4th Annual Research Student Conference in Art & Design hosted by the Centre for Art, Design, Research and Experimentation (CADRE) at the University of Wolverhampton, UK

The conference, which takes place on the 14th May 2012, is intended as a forum for discussion, an informal survey of current PhD research and a social occasion for the facilitation of networking and exchange amongst PhD students in Art, Design, Craft, Performance and Social and Critical Theory. There is no over-arching theme to the conference this year and one of our aims is to let themes emerge from the submission process engendering new debates and discussions.

For the Call for Papers and more details check out the website at http://phdconference.wordpress.com/