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25 SEP : CHOREOPHOBIA BY LILIAN NEJATPOUR AT SOMERSET HOUSE.
The intervening occurrence of colonialism and Western thought on Eastern dance practices.
27-28 SEP : 2 DAY BUTOH WORKSHOP W/ FLORENCIA GUEBEROF AT SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY.
The dancer encounters a resistance moving in between opposite forces.
27 SEP – 18 OCT : CHOREOGRAPHY COURSE WITH AMY BELL AT SIOBHAN DAVIES STUDIOS.
How are we moved by watching dance?
5 OCT : OPEN LAB / WHITE CANVAS SESSION AT CHISENDALE DANCE.
Those interested in performance, movement and the actions the body can deploy as an artistic medium.
15-19 OCT : TANGO RELEASE / CONTACT IMPROVISATION AT SIOBHAN DAVIES.
Relating to gravity, to one's body, to others, and to the environment.
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19 - 26 OCT : 2 DAY BUTOH WORKSHOP W/ FLORENCIA GUEBEROF AT SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY.
The dancer encounters a resistance moving in between opposite forces.
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28 OCT : MAKING ROOM FOR THE MESS BY KATYE COE AT SIOBHAN DAVIES.
What is the dancer’s experience immediately after a performance?
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6 NOV : MOVEMENT / POSSESSION # 2 AT SET SPACE.
Co-Operation and sports.
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HERDING was created for Motor Dance Journal and was screened at Moving is Understanding, a conference hosted by Motor Dance Journal & UCL History of Art
HERDING
VIDEO AND CHOREOGRAPHY BY SIM GRAY AND ISA RAKEL, SOUNDTRACK AND EDITING BY SIM GRAY
We envision improvisation as a form of pilgrimage - to return a collective wound to its source. This action comes with an acknowledgment of our complicity, but also with the awareness that by unburdening our guilt, we are no closer to active listening: The distress call from nature is driven by force, not reconciliation.
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Embodied theory demands an analysis of our responsibility and response-ability. Using the body as a frontier for awareness, action and activism requires an equal understanding of the body as a stage for gestation, intimacy and grief. We all need to find avenues of pleasure and self-care.
Structural change requires a reconditioning of the body. In Butoh, there is an exercise where you repeat a movement, again and again, until it loses its form entirely. Decontextualising and de-structuring our bodies requires discomfort and trial and error.
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Can dance be an exercise in remediation and solidarity?
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