Call for Contributions to Choreographic Practices Journal – WORDS and DANCE, special edition
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Call for Contributions to Choreographic Practices Journal – WORDS and DANCE, special edition

Call for Contributions to WORDS and DANCE Guest Associate Editor: Robert Vesty (Middlesex University) Call for ContributionsDeadline for full essays: June 1st 2016 This special journal issue of Choreographic Practices – WORDS and DANCE – aims to draw together, contribute to and exemplify debates around the use of spoken word in current and future 21st…

Use/User/Used/ Exhibition – 6 & 18 February 2016
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Use/User/Used/ Exhibition – 6 & 18 February 2016

Use/User/Used/ is an exhibition that explores the effects of 24/7 working culture and questions societal pressures to continuously perform. The show presents works from the Zabludowicz Collection alongside new live performance and dance commissions. Space and Words Collective will participate at Use/User/Used/ exhibition on Saturday 6 and Thursday 18 February between 12noon and 6pm. This…

Spontaneous Combustion Festival – Sunday 4 October 2015
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Spontaneous Combustion Festival – Sunday 4 October 2015

A group of us, Sound Life Collective, participated at the Spontaneous Combustion 2015 festival, hosted at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham performance: Antigone Avdi, Lavinia Cascone, Susan Kempster, Sarah Kent, Jan Lee, Tim Murray­-Browne, Delphine Robetsound design: Tim Murray-Browne, Jan Leeperformance photos and videography by Petra Puchelova

Saturday 3 October as part of Open Weekend 2015
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Saturday 3 October as part of Open Weekend 2015

This shared practice session took place during the Chisenhale Open Weekend 2015 Chisenhale Art Place Members (Chisenhale Studios, Chisenhale Gallery and Chisenhale Dance Space) opened their doors for a free weekend of open studios, exhibition, performance and events.  For a full programme click here. Our participation was under the name Sound Life Collective.

Gwineverra, Tom and the Enemy of Man
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Gwineverra, Tom and the Enemy of Man

Gwineverra, Tom and the Enemy of Man is a graphic novel performance set at the very beginning of the 21st century. There is dream and death. The characters live in a crime-ridden city where the placement of action and words is offhand and seeks no forgiveness, yet is soft and ultimate, an instant memory, a mark. Something…

WHAT SKILLS ARE REQUIRED OF THE DANCER AND POET TO PRODUCE POETRY AND DANCE IN PERFORMANCE? (MAIN QUESTION)

WHAT SKILLS ARE REQUIRED OF THE DANCER AND POET TO PRODUCE POETRY AND DANCE IN PERFORMANCE? (MAIN QUESTION)

What Skills are Required of the Dancer and Poet to Produce Poetry and Dance in Performance? REPORT? What are the different/similar processes of languaging and moving?  (VIDA) Typed How Do I Start to Work In A Studio? (STEFANIE) Typed How can I get beyond my resistance and perform regularly (KATE) How does the poem remain...
WHAT ARE THE ELEMENTS THAT ARE LOST IN TRANSLATION? (MAKIKO)

WHAT ARE THE ELEMENTS THAT ARE LOST IN TRANSLATION? (MAKIKO)

What are the elements that are lost in translation? - Is it lost or transformation? - Do we need to be understood? and is it important in performance for the audience to know your intension, mood, atmosphere? - Perhaps mix any languages/sound that resonate and capture the intension of that moment. What happens physically when...