Sand and Vision – a series of four solo pieces by Agostina D’alessandro, Billie Hanne, Anna Heuer Hansen and Robert Vesty. Directed by Julyen Hamilton. Brussels, April 2016 – Sand and Vision directed by Julyen Hamilton
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…
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…
Matthias Sperling working with Guido Orgs (Cognitive Scientist) at Brunel University, May 2015 Matthias invited myself and nine other dance artists to take part in an experiment. Part of an ongoing research project hosted by Guido Orgs and Staci Vicary (Brunel University). The project involved performers with dance backgrounds learning and performing a task-based group score. Set in the…
NIGHTRUNNING ON HACKNEY MARSHES (Nightrunning happened from 6pm on Friday 14th November 2014, Hackney Marshes, East London with twenty participants – led by myself and James Cross. It was inspired by Gardzienice’s actor-training practice which focuses on communal breath and rhythmic practice.) Inspired by the night, I wrote the following poem the next day as…
Even when a character behaves by contradictions that’s only because nobody can be identically the same at two unidentical moments. Changes in his exterior continually lead to an inner reshuffling. The continuity of the ego is a myth. A man is an atom that perpetually breaks up and forms anew. We have to show things…
After performing in Rosemary Lee’s Common Dance (2009), I’m really pleased to be taking part in her latest Dance Umbrella commission – Square Dances. There are four dances performed by four distinct groups (men, women, children & dance students from The Place) in four distinct places – squares in and around the Bloomsbury area of…
I’m with Kristin Fredricksson this week in Edinburgh, walking the streets talking to older people and asking them if they’d like to take part in Senior Moments at Forest Fringe at 6pm on Friday 20th August. Go to the Senior Moments blog for full details.
Rhinoceros By Eugene Ionesco Adapted by Martin Mooney (Theatre Kabosh) Directed by Rob Vesty Ground breaking news! CNN style reporters have come to cover the development of some extraordinary events taking place in a small French town. One by one, people are turning into rhinoceroses. Ooh la la! “Of all things!” What to say? What…
I’m working with Dog Kennel Hill Project this weekend. Their ‘People Working’ is a peformance tour around The Place’s building. The Place is celebrating its 40th birthday and this tour runs 5 times over the weekend, taking an audience of 10 through the basements, offices, cupboards and rooms of the building. In each performers ‘work’. For…