A workshop with Kira O'Reilly organised by Tom Marshman
Chisenhale Dance Space - 7th January 2012
Making a January day as long as possible.
The workshop will take place within a 24 hour period that we will dedicate to discovering, developing and practising ideas about ‘bringing out and finding’.
Searching out movements, calling up collisions, perhaps finding other bodies that ghost what we think are our bodies.
We will begin before we meet, and complete after we have parted.
We will work in a dance studio and out of doors.
It will be cold.
We will wrap up warm.
We will use the weak January light and dimness as we find it to experiment with reconfigurations of our physicality and environments.
We will assemble and generate ideas and tangents from drawing, writing, reading and moving.
I will teach some yogic exercises that are wonderfully effective in opening up the senses and generating vitality and for supporting our capacity for our own inspiration and creativity.
Kira O’Reilly is a UK based artist; her practice, both wilfully interdisciplinary and entirely undisciplined, stems from a visual art background; it employs performance, photography, biotechnical practices and writing with which to consider speculative reconfigurations around The Body. She has performed with pigs and fallen down stairs, bleed and has been very still, tinkered with cell cultures and worn feathered headdresses, has extracted spider silks and whispered in mirrors, written love letters as conference papers and in panic and fallen out of headstands. She has spent a lot of time on her own in various studios wondering what to do and has read Vampire novels and listened to a lot of Scott Walker.
If you would like to take part in this workshop please tell us, on no more than one side of A4:
• What interests you about the workshop description?
• How do you make a day longer in and out of a studio/rehearsal room?
Email your responses to mail@chisenhaledancespace.co.uk
Deadline for applications 23rd November 2011, will hear by 5th Dec 2011
Price of workshop for 2 days £60 (£40 Low income- evidence required.
