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Research projects Autumn 07/ Winter 08

INTERPLAY RESIDENCY
SURFACES: JESSICA LERNER
Mon Nov 26th - Sun Dec 2nd


For one week only resident artist Jessica Lerner will create an installation in Chisenhale Dance Space studio theatre, bringing together textiles and everyday objects to create an environment for the exploration of creative movement and dance.

Round shapes, vivid colour and texture will transform an assortment of objects from the conventions of domesticity to the fantastical and theatrical.  All housed in a soft atmosphere created through the hanging and draping of natural materials and textiles.

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INTERFACE RESIDENCY
THE MOURNER'S DANCE: DORAN GEORGE
Discussion Nov 16th, Workshops and Symposium Feb - Mar 08

Doran George’s residency will focus on using experimental dance to forge communities to recovery from bereavement. By focusing on recovery of the bereaved and exploring how ritual dance practice, infused with community-network building can be made more accessible, Doran will promote performance that expedites recovery and extends the reach of experimental dance. Doran will be working with artists and non-artists facing bereavement, in addition to health professionals, voluntary organisations and religious communities. As part of the residency Doran will be leading public workshops and curating a symposium to disseminate his research.

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SPACE BURSARY PROGRAMME
Projects Autumn 2007
Space Bursary Platform Friday Dec 7th at 7.00pm


THEO COWLEY
Harlequin Solo Project
Theo will be developing the aspects of choreography that make up the commedia dell'arte character of the Harlequin. This will take the form of solo research inspired by the Harlequin's unique approach to the reconfiguration of everyday actions and events.

SoFT
Exploring Ensemble Improvisation
Robert Anderson, Kathy Crick, John Koratjitis, David Leahy and Gabriele Reuter will explore their working relationship through skills exchange and performance practice. Incorporating contact improvisation, release and contemporary dance techniques and musical free improvisation, they will use Nancy Stark Smith’s underscore as the base for their research.

RACHEL OXLEY
Dilate
Rachel will be working with a small group of artists researching body language and gesture as demonstrated through conversation and one-to-one interactions. She will explore relationships between action, mimicked behaviour and symmetry. Rachel envisages that the work will show a correlation between mundane action and more theatrical patterns inspired by kaleidoscopes, ballroom dancing and synchronised swimming.
HELGA STROMBERGER
Body & Light
Helga will experiment with and explore the potential of projecting video images onto dancers, in order to transform the appearance of their bodies and motion.  She will explore the relationship between the moving body and images, particularly how motion, dynamics and the shape of video influence the way the body and motion are perceived.
SPACE BURSARY PROGRAMME
Projects Spring 2008
Space Bursary Platform Friday Mar 7th at 7.00pm
HELEN SCHOENE
What I Wish For
Helen will experiment with live animation and movement, using live performance and animated drawings to create single, but moving frames, similar to stop-frame animation. The drawings will be derived from popular tales and symbols, and become the site to play on and with. Helen will be working in collaboration with animator and filmmaker Ahmad Habash.



KIRA O’REILLY
Syncopal Actions &  Falling States
ira O’Reilly will consider the question: ‘How to have a body now?’ Her research will explore cultivating emergent dances at the point of break down and dance on the edge of our ability to balance. Kira is interested in movement material that does not follow a compositional, dramatic or kinetic logic, but upsets the harmonious mechanics of our bodies. Kira will be mentored by Doran George during this project.

OLIVIER RODRIGUEZ
And/Or
Olivier Rodriguez will develop a collaboration with dancers, filmmakers and musicians, where each form will have a productive interaction in real time, giving the performance work a quality of its own rather than being a dance, film or music piece. The project will involve stripping down the disciplines to their essential elements: sound, image and movement. In the studio Olivier will find new means to escape preconceptions and patterns for making work, and will be experimenting with combining different art forms.
MIKS
n+1
MIKS is a dance theatre collective with four artists: Ida Uvass, Sara Lindstrom, Pauline Huguet and Anais Bouts. Inspired by the writings of Georges Pérec and Oulipo, MIKS will adapt constrained writing techniques to body, movement and spatio-temporal  structures, in order to create choreographic systems.
 

 

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