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Tag Archives: Dance
Sensing the city; artists, embodiment and urban space #4
This is my final post on the Sensing the City Salon. My colleague, artist and academic researcher Dani Abulhawa spoke about her recent performance work ‘Feint Lines’ as well as earlier performance work. These pieces focus on issues of play in public … Continue reading
Sensing the city; artists, embodiment and urban space #3
This is third post from the Sensing the City Salon is based on Sara Wookey’s presentation. Sara presented a series of works she undertook whilst living in Los Angeles between 2010 and 2014. A core theme was walking, which people experience very … Continue reading
Sensing the city; artists, embodiment and urban space #1
I recently attended an event entitled Sensing the City Salon, at Coventry University, part of the research programme which is ‘Documenting and mapping the tempers of urban place (a practice-based case study of the city of Coventry)’, jointly led Warwick … Continue reading
Making connections in Bristol – Laura Kriefman
On a recent trip to Bristol (March 2014), whilst waiting for choreographer Laura Kriefman in Bristol’s Roll for the Soul, a great community cafe and bike workshop, I was struck by some inspiring poster quotes, such as; ‘Cherish the past, Adorn … Continue reading
Tagged Architecture, Art, Bristol, city, Culture, cycling, Dance, Sci-Art, Technology, Urban
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A glimpse of Avignon Festival 2012
Whilst in France in July 12, I was fortunate enough to be shown around Avignon by artist and performer Charlie Fox and to be able to attend several dance performances, exhibitions and a discussion within the main festival programme; Highlights … Continue reading
Tagged Art, city, Creative, Culture, Dance, France, Performance, Theatre
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A framework for experimentation
I told the audience at ‘Live Art Meets Choreography’, that I’m interested in the idea that we should all seek to challenge ourselves, to take a risk every now and then – that’s both as audience and as artists. I … Continue reading
Tagged Art, Choreography, Culture, Dance, Live Art, Performance, Yorkshire
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Live art; a series of processes and practices
As curator of ‘Live Art Meets Choreography’ (see Enabling dialogues between disciplines – March 12), I defined choreography thus: ‘Choreography is when moving things (could be people) are arranged in space and time – with the dynamic qualities and the … Continue reading
Tagged Art, Choreography, Culture, Dance, Live Art, Performance, Yorkshire
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Title: Enabling dialogue between disciplines
I recently curated an evening of live art at Yorkshire Dance (www.yorkshiredance.com) in their Friday Firsts programme (3.3.12), entitled ‘Live Art Meets Choreography’. This was an opportunity for me to enable dialogue between two performance disciplines dance and live art; … Continue reading
Tagged Art, Choreography, Culture, Dance, Live Art, Performance, Yorkshire
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