Juggling and Writing
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author(s): Poppy Emer Greenford
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How can we juggle semiotics and write somatics in circus? I aim to investigate the relationship between two artistic practices Juggling & Writing, how they can intersect and how the material can create emotive and exciting physical storytelling. As juggling is an inherently somatic practice and writing & words naturally hold semiotic value, the question aims to contradict the dualistic terms.
This project is a new development of a previous research into circus directing methodologies. However this will focus on my personal practices and the connection between juggling and creative writing; storytelling methodologies within a circus and theatre context. In previous work I have integrated these to a certain extent and now I would like to research devising techniques to find new ways of working. Can I juggle words? Can my writing hold rhythm, can it drop, catch, use siteswap theory?
Not a Live Show
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author(s): Emily Gray
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Not a Live Show was an exhibition held as part of the Bonington Gallery 'Vitrines' programme at Nottingham Trent University in March 2019. The exhibition reflected on archival research regarding New Contemporaries 'Live Show's in 1976 and 1977.
Project D Public Spaces
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author(s): Ivan Cook
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A report around Project D
WervelWindStil (2022)
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author(s): Juriaan Achthoven
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During a three weeks residency at the Nachtzuster, I worked together with a visual artist (Bas Kaufman) and a dancer (Maria Moschou) around the question of how to create vertical resonance in art. The question was inspired by theory of Harmut Rosa on 'resonance' (2018) and on the theory of 'metamodernism' by Vermeulen & Van den Akker (2010). We performed each Friday - 3 times in total - re-assembling and re-composing the main material of our artistic ritual in dialogue with feedback from each performance-session. The performance was meant as an incantation to draw the audience into a dreamlike world of surreal images.
Between control and uncertainty
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author(s): Marta Wörner Sarabia
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"Between control and uncertainty" is a practice-led research that combines the kinetic study of the body as a structure and the implementation of media and expanded choreography tools to de-pattern the conventional relationship between body and space in performative environments.
Moreover, on a meta-level, the investigation reflects on the tension between control and uncertainty in the act of research itself.
With the firm belief that the body has inherent philosophical and epistemological knowledge which can be activated by experiencing and observing movement, I embraced the challenge to name and contextualize that knowledge.
This inquiry started from my fascination for the kinetics of the body and its ability to reorganize itself in comparison with other micro and macro structures that do not move that way, such a, for example, the microstructures of materials like metal, rocks or the macrostructures built by the geography of the city and the Port of Rotterdam.
The interdisciplinary research addresses the dichotomy structure-destructure and its application and affections to the body. In this sense, the research proposes a tool for de-patterning the habitual relationship between the body of the performer and the external space and offers to the audience a door for de-patterning their relationship with performative spaces.
The research has been framed under the inspirational umbrella of the idea of performing the Deleuzian concept of “becoming”, (deriving from the Latin verb “devenire” which means “coming down, falling in, arriving to”).
The physical inquiry is focused on the action of “falling in”, "devenire". The exploration led to an articulated and defined set of physical and interdisciplinary exercises that are the core of the dance practice ‘falling in’.
In concordance with the practice, the findings of this research can be seen as ways of controlling and ways of facilitating, allowing, provoking uncertainty within the choreographic practice-led research frame.
This research artistically materialized in the performance Falling in. Notes on body space and matter premiered in 2019.
Future Repair Machine
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author(s): Future Repair Machine
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This page showcases the projects created in the frame of the EU-project future-repair-machine.
