Vida Midgelow

United Kingdom (residence) °1968
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Artist/academic Vida L. Midgelow is Professor in Dance and Choreographic Practices (Middlesex University, UK). Her research led movement works have been presented internationally. She has published in various journals and her monograph, published in 2007, was entitled Reworking the ballet. Her practice focuses upon somatic approaches to improvisation in movement, sound and video installations. Recent works include: Threshold : Fleshfold, TRACE: playing with/out memory and currently the accumulative work: A Date with (my improvisation) Practice can be viewed at: http://danceimprovisationpractice.blogspot.com. She is also chair of the Standing conference on Dance in Higher Education and co-editor of Choreographic Practices.

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  • Voice (a retracing) (2012) author(s): Vida Midgelow, Tom Williams published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    Voice (a retracing) is a video/sound work which seeks to capture and articulate the dancer's inner experience of movement improvisation. In doing so, this work layers and distorts video images and uses the dancer's spoken voice as the basis for an acousmatic composition. In this exposition Tom Williams (composer) and Vida L Midgelow (dancer and videographer) discuss a creative lexicon emerging from their collaborative processes making this work. Through these conversations they reveal conceptual, contextual and methodological ideas, illuminating their creative practices.
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