Helen Kindred

dancer|choreographer|practitioner
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United Kingdom
research interests: embodiment, improvisation, dance, Dance education, performance
affiliation: Middlesex University London
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A dancer, choreographer and movement practitioner my work addresses some of the complexities of our embodied relationships with our sense of self and with each other, explored through improvised encounters using music, text, film and touch. I am co-curator and resident choreographer for the trip project (Turning Research Ideas into Practice), founding member of TIN (TransDisciplinary Improvisation Network) and co-founder of Coterminous, a cross-disciplinary ensemble of dance, music and film.

 

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  • KnowingUnknowing (last edited: 2018) author(s): Helen Kindred This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    KnowingUnknowing is an improvised duet in triptych form by dancer Helen Kindred and guitarist Benjamin Dwyer. Improvising filmmaker Pete Gomes joined them in a performance in which the director-as-camera operator became an integral element of the improvisation transforming the work from a duet into a trio. The film KnowingUnknowing is a demonstration of the combined improvisations of dancer, guitarist and filmmaker. Our writings on this process appear here in two parts. The first is an essay by Gomes that explores his developing practice of ‘improvising mise en scene’—the ways in which the live, improvised interaction of the director-as-camera operator advances upon traditional understandings of mise en scene in film. The second essay, written jointly by Dwyer and Kindred, explores themes surrounding originality in improvisation, the processes at work in the moment of the expression of embodied knowledges and experience, the role of poetics and philosophy in understanding these processes, and how they have specifically impacted the KnowingUnknowing project.
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