Regan O’Brien | 24 September – 5 October
Regan’s residency research focuses on her piece Bounding, a live, science-fiction performance project with a strong inter-disciplinary dynamic between dance, writing, installation, music and social choreography. Bounding focuses on the embodied experience of ‘performance’ from the perspective of the pregnant body. It is a searching for the story of a body mutated by nature and rejected by society. All wildish and terrified this is a space in which to explore the strength in vulnerability and the skills acquired in the process.
Throughout her residency O’Brien will facilitate friendly, creative meetings with groups of interested mums who are interested in exploring the skills and abilities they acquired through their mutation into m/Other. Please contact regsobrien@gmail.com to express your interest.
Andrea Rama | 8-19 October
Andrea’s residency is a part of the choreographic research of the project Megachurch. Megachurch is a dance solo, which contradicts the violence of sensation and the violence of representation in a surrealistic environment. It marks out the possibilities of optical facts, that do not yet constitute a fact.
The performer, is a phenomenal item, with a torso-driven dance and an emphasis on articulations of the hips. Andrea, and his collaborator Xeni Alexandrou, will use this residency in order to discover the maximum possibilities of this torso-driven dance and to limit the participation of the arms and legs. They will work on the flow of the movement and create a situation where the dance sequences have no boundary points: no beginning and no end.
As a conclusion they will examine the flexibility and grace that produces the body of a male performer, in this context of movement.
Professional Morning Classes
Regan O Brien – Friday 28 September and Wednesday 3 October. Click here for details.
Andrea Rama – Friday 12 and Wednesday 17 October. Click here for details.
