CIDA - Chisenhale Dance Feature Page

Welcome to the Autumn/Winter 2001 Programme at Chisenhale Dance Space, selected and produced by practising artists.

Wisdom of the Body Moving
Saturday & Sunday 10:30am - 6pm
6-7 October, 10-11 November, 15-16 December 2001
9-10 February, 16-17 March, 4-5 May 2002
A series of six weekend workshops, lead by Linder Hartley, focusing on Body Mind centering (Saturdays) and authentic Movement (Sundays). This course offers the opportunity to assimilate explorations over a sustained period within a supportive group.
Cost: £300/£240 conc, for all 6 weekends.
£150/£120 conc, for 6 Saturdays or 6 Sundays

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Merge
Monday 8 - Friday 12 October 2001
How can dance and film create statements and behave more like art objects rather then linear and progressive time based work?
Sharing: Friday 12 October 7pm All welcome

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Action Theatre Workshop: the Art of Presence
Monday 15 - Friday19 October, 2001 10:30am - 3:30pm
A five day workshop with San Francisco-based Sten Rudstrom. Action Theatre is body-based improvisation which develops physical and vocal performance skills. Through working solo and with partners this workshop will discover what arises from the body and mind, encouraging new movement relationships and opening participants to the unfamiliar. Curated by Kate Anderson.
Cost: £85/£65 conc.

Swing Me High
Sunday 21 - Thursday 26 October, 2001
Emma Mongan, two performers day a composer will explore Emma's personal experience of the neurological disorder Guillain Barre syndrome. Drawing upon stories that are tragic, moving and at times even hilarious.

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Terestrain, pedestrian, self-storage
Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 October, 2001
International Performance Network Conference
Including Action Theatre workshop by sidsel Pape, lecture-demonstration, 'the violence of repetition' by Eleanora Allerdings, Aikido Techniques into Partnering Improvisation, Image-text-Action workshop Plus evening performances by IPN members.
Curated by Jessica Lerner supported by a Chisenhale Space Bursary.
Further details and bookings contact: 020 7771 7572 or
[email protected]

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Choreographing Imagination: An Investigation into Process
Wednesday 31 October - Thursday 1 November &
Wednesday 7 - Friday 9 November, 2001 10am-6pm
An open research project let by Meghan Flanigan investigating the journey from imagination to physical reality. How can the imagination be choreographed to create movement? How is physicality interlocked with imagination?
Sharing: Friday 9 November 7pm All Welcome

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Hot Weekend: Practising Presence
Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 November
Workshops, performance, and lectures exploring Live Art practise culminating in a public debate about notions of presence and the contemporary performing body, including:

Sat 3 : 2pm - 5pm and Sun 4 November 11am - 2pm
Improvisation Workshop with Katie Duck
A weekend workshop lead by international improvisation practitioner
Cost: £30/£24con. includes free entry to the whole Hot Weekend

Saturday 3 November 6pm - 8pm
Performance lectures by Mina Kaylan, Jo cripps and Scott de la Hunta
Cost: £2

Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 November
Performance lectures by Sharon Smith and performances by Grainne Curren and Tim Steiner. there will be an open forum debate from 6pm chaired by Sharon Smith.
Cost: £3

Hot Weekend ticket: £4

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Still Moving
Monday 12 - Friday 16 November
An open research project looking at ways of experiencing, performing and viewing stillness. How can we appreciate the movement, energy and space of stillness as performance?
Sharing: Friday 16 November 7pm. All welcome

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Journeys with Terminal Illness
Monday 19 - Friday 23 November
An exploration of the multifaceted experiences encountered through the journey of terminal illness and death. A research project led by choreographer and dancer Bim Malcolmson and composer/film maker Hettie Malcolmson
Sharing: Friday 23 November 7pm. All welcome

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Initial Dance
Wednesdays 6-9pm
10, 24 October, 7 November and 5 December 2001
A practical exploration of the feedback between writing and movement - writing as movement, movement as writing, reading the living and moving body. Led by Lawrence Upton with Jennifer Pike and guest artists. Witnesses welcome
Sharing: Wednesday 5 December 7pm. All welcome

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Object in Mind
Monday 3 - Friday 7 December
Rainer Knupp and Alexandra Dederichs investigate the possibilities of (non-) expression of body and object and their connection within a performance space.
Sharing: Friday 7 December 7pm. All welcome

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Choreographic Mission: Improbable
Explore the choreographic potential of 'virtual' bodies using computers.
Sharing: Wednesday 5 December 6pm. All welcome

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Dancing the Image: Skinner Releasing
Technique into Performance
Saturday and Sunday 12:30 - 2:30pm
17-18 November, - 1-2 December, 8-9 December
A series of open level classes in Sinner Releasing Technique led by Kirsty Alexander. There is also an opportunity to join a research group exploring the performance potential of Skinner Releasing Technique from 3:30 - 8pm.
Cost: £48/£36con.for all three weekends
Sharing: Friday 14 December 7:30pm. All welcome