Francesco Ferarri and Victoria Guy performing work by Nina von der Werth at The Friday League.
TAKE YOUR DANCE SOMEWHERE ELSE! | Text By Celina Liesegang and Rosalie Spawls | Despite recent adverse weather conditions, the winter sun has been making a slightly more regular appearance, as should we! Although for many of you this will not be a revelation, I think that it is worth reiterating that outside the walls of The Place, Sadler’s Wells, The Royal Opera House etc. there is no shortage of places where we can watch dance, or even perform, that don’t necessarily include a stage! With London being one of Europe’s largest cultural metropolises, we have access to a wide range of internationally acclaimed dance performances on our doorstep. However with the little time we have to spare as it is, we can often get into the rut of checking “What’s On” at the usual suspect websites and these may end up being the only things that we go to see. With site-specific work becom-
ing more accessible (due to weather), and live performance art becoming more prominent (i.e. Tate Modern tanks, Spill Festival), its time to start seeing what else is happening outside of our sphere of influence! For undergraduates there aren’t a lot of opportunities for choreography that don’t fall within either the “youth dance” or “professional” categories (i.e. YDE’s Young Creatives and Resolutions!), and at least the ones that are there tend to be as part of a competition for theatre style venues. However there are multitudes of chances for us to experiment with choreography and performance outside the usual confines of the stage (many of which are proposed to us on Moodle believe it or not!) e.g. Site-specific, gallery spaces, social dance platforms, film etc. Continued over the page...
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