DAY 2 / Session 3 DANCE: ART & RESEARCH FRIDAY 19 JUNE 5.30-7.30PM • NOTTINGHAM LAKESIDE ARTS, NG7 2RD Dance4 in partnership with Middlesex University uncovers new choreographic practices and modes of audience engagement. This research was funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and Collaborative Doctoral Reward.
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ROSANNA IRVINE (UK)
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DAY 2 / Session 2 WHO CARES? DANCE IN THE GALLERY & MUSEUM
A new publication created by Sara Wookey in collaboration with Siobhan Davies Dance.
The publication includes a series of conversations with dance artists, curators and directors, who share their experiences of presenting or performing dance in museum and gallery spaces. Its purpose is to offer a platform of individual voices that – as a collection – renders visible shared and differing perspectives, value systems and ideologies about movementbased practices within visual art-focused cultural spaces.
WHO CARES? Dance in the Gallery & Museum will be available to purchase from information points during the A Place To Dance? symposium.
Cover: Lay Me Down by Florence Peak • Photo: Sean Goldsthorpe
THURSDAY 18 – SUNDAY 21 JUNE 2015
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There will be a special Pecha Kucha Nottingham with the theme of public space, body and environment to compliment this symposium. PechaKucha Nights are informal and fun gatherings where creative people get together and share their ideas, works, and thoughts in the PechaKucha 20x20 format. FRIDAY 12 JUNE 4-6PM VENUE TBC • FREE For further information see Dance4 website. With thanks to Dr Jim Shorthose – Pecha Kucha City Organiser
& THE ENVIRONMENT A PROVOCATION BY DR JONATHAN HALE (UK) FRIDAY 19 JUNE 11AM-1PM NEW ART EXCHANGE, NOTTINGHAM NG7 6BE To Dance a Place(?)
‘For most architects, seeing the words ‘place’ and ‘dance’ in the same sentence is already something of a provocation. Does architecture have something to learn from the ways in which dance makes places for itself? And in this new ‘expanded field’ of urban and rural place-making do the two disciplines of dance and architecture need to recalibrate their relationships?’ DR JONATHAN HALE, Architect and Reader in Architectural Theory at the University of Nottingham. Jonathan discusses at the relationship between the body and the environment with artists and choreographers including Simone Kenyon, Gabriele Reuter, Ann-Marie Culhane, Ruth Levene and Suzannah Bedford, Creative Director of The Renewal Trust, Nottingham.
SARA GIDDENS (UK) Choreographer, Sara reflects upon her maturing practice following her recent completion of a Collaborative Post Doctorate studentship. Having made and toured work for over twenty-five years, Sara’s most recent work has engaged with the employment of stillness as a compositional and choreographic tool. Entitled Still Small Acts, Sara will reflect upon and share works made for Nottingham Contemporary, for Nottdance, for the Singaporean Arts Festival, Wirksworth Arts and Architecture Trail and the Lincolnshire SO Festival as she engages with the question of how the employment of still-ing can open up an invitation to both audiences and makers alike.
DAY 1 / Session 1
DAY 3 / Session 4
DAY 3 & DAY 4
DANCE: GALLERIES & VISUAL ARTS
DANCE: THE POLITICS OF INVOLVING
A LONG DANCE AND A SHORT WALK
A PROVOCATION BY DANCE4 ASSOCIATE ARTIST JOE MORAN (UK)
THE PUBLIC AS CREATORS,
BY ALISON LLOYD (UK)
THURSDAY 18 JUNE 6-8PM • NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY, NG1 2GB
A Place To Dance? is a series of provocations about where is a place to dance. Over the course of four days, you will experience dialogue, debate and performance looking at dance placed outside of traditional spaces.
DANCE: ARCHITECTURE, THE BODY
What happens… when we bring the words artist and researcher together? when this bringing together involves making art (as part of ‘the art world’) and writing on art (as part of ‘the academic world’)? when distinctions between ‘worlds’ are not that simple? when all this is in the context of an artist working with the history of a dance organisation? Rosanna’s performative presentation responds to these and other questions to share the processes and outcomes of her recent PhD. Her curiosity as artist/researcher has been on 21st century developments in western dance – in particular conditions of creative production that ‘force’ choreographer and performer thinking in ways otherthan through will or desire, while at the same time generating the choreographic work. She introduces how this occurs in several works programmed in Nottdance Festival between 1999-2003.
‘How do we stand up dance, for its embodied knowledge and critical acumen? How do make visible dance’s extraordinary bodies of knowledge?’ JOE MORAN, Artistic Director of Dance Art Foundation and choreographer Joe presents his thoughts on dance within galleries and visual art contexts, opting for a position of hopefulness and excitement about the potential for dance within the explosive resurgence of interest in the art form from the visual arts. He shares his subjective perspectives on its opportunities, tensions, problems and possibilities. Joe invites his collaborator, sculptor Eva Rothschild, Director of Nottingham Contemporary Alex Farquharson, choreographer Nicola Conibere and artist and curator Sam Rose to join a panel discussion. The event will also include Joe’s work Singular (2011), performed by dancers Rosalie Wahlfrid and Helka Kaski, as well as a presentation from dancer and choreographer Sara Wookey about her new publication Who Cares? Dance in the Gallery & Museum. See back of this flyer for more information about the book.
PERFORMERS & COMMISSIONERS A PROVOCATION BY DANCE4 ASSOCIATE ARTIST GILLIE KLEIMAN (UK)
SATURDAY 20 JUNE 1.30PM • SUNDAY 21 JUNE 11AM MEETING POINT: NOTTINGHAM LAKESIDE ARTS BOX OFFICE, NG7 2RD Duration: 1.5 – 2hrs • Suitable for all Join artist Alison Lloyd on a walking performance through the parklands surrounding Nottingham Lakeside Arts. Using a passage of movement incorporating dancing and walking, Alison will appropriate the rural ramble through an urban green space.
SATURDAY 20 JUNE 11AM-1PM NOTTINGHAM LAKESIDE ARTS, NG7 2RD Who’s Working For Whom?
‘Dancing is work, and it’s not. For professional dance people we are definitely working when we perform. When non-professional dancers take the place of dance workers (as performers, collaborators, commissioners and so on), that’s not to say that they’re working. In this short provocation, I’ll suggest ways in which professional dance with non-professional ‘workers’ trouble the connections between work and obligation, financial reward, and social status, and between recreation and pleasure, ease and private living. Dance is work, non-work, and something else, in between.’ GILLIE KLEIMAN, choreographer and dancer
Distance no more than 6.45 kilometres, 4 miles. Terrain will be undulating on pavements and paths. Wear clothes and shoes appropriate for variable conditions, as the walk will take place whatever the weather. bring a snack and a drink for the walk. It will help you on the day if you have a small rucksack to carry it all in. Commissioned and produced by Dance4.
Gillie looks at the politics of involving the public as creators, performers and commissioners, inviting discussion with choreographers Jane Mason and Joe Moran, public participant Greg Manderson and chaired by Creative Quarter CEO, Kathy McArdle.
A PLACE TO DANCE? TICKETS Each session: £9 • 3 day pass to all sessions (excluding A Long Dance and A Short Walk): £25 A Long Dance and A Short Walk: £6 (Book early as places are limited) For more information and to book tickets call 0115 941 0773, visit www.dance4.co.uk or download the free Dance4 app from the App Store or Google Play.