At The Weston Auditorium, University of Hertfordshire – Thursday 4 March | 7.30pm

Dance Springs is an annual dance platorm for mid-career and emerging dance artists in the east of England. This year the platform has expanded to become a five-day festival, commissioned and supported by the UHArts (University of Hertfordshire) and DanceEast with performances at both venues.

Folllowing a two-day Research and Development intensive in January, hosted by UHArts, where successful artists developed their work and networked with other selected aritsts, Dance Springs is a celebration performance of the culmination of this work. Find out more about each of the artists involved below…

To book at The Weston Auditorium please call 01707 281127 or click here to purchase online

To book at DanceEast please call 01473 295230 or click here to purchase online

with Yolande Snaith & Katie Duck

presenting 

Girls at Work

Wednesday 17 February

7pm

PATS Dance Studio

University of Surrey campus

Performance, Tickets, Directions:

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/dance/girls-work

An unusual flavour of humour is accompanied by a surprising energy and clarity of movement in this collaboration which evolves around chosen objects, text and movement.

ALSO!

Yolande Snaith Archive Exhibition

15-19 February

10a-6pm

Ivy Arts Centre Foyer

University of Surrey

Admission free

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/dance/yolande-snaith-archive

13 Jan 2016 5-6pm

Room 101, Ellen Terry building

Public event, just turn up

Figures is a new work for piano conceived, devised and directed by Irish-based, Mexican-born composer Óscar Mascareñas in collaboration with Mexican dance artist Nora Rodríguez. The work is the result of eight years of research in sound and movement that Mascareñas has been undertaking at the University of Limerick in Ireland. The aim of this project is to explore the transformation of somatic forces into sounds and the relationship between the piano and the body; the former not only seen and understood as a musical instrument, but also, and most importantly, as a space where the body moves, plays and interacts with its physicality and its sonic potential.

Óscar Mascareñas is the founding course director of the BA in Voice and Dance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, and currently a full-time researcher and lecturer in the same institution.is a Mexican composer, poet, performer and musicologist. Nora Rodríguez is a Mexican dance artist based in Limerick, Ireland. She is currently Dance Co-ordinator of the BA in Voice and Dance programme at the Irish World Academy in the University of Limerick. This event is co-organised with John Habron.

WhoLoDance Project (closed event)

18-19 January 2016

Rome, Italy

This is the kick–off meeting for all partners of the ‘Whole-Body Interaction Learning for Dance Education’ project.  By applying Multimodal Sensing and Capturing Analysis, WhoLoDance will make use of advanced motion capture technologies as well as of EMG, bio-sensors, video, audio and accelerometers, to transfer dance movements into digital data in such a way that makes it possible to blend any specific motion element with any other motion element within the motion capture database. This will allow WhoLoDance to deliver varied combinations of dance moves contained in a teaching syllabus and its Multimodal Rendering, based on the use of Life-size Holograms or other volumetric projection display methods, as well as on touch feedback, spatial audio, and abstract visualization that focuses on the peripheral vision and the “sense of self” for the dancer. The project is funded by H2020-ICT-2015-single-stage (Topic: Technologies for better human learning and teaching, ICT-20-2015) Research and Innovation Action a. Collaborators include Lynkeus SRL- Co-ordinator (Italy), Athena RC (Greece), Motek Entertainment (Netherlands), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Università di Genova (Italy), Peachnote GmbH (Germany), INSTITUTO STOCOS (Spain), K. DANSE (France), Lyceum Club of Greek Women (Greece) and Coventry University (UK).

Cecilia Macfarlane

27 January 2016 4-5pm

ICE building

Public event, just turn up

In this presentation, Cecilia Macfarlane will discuss her most recent projects, and the ways in which she marries her practice as an artist with the communities that she works with. Macfarlane is an independent artist based in Oxford, with a national and international reputation for her work in the community. She trained as a teacher at the Royal Academy of Dance and as a dancer at the London School of Contemporary Dance. She is the founding director of Oxford Youth Dance, DugOut Adult Community Dance and Crossover Intergenerational Dance Company and co-founding director of Oxford Youth Dance Company.  She was a Senior Lecturer in Arts in the Community at Coventry University for nine years. Her work is based on her passionate belief that dance is for everyone; she celebrates the uniqueness and individuality of each dancer.  As a performer, Cecilia is continually curious about expression, how movement can communicate so powerfully to others without the need for words. Her work is very influenced by her studies with Joan Skinner, Helen Poynor, Deborah Hay and most recently Anna Halprin.

Motion Bank International Workgroup Meeting (closed event)

29-31 January 2016

Frankfurt, Germany

http://motionbank.org/en/event/introducing-motion-bank

UK Locations

ICE building, Parkside, CV1 2NE

Ellen Terry building, Jordan Well, CV1 5RW

“Performance Architectures, Wearables & Gestures of Participation”

Artaud Forum 5
Brunel University London
Antonin Artaud Performance Centre

Thursday, 7 April: Symposium 16:oo – 2o:oo
International  Laboratory
Friday and Saturday, April 8- 9, 2016
Call for submissions and enrolment in artistic–research workshop & symposium, followed by performances, exhibitions and screenings, and training classes in immersion performance

Please send abstracts (300 words plus bio) or proposals for installations, provocations, film, or performance, by 25 January 2016, to
Johannes Birringer
johannes.birringer@brunel.ac.uk

The context for this international workshop, the fifth Artaud Forum held at Brunel Unversity, is the collaborative European project “Metabody” which works to redefine bodies in media, performance and design. Over the past few years, ‘Metabody’ has developed new architectures and immersive environments which behave like living organisms that have an auditory, visual, and tactile sensory quality, with subtly changing states and affordances, they can be worn and breathed, felt and imagined, transported and taken off.

We invite participants to join us and work with these concepts of integrative tactile experience, kinetic atmospheres, multiperspectival space, and unconscious perception.
‘Metabody’ counteracts dominant technologies and their prevalent tendency to negate differences by reducing bodies and movements to prescribed forms in current surveillance culture. ‘Metabody’ emphasizes openness, and indeterminacy of embodied expressions as a key factor for a sustainable society. This project also foregrounds the need for a new politics. The workshop & performance laboratory probes troubling interpretations of the increasing unrestrainment of capital, and capitalism’s impact on all social-economic, cultural, creative, and educational sectors in a shared developed world now expanded by massive migration and refugee movement. The sustainability of democracy is an urgent theme for all those in the performing arts/creative fields becoming intensely aware of the multiplication of realities (virtualization; networked infrastructures, diasporas) and the tightening of our bodies into technological environments. This is a call for peripheral perception in existential experience.
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Our theatre and studio spaces will be available for physical and conceptual workshop encounters over a period of three days (Thursday through Saturday, April 7-9), including public performances, exhibitions, screenings, and urban situations.
There will be an enrollment fee necessary to cover costs for technical arrangements but they will include some of the catering. The fee for the three-day public event is £ 75  (£ 60 concession) for the whole, or £ 30 (£ 20 concession) per day.
Accommodations can be booked at Brunel’s Lancaster Suites Hotel / Brunel University London, Uxbridge UB8 3PH. Tel. +44 (0) 1895 268006 / email: lancaster-suite@brunel.ac.u

Curated by Johannes Birringer
Venue: Artaud Performance Centre
Brunel University London, Cleveland Rd UB78 3PH
@DAP_Lab
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/metabody.html
www.metabody.eu

6:30 pm

Thursday 12th November 

PATS Dance Studio

University of Surrey

Noé Soulier

French choreographer, dancer and philosopher presents

Movement on Movement

Noé develops a discourse on dance as an action on oneself and as an action aimed at the realization of the action itself. The movements and the discourse create a counterpoint, sometimes almost at unison, sometimes more dissonant, on the relationships between intention, action and meaning.

Noé’s exciting work explores the way we perceive and interpret gestures through diverse projects: choreographies, installations, theoretical essays and performances. His work links the philosophical to the artist, exploring the relationship between movement and thought.

Ticket and further information:

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/content/movement-movement

*Special Offer*

This performance is eligible for the buy one get one free offer. To claim your free ticket this has to be done through the Ivy Arts Box Office, with the code – Surrey Dance.

‘TIN Pieces’ is a playful evening of improvised performance by members of the TransDisciplinary Improvisation Network (TIN) based at Middlesex University and their guests.

Exploring processes of instant composition, within and across dance, music and theatre the event promises to be a lively celebration of all things spontaneous. The evening is shaped through a chain like structure in which ‘scored’ improvisation pieces are linked by open ‘riffing’ spaces alongside interactions with the audience, who will have opportunities to shape the emerging improvisations.

Including world class performers in Music (Ben Dwyer, Garth Knox, Jonathan Impett and Simon Limbrick), Dance (Susanne Martin, Jovair Longo, Helen Kindred)  and Performance (anthologyofames collective), TIN pieces emerge from shared interests in improvisatory processes and play, feedback loops, fear and vulnerability, touch and embodied knowing.

Venue: 
Ravensfield Theatre
Middlesex University London
The Burroughs,
Hendon
London
NW4 4BT – Map