Tracing Gestures: July 2014

Saturday 26 July 2014

At the William Morris Gallery

Thank you to Harriet Stansall who made the beautiful drawing, to Claire Darwent and Andrei Deminska for helping us build the set, to Richard Court who was leading our family workshop at the William Morris Gallery with me yesterday, and to all the brilliant volunteers at the William Morris Gallery! 162 people participated in the movement and craft workshop based on the fairy tale tile panel, and seemed to enjoy themselves. I am looking forwards to our return to the gallery for the Christmas family workshop in December.

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My work explores the expressive potential of the individual body's movement. It is driven by the desire to understand more of each other's physicality and to recognise an element of oneself in the other. Collaboration is at the centre of my process.

In Tracing Gestures individual performers document their own and each other's movement and physicality through the use of visual media. The focus is on process and continuous experimentation. Studio-based explorations with different groups of artists have over time led to a series of distinct performances, each shaped by the specific collaborations and contexts that they are presented in.

In Tracing Gestures 1 (2014) I collaborated with dance artist Richard Court, multimedia artist Mamoru Iriguchi, and sculptor Sophia Clist, which was performed in London at Chisenhale Dance Space in June 2014.

Tracing Gestures 2 (2016) was created in collaboration with dance artists Stephen Moynihan, Aaron Markwell and Richard Court; with work-in-progress sharing in London at Touch Wood at The Place and at Dance 4 in Nottingham, and a full-length performance at the Jerwood Dance House at DanceEast in Ipswich.

Tracing Gestures 3 (2017) was re-imagined as a site-sensitive adaptation in collaboration with performers Owen Ridley DeMonick, Jack Sergison, Stephen Moynihan and Richard Court, with visual artist Juan Guerra and lighting designer Jackie Shemesh. The work will be created through a third research block in 2016-17, commissioned by the The TrinityLaban and Greenwich Dance partnership. It premiered at the Borough Hall at Greenwich Dance.

Education and participation projects in community, vocational training and professional development settings continue to accompany and feed into this process, during which we are joined by fine artist Juan Guerra. Projects have been supported by TrinityLaban, Danceeast, University of Suffolk, the William Morris Gallery and The Showroom.

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