London Dance International 2010 (LDI)
About the school
London Dance International is an annual initiative presented by Chisenhale Dance Space, Greenwich Dance Agency and Independent Dance that aims to provide professional dancers advanced level training opportunities.
LDI 2010 Brochure
Here come the Women!
This year, London Dance International (LDI) is celebrating female dance
artists whose work challenges and extends the boundaries of dance and
performance. We also hope to engage, in multiple ways, experienced professional
artists in further development, exploration and discovery!
Dance has always been a collaborative art form and increasingly artists
working in theatre, live art and performance are interested in incorporating
dance in their practice. LDI wants to offer a platform to explore what
this means for dance in a practical, discursive and playful way.
Ruth Zaporah and Ivana Muller will each lead an intensive weeklong workshop
and alongside this 3 UK based dance artists will curate a short window
of opportunity to feed or invigorate their personal artistic process
or development. Frauke Requardt, Wendy Houstoun and Fin Walker, have
each responded to the open brief differently… see further on for
their proposals and how you can connect.
Space to reflect, discuss, debate and simply find out more will be offered
on Sunday 18 July in a day animated with artists from dance, theatre
and live art including Ivana, Frauke, Wendy and Fin who will come together
to feedback on their experience.
A
SPLENDID MOMENT with Ruth Zaporah
Monday 21 June – Friday 25 June
10:00AM- 3:00PM at Greenwich Dance
£150 (£125 Conc) for 5 days
What comprises the present moment? Through the Action Theater practice,
the improviser learns tools of viewing and resources for responding.
Attention becomes current. Ruth's exercises, physical, vocal and verbal,
invite the practitioner into unknown yet uncannily familiar territories,
territories of the embodied imagination, territories that we all as
humans share.
By examining awareness, play, relationship, stillness and silence, actions
become enlightened, become fresh. The capacity for feeling is strengthened
as are the roots and tools of expression. Participants experience fresh
views of themselves, who they are, how they perceive and respond to
the ordinary and how vast is their potential. The conceptual mind that
insists on defining content learns to share with more spontaneous embodied
and imaginative resources. The lights turn on exposing every moment
as a splendid moment. This workshop is for those experienced in physical
theatre improvisation, those who relish living in a human body and love
to move. More
details
Ivana
Muller
Monday 19 July – Friday 23 July
10:30AM- 5:00PM at Chisenhale Dance Space
£150 (£125 Conc) for 5 days
If I say the word "engagement"...
If I say it loud ... (not trying to exaggerate or to be overly dramatic)
What is the first association I have?
Is it something physical, something political, something spectacular,
something "professional"... or is it all of it at once.
Is it a relation, is it a feeling, is it an abstract concept that makes
me "believe" in something I don't entirely understand.
Is this word something that is useful for my practice? for my daily
life? is it something I can share with my friends and colleagues?
Can it make me move? Can it make me imagine? Can it give me ideas that
are different from those I had yesterday?
Maybe not.
But then, what is the word that would do the trick?
Or is it something else then a word?
Why do I and how do I go back to the rehearsal space again and again?
And what makes me go back on stage?
How do I engage? (here is that word again) with myself, with my colleagues
and with my spectator...and isn't that very effort exactly the "thing"
that influences my aesthetic, compositional, choreographic choices.
Can I condition my engagement?
And if it is not me, who can?
More
details
Short Residencies as part of LDI 2010
Residency 1
Frauke
Requardt
Wednesday 30 June – Friday 2 July
10:30-5:00 at Greenwich Dance
£90 (£75 Conc) for 3 days
Frauke Requardt invites Joao Fiadeiro to lead dancers on Real Time Composition.
I met Joao Fiadeiro
in Madrid last year where I had the great pleasure to take his workshop
on real time composition, an improvisation and composition technique
for communal creating that favours 'intuition' over 'impulse' as the
contemporary dance world might know it from improvisational training.
The method promotes the value of being able to read what is there and
discovering the richness of it. In this workshop we find out about his
way of creating performance work based on an ever increasing understanding
of 'what-is-already-there'; what is inherent in each choice we make.
As a dancer and creator I often find myself trying to make things up
so in that sense this method offers a great relief to me: the thing
of interest is already there with every choice if we are able to delve
into the choice made. More
details.
Apply to take part in Joao's workshop by emailing a short CV and statement of interest to info@greenwichdance.org.uk
Residency 2
Language as Music with Wendy Houstoun
Wednesday 7 July at Independent Dance at Siobhan Davies Studios
I have spent a substantial amount of my creative life working around
the relationship between text and movement. Historically, I have been
keen to make meaning clear and have used language very much as content
and a loose kind of storytelling. More recently I have become interested
in incoherence, in the rhythm of different languages and the emptiness
of a lot of the words used in government, arts and political documents.
I have recently been working in Norway where I met composer Henrik Hellstinius,
he sees language as a sound score, treating the composition of language
as a musical and rhythmic construction. He gave so much information
there was no time to absorb it all and I am urgently want to try working
with the many ideas he threw out in relation to my own pre-occupations.
I aim to arrive at a series of studies over the three days using his
process of working for 20 minutes to arrive at a 2 minute study- focusing
on different ways sound relates to other forms (movement, another sound,
an image).
More
details.
Wendy Houstoun plans to invite artists to be part of a choir she will try and conduct on Wednesday 8 July, her last day of research. If you would like to get involved and be part of Wendy's creative process, please email info@greenwichdance.org.uk or call +44 (0)20 8293 9741 to register your interest.
Residency 3
Story
boarding, a potential narrative with Fin Walker
Wednesday 14 July at Independent Dance at Siobhan Davies Studios
Choreographer Fin Walker and her collaborators, Director Thea Sharrock
and Composer Ben Park will be discussing and story boarding a potential
narrative structure for a piece of work based on Macbeth.
The research project continues to ask the question, 'what constitutes
a 'true' enmeshment of the disciplines: movement, dance, sound, music,
text and design, using Macbeth as the starting point'.
Workshop: After 2 days of discussion the team would like to invite a
number of professional performers into the studio: actors with a strong
physicality, dancers (who may or may not have text speaking skills)
and singers (to work with Ben on ideas for the score). The aim is to
look at how the collaborative team can extend the physical palate to
create a generic language (text and movement) for both the actors and
the dancers. In the final creation the team are considering using up
to 13 performers. They would welcome the opportunity of inviting a cross
section of performers for a day’s workshop to explore what is possible
with a larger number, focusing on one particular scene from the play.
This and the development of the narrative structure is an important
step forward in the evolution of the work. More
details
Fin, Thea and Ben will open up the last day of research on Wednesday 14 July. If you fit Fin's remit for actors, dancers or singers please email a short CV and statement of interest to info@greenwichdance.org.uk or call +44 (0)20 8293 9741 to register your interest.
Associated Events
As part of LDI there are additional associated events open to anyone,
such as artists in conversation and performances.
TALK: What is it about dance?
Sunday 18 July, 1 - 5pm at Independent Dance at Siobhan Davies Studios, £5
An afternoon exploring the movements between dance, theatre, performance as part of London Dance International 2010
Why has theatre become so keen on working with dance?
Why do more and more dance artists want to explore the realms of text and performance?
What could dance learn from this current interest about its own practices?
What is the role of performers in these fruitful collaborations?
The afternoon will include:
Feedback reflections from Wendy Houstoun, Frauke Requardt and Fin Walker following their individual LDI research residencies, plus a chance to be part of a language choir experiment
The Role of the Performer a discussion curated by Wendy Houstoun, with invited guests Catherine Bennett, Theo Clinkard, and Laila Dailo
The View from Outside an open discussion chaired by theatre choreographer Struan Leslie, kickstarted with reflections and manifestos from Ivana Muller (choreographer and LDI workshop leader) and David Rosenberg (director and member of Shunt collective)
Information & bookings
Cost: Please see above for individual prices for each workshop
Places can be booked via GDA on +44 (0)20 82939741 and further information
via info@greenwichdance.org.uk
Places will be allocated on a strictly first-come, first-served basis.
You will need to submit a short statement of interest and a CV
to be considered for these workshops.
Demand for places is always high, so you are strongly advised to book
as early as possible.
To secure your place please send CV and statement together with either
full payment OR a deposit of 50% of the course price.
If you cancel up to two weeks before the course begins, your deposit
will be refunded, minus an administration fee of £15 providing
your place can be resold. If you cancel less than two weeks before the
course, your deposit will not be refunded.