Crossing Borders Talks
About the talks
A series of talks with artists and academics whose particular practice has led them beyond narrow disciplinary boundaries.
The talks have been organised in collaboration with the Graduate School of London Contemporary Dance School. The series aims to offer fresh vantage points on artistic practice and environment, and feed in to current debates around the UK dance ecology. Artists will be in discussion with Sue Maclennan unless otherwise stated.
If you have missed any of the great talks so far during the 2009, 2010 or 2011 series...scroll down to below the orange info box where you will be able to listen to them by clicking on the dates.
2011 Crossing Borders Talks
This year Crossing Borders includes a series of conversations with distinguished guests from beyond Dance, as part of the ‘Movement and Meaning Lab’ programme produced by PAL and led by Gill Clarke*.
4/10/2011 Ben Duke, Choreographer
11/10/2011 Guy Claxton, Learning Scientist (PAL)
18/10/2011 Nic Sandiland, Digital artist
25/10/2011 Gill Clarke, Dance artist (PAL)
8/11/2011 Siobhan Davies, Choreographer, with Mathieu Copeland, curator
15/11/2011 Tim Ingold, Social Anthropologist (PAL)
22/11/2011 Nigel Thrift, Human Geographer (PAL)
29/11/2011 Andrew Morrish and Crosby McCloy, Improviser and Writer/Performer
6/12/2011 Nicola Conibere, Choreographer
13/12/2011 Miranda Tufnell and Eva Karczag, Dance artists
*Click on the link to the right for information on PAL and the Movement and Meaning Lab programme, which is generously supported by Arts Council England, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
Session details
| Level | All |
|---|---|
| Time | Tuesday, 7pm - 8.30pm 4 October - 13 December 2011 (excluding 1 November 2011) |
| Price | ID talks £5 / salaried or £3 / freelance artists and students PAL talks £6 or £4 concessions |
| Location | All talks at Siobhan Davies Studios |
Listen to the talks from Crossing Borders and Winlab 2010
28/09/2010 Becky Edmunds, Claudia Kappenberg and Lucy Cash What If... we could view all this as dance
05/10/2010 Barak Marshall The Politics of Dance
12/10/2010 Lauren Potter and Scott Smith The Performers' Perspective
19/10/2010 Ros Warby Creating work from the practice of performance
09/11/2010 Siobhan Davies in conversation with Sam Collins, a collaborator on her new work ROTOR
16/11/2010 Scott deLahunta on Publishing Choreographic Ideas
23/11/2010 Film maker Miranda Pennell and anthropologist Dr Massimilliano Mollona The Politics of Seeing
30/11/2010 Winlab week 1: Performers from MOVE at Hayward Gallery: Changing Perceptions
07/12/2010 Winlab week 2: João Fiadeiro: Real Time Composition
Listen to the talks from Crossing Borders 2009
29/09/2009 Nik Haffner
06/10/2009 Lucy Cash
13/10/2009 Willi Dorner
03/11/2009 Raimund Hoghe & Franko B
10/11/2009 Rosemary Lee
17/11/2009 Sarah Whatley
24/11/2009 Ruth Little & Siobhan Davies
01/12/2009 Tere O'Connor
1 December 2010 | References from lecture by Miranda Tufnell and Massimilliano Mollona
Film Clips:
The Singing St (1952, Claude Greta and Alain Tanner - Free Cinema, Uk) extract
You Made Me Love You (2005 Miranda Pennell,UK)
From the Window of My Room (2004, Cao Gimaraes, Brazil)
Les Maitres Fous/Trans The Mad Masters ( 1955, jean Rouch, Niger/Fr) extract
Klipperty Klop (1984, Andrew Kotting, UK) extract
Other references that might be of interest:
Yvonne Rainer 'The Mind is A Muscle'
Fancis Alys 'Re-enactment II' (2000)
Balkan Baroque Marina Abramovich (1997)
Wafaa Bilal 'Domestic Tensions' (2007)
Martha Rosler Backyard Economy (1974)
Technig Hsien 'Time Piece' (1980-1981)
References from the audience:
Drid Williams
David Pocock + Personal anthropology
"More then anything else, however, Oxford taught me to acknowledge the great achievements of human beings by honoring the foundation of the achievements in people themselves. Pocock's idea of a personal anthropology (like Polanyi's Personal Knowledge which inspired it) constistently emphasizes the importance of the person in the process of knowing."
page 182 'Beyond survival' Drid Williams 1998
Marta E Savigliano
The Human Zoo - Channel 4 + Ota Benga
29 September 2009 | Websites and clip-links from lecture by Nik Haffner
OVNI archive in Barcelona, also
biannual festival: video art, independent documentary, and mass media
archeology
PRATICABLE (Alice Chauchat,
Frédéric de Carlo, Frédéric Gies, Isabelle
Schad, Odile Seitz)
Sweet And Tender Collaborations
Katrin Deufert and Thomas Plischke
- developed a workshop format that uses shared notebooks in a rotating
system. Tumay Kilencel (dance student from Berlin) gave a short report
from her experience of a workshop with Deufert/ Plischke earlier this
year
2009 online project
- developed by Forsythe together with artists and scientists from different
disciplines and departments of the Ohio State University.
During the lecture we looked at Counterpoint
Tool
Filmmaker Artavaz
Pelishian - during the lecture we watched parts of his films: Earth
of People and Inhabitants
Other film-clips watched during the lecture
Peeping Tom
by Michael Powell (UK 1960), scene with Moira Shearer
Cien Muchachas
by Jaime Salvador (Mexico 1957), scene with two women watching two men
dancing
Simple Men
by Hal Hartley (US 1992)
Bande
a parte by Jean-Luc Godard (France 1964):
Cría
Cuervos / Raising Ravens by Carlos Saura (Spain 1975), scene with
three children dancing
17 November 2009 - Website links from lecture by Sarah Whatley
Websites:
Siobhan Davies Replay
Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced by William Forsythe
Inside Movement Knowledge
Siobhan Davies Archive>The Kitchen>Birdsong
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Online Toolbox