A ten-year programme of talks between artists and practitioners in other fields, Crossing Borders started through a partnership with PAL Labs which explored intersections and divergent thinking about ecology, change- making, cognitive processing and politics of space with key thinkers from various social science disciplines including anthropologist Tim Ingold, neuroscientist Guy Claxton and Nigel Thrift, human geographer. Since then it has been a regular conversation series featuring speakers from a range of disciplines, whose work offers fresh vantage points from which to review dance and movement practice. Partner organisations supporting Crossing Borders in 2019 and 2020 were Sadler’s Wells, Roehampton University and the Society for Dance Research.
For other public talks please scroll down.
Crossing Borders 2019
Laura Burns and Liz Rosenfeld – Autonomous Flesh; Autonomous Stone.
Unearthing Relationships to Shifting Ecologies Cristina Fernandes Rosa and Suzi Weber – How do we meet the other?
Grasping alterity as creative states through movements of sustainability
Zinzi Minott and Greta Mendez – Black women in dance, then, now, and sideways Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome and Leah Clements – INCHOATE BUZZ Karen Christopher and Mary Paterson – The Performance in My Head Alexandrina Hemsley, Rob Jones, Seeta Patel and Rajni Shah, facilitated by Royona Mitra – Anti-Racist Contemporary Dance
Crossing Borders 2018
Siobhan Davies, Shobana Jeyasingh, Alexandrina Hemsley and Paul Hughes – Open Forum: Future Facing Lucy Cash and Fiona Wright – Invitation to Begin (Again) Heni Hale, Marina Collard and Nicola Conibere – Maintaining spectacular non-progress Efrosini Protopapa and Susanne Foellmer – Choreo-reading: between knowledge and lifeClick here to view the cards Efrosini and Susanne used in their lecture performance Kat Austen and Rosemary Lee – Don’t stop ’til you feel it: explorations in environmental empathy
Click here to listen to Kat Austen’s music that was played at the beginning of the discussion : Jo Bannon and Maddy Costa – We are F*cked Thomas Kampe and Simonetta Alessandri – Shaking/Crossing/Weaving Beatrice Allegranti and Jon Silas – Moving Kinship: choreography, performance & the politics of everyday life
Crossing Borders 2017
This year, our speakers traverse dance, philosophy, science, theatre, visual arts and writing.
Nikolaus Gansterer, Emma Cocker and Mariella Greil – Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line Laura Cull and David Harradine – Thinking alongside performanceClick here for ‘Sheep Pig Goat’ Philip Ball – Self-organized motion: the choreography of nature ‘Funmi Adewole – African dance aesthetics and Border-thinking Aaron Meskin – Philosophising Improvisation: An Artist-Researcher Collaboration Elyssa Livergant – A common sense: workshops and the independent sector
Click here for Elyssa’s Reference List Anna Pakes – Is choreographic authorship dead?
Click here for Anna’s Bibliography
Crossing Borders 2016
This season looked at touch, perception and communication through different disciplines and practices.
Catherine Grant – Kinaesthetic Communications: Thinking (and ‘Writing’) about cinema with Rhythm and TimingLinks to videos showed during the talk and articles by Catherine Grant:
Video #1 REAR WINDOW Syncopated by Catherine Grant
Video #2 TOUCHING THE FILM OBJECT? by Catherine Grant
Video #3 EFFACE by Catherine Grant
Video #4 CARNAL LOCOMOTIVE by Catherine Grant
Article ‘The Shudder of a Cinephiliac idea? Videographic film studies practice as material thinking‘ by Catherine Grant
Article ‘Film studies in the groove? Rhythmising perception in Carnal Locomotive’ by Catherine Grant
Article ‘Bringing It All Back Home: Towards an Ecology of Place’ by Carl Lavery and Simon Whitehead
Website Maynard – A resource for dance and movement artists in rural Wales Sue MacLaine – A Multitude of Possibilities
Links to videos showed during the talk:
VIDEO #1 The Rose in International Sign
VIDEO #2 The man I love – Pina Bausch
Anna Sokolow at The Place c1971 Jayne Parker – Reflections on filming performance
For more information about Jayne Parker and her works:
Jayne Parker – LUX | Artists’ Moving Image Abbie Garrington – Touch as Language / Language as Touch
For more information about Abbie Garrington, her research and publications:
Dr. Abbie Garrington – Durham University
The Manifesto of Tactilism by F.T. Marinetti Kirsty Alexander, Charlotte Darbyshire, Kathy Crick and Laura Glaser – Lessons with a Curious Equal
Charlotte Darbyshire led an arrival exercise to start the talk.
This talk was part of Gill Clarke’s Day 2016, a day to celebrate the remarkable work of former ID co director Gill Clarke and her continued legacy. Charlie Morrissey – Touching the thing that touches you
Article ‘Before your eyes’ by Lisa Nelson
Corinne Jola – Touching Spectators – Spectating Touch
Online Google round table discussion Corinne Jola with Nancy Stark Smith and William Seeley, Meta-academy, Summer 2013 (starts at 11min).
Embodied neuroscience: Making sense of dance -presentation held at CRAL, Centre de Recherches sur les arts et le langage (starts in French but Corinne presents in English), Paris – spring 2014
Documentary Film on Corinne’s and others’ work on Dancers and the Brain, Taiwanese-French Co-production (English starts after 4min)
Corinne Jola’s publication list and access to most publications
CoCoDanse -Corinne Jola’s dance website Miranda Tufnell / Knowing Body Network – Frontiers of Dance and Health
Link to the video showed during the talk:
From Where You Are- A dance and movement project at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
Rosalind Crisp – Unwrapping d a n s e
Click here to watch this performative lecture
Crossing Borders 2015
The Rebel Man StandardScott deLahunta
Andrea Zimmerman
Baz Kershaw (find the referenced image here.)
Sam Ladkin (find related reading for this talk Against value in arts and education, alongside the Frank O Hara Text)
Johanna Linsley
Rosemary Lee in conversation with Laura Burns
Caryn McHose
Mark Lorimer in conversation with Susanna Recchia
Crossing Borders 2014
Steve Valk, contemporary dance dramaturgeKirsten Maar – Choreography´s Architecture- Exhibitions as Sites of Kinesthetic Experience
Helen Poynor, dance artist
Nicola Diamond, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author of Between Skins
Julia Farrington, freelance producer and campaigner, Index on Censorship
Sara Wookey, dance artist
Cally Spooner, artist and writer
Frey Faust – The Axis Syllabus
Meg Stuart, American choreographer and dancer, who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. This recording is a series of excerpts from the full talk, which was a conversation between Meg and Frank Bock.
Alice Chauchat, Berlin based choreographer, performer and teacher/lecturer
Crossing Borders 2013
Vincent Dunoyer, dance artistAnna Zubrzycki – The Mindful Performer
Patricia Lyons
Dr Helen Iball Choreographies of empathy
Nic Sandiland & Katja Nyqvist, dance artists
William Hunt and Ali McGlip, artist and curator
Kate Genevieve – Neuroscience, embodiment and sharing interiority
Calum Storrie, architect
Amy Sharrocks, live artist, sculptor and film-maker
Crossing Borders 2012
Eamonn Walsh, neuroscientistMette Edvardsen, dance artist
Dance artists from These associations and Move: Choreography You
Pablo Bronstein and Matthias Sperling, artist and dance artist
Jane Greenfield and Steven Brett, artist producers
Pedro Prado, body-oriented pyschotherapist
Emilyn Claid, dance theatre artist
Julyen Hamilton in conversation with Jacky Lansley, dance artists
Hester Reeve, artist and fine art senior lecturer
Siobhan Davies and David Hinton, choreographer and film-maker
Crossing Borders 2011
Guy Claxton, learning scientist (PAL Movement & Meaning talk)Nic Sandiland, digital artist
Gill Clarke, dance artist (PAL Movement & Meaning talk)
Siobhan Davies, choreographer, with Mathieu Copeland, curator
Tim Ingold, social anthropologist (PAL Movement & Meaning talk)
Nigel Thrift, human geographer (PAL Movement & Meaning talk)
Andrew Morrish and Crosby McCloy, improviser and writer/performer
Nicola Conibere, choreographer
Miranda Tufnell and Eva Karczag, dance artists
Crossing Borders 2010
Barak Marshall The Politics of Dance
Lauren Potter and Scott Smith The Performers’ Perspective
Ros Warby Creating work from the practice of performance
Siobhan Davies in conversation with Sam Collins, a collaborator on ROTOR
Scott deLahunta on Publishing Choreographic Ideas
Film maker Miranda Pennell and anthropologist Dr Massimilliano Mollona The Politics of Seeing
Performers from Move: Choreographing You at Hayward Gallery Changing Perceptions
João Fiadeiro: Real Time Composition
Crossing Borders 2009
Nik HaffnerLucy Cash
Willi Dorner
Raimund Hoghe & Franko B
Rosemary Lee
Sarah Whatley
Ruth Little & Siobhan Davies
Tere O’Connor
For notes and references from some of the Crossing Borders talks, click here.
Public talks and discussions
Memory at Work: Rosemary Butcher in the Present Tense – 17/12/2016
Tracing Lost Legacies – Remembering Rosemary Butcher, Susan Melrose and Stephanie SachsenmaierRosemary Butcher and the ethico-aesthetics of her process and performance, Ramsay Burt
Roundtable Discussion, Chair Andrea Niederbuchner with Sue Maclennan, Elena Giannotti, Lauren Potter, Rahel Vonmoos, Charlie Morrissey, David Ellis, Sam Williams, Cathy Lane, Jonathan Burrows
Open Discussion, Shared Thoughts and Memories, with contributions by Lizzy LeQuesne and Charles Balfour
Artist talks
12/12/2017 – K.J Holmes – WinLab 2017 Artist Talk: Improvisation, Somatics and the Poetics of Dance
27/10/2017 – Anna Macdonald – Anna talked about the idea of holding as a curatorial act within her current dance and moving image practice. Click here for works referenced in the talk.
12/04/16 – dance artist Deborah Black and film maker Becky Edmunds in conversation about the Turn Your F^*king head documentary, following the screening at JW3.
20/02/16 – Michael Kliën – Choreographing in the imagination of your Gods