Posts Tagged as ‘choreography’

December 2, 2009

BLANK Open Studios & Blank Frame Drawing Extravaganza

http://www.blankstudiosgallery.org
http://www.aoh.org.uk/artists-open-houses/aoh-xmas-2009/details?venue_id=95

November 16, 2009

Movement 12 – Landing Party

Movement 12 – Landing Party
(That’s sort of the opposite of a Launch party)
A celebration of our first two years of providing professional development opportunities for dance artists and their collaborators.
On 27th November from 7.30 – 10pm at the Pavilion Theatre, New Road, Brighton.
There will be drinks, nibbles and informal performance excerpts and inserts, films and [...]

November 14, 2009

Studios past, future, present – The Cauldron Studios, Bristol 1992

The Cauldron Studios ca. 1993. Photo: Vic Llewellyn
Mary Prestidge [co-founder X6 Dance Space & Chisenhale Dance Space] and her talk today at Movement 12 sparked off a search through my archive, looking for documentation of my work during the early 90s, in particular setting up the Cauldron Studios in Bristol. After Mary’s presentation, we talked a little more [...]

October 30, 2009

What(ever) happened to British New Dance? Mary Prestidge talk in Brighton

presents
What(ever) happened to British New Dance?
A political, arts movement? A passing phase?
A talk by
Mary Prestidge
at The Nightingale Theatre, Surrey Street, Brighton
on Saturday 14th November at 2pm – Free
 
Photo: Esko Koivisto
Belatedly, in Britain in the 1970’s, the dream was not yet over; a new idealism and movement toward an independence and autonomy for the individual dancer [...]

October 2, 2009

Moving into Studio One at BLANK Studios & Gallery

Studio One at BLANK, set up with The Green Felt, red measuring triangle & socks.
Moved into Studio One today, working on The Green Felt and preparing for my next installation/movement/space workshop with a group of teachers from Bexhill High School. The stripey socks in the foreground were knitted by my grandmother Hildegard, ideal for dancing on studio floors [...]

July 15, 2009

Architectural space, movement & installation workshop – part 1: Blank Space

As part of their current research project Creative Transformation of Space, students and teachers from Filsham Valley School attended a day of workshops at Blank Studios & Gallery in Portslade, Brighton.
My workshop session began with an intensive, hands-on introduction to my working process, focussing on the creation of large-scale installations. The students then took on the empty [...]

July 1, 2009

talk to the watering can

 

Fresh from this year’s Festival of Architecture, the Woman with Watering Can [that's me] continues her playful investigations of the private choreography of public space, urban planning & creative space, and of course, reclining in public …
Coming up: talk to the watering can, a chance to air your views about green space in spontaneous mini-interviews conducted by the Woman with Watering Can, and [...]

February 10, 2009

“My body will now take questions from the floor” – performative talk @ The Basement Brighton

Asking the floor in my installation ‘i am too big for this town’. CiCi Blumstein 2008. Photo: AnnA Weatherston

 
Live Lunch with CiCi Blumstein
“My body will now take questions from the floor” – a performative talk.
Thursday 12th February 1 – 2pm
At The Basement, Kensington Street, Brighton
FREE
(No packed lunches available this time – sorry – but please feel [...]

January 19, 2009

the private choreography of public space – Friday Lab @ University of Brighton

 

 

Friday Labs at the University of Brighton
These performance laboratories are hosted by the University of Brighton and facilitated by members of Movement 12 or by invited guest artists. The Labs provide opportunities for professional artists and students to come together for a few hours of focussed collaborative experimentation. Each event is different and focusses on [...]

January 8, 2009

The Green Felt – installation in development

Started research on my new project The Green Felt today. Lots of ideas sparking at the moment …
 
The photo above was taken in Blank Gallery, on the very last night of my installation i am too big for this town for architecture08 festival in June last year, after all the sculptures had been taken down & packed [...]