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 [...]
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November 16, 2009
Movement 12 – Landing Party
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 [...]
June 28, 2009
Makeshift Body & Park[ing] Day Brighton 2009 – “New Townhouses coming here soon”
Funny how things link up over time …
Today I re-visited a derelict space in the centre of Brighton as part of the Festival of Architecture 2009 and my on-going project, Woman with Watering Can - Planning Permission Reclined!.
I danced this very same space back in 2001, again as part of another long-term project entitled Makeshift Body, when the site was just a [...]
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 [...]
September 20, 2008
Debating Dance – New Forum Launch @ South East Dance
i am too big for this town installation,
CiCi Blumstein 2008. Photo: © Bip Mistry
South East Dance are launching a new quarterly forum for artists, practitioners and anyone who loves dance: Debating Dance.
Debating Dance provides a platform for debate around dance and dance practice. Each quarter a new host will lead an evening with a subject [...]
