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Article five part three… Many non dancers are in fact unaware of their bodies, only noticing the living, breathing, constantly cell dividing structure that they inhabit 24 hours a day, when a strong signal of pain, excitement or pleasure is […]
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Article five part two…. I know all too well from my own visual arts practice that if left to one’s own devices, it is easy to spend a lot of time saying them same thing and wondering how to get […]
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Article five part one… So what does happen when a choreographer is situated in the role of curator? From our discussion I glean that Siobhan put together the collaborators for this series of commissions, in a way was in essence […]
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Alexis investigates, article five: A conversation with Siobhan Davies about dance thinking Recently choreographer Siobhan Davies has seemingly turned curator, commissioning four new collaborations between dancers and visual artists, the results of which are being shown in an exhibition titled […]
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I first came across Peter Lanyon’s paintings over ten years ago. At the time I had a conundrum, I was looking at a career in the visual arts but my natural affinity was with moving in the world, not looking […]
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Alexis Investigates Dance and Visual Arts. Article Three: falling in love with another art form, Yvonne Rainer and my divorce from painting. Part one: Throughout December The British Film Institute is showing Yvonne Rainer’s feature films alongside an exhibition of […]
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Alexis Investigates Dance and Visual Arts. Article Three: falling in love with another art form, Yvonne Rainer and my divorce from painting. Part two: (have you read part one yet?) Dance is not a rare being for you to ogle, […]
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Alexis Investigates: Dance and Visual Arts. Article One: A Visit to Siobhan Davies Dance Company. 11 October 2010: I visited Siobhan and dancers: Annie Lok, Charlie Morrisey, Lindsey Butcher and Andrea Buckley at the beginning of week seven in their […]
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Alexis investigates: Dance and visual arts. Article Two. Coffee with Stephanie Rosenthal, curator of MOVE: Choreographing You, Hayward Gallery. 29 October 2010. If the ‘man in the street’ had the sensory perception of a dancer how much time would be […]
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Titled ‘Alexis Investigates: Dance and Visual Arts’ this series of articles will offer ‘ways in’ for dancers to the complex conversation that is happening between dance and visual art. I am Information and Communication Officer at Dance UK and also […]