1 – Kicking off our a-n funded Future Programme as our first commissioned speaker, Nuno Coehlo gave two lectures in one in April (10th) that spanned seemingly divergent ages and subjects as ‘How Modernism Envisaged A New Future’ via 1920s chairs, Bauhaus […]
The renowned American dancer and choreographer, who collaborated with many visual artists included Robert Rauschenberg and Donald Judd, has died.
My first idea for one of my animations, was a dance with a shadow or a ghost of the memory of the struggles within myself as a little girl. The idea I had to create this, was to produce the animation image […]
Wnat to share this work, it is part of the Creativity Matters programme, which saw older people taught to do creative workshops. It shows the joy of creativity.
Siobhan Davies Dance has announced Hepworth Wakefield director of programme Lauren A Wright as its new programme director.
Over the last few months we have been working with Co3 Dance and the poet Louise Fazackerley, sharing ideas and using the garden space for more creative endeavours. As the garden is having a Alice in Wonderland theme, due to the tale […]
17 March 2015 – 21 June 2015 Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Art, dance and movement in London 1911–1915 “Sculpture consists in placing planes according to a rhythm” Gaudier-Brzeska, 1911 2015 marks 100 years since Henri Gaudier-Brzeska died aged 23 in the First […]
I am collaborating with choreographer Darren Ellis to explore concepts of constraint, confinement, resistance and adaptation. A common interest in how circumstances restrict and determine behaviour led us to develop scenarios for movement within a network of stretched elastic.
This month sees the culmination of a two-year project at Siobhan Davies Dance, one of the country’s most distinctive dance companies. Choreographer Davies has paired dance artists with visual and applied artists to bring their creative practices together and create new works ranging from performance to film and installation. The commissioned dance artists are Henry Montes, Sarah Warsop, Gill Clarke and Deborah Saxon who are partnered respectively with Marcus Coates, Tracey Rowledge and Lucy Skaer. Henry Montes and Deborah Saxon have also made a piece together with Bruce Sharp. Here, three of the visual artists relate their experiences.
Re-titled Mind, Bodies & Thoughts, this blog’s angle has changed, storing some random thoughts related to ideas I’m working on & other (creative) events.
Headline data from the Taking Part survey 2005-06
