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https://www.onlinestore.mdx.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-and-creative-industries/conference/queering-the-somatic-symposium
Queering the Somatic: Interrupting the
Narrative Symposium
Middlesex University London
Nov 1st – 2nd 2019
Programme:
FRIDAY NOV 1ST:
12.00- 1.00pm – Arrival and
Registration – Grove Atrium
1.00-2.00pm – Welcome (Adesola
Akinleye and Helen Kindred)
Keynote Presentation – Dr Thomas F. DeFrantz, Duke University USA
– Grove Dance Theatre (G190)
2.00-3.00pm – Workshop A –
Carolina Vasilikou – Grove Dance Theatre (G190)
Hybrid
Practices of Somatics Design for Able Spaces.
OR*
Workshop B –
Elaine Westwick – Practice Room (G179)
Both
are part of me and both are good: Using
body sense to disrupt the dichotomy of subject and object.
*please sign up for the workshop of your
choice at registration on arrival
3.00-4.00pm – Paper Presentations
in the Grove Dance Theatre (G190)
Anna Martine Whitehead - Notes
on Territory and the Queer Femme Fugitive in the World: A performance
lecture and installation addressing containment architectures and freedom, bodies
and space in a fugitive experience.
Danny Tokay Reid - Queering
Museum Space: performing Bodies for Inclusion and Diversity. Drawing upon how heritage organisations are working
towards queering their organisations.
Sam
Causer - Queer
Conservation: Exploring how a queer approach to conservation can
recognise and celebrate this fluid and temporal dialogue between movement,
behaviour and architecture.
4.00-4.15pm – Break (drinks and snacks available to purchase from
catering outlet in the Grove Atrium)
4.15-5.15pm – Workshop C –
Pioneer Winter - Grove Dance Theatre (G190)
…. Werqshop: Task based exercises, phrase work,
current repertory and discussions.
6.30-7.30pm –
Optional Social event - Queer History Walking Tour
Meet outside Tottenham Court Road
Underground Station at 6.30pm
We are then going to take a walk down through Covent Garden, Soho,
Trafalgar Square and down to the embankment.
The tour will last approximately 1 hour and will cover about 1.5
miles.
Dinner in Soho at 7.30pm (optional)
SATURDAY NOV 2nd:
09.30-10.00am - Arrival and
Registration – Grove Atrium
10.00-10.30am - Re-gathering, Reflections : Where are we after yesterday?
(Adesola Akinleye and Helen Kindred) Grove Dance Theatre (G190)
10.30-11.30am - Workshop D – Stephanie Scheubeck and
Matt Cleary
Grove Dance Theatre (G190)
Queering
Synaesthesia - focussing on perception and diversity
what happens when synaesthesia and queer meet?
what happens when synaesthesia and queer meet?
11.30-12.30pm – Performance
Sharing in the Grove Dance Theatre (G190)
Jac
Coxall - Blurred Lines
Focusing on
the idea of gender and sexuality, taking people on a journey of movement to
challenge their minds and remove that blurred vision.
Marcus White - The Line Up
Pioneer Winter – Gimp
Gait (film)
Helen Kindred – espacement
- a solo improvisation for camera
Barbara Browning –3 short
videos of dances
to spoken language between differently gendered bodies.
.
12.30-1.15pm
– Lunch in the Grove Atrium
1.15-2pm
– Workshop D – Nicolette Wilson-Clarke – Studio 1 (G271)
Exploring the Felt Sense- Somatic
movement workshop
2.00-2.45pm – Queering the
Conference!
All – Open space to offer,
respond, say what you want to be heard, re-think the space etc
2.45-3.30pm
- Artists in conversation: Grove Dance Theatre
(G190)
Amber Oretego-Perez – Queer Be-Longing; How the act of belonging in
an intimate same-sex relationship is simultaneously an act of alienation.
and
Niurca Marquez –Dancing my otherness or sin permiso me agarro
aqui; Focuses on collage as a method for research
creation in works that deal with the body and somatic identities
3.30-3.40pm – Break
3.40-4.30pm – Workshop E -
Cristina Fernandez-Rosa - Grove Dance Theatre (G190)
Queering
Somatic: the Afro-Brazillian Way!
4.30-5.00pm – Closing Reflections
- Dr Thomas F. DeFrantz - Grove Dance Theatre (G190)