Updated Programme!!!

We're looking forward to the conversations in movement with you all this Friday... please see the updated Programme below:

Booking is still open until Tomorrow (Tues Oct 30th) for last places!!!

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 1^st – 2^nd 2019

Programme:

FRIDAY NOV 1^ST:

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 2^nd:

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?

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)

Queering the Somatic PROGRAMME

Programme for the 2019 Queering the Somatic: Interrupting the Narrative symposium just published...

Queering the Somatic: Interrupting the Narrative Symposium

Middlesex University London

Nov 1^st – 2^nd 2019

Programme:

FRIDAY NOV 1^ST:

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 2^nd:

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)

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

OR*

             -  Workshop E – Stephanie Scheubeck and Matt Cleary Grove Dance Theatre (G190)

Queering Synaesthesia - focussing on perception and diversity
what happens when synaesthesia and queer meet?

*please sign up for the workshop of your choice at registration on arrival

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)

 TO BOOK:

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 2019

Our third somatic-inquiring symposium takes place in less than two weeks!

Queering the Somatic: Interrupting the Narrative Symposium  

1^st and 2^nd  November 2019. 

The symposium aims to look at how we might re-imagine, re-educate, re-think, reveal and allow us to re-create a world without the limits of binaries that reflect the somatic experience of Being in the world.

Queering the Somatic is the third somatic symposium curated by Dr Adesola Akinleye and Helen Kindred, following  

Wright-ing the Somatic (2016)

and

Narrating the Somatic (2018)

Dance can be seen as a critical way of being in the world. For us dance emphasises the felt over the ‘named’, dispelling binaries and challenging Western constructs of the passive body. Queer theory is a field of critical thinking emerging in the early 1990’s drawing on feminism and queer studies to challenge social constructs and identities. Moving beyond the social constructs of the body both dance and queer theory offer a fluidity for narrating the lived experience; narrations that interrupt dominant stories of identity and how we move through the world.

Queering the somatic offers opportunities to explore, challenge and celebrate the act of dispelling binaries: mind-body, male-female, subject-object.

We hope; ‘Let’s imagine together we have all the money in the world and let’s let go of black and white, gay and straight, theory and practice and that all the gatekeepers have flung the doors open. Let’s focus on the arts, the practice and sharing. Understanding the world for a moment through someone else’s eyes’ (Akinleye, A. 2018)

We hope you will join us in movement and (re)thinking ...

to book:

https://www.onlinestore.mdx.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-and-creative-industries/conference/queering-the-somatic-symposium