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)

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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

Narrating the Somatic Symposium film

We're pleased to share the film from our last symposium in February as we begin planning for the next one!! 

Date for your diaries - 

September 20th-21st 2019 - Queering the Somatic

More information to follow...





Narrating the Somatic (film by Anton Califano)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d25kksFHGws&fbclid=IwAR3oNenoyiz2ORqvzaMrTJENu1JpamA11afEDXsvx1zxVn9CaAfp0R_ifx0&app=desktop

Summer Lab.

We'll soon be able to share with you images and film from the Narrating the Somatic symposium held in February...

In the meantime, we wanted to let you know about our Dancing & Writing Summer Lab. coming up in London this August.

We are holding our annual Summer Intensive for the 4th year this August...It offers a great transition between modules, and a chance to come together and move, share, discuss and write as a group on our London campus.  Accomodation is offered on campus for around £20 per night, so a great way to spend a week in London, fueling yourself artistically, creatively, academically. The campus facilities, access to the library, studios etc are fully open and available to you for this week as well as the sessions we run daily from 9.30am to around 3pm. Last year we also took a trip to the British Library and the Tate Modern... there's plenty of inspiration around!

The week runs Aug 13-17th, 2018
Cost (for students) £250 / (full/funded) £350

For more information and Booking:
https://www.mdx.ac.uk/courses/cpd/dance-writing-professional-practice-summer-intensive
 
It would be great to come together and move then!!

Next weekend!!

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Saturday February 24th  Key Note Speakers: Rosemary Lee and Richard Walsh Key Note Movement Workshop: Jackie Guy Workshops, performance, film and discussion with... Namron, Sandra Golding, Pawlet Brooks, Louise Kateraga, Mary Grigg, Chikukwango Cuxima-Zwa, Akosua Boakye, Dominique Rivoal, Jacqueline McCormick, Tom Hobden, Anton Califano, Adesola Akinleye, Helen Kindred, Stephanie Scheubeck, Eline Kieft, Nina Atkinson & Vivian Barbosa. and ISTD Open Day also the launch celebration of the new book edited Narratives in Black British Dance: embodied practices. Where: Middlesex University, London Hendon, Grove Theatre When: 9:00 for 9:30 start to 6pm Feb 24th 2018 Tickets for the day: £5 (students), £10 (individual), £20 (institution) Book on-line here This Symposium follows on from August 2016 event Watch video  Questions: a.akinleye@mdx.ac.uk & h.kindred@mdx.ac.uk

BOOKING IS OPEN FOR OUR NEXT SYMPOSIUM

BOOKING IS NOW OPEN!!!

NARRATING THE SOMATIC SYMPOSIUM FEB 24TH 2018

 

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

FULL SCHEDULE WILL BE PUBLISHED HERE SOON...

Call for Contributions!!

 

Narrating the Somatic:

Gathering voices, sharing practices Symposium

24^th February 2018,

Hendon Campus, London, UK

The call for contributions is now open for Narrating the Somatic: Gathering voices, sharing practices symposium 24^th February 2018. As scholars-artists and practitioners of dance and somatic studies we understand that the embodied experience underpins meaning making, but how is this bodily understanding captured, shared, and stories articulated as knowledge without disrupting its felt origins. Why is it important to share and communicate embodied knowing? How are choreographic processes and other explorations in movement a methodology for understanding our personal, historical, cultural narratives?

The symposium will explore how we tell the tales of our embodied experiences and share our practices…narrating the somatic. The Symposium will bring together existing published academics, visual documentaries of movement (photography/film), and movers and choreographers practicing professionally in the field. The event also links to a call for papers for an up-coming special issue of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices that Adesola Akinleye & Helen Kindred will be guest editing.

Call for contributions:
Submissions could respond to:

-       Capturing and narrating embodied practices

-       Practice as research / Choreography as methodology

-       How text/image/film about somatic practices relates to the physicality of the practice

-       Professional Practices in Dance and their documentation

-       Initiatives or innovations communicating embodied experience within arts practices

-       Biography and Auto-biography as a mode of documentation for arts work

Session formats:

Presenters can give spoken presentations (papers) [15-20 minutes] and /or practical presentations (workshops) [45 minutes] and /or short performance works [10-15mins]

 

Review criteria:

Each proposal is subjected to peer review considering:

·      clarity of the proposal;

·      originality/innovation of the mode of presentation of the idea/approach;

·      anticipated interest

Those interested in making a contribution to the day should complete the following details and submit by Jan 3rd 2018 to Adesola Akinleye a.akinleye@mdx.ac.uk and

Helen Kindred h.kindred@mdx.ac.uk. Successful applicants will be notified by 12th January 2018 or before. Proposals from successful applications will be put on a symposium web-page prior to the event. These will include the abstract, keywords, outline, plus any references deemed appropriate.

         

 Call for Contributions: proposal format

Narrating the Somatic: Gathering voices, sharing practices

One day symposium

24^th February 2018,

Lead contact and email:

Title of proposal:

Format:

                        ¨ Workshop (45 mins)

                        ¨ Paper (20 mins)

                        ¨ Performance (10-15 mins)

           

Short abstract: (maximum of 50 words)

Please provide details of the focus you will be presenting in your session.

Outline: (maximum 400 words)

Please specify the details of your session and how it links to the overall theme of the Symposium

Key words: (optional)

Add keywords which help to define the session content (for use on the conference website).

IT or audio-visual requirements:

Computer, data-projectors and internet access will be provided as standard. If you have any other IT or audio-visual requirements please specify. For performances lighting and tech support should be kept to a minimal. (Performance worked will have tech time during the day of the symposium)

I give consent to be filmed and photographed for documentation purposes?

Signature:

Date: