Summer sees dance in many guises at Arnolfini: dance as a music gig, a science or computer code, a celebratory event, a research question, a set of rules, a chance to play, even as speech.
We’ll get a taste of the many faces of dance as artists deconstruct the form.
The Summer season starts on 11 June with experimental performance company GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN completing their residency at Arnolfini with a new work-in-progress. Using their trademark homespun aesthetic the artists ask if speech is made up entirely of breath and muscles, then is it essentially a series of dance moves?
Returning to Arnolfini following their stunning 2009 performance Expensive Darlings, Slovenian dance company Emanat present a new work, Frozen Images. Borrowing the format of a music gig hybridised with performance art, they create a performance which is trashy-kitschy-cheap-porn in appearance, presented in a theatrical manner with sharpness that not only opens the subject of gender and identity but cuts right through it.
Bristol-based choreographer Laïla Diallo, a long-term associate of Arnolfini, presents three engaging short dance works on Thurs 21 July, joined by performer Theo Clinkard.
Two shows at the end of July, Geraldine Pilgrim and Dog Kennel Hill Project, are presented as part of the Bristol Harbour Festival. Geraldine Pilgrim’s Handbag is a witty and wistful performance with great music, dancing and handbags. In their Double Bill Dog Kennel Hill Project explore new contexts for dance, questioning what dance can be, who can dance, and where it can happen?
Danceroom Spectroscopy on 7 August, is a free, immersive and participatory collective experience in which Arnolfini’s spaces will be rigged with 3D imaging technology to track your motion; come and move, observe, play or even dance.
GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN
The Rest Is Silence
Sat 11 Jun 7.00pm
£5.00/£4.00 Concs
GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN complete their Platformed residency at Arnolfini with a new work-in-progress. Using the format of ‘performance lecture’, amateur science, and their trademark
homespun aesthetic the artists will ask: if speech is made up entirely of breath and muscles then is it essentially a series of dance moves? And what would it mean to fully physicalise the uttering of a word? This is the start of an on-going practical performance research project looking at speech as physical gesture.
Artist Talk: Emanat: Maja Delak And Nova Deviator
Wed 22 Jun 6.30pm
£5.00/£4.00 Concs
Join Emanat (Slovenian dance and contemporary art institute) director, dancer and editor, Maja Delak and her collaborator Luka Princic (alias Nova deviator), as they discuss the influence of dance and choreography on their multidisciplinary practice.
Emanat / Wanda & Nova Deviator
Frozen Images
Thu 23 Jun 8.30pm
£10.00/£8.00 Concs
Following their stunning 2009 performance Expensive Darlings, Emanat return to Arnolfini with this new work Frozen Images. Using movement, film, text, electronic beats, angry guitars, noisy oscillations and hypnotic bass lines this performance questions the production and perception of the female image. Borrowing the format of a music gig hybridised with performance art, with roots in dance, Emanat / Wanda & Nova deviator create a performance which is trashy-kitschy-cheap-porn in appearance, presented in a theatrical manner with sharpness that not only opens the subject of gender and identity but cuts right through it!
Laïla Diallo
A Triple Bill: Imprint, At-Any-Moment-Something-Else & Between The Shingle And The Dune
Thu 21 Jul 7.30pm
£8.00/£7.00 Concs
Canadian-born and Bristol-based choreographer Laïla Diallo is joined by performer Theo Clinkard to present an evening of engaging short dance works.
How do we reconcile all by which we are touched? What do we let go of, what do we keep, what do we use to construct the whole? For the solo Imprint, Diallo draws inspiration from these questions
and attempts to find a physical expression for some of the tensions they carry. At-any-moment-something-else is a compelling solo with surrealist tendencies performed by Theo Clinkard, exploring
territory where events, scale and time take on incongruous, dreamlike qualities. Finally, Between the Shingle and the Dune – a duet for Clinkard and Diallo - brings into being physical narratives of
togetherness, moments of distance and nearness.
'A vigorous, virtuous and poetic dance' Graham Watts, londondance.com on Between the Shingle and the Dune
Geraldine Pilgrim
Handbag
Sat 30 Jul 7.00pm, 7.30pm, 8.00pm, 8.30pm & 9.00pm
£3.00/£2.00 Concs
This 15 minute performance is a celebratory gem with great music, dancing and handbags. In an
empty theatre, a caretaker sweeps away the remnants of a previous event. A woman enters
the space and puts down her bag. A beat begins, a mirror ball turns and the sound of a classic dance track fills the air…
“A witty and wistful performance that, in a few delirious moments, succinctly makes the point that no woman needs a man when she has got her handbag in tow.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
Presented as part of the 2011 Harbour Festival.
Dog Kennel Hill Project
People Working Projects: Hinterview & The Devil And The Details
Sun 31 Jul 5.45pm & 6.30pm
£8.00/£6.00 Concs
Dog Kennel Hill Project are Ben Ash, Henrietta Hale and Rachel Lopez de la Nieta, research led
practitioners who explore new contexts and habitations for dance to question what dance can
be, who can dance, and where it can happen? The double bill starts with Hinterview, a durational
dance installation developed from a series of interviews with people about their response
and attitudes to work. Exploring ideas such as fulfilment, concentration, purpose and knowing
when to stop working, the choreography draws physical connections into socio-economic notions
of collapse, regeneration and questions our drive to move forward.
The Devil and the Details (40min theatre presentation) sets out to reveal hidden truths in the working relationship between choreographer and dancers using a live beatbox score. The work aims to shift audience expectations of the act of watching theatre
Presented as part of the 2011 Harbour Festival.
Danceroom Spectroscopy
David Glowacki, Phill Tew, Lee J. Malcolm
Sun 7 Aug 1.00pm - 5.00pm
Free / All Ages Welcome
Join us for an immersive and participatory collective experience developed by David Glowacki,
researcher in theoretical chemistry, and artists/musicians Phill Tew and Lee J. Malcolm. Arnolfini’s
spaces will be rigged with 3d imaging technology to track your motion, you are invited to move, observe, play and even dance. Using cutting edge robotic technology, computing and real physics, your movement will warp virtual forcefields, triggering sound and image - allowing movement to emerge as interactive visuals and soundscapes. Modern technology increasingly offers us an individualised experience, however this work uses art and science to generate results which are amplified and modified by collective action.
Supported by the University of Bristol. Funded by EPSRC Partnerships in Public Engagement scheme.
Danceroom Spectroscopy
Dance / Choreography Workshops With Composer, Sound And Media Artist Joseph Hyde
Sat 18 - Sun 19 & Sat 25 - Sun 26 Jun 12.00pm - 4.00pm
£15.00 For One Weekend Session / Booking Required / Limited Capacity
Spectroscopy is the use of light to obtain information about matter. Arnolfini is working with
University of Bristol researcher David Glowacki and sound artist Joseph Hyde to explore cutting
edge imaging technologies developed in the field of science, with dancers and choreographers.
Five professional dancers/choreographers will explore and experiment with this new responsive
technology during two day workshops.
The nature of the technology and Joseph’s approach will allow dancers time to explore collective / individual ambitions. He has previously collaborated with dancers, developing music/sound scores, video for dance productions, and interactive technologies and companies such as Rambert Dance.
Suitable for professional or final year student dancers/choreographers interested in experimenting with new technologies.
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