A 2015 performance project created by Paul Sadot in collaboration with the dancers, a writer and a scenographer. Exploring issues of gentrification, displacement and social loss. Mobility, (im)mobility and the kinesthetic nature of the cypher.
UK Artists using Hip Hop elements: Spoken Movement
Spoken Movement: https://www.spokenmovement.org/single-post/2017/03/15/Wisdom-Wednesday-UK-Artists-using-Hip-Hop-Elements
"Wisdom Wednesday" UK Artists using Hip-Hop Elements
March 15, 2017
Photos: Benji Reid Jonathan Burrows
“In the UK there is a small group of artists using elements of hip hop in the creation of dance/theatre who I describe as marginal figures. They dance the precarity of our times, as they search for a new performance alchemy. Their work seeks to evade stylistic boxes, responding instead to a powerful, unstoppable, need to question the sociocultural and political environment in which they live. They seek a new voice, a new state of movement and another way of doing things. Kwame Asafo-Adjei is one such artist. ”
(Paul Sadot, 2017)
Artists 4 Growth........exchanging ideas.
Some interesting intensives happening with this network...... Alternative voices
'Far from the Norm' - upcoming auditions
Music, music, music......
The Magnificent Tape Band, Ohad Fishof, Foehn, Tenderlonious, Mounika, Zeroh...........and more
Askance? Oblique Conference 2017: A Critical Inquiry into practice-based Research
A call for proposals for this conference:
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
31st March 2017
Visibility within practice-based research and artistic practice is an emergent discourse. It is central to the shaping of political, ethical and socio-economic concerns, in culture and within the subcultures it informs. Visibility within practice-based research can expose and question visual hierarchies, authority, authorship, the politics of technology, balances of power and representation or prompt dissent. Here, visibility is a concept that we have adapted and extended from the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, where it shifts from a quality; of visibility, to an entity; the visibility. The concept of visibility generates a dual arrangement: of what can be seen operating with what cannot be seen. Our understanding of visibility provides a broad contemporary framework founded in the histories of post-colonialism and feminism.
We will examine the many dialogues which incorporate themes of visibility within art, visual practice and participatory practice to prompt a discussion between multiple disciplines. Artwork that incorporates documentation expands the making process into one that could involve broader considerations, such as gaining access, subject matter, permissions, negotiating authorship, representation and use of technology or technique. This dynamic thematic will enable new perspectives on the conditions of practice based research.
Details can be found here: https://visibilityconference.carbonmade.com/projects/6327184
Joseph Toonga seeks dancers for 'Daughter, Daughter'
Exciting opportunity to be PART of Artistic Director Joseph Toonga new piece of work: 'Daughter, Daughter'.
Apply now and be part of this new Epic Journey!! it's going to be HARDBODIED!!!
Deadline: Friday 13th January.
Artists 4 Artists : Free 5 day growth intensive for artists
Breaking Rare records onto the Northern Soul scene
A rare 45 that I introduced to the Northern Soul scene and was re-released due to its extreme rarity so that others can enjoy it. See the full story on the link below:
http://cree-records.com/portfolio_page/john-harris-the-soul-sayers-hangin-in/
Wanted- Northern Soul dancers.
http://niccitopping.com/northern-soul/
If you don't know the style you can take a look here:
Northern Soul on Channel 4: December 23rd 2016
I was one of the acting coaches, and the choreographer on this film. Three years of intense work with a great team.
A chance to see it this month on Channel 4!
Botis Seva's new work - Woman of Sun
Nov 24 at 7:30 PM to Nov 25 at 7:30 PM (SOLD OUT)
Trinity Laban, King Charles Court, SE8 3D London, United Kingdom
Excited to make the journey down and support this new piece of work from one of the UK's new breed of fearless artists and performance collectives.
Decolonising the curriculum in theory and practice
A much needed debate...
Decolonising the curriculum in theory and practice - "The call for decolonisation is resonating in universities across the globe today. The most dramatic instance has been the Rhodes Must Fall movement in South Africa, which inspired protests such as Rhodes Must Fall at Oxford and “Why is My Curriculum White” at UCL. These movements have found affinities with expanding struggles around race, gender, and class on North American campuses and with the upsurge of interest in decolonisation within professional academia. Our workshops and seminars will focus on one particular aspect of today’s demand to decolonise the university: the curriculum. Drawing from postcolonial, decolonial, and subaltern critiques of social science knowledge production and circulation, the research group will aim to explore the “postcolonial turn” or “Southern turn” in different domains of the humanities and social sciences. The series of activities are both inspired by and in dialogue with the increasing attention to the global plurality of particular disciplines, for example, the need to work toward “a world anthropologies framework”, “global sociology”, or non-Western international relations."
HIP HOP IN MY HOUSE - Event with Prof. Thomas F. DeFrantz
Hip Hop in My House: Popular Dance, Identity Politics, and Postracial Physics, a presentation by Prof. Thomas F. DeFrantz UEL - University Square Stratford Studio 1 (USS3.29), Thursday, 17 Nov, 2016 2:00 to 5 pm
How did Hip Hop and House emerge as separate sorts of dance cultures among African Americans and Latino Americans, and how have they reconciled in contemporary global circumstances? What sorts of post-racial spaces are available within these dance forms and their cultures? What are some of the ways that identity still functions in considerations of hip hop and house dance? This talk will explore the important interstices of hip hop and house in academic discourses. In particular, we will consider the implications of race in the articulations of popular dance cultures and their circulations.
Event to be held at the following time, date and location:
Thursday, 17 November 2016 from 02:00 to 05:00 (GMT)
University of East London,
University Square Stratford
1 Salway Rd
E15 1NF London
United Kingdom
Dance, Theatre, Hip Hop - Artists 4 Artists event.
Support, watch, debate, move, question......
“It is necessary to preserve a space where new formations germinate, to avoid assimilation and co-optation of the energies and demands that issue from social movements, to refuse to unsee what difference difference makes in the world”
Artists 4 Artists - Friday 14th
“Creativity is designated by current modes of biopolitical power, as a site for implementing job creation and, more significantly, labour reform; it is a matter of managing a key sector of the youthful population by turning culture into an instrument of both competition and labour discipline. The word culture fades into the background and is replaced by creativity. (…) It is a matter of putting creativity to work. (…) The social stage where this creativity is played out is also a site of multiple anxieties.”
“...a system that sees and values only those aspects that mimic familiar white Western artistic traditions”
I am honoured to have been invited to talk at this event, and inspired that UK Hip Hop artists are organising themselves to debate the complex space of UK dance and theatre in which they move.
The event runs for three days 13th, 14th & 15th and you can see the full programme by following the link below. Meanwhile here is the schedule for the day I am sharing my research : Unsteady State: Hip Hop Dancers in the Space of UK Theatre.
Friday 14th October 10.30am-6.30pm
Work in progress sharings from early career hip hop artists and discussions/debates from industry experts led by Ivan Blackstock.
10.30am-12pm Studio Sharing led by Ivan Blackstock
12.30 - 1.30pm Presentation from Paul Sadot with Q&A led by Robert Hylton
2.30-4.-00pm 3 x Work In Progress Sharings
4.30-6.00pm Discussion led by Ivan Blackstock
Tickets
Full festival pass £40
Day passes £25
Day Passes and Full Festival Passes only available to book by calling our box office on: 020 8708 8803
‘Artists 4 Artists’ is pioneering artist lead network that want to promote change within the dance sector by upskilling & profiling hip hop artists.
Over 3 days ‘Artists 4 Artists’ are launching a weekender of discussions, workshops, & performances from some of the UK’s leading & emerging hip hop theatre artists.
Whether you want to voice your opinions about the UK hip hop dance scene, develop skills in hip hop theatre or watch ground-breaking performances, there is something for everyone…
http://redbridgedramacentre.co.uk/RedbridgeDramaCentre.dll/WhatsOn?Programme=159628
Artists 4 Artists October Event 2016
An event where UK artists using hip hop dance as an element in the creation of theatre come together to share work and discuss the 'space' in which they move.
I will be presenting a discussion topic on Friday 14th
Unsteady State: Hip hop Dancers in the Space of UK Theatre
Robert Hylton will be leading the discussion
mobility, (im)mobility, agency, legitimisation.........
Venue: Redbridge Drama Centre
Embodied Artistic Research Opportunity
CALL FOR EMBODIED / ARTISTIC RESEARCHERS
Research Assistant (2 posts)
£26,004 per annum (fixed term appointment for 6 months)
School of Music, Humanities & Media
University of Huddersfield
The Judaica Project seeks two full-time Research Assistants for the period 1 May - 31 October 2017 to participate in an intensive laboratory period of embodied research at the Centre for Psychophysical Performance Research, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom.
Through embodied research, the project will engage with contemporary political questions of identity and heritage. You will work under the leadership of Dr Ben Spatz to develop new embodied 'song-action' technique based on archival Jewish sources. This technique will be shared through live presentations in the United Kingdom, United States, and Poland. The research will also be documented audiovisually and made available through print and multimedia publications.
You will have basic competency in both song (natural voice, extended vocal technique, traditional or folk singing, song-based theatre including opera and musical theatre or other theatres of musicality) and action (physical theatre, movement training, contemporary dance, martial arts, somatic bodywork, clown or circus arts, or other forms of physical culture), with a high level of expertise or mastery in at least one relevant area. Critical or creative writing skills, video editing skills, and postgraduate academic credentials are desirable but not required.
A first degree is required, but citizenship or residency of the UK/EU is not. Applications from individuals representing ethnic, religious, national, gender/sexual, and (dis)abled populations that are underrepresented in the UK or in academia are strongly encouraged.
Application deadline: 31 October 2016
Interviews: 18 and 19 December 2016
Starting date: 1 May 2017
Gentrification and 'Starchitects'
With my research engaging with mobility, (im)mobility, displacement and agency, amongst other things, I found this article very interesting: