Making performance integral
Towards a Regenerative Culture, Together We Are
Towards a Regenerative Culture, Together We Are, took place 29.02.2020, a couple of weeks before Covid changed everything. Our Exit Map artists who regularly come together via the Shared Practice, proposed new ways to meet movement and dance, adding a taste of political activism to further a social and environmental integration for our local community and dance hub. Performances, interventions, classes, talks, think tanks, clothes swap and games filled a whole day offering an entertaining yet thoughtful palette that brought people together by activating their minds and bodies to physically experience and share political, social and gender agendas. With left over food provided by local businesses and an audio station that shared interviews with locals we created a landscape that saw everyone involved, affirming the need to speak up and be heard while carefully carving the skills to welcome differences so as to meet togetherness like a blank canvas where a true picture of who we are and what we are living is only ever true when we allow all colours and shapes to paint it.
Contributing artists:
Laura Doehler
Tania Soubry
Anne-Gaelle Thiriot
Jay Jule
Lucy Thane
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Volunteers:
Sebastian Ruiz
Alexandra Baybutt
Helena Webb
Femke Baumann
We connect and stand in life with our bodies as medium that hold infinite potentials.
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Movement and voice, the visual and the audio, the thinking and the sensing body.
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Awareness through witnessing and participation.
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We invite you to collectively design and shape the world around. We seek growth by taking an honest and critical stance and present the ideas we have and ask how others understand themselves as part of culture(s) we need to realise and claim.
Performances
Who is John Wick, work in progress
by and with Laura Doehler
supported by T. Soubry and A. Thiriot
John Wick is a man who kills and gets killed over and over again. He exists as fiction alive in minds, readily obscuring reality. What is it to live in multiple realities, what are the hiding places and what is it we reveal of ourselves when we wear other people’s masks? This work describes a split identity wherein multiple personalities point at isolation and a search to find and make a connect to others.
Brave (K)New Rave
This work was in residency at Berlin Ufer Studios until 14.09.2020
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A participative performance
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Let’s rave regenerative stories. How can we live together without beating each other up? How can we dance our way out of crisis? When did you last cry at the news? When did you last dance until sweat dripped down your face? Lie down if you want to, get up when you want. I invite you to listen, to reflect, to dance alone, with me, with us.
Octopussies by Anne-Gaelle Thiriot and Jay Yule
Performers: Anne-Gaelle Thiriot and Laura Doehler, duet
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This piece was born out of a desire to explore the female relationship to sexuality and penetration. Drawing on their own individual research, Anne-Gaelle’s physical practice around softness in relationship to tension and desire, meeting Jay’s research into female pleasure and the societal representation of the vulva. Octopussies has been drawing on various cultural approaches to this topic, human and animal. Aiming to evoke and question, they hope to encourage viewers to think about their own sexualities, environments and influences that mould or unmould them.
Workshops + Engagements
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A “StoryDance” workshop, inspiring people to find movement from a small story that compiles into a group dance linking each small movement and story together. It may become a procession if we wish, it may become what we want it to be.
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Contact Improvisation
Facilitated by A. Thiriot and Laura Doehler
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Clothes Swap
Facilitated by Venice, the whole community brings clothes and takes home new old pieces to enjoy.
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Reading and Moving Together
A workshop by T. Soubry where texts meet embodied and social spaces, creating a new intimacy where words and body intertwine.
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Making the Green Green
A thinktank how to get more plants and community events going to make the community centre more Green
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Round Table
Passing the mic around we gather thoughts and opinions how we feel, act and make life work in Ladywell.
