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May
Mathilde performs as part of Create festival in York
21st May @ 1pm. York St. John University
New Improvisation Exchange dates:
April
Mathilde residency at stage@leeds
Five days in the studio to re-visit ideas and discover new interests within our creative process, alongside planning a tour in November 2013.
March
Sat. 9th March- Improvisation Exchange led by Charlotte Spencer
February
24th Feb – Performance inside the ‘Liberty and Anarchy’ exhibition at the Leeds Art Gallery.
Final day of the installation ‘finissage performance’.
(Performers: Gerry Turvey, Vanessa Grasse, Oliver Dover (Bass Clarinet), Marie Andersen, Beth Cassani, Daliah Touré)
Solo performance ‘of searching and dissecting’
@ Performing House : A triple bill of new work from emerging artists
6th February @ 7.30pm
Performing House
Quad South Hall, York St John University
Original soundscore: Al MacSween
A collaborative improvised performance in response to a visual score. They mould and elude, search and dissect as they compose a multi-sensory piece and get lost trying. Both artists are fascinated by and have researched into improvised performance, especially the relationship between music and dance. As a relatively new creative partnership, Daliah and Al are boldly throwing themselves into this exiting new endeavour, searching and dissecting as they go along.
January
Improv Exchange 2013 dates:
* 12th January ( Rachel Dean)
* 16th February ( Kim Glassby & Bryony Pritchard)
* 9th March ( Charlotte Spencer)
December
..has been a busy month. so much so, we are at the time of writing this, heading full force towards christmas and I am still not in a festive mood. but here’s the reason…
Monday 10th -Thursday 13th Assessment week at York St. John University and working on a piece with the first years which summarises all the hard work and exploration from the past 6 weeks in Movement Invention. For their winter platform Blink, I decide to dress them in oversized t-shirts and jumpers and let them enjoy themselves as they scramble, dodge and move … why not. “Chaos meets Order” is the name of the piece and I underline it with a quote from Deepak Chopra: ” In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you”. I have a blast making it, they have a laugh enjoying it! Video up soon…
IMPROVISATION EXCHANGE 2013 –NEW DATES ANNOUNCED!! ( and a flashy flyer to hand out!:)
Friday 7th – Celebrating Yorkshire Dance’s 30th Birthday with an intergenerational community piece. Working as a ‘practitioner’ I spent the past 6 weeks working with Gary Clarke, a cast of 30 incredible dancers from the wider dance community and hugely talented choreographers, practitioners and Yorkshire dance staff towards a half hour visual and aural feast. Community dance at it’s best! Video to follow soon!
Wednesday 5th - Work demonstration. For my Masters module Contemporary Practice, I give a half hour lecture demonstration on “my daily practice” . I talk, move, show and think out loud, and have thoroughly enjoyed the process of observing ‘my daily practice’ evolve and cristalise. I create a blog, which becomes my archive and gathers my more obscure thought processes. Finding my feet, internalising academia and enjoying discovering my voice, physically and aurally, as a dance artist.
November
October
Sat. 13th Oct – Performing Moondial by Aldo Tambellini
Cello: Seth Woods
The Tanks: Art in Action
Tate Modern.
Here a link to a beautifully shot and edited promotional film produced by the Tate with performance footage and interview Aldo Tambellini.
“Moondial recreated from 1966 was an improvisation on the part of a musician and dancer with film and slide projections by Tambellini. The costume worn by the dancer – originally Beverly Schmidt but at the Tate Tanks Daliah Touré – with its wild headdress and reflective parts, brought to my mind the Afro-Futurism of Sun Ra and others.” (Mister Trippy)
I am glad someone notice the concrete floor ..
“The Tanks still had that hard concrete floor – Daliah Touré coped with this far better than the dancer I saw perform at the opening of The Tanks, Touré was really impressive.” (Mister Trippy)
Before I Decide ( 16th/17th July )
by Kathinka Walter
Excited to have co-ordinated this event as part of Performing House at Yorks St. John University.
Performing at the Tate Modern on the 13th of October as part of Aldo Tambellini’s Retracing Black Exhibition.
I will be involved in the re-staging of Black Zero (1965) and Moondial (1966). …a mixture of electronic imagery, slides, sounds, amplified cello music and improvised movement.
Also…
September
9th September - Mathilde performs at the Colourscape Festival in Rotherham for the second year running.
As always an immense pleasure and a much anticipated experience!
Teaching starts at York St. John University!
…and time to get stuck in to my MA research project; formulating my research question not only on paper, but on an embodied level … one things for certain, I will be involved in alot more improvisation in the coming year; physically and intellectually, and I am very much looking forward to the discoveries that lie ahead.
August
Bodystories performances / FILM LINK
– Friday 10th @ 6pm and Saturday 11th @ 2pm
Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills
July
16th July – 11th August – in residency with dance artist Gerry Turvey at the MillSpace, Armley Mills in Leeds
Working on her project Body Stories as choreographer, alongside film maker June Gersten Roberts and
Visual Artist - Hannah Leighton Boyce.
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Big Dance performance for ADAD on Millenium square on the 15th of July.
Collaborating with Lisa Nkrumah-Mweu and Pauline Mayers… and musicians Sam Ball and Craig Scott!
An improvised dance performance lasting 7 minutes. I am really looking forward to it…and it’s meant to be sunny:)
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9th July
York 800 – EBOR VOX performance
Some very encouraging words from the artistic director:
“I am very pleased with the way the dance element worked across the music, it was sympathetic, clever and always working to make the dancers feel comfortable on that platform.” (Stephen Burke, artistic director)
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Love In Idleness performances:
7th July – Yorkshire Sculpture Park
8th July – Oakwell Hall, Birstall
21st July – Sheffield Botanical Gardens
June
In Residency at Burton Agnes Hall in Driffield, rehearsing for Love In Idleness.
I cannot imagine a more beautiful place to call your workplace:)
..a day at the office involves warm up on the lawn outside the estate, rehearsing our group song in the forest, practicing our lines in the herb garden and rehearsing the dance sequence amongst the roses…
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Saturday 23rd June – Teaching a workshop for Improvisation Exchange Leeds at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance.
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Starting rehearsals for Love In Idleness. Click on the link for tour dates.
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Collaborating with Bobak Walker on the York 800 choreography commission. I will be working with Chilli Bon Bon community group and York College students on a dance piece to accompany Ebor Vox, a large scale choral project involving hundreds of people from York performing a new piece composed by Benjamin Till .
Performance is on the 9th of July!
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MAKE performance videos are now online!
Showreel and Documentary of MAKE by Florence Peake
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R & D weekend with choreographer Kathinka Walter, working on Before I Decide. Joined in the studio by Marie Andersen, Vanessa Grasse, and Neil Callaghan.
May
Buried away in the video editing suite early May, for the screening of my MA short film on the 24th. Learning to love Final Cut Pro and what to do when it’s rendering….
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Last few sessions for Movement Invention with my first year students at York St. John University. Getting ready for their assessment on the 11th, then on to collaborate on a performance for the CREATE 12 festival dance trail on the 29th. What a lovely group of young women they were to spend time with! Hopefully back next year for more teaching.
April
Mathilde tour 2011 film.
A short summary of our adventures last summer.
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7th April / performed in MAKE by Florence Peake in the Longside Gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
…the weekend before at the workshop…
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Ongoing..
Research into dance film for my MA
and looking into…Psychogeography and Experiential anatomy …. at the moment.
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Mind The Step at Yorkshire Dance- working with a group of lovely individuals in this class for adults with learning disabilities and looking forward to sharing some of the ideas we have explored in class at an informal performance.
March
7th – 9th – Mathilde residency at Yorkshire Dance.
Our main focus for those 3 days was to confront the tendency to ‘perform’ and how this takes over our decision making process. How can we carry the same sense of truthfulness that is present in the studio into a live performance setting? How can we let things develop more? How can we become better at leaving the space? What about solos? Silences?….
Also,
Back at York St. Johns University teaching Developing Movement Invention.
February
Senegal!
January
26th Jan. – 2nd February
Solo residency at Yorkshire Dance.
Somatic approaches to movement exploration with particular focus on Body Mind Centering. Six days to navigate through the various anatomical systems, resistances and interruptions and settle into a routine of warming up to ‘woman’s hour’; exploring movement with and without sounds, enjoying the afternoon sun through the large studio windows, meditation through improvisation (or trying to..); discovering the back of my hands and arms and shoulders; re-discovering spirals and adding counter spirals and off balances and counter balances; keeping my jaw soft; pouring/tiping, repeating tasks many times and documenting and sharing a little of what I have found. (thanks Amy and Marie for joining me on the last day:)
December
…will mostly be spent studying for my MA in Performance, Culture and Context at Leeds University and teaching Movement Invention at York St. Johns University.
More creative projects and residencies coming in January and February !
November
Working on a very tight schedule with 24 brilliant yr 9 and 10′s from Wath Comprehensive School in Rotherham to choreograph a ‘curtain raiser’ for Retina’s Skin performance at Magna in Rotherham.
November 1st
My Momentary Distractions films are now live!
An improvised journey through a Leeds inner district captured on film. Six individuals move as a non-hierarchical entity through the urban landscape and explore the possibilities; the path stimulated by their senses and their sense of camaraderie. Whatever happens happens and is explored, exploited and abandoned without judgement.
Original version – edited chronologically, as it happened.
black and white, edited using a random principal.
Filming and editing: Daliah Touré
October 15th
MOMENTARY DISTRACTIONS – Interactive performance installation
in collaboration with Kathinka Walter and Vanessa Grasse
Yorkshire Dance / 11-4.30pm Interactive walk
stage@leeds / 7 – 9.30pm Performance installation
http://www.stage.leeds.ac.uk/Events/2011_kathinka_momentary.html
October 7th
LIGHT NIGHT
Collaboration with White Rabbit @ Mint Hotel, Leeds
And We’re Now Taking Questions From The Floor…
7-11pm
http://lightnightleeds.co.uk/events/and-we’re-now-taking-question-from-the-floor…/
September 16th
Mathilde performance at 7 Arts Space, Leeds.
Our last performance of the tour at one of my favourite venues in Leeds.
Thank you to all who attended and a big Thank You to all those who keep coming back! We are just as intrigued with what happens next as you are.
September 11th
Mathilde performance at Colourscape, Rotherham Arts Festival.
We had a magical and surreal hour inside the colourful chambers, dancing and interacting with the audience, before the wind picked up and nearly picked up the tent…
August 24th – 26th
Schwanengesang
Working with stage acting students on movement and choreography
at an annual theatre seminar lead by Erika Kazupko at Burg Feistritz in Austria.
July 2011
Work on solo performance for Bloom! Festival Leeds on the 23rd of July.
June/July 2011
Collaboration with Kathinka Walter and Vanessa Grasse on “Dancing Another Leeds”. A University of Leeds commission. Installation/performance planned for mid October 2011.
16th – 20th May 2011
Mathilde Residency at Yorkshire Dance
We lead our first workshop as Mathilde.
http://www.yorkshiredance.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Residency-Review-Mathilde-May-2011.pdf
