A short course in partnership with TATE Modern
"What if we imagine choreography as a process that extends beyond dance into other disciplines? "
This course has now finished, but if you are interested in taking part in future or similar courses, please contact Heloise O’Donoghue or call 020 7091 9650.
Led by artist Lucy Cash on behalf of Siobhan Davies Dance, this practical course combined physical movement and critical thinking. Through the choreographic lens, participants explored a range of artworks on display at Tate Modern. The course included a guest presentation by Siobhan Davies, choreographer and artistic director of Siobhan Davies Dance.
Choreography: Experiencing Space, Time and Ideas ran for six weeks, allowing an exploration of choreography to build up through both a dance and visual art perspective. This realisation of choreography extending beyond dance is a key feature of Siobhan Davies' work, and serves to further develop a link between dance and visual arts.
Week1: Choreography and Beyond
> Welcome and introductions
> Warm-up session: simple and gentle series of exercises to start connecting experiences of duration, energy and movement
> Mapping Choreography – a snapshot of recent developments in choreography and choreographic thinking, including an introduction to the concept of a ‘choreographic Tool-box’
> Gallery visit
Week 2: Choreography: Siobhan Davies
> Warm-up session with Lucy Cash
> Continuing to explore connections between movement and sensation
> Practical workshop led by Siobhan Davies – looking at some of the ideas from her most recent work ROTOR
> Discussion with Siobhan Davies and participants, led by Lucy Cash
Week 3: Choreography: Crossing over into the Everyday
> Warm-up: breath and energy – locating our connection to the space around the body as well as within
> Locating energy, time and space within visual arts practice and contemporary culture in general
> Gallery visit
Week 4: Chance, Humour and Transformation
> Warm-up: exploring the edge where one movement transforms into another
> Questioning our relationship to the everyday through notions of humour, transformation and the unexpected
> Gallery visit
Week 5: Material gestures, mark making and drawing
> Warm-up: connecting movement to mark making and leaving behind traces, both visible and invisible
> Drawing on examples from the Tate Collection, how have different visual artists, over the years explored the
relationship between drawing, form, intention and process in their work and how does this relate to choreography?
> Gallery visit
Week 6: Choreography of Moving Image
> Warm-up: making connections between moving image and the human body
> Exploring the relationship between rhythm and empathy in movement
> Looking at movement in film, and how we relate to films not just at a level of ideas and emotions but also through the experience of physical rhythms
Choreography: Experiencing Space, Time and Ideas
