In 2012 Siobhan Davies will create a new film with director David Hinton and ROTOR will be presented once again, at Turner Contemporary in Margate. Siobhan Davies Dance also embarks on residencies to bring together dance and craft artists, Side by Side, as well as a new online project, the Library of Processes.
Siobhan Davies Studios will continue to be programmed with regular exhibitions and events, with artists Shane Waltener, Graham Gussin and 60|40 crafts collective comprising the visual arts programme, and Fevered Sleep presenting Stilled in March 2012. Click here for more info.
July 2012 sees the return of Big Dance in the run up to the Olympics, with Siobhan Davies Dance as the Hub for south London. Click here for more info.
In April, Independent Dance will present their annual What festival, What Matters, curated this year by dance and film artists Lucy Cash and Becky Edmunds (straybird). Click here for more info.
New film by Siobhan Davies and David Hinton
Siobhan Davies and director David Hinton are making a film which begins with the concept of using choreographic tools to edit together some of the earliest photographic observations of human movement. Dance artists Deborah Saxon and Catherine Bennett have been commissioned concurrently to create solos in response to these early observations. More information to follow in the spring.
ROTOR at Turner Contemporary
30 March – 1 April 2012
Turner Contemporary, Margate
For three days only, Siobhan Davies Dance brings five works from ROTOR to Turner Contemporary. Film, performance and sound works by Siobhan Davies, EV Crowe, Matteo Fargion and Alice Oswald will be shown at the gallery in Margate, which opened earlier this year and has already attracted over 300,000 visitors. ROTOR is an ensemble of performances, sound, installations and artworks, created by eight artists in response to Siobhan Davies’ filmed choreography, The Score. It has previously been shown at Siobhan Davies Studios, London; South London Gallery, London; Whitworth Gallery, Manchester; and Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh. The showing on Friday 30 March is part of Turner Contemporary’s free late night events, Late Night Live.
‘This ROTOR is exhilarating, offered with the finesse that always marks Davies' work. Stimulating and worthwhile.’ Financial Times *****
Friday 30 March 2012, 6 – 10pm: The Score (film) and Live Feed (live performance). Free entry.
Saturday 31 March – Sunday 1 April, performances start at 12, 2pm, 4pm: Live Feed, A Series of Appointments by Siobhan Davies, Songbook by Matteo Fargion (live performances), The True Story of Someone Putt Only Half Heard by Alice Oswald (poem), The Score (film). Tickets £5 / £4 (concessions)
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Side by Side - New craft and dance residencies
Summer 2012
Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts & Siobhan Davies Studios
Dance artist Laila Diallo and craft artist Helen Carnac will work side by side in the same studio in two three-week residencies at the Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, and then at Siobhan Davies Studios in London, exploring the processes of making work in and across their creative practices. There will be a public programme of events in association with the residencies, to be announced in the spring.
Library of Processes
In October 2011, Siobhan Davies Dance embarked on a new digital project to create an online Library of Processes, collating and synthesising documentation from the creative processes of those artists who contribute to Siobhan Davies Dance works or work closely with the organisation. PhD student David Bennett will be contributing towards this project as part of his AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral award at Coventry University, with whom the organisation created its online archive, Siobhan Davies RePlay, which launched in 2009.
Other works
Siobhan Davies Dance has produced and toured a new work almost annually since forming in 1988, each new work celebrating the distinct language of original movement on its own terms.
Many of these now feature in a digital archive, RePlay, which can be freely accessed here.
Alternatively, click here for a full list of works by Siobhan Davies Dance.
