• Archived Events/ Autumn 2011

    Marisa Zanotti

    The ShowRoom Chichester

    Passing Strange and Wonderful

    Dance & Film
    Wed November 16th 12-1pm
    Venue: Bishop Otter Campus: Room LO3
    Free admission

    Marisa Zanotti screens excerpts of her new film of choreographer Ben Wright’s duet, and reflects on the research process in the project so far.

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2011

    Christy Adair

    The ShowRoom Chichester

    African Contemporary Dance: current developments, challenges and visions

    Dance
    Wed November 2nd 12-1pm
    Venue: Bishop Otter Campus: Room LO3
    Free admission

    Western perspectives of dance in Africa frequently focus on spectacle and ritual. The newly emerging art form of contemporary dance in East Africa challenges such perceptions.  This paper considers the limited training opportunities for artists and the focus of some of their choreographic work. Many artists in the region are driven by a desire to make work which is politically motivated, exploring themes such as female genital mutilation. These choreographers have to negotiate the tension between the need for western financial and artistic support and marginalisation by the western canon. The work also draws on a strong dance tradition in which dance practice has been embedded in communities but often read as spectacle by western audiences. I argue that contemporary dance from Africa offers an important contribution to the art form and the potential to re-consider dance practice in a global context.

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2011

    Chris McHugh

    The ShowRoom Chichester

    Los(t) Anghel-ease

    Visual Art – Paintings
    Wed October 19th 12-1pm
    Venue: Bishop Otter Campus: Room LO3
    Free admission

    These angel things are a bit of an anomaly. I’ve been making them for years, as missives, and shadows…. but never before as an exhibition …. and I’m not sure they’re too mad about the idea now. And why angels? – it’s to do with the intangible, the ineffable. Angels offer an image for essence, and for change; they’re elementals, portents, orisons, harbingers; they are of us, of materiality.,,,, and yet of otherness. They can, by turns, be importunate and taciturn, mischievous and solicitous, resplendent visions and unconsidered trifles – that unexpected shiver, that flicker on the edge of vision…….

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2011

    Milk presents

    Milk Presents

    Work in progress
    *** EVENT CANCELLED ***

    WED 30 NOV
    7:30pm
    Full £4 / Conc £3 / Schools & Colleges £3
    Age 14+

    The neo-cabaret-tandem-riding-jack-of-all-theatre-trades Milk Presents stage a selection of ideas for their new show. Returning from their successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe they offer a taste of their latest work. Sharing their curiosity of gender roles in common stories  through analogue contraptions, this is recycled theatre with anarchic storytelling at its heart.

    “Amidst all their madcap capers, they really do tell the story, and tell it rather well”
    FringeGuru.com.
    www.milkpresents.com.

    *** EVENT CANCELLED ***

    Due to strike action at the University of Chichester on 30/11/11 we are sorry to have to cancel Milk’s production of Work in Progress. Apologies for any inconvenience.