Archived Events

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2012

    Made In China

    We Hope You Are Happy
    (Why Would We Lie)

    Thursday 29th November, 7.30pm
    Full £10 | Conc £6 | Schools & Colleges £5 | Age 16+

    Presented by BAC Take Out

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    Jess is stuck. Her lifelong friend, Chris, can’t help. The others are out getting wasted. And the world is falling apart. Luckily Jess and Chris have a cooler full of beer, a goofy rapport, a series of dance moves – and a sincere desire to make you, the audience, happy. Or so they claim.

    They also claim that each other are liars. That they only met last year. And that they are eyewitnesses to the key world events of the last hundred years.

    A flat-out, unhinged and very normal performance about trying to connect: to the person next to you and to the unknown victim of a televised tragedy.

    We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?) is a hilarious and unsettling examination of what it means to be a tuned-in, delusional and unwitting consumer in a hyper-communicative world.

    “A very carefully written and effectively realised piece of theatre, words, physical actions and visual images all balanced beautifully”
    Total Theatre Magazine

    www.madeinchinatheatre.com

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2012

    Theo Clinkard

    Theo Clinkard - Ordinary Courage

    Ordinary Courage

    ‘We are defined by how well we rise after falling’

    Thursday 6th December, 7.30pm
    Full £8 | Conc £5 | Schools & Colleges £5 | Age 16+

    Renowned dancer, Theo Clinkard creates a rousing new group work that brims with highly charged and eloquent physicality.

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    Set to a haunting original score by Alan Stones, including live piano, ORDINARY COURAGE follows a community in repair, harnessing the capacity for movement and touch to communicate when words are not enough. A stripped back space, starkly lit by Zerlina Hughes, becomes the canvas for breathtaking performances.

    Clinkard completes an outstanding six-strong cast drawn from the likes of Random Dance, Akram Khan, Richard Alston, Siobhan Davies, Sydney Dance Company and Australian Dance Theatre.

    “When you have Theo Clinkard on stage, who wants to be distracted?” The Times

    Made possible with the generous support of South East Dance, Trinity Laban, The Point, Pavilion Dance South West, Greenwich Dance, Chichester University, Bath ICIA, Dance Art Foundation and Arts Council England.

    www.theoclinkard.com

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2012

    Jeff Packman

    The ShowRoom Chichester

    Staging Sound in Bahia, Brazil: Negotiating Musical Knowledge, Technology, and Power in Professional Music Performances

    Music

    Wed 18th April 12-1pm
    Venue: Bishop Otter Campus: Room LO3
    Free admission

    This presentation examines the knowledges necessary to make popular music by examining the many nuanced interactions that take place immediately before performances by professional musicians. Building on work by Tom Porcello (1998) and Paul Théberge (1997) that emphasizes the centrality of technological understanding and the ability to communicate such knowledge, I focus on the micropolitics of interactions between musicians, sound technicians, and producers in the context of live performances and recording studios. At stake for these negotiations is often the success of the presentation, which can, in turn, have implications for career trajectories and professional survival.

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2012

    Danielle Robinson

    The ShowRoom Chichester

    Reconstructing Ragtime Dancing: Moving from the Archive to the Repertoire

    Dance

    Wed 28th March 12-1pm
    Venue: Bishop Otter Campus: Room LO3
    Free admission

    Despite being one of the first modern dance forms, we know relatively little about ragtime dancing. The little we do know addresses only the codified and commodified dance practices of professional performers and their elite audiences. My project is to reconstruct the ragtime dancing of a wide range of cultures and classes–to ask ourselves how immigrants and migrants danced ragtime, for example. The goal is to maintain the diversity of ragtime dancing and recognize the opportunities for creative choice built within the practice, rather than homogenize my primary sources into a single universal historical dance object called ragtime dance. By embracing the difference within dance forms, I argue dance researchers can better access the multiple meanings, pleasures, and intrinsic power of the dancing we study.

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2012

    Susan Jones

    The ShowRoom Chichester

    T.S. Eliot and Dance

    Literature and Dance

    Wed 7th March 12-1pm
    Venue: Bishop Otter Campus: Room LO3
    Free admission

    Dr Susan Jones will discuss the impact of early twentieth-century European dance on Eliot’s poetics and subsequently that of Eliot’s poetry on modern dance forms in the United States. Dr Jones is an ex-soloist with The Scottish Ballet and now Lecturer in English at St. Hilda’s College Oxford.