Dance, Performance and Medicine

Thurs 19th May 2011
1-2pm
Venue: Bishop Otter Campus: Room LO6 (tbc)
Free admission

When I set out to start my research on ‘dance manias’, I thought I was looking at a transhistorical, transnational phenomenon: people banding together to dance, ecstatically, collectively, from India and ancient Greece to the raves of the 1990s. I eventually realised I was mistaken, and the ‘dance manias’ were a myth. What I discovered was that much of my literature was from medical sources, and most from the nineteenth century. This troubled me, until I realised that the real object of my research was nineteenth-century medical discourse, and the ‘invention’ of this epidemic disease. But what was the story I was to tell now? A philosophical one? A dance history? What if this wasn’t dance?

Please note: free tickets for this production should be booked through the Chichester Festival Theatre Box Office on 01243 781312.

Installation

Thurs 27th Jan 2011
12-1pm
Venue: Bishop Otter Campus: Room LO6 (tbc)
Free admission

In live performance both audience and performers experience a common pull of gravity creating a universal sense of “down” both on and off stage. Post-modern art however has frequently sought to question assumed stabilities through a shifting of the viewer’s perception. Nic Sandiland will talk about the research and production leading towards Gravity Shift, an installation which presents human movement where the pull of gravity has been dynamically distorted.

Please note: free tickets for this production should be booked through the Chichester Festival Theatre Box Office on 01243 781312.

Photo credit: Nic Sandiland

Dance and Choreography

Thurs 3rd Feb 2011
12-1pm
Venue: Bishop Otter Campus: Room LO6 (tbc)
Free admission

Yael will discuss her on-going MPhil/PhD research encompassing three internationally touring productions of live work as well as interactive installations presented in Galleries and public spaces. In this presentation she will focus on the live works Shrink’d (2005-06), Doing, Done & Undone (2007-08) and her most recent work The Living Room (2009-11) looking at the ways in which these works point to, disrupt and traverse the theatrical frame engendering an informal and intimate mode of performance that asks the audience to consider the everyday.

Please note: free tickets for this production should be booked through the Chichester Festival Theatre Box Office on 01243 781312.

Photo credit: Chris Nash

The Last Romance Club [ever]

Thu 20 Jan 2011
7.30pm
£3
Age: 14+

We are hopeful. We are looking for love. We want to get lucky. We want to serenade you outside your window at night. We want to give you our last rolo. We can’t sing but, for you, we’ll try.

The Last Romance Club (ever) is an exploration of romance and loneliness and the ways in which the two are implicitly bound up in each other. It is about lonely hearts and late night radio stations, iconic film scenes and clichés and chance encounters: it is about nostalgia and the romance we imagine we might have lost, or never had, and it is about trying to be honest, which is always harder than we expect.

Tinned Fingers are a group of artists with backgrounds in writing, theatre and visual arts who work collaboratively to create experimental live performance and interactive events.

www.tinnedfingers.co.uk.
Photo credit: Chris Collier