In 2014 Project O (Alexandrina Hemsley and Jamila Johnson-Small) began working with Charlotte Cooper and Kay Hyatt on a show called SWAGGA. The work is rooted in dance and draws on other performance traditions, including a live soundtrack by Trash Kit and original compositions by Verity Susman. This collaboration was remarkable because it featured untrained dancers with the kinds of political bodies – fat, queer, older – that are rarely treated as creative, expressive or worthy choreographic subjects. Over two years SWAGGA was refined and performed for audiences around the country. Katarzyna Perlak documented the process and in 2016 created SWAGGA: A Study On Camera, a creative response to the live performance. The result is an extravaganza of mess, antisocial emotions and intersectional feminist sensibility.
SWAGGA: A Study On Camera was first screened by the Live Art Development Agency in 2018 as part of the LADA Screens programme, a series of online screenings of seminal performance documentation, works to camera, short videos, films and archival footage.
Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture.
One of the contemporary art world’s most acclaimed mixed-media & performance artists, is the subject of this smart, sassy documentary that showcases her spectacle-rich approach to explorations of gender, racial identity, and sexuality. Bonus features include two deleted scenes.
La Ribot, Exhibition catalogue. 11/8-2/9 2017, Berlin.
Documentation from the 672 Hour Live Process Performance in Istanbul, 2018. Includes the poster, individual videos of performances, and a document with details on all performances.
Second edition of Material concerns itself with in/visibility in contemporary artistic practice, especially dance.
Publication made as part of a choreographic work investigating the relationship between theoretical, aesthetic and performing aspects of an artistic work. Includes two essays: ÆØÅ and Pointing back.
Film created as part of The Casement Project, a multi-disciplinary project about Roger Casement, a British knight, Irish rebel and international humanitarian.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Brought together 75 UK based artists onto the Birmingham Hippodrome stage in a snapshot of the performing arts in 2016. Over the course of a single day they learnt and recreated the opening audition scene from the 1985 film 'A Chorus Line'.
Part of LADA Screens 12. The film was available online 9 - 22 June 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel. Includes two version of the video, in two different resolutions.
Reaffirms the central position of the body in various artistic practices through in-depth conversations with choreographers, composers, visual artists, hip hop artists, dramaturges, a light designer and a puppeteer.
On Tino Sehgal’s Ann Lee and the robotisation of the ageing body.
A critical examination of the varieties of multiculturalism and the way they structure difference.
Includes:
Moon River (and project description), 2018/2019, 10:47
Nest: Inhabit (and project description), 2019, with Samantha Sweeting, 11:42
The Empty Station (and project description), 2017, with Chris Spencer-Lowe, 5:58
A consideration of 'new dance' in response to writings of Luce Irigaray.
Second edition of the anthology consisting of texts written by artists active within the field of dance and choreography in the Nordic countries.
In Nordic languages and English.
Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
A donkey choreographs a group of dancers.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
Examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of online prosumerism.
Project publication: on festival collaboration and festival criticism.
Presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres. Revised and Enlarged Edition
Sheds light on a range of practices in the area of contemporary performance in Australia.
Critical analyses of cultural spectacle and social identity by eighteen major Australian scholars and practitioners.
Explores care as a way of moving and moving as a way of caring. Made alongside the research and making of a solo dance performance, You sit there.
Focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Documents an international artistic research project initiated by Norwegian Theatre Academy/Østfold University College.
A series of contributions to a one-day conference by the Baring Foundation and Cubitt in 2014.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
This text finds the intimate affinity between dance and philosophy in the concept of problem and invites the reader to perceive dance and philosophy as a form of ballistics: the art of throwing.
A practical handbook on the lost art of getting lost, reading the signs around you, following their lead, and creating your own.
This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty- first century, revealing how it has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium.
Programme for the Afrikaans language festival that forges creative connections with English and Sotho cultures; 18-22 July 2017.
Contributes to the ongoing critical discussions of performance and its disappearance, of the ephemeral and its reproduction, of archives and mediatised recordings of liveness.
Explores the agency and materiality of the archival document through a collection of critical writings and original artworks,
About a conference on black dance, from the conference chair.
The Dance cub as the 'happening'.
Unmaking American dance by tradition.
On Multimediales, at ZKM, Germany.
On Rosemary Butcher's choreographic concerns through 20 uncompromising years.
On reviewing vs criticism
Interview with Meredith Monk.
Review.
African dance and western programmers.
On Wyoming and White Man Sleeps.
On the 10th International Mime Festival.
On Meredith Monk.
On development of Cunningham's practice.
Programme booklet.