A course of six consecutive Thursday evenings classes, organised through Exit Map and led by Laura Doehler, Sara Ruddock and Elisa Vassena.

22.02. + 29.02. + 07.03. + 14.03. + 21.03. + 28.03

An adult mixed level class that offers explorations of improvisation scores, instant composition and ensemble thinking. Open to all!

You can book the whole course or individual classes :

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/collective-movements-tickets-787738646497?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwAR0rlALybrRNT9A18Fc3cQ_7dBLbeLrZx4GHq9_s_4mg9yWKt3dqajtaEuY

class descriptions and timeline :

LAURA DOEHLER (22nd February and 14th March)

Laura’s classes will enable us to openly and respectfully meet the perceptive field of territories and boundaries that we bring into the shared space through our bodies and histories. We will work with, pull and stretch our entanglements with these fluid, alien and intimate identities we own to viscerally explore collective sense making through gentle contact work, bodily listening and tuning practices for a new shared imagination to emerge.

SARA RUDDOCK (29th February and 28th March)

The sessions with Sara invite listening through the body, as a relational and multi-sensory practice, playing with viscerality of voice, sound, rhythm and vibration, being with potentials and many moving parts. Tending to what might open if I listen through the in-betweens and edges of my perception, and how the way I listen might change my experience. You are invited to be with questions that the practice generates for you, as well as co-creating scores/loose frames for improvising together.

ELISA VASSENA (7th and 21st March)

Playfully moving between dancing and mark-making/drawing, Elisa's classes will invite us to cultivate curiosity towards different materialities in motion. We will allow our attention to sharpen, shift and drift while engaging with the dynamic plurality of our bodies in relation to others. Imagination, imagery, and object work will be woven into the sessions as sparks for open exploration.

Solastalgia is a new work by Polish-born dance artist Kasia Witek.

Drawing on Deborah Hay’s choreographic practice, the philosopher Timothy Morton’s writings on nature, and the work of Yorkshire-raised environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy, Solastalgia questions our perception of nature as “other”, inviting both performers and audience to fully experience the range of emotions the climate crisis evokes.

image by Camilla Greenwell

trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KZnTe117D4

30th November @Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton : https://wlv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873648966

5th January @The Left Bank, Leeds : https://www.leftbankleeds.org.uk/events/kasia-witek-presents-solastalgia

6th January @Peckham Theatre, London : https://www.theatrepeckham.co.uk/show/solastalgia/

Choreography: Kasia Witek

Dancers: Anders Duckworth, Tora Hed and Elisa Vassena

Music: Alex Roth

Double bass: James Opstad

Mentoring: Joe Moran

Producing: Rosie Watt

Trailer videography and edit: Ruta Puzaite

Funded by Arts Council England

Performances at Lilian Baylis Studio on 11th, 12th and 13th October at 8pm

Book : https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/j-neve-harrington-some-times/#book

Image : Rino Pucci

YOUNG DANCE Festival

Wed 27th September : 5.30pm

Thur 28th September : 10am and 2pm

Booking : https://www.theatercasino.ch/en/program

photo : Roswitha Chester

Performing Arkivet by Ingvild Isaksen at Festspillene I Nord-Norge in Harstad, Norway.

Performances on 27th and 28th June :

https://festspillnn.no/en/taxonomy/term/176/arkivet-no

Concept and work by Ingvild Isaksen with

Choreographic Assistance : Silje Solheim Johnsen

Performers and Collaborators : Elisa Vassena, Yohei Hamada, Eva Svaneblom

Scenography : Oda Holmvik Bredvold

Sound : Maria Strand Renberg

Film Maker : Alma-Oline Weitling

Dramaturgy : Kristin Bjørn

Mentor : Roberto Casarotto

Producer : Anita Bjørkli

Image by Alma-Oline Weitling

Leading morning class at Independent Dance between 30th May and 2 June, 10-12am

To book :

https://independentdance.co.uk/event/morning-class-elisa-vassena/2023-05-30/

Grounded in somatic and listening practices, these sessions will consist of playful guided movement improvisations, in solo and group constellations.

Concoctions of images, questions, propositions, will ignite our dancing and become our surfboards to ride the tidal waves of our attentions, intentions, desires, needs. We will tune into what~who we might be and be with each day, nurturing sensitivity and curiosity towards the multiple shifting fields of our own bodies and of those~that we encounter.

We will move, voice, mark make~draw, write, welcoming the magic that happens to us and to our experiential findings as we translate and weave them across our senses and across different languages.

This class will take place in the Research Studio.

image of~by Elisa Vassena, at Wainsgate Chapel

image description: Elisa, a white person with a fringe and long brown hair tied up in a bun, is standing with her back to us on a small wooden red chair. She is wearing black trousers and a grey shirt, head slightly turned to the left, arms behind her back, right hand holding left wrist. She looks as if she feels in the right place. She is in a cosy room with a smooth wooden floor, in front of a warm grey wall with a red dado rail and in between two tall red closed doors.

In residency in Harstad, Norway, sculpting a new work by Ingvild Isaksen, to be premiered June 2023.

Stay tuned!

In residency : Harstad and Stamsund, Norway.

Sharing on Friday 21st October, Harstad. More info soon.

Performing with Irina Baldini, Artémise Ploegaerts, Tashi Iwaoka.

Work by Irina Baldini

Assistant : Simona Kurz-Piras

Shows in Kajaani at Generator on 8th (7pm) and 9th October (3pm)

Info : http://routacompany.fi/between-a-kick-and-a-cuddle/?fbclid=IwAR09oukBaUnBs2Jac_W2PR9GkwevPF_uE_cLu4Tni0IXymCW9du44tg5V7s

Tickets : https://www.lippu.fi/en/artist/routacompany/

Shows in Turku at Barker - Teatteri on 13th-14th October

https://www.facebook.com/barkerteatteri

Photo : Fenia Kotsopoulou

Been assisting Anders Duckworth making a new work with BA3 students at The Place

Performing : Daisy King, Guillaume Lolliot, Tur Moran, Yolanda Wu

Music : Camille Marchadour

Costumes : Isobel Pellow

Shows : 5th-8th July , The Place, 7.30pm

https://www.theplace.org.uk/whats-on/lcds-2022-0

Performing Screensaver Series in Berlin, as part of the festival PURPLE.

2nd June - 9.30 am and 11.30am (school shows + workshops)

3rd June - 9.30 am and 11.30am (school shows + workshops) / 7.30pm (public shows)

4th June - 4pm and 6pm (public shows)

Info and booking : https://purple-tanzfestival.de/en/programme/#

Co-Leading two sessions (22nd April and 5th May) for our Screensaver Series training!

“These sessions will be part training, part insight and exploration into processes and practices that make up Screensaver Series, led by the Screensaver creative team as we prepare for our first live shows since early 2020. Sessions are aimed at dance professionals and people with established movement practices.

We will work towards the symmetry practices of Screensaver through different starting points drawing on and resourcing the dance in performance. We will work with touch and contact but there will always be options to work without touch.

The video link below gives an idea of the sort of physicality the sessions will build up towards. Link to trailer of the work: https://vimeo.com/365832067

Patterned costuming is welcome!”

SCHEDULE:

Wednesday 20th April 10am-12 noon- led by  Janine Harrington

NEW DATE COMING SOON- Friday 22nd April 10am-12 noon-led by Elisa Vassena & Janine Harrington (VENUE TBC)

Friday 29th April 10am-12 noon- led by Steph McMann & Janine Harrington

Thursday 5th May 10am-12 noon- led by Elisa Vassena & Janine Harrington

Friday 13th May 10am-12 noon - led by Iris Chan & Janine Harrington

Wednesday 18th May 3pm- 5pm- led by Steph McMann & Janine Harrington

Saturday 21st May 3pm- 5pm- led by Vanessa Abreu & Janine Harrington

Thursday 26th May 10am-12 noon- led by Vanessa Abreu & Janine Harrington

VENUE:

Sessions will take place at Ample Studios, Hackney.

COST:

The classes are priced at £6.50 which supports studio hire and fair payment of facilitating artists. If financial access is a barrier to your participation, please contact producer@janineharrington.com.

BOOKING: https://www.janineharrington.com/shop/screensaver-series-training-and-practice

SALSAROSA (collaborative duo with Stella Papi) is making and presenting a new gallery work in response to the video installation Alpha Channel by Tina Nykvist (http://www.tinanykvist.se/index.html).

Katrineholms Konsthall, Sweden

Performance on 27th November 2021

Rehearsing a new duet by Kasia Witek

Performing with Anders Duckworth

Composer : Alex Roth

Diving into my practice, hopping between and through drawing, moving, writing, sounding - and obviously encountering objects…

Filming a new dance film - by Kasia Witek in collaboration with myself and Stella Papi (performers), Ruta Vero (filmmaker), Heather Ryall and Clare Elton (sound)

If you are an artist/curator/programmer you can still watch the work and the presentation online here:

https://www.horizonshowcase.uk/events/event/screensaver-series-on-demand/

work by Janine Harrington

sound : Jamie Forth

performers : Vanessa Abreu, Iris Chan, Janine Harrington, Stella Papi, Elisa Vassena

Been assisting Janine Harrington in making a new commissioned work for BA3 students at The Place.

6-9th July - FREE

streaming on 7th July (1pm) and 9th July (7.30pm)

Details here :

https://www.theplace.org.uk/whats-on/you-are-mute-0

[drawing by me]

Part of Amsterdam Fringe Festival 2020.

Questioning narratives and expectations, with subtle deceptions to divert attention. We value doubt as a place of potential, and carefully inject it where the logic of systems may consolidate patterns and inhibit critical thought. We challenge givens, inviting to think (through), to listen (with) and to create one's momentary truths, impermanent shifts of perception to stimulate assertiveness and to share vulnerability.

choreographer
Irina Baldini
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assistant
Simona Kurz Piras
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performers and vocals
Elisa Vassena, Tashi Iwaoka, Charlie Prince, Artémise Ploegaerts
vocals Andrew Demetriou
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visual and sound design
Irina Baldini
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lighting consultant
Pierre Mollet
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co-production
4bid Gallery – developing temporary cultures
OT301
AFK