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Performance Work
Nicole Bachman - There are tides in the body (film) 2023
The film deals with questions of belonging and migration. The protagonists are in search for alternative ways of living, alternatives to the current situation. They’ve come together for support whilst trying to escape an intolerable situation.
Simone Mousset - Empire of a Faun Imaginary 2022-3
Combining an interest in vocal work, visual art, and bodies in movement, Empire of a Faun Imaginary is a melancholic world in search of the miraculous, that explores the claustrophobic potential of onwardness, in reaction with qualities of the eerie, the still, and the slow. Tussling with an existential difficulty to see value in things, Empire of a Faun Imaginary investigates the human brain’s capacity to undo itself, as well as loneliness, hunger, restlessness, sadness, the pursuit of fear, and the notion that only death has any clear value. It is a loud unheard cry. And it is also, almost, a challenge.
Images by Sven Becker
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Phoebe Berglund - Wild Card at Sadler's Wells
TIMBER - Elinor Lewis - Photos by Roccio Chacon
TIMBER - Elinor Lewis - Photos by Roccio Chacon
TIMBER - Elinor Lewis - Photos by Roccio Chacon
TIMBER - Elinor Lewis - Photos by Roccio Chacon
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Elinor Lewis - TIMBER 2017-2022
TIMBER is a dance choreographed on two women & six, wooden, door-sized frames. Currently a work-in-development, TIMBER explores ways the human body can test the materiality of the frames & in doing so, also tests the limitations of the human form. The work seeks to interrogate audience attitudes towards risk, boredom, gender & female sexuality. The choreography amassed so far transforms the performers into slow-moving, part-human-part-frame sculptures. With dead-pan focus, the performers curiously test the limitations of the frames- straining against the wood, rocking the frames like babies & straddling the frames like lovers.
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Livia Rita - FUGA FUTURA & Magic Fish 2019 - 2022
Livia Rita is an emerging singer, designer, alpine witch, climate activist, choreographer, film maker and visual artist with an inexhaustible devotion to a progressive way of thinking, based between the Alps and London. Their mystic eco-pop melodies have expanded into the bountiful conceptual debut álbum -- FUGA FUTURA – a place of healing and fantasy, where nature rebels and magic abounds all in an attempt to unite otherworldly revolutionaries.
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Nicole Bachmann - A Circle Whispering Dot 2022
The performance ‘A circle whispering dot’ examines the relationship between voice, gesture and social norms, asking questions such as: How can we free ourselves from set definitions enforced by narrative power structures and use other forms of communication – such as abstract words, tone, gesture, movement, rhythm, resonance and repetition – in order to create meaning?
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Martin Creed & Howard Hodgkins - Inside Out
The painter and printmaker, Howard Hodgkin, rarely passed comment on contemporary art. He was, however, a fan of Martin Creed, whose work encompasses theatre, dance, film and music, alongside the more traditional fields of painting and sculpture. This is the first exhibition to bring the two artists together, delving into their shared conviction that art offers a framework through which we can explore complex human emotions. To borrow Creed's words: ‘The process of working is a process of trying to get from the inside out.’
Pictured left of picture wearing backwards suit
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Joe Garbett Dance - Doubles
Doubles is an exciting pop up performance where contemporary dance and Ping Pong combine. The project encourages communities to come together to enjoy art, sport and healthy living.
Pictured falling backwards wearing blue
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Peformance
Josiah McElheny - Interactions of the Abstract Body
With direction from Susan Sentler, Hannah performed with a group of 16 dancers daily as part of the Space Shifters exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London from September 2018 - January 2019. This live art work involved performing an improvisation score whilst wearing these costumes/sculptures made by Josiah McElheny to engage with the exhibition and the public.
Marina Abramovic & Tin Drum - The Life
The Life is a performance piece, lasting 19 minutes, that builds on the artist’s long-standing fascination with the notion of material absence. The use of Mixed Reality allows Abramović to further explore how to use her own body as subject and object, mapping new territory at the intersection of technology and performance.
Pictured in white coat and glasses with Marina Abramovic
Clara Sjolin - Let Us Rest
Under the direction of Clara Sjolin, this dance theatre work was developed through improvisation, exploring the idea of performative hysteria influenced by the practise of French neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot. The work premiered at the theatre Das Lofft, Leipzig, Germany in Sept 2018.
Pictured in blue dress singing to audience
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Sylvia Whitman - Around the Edge
Led by artist Josefina Camus, Hannah was part of the restaging of Chilean artist Sylvia Palacios Whitman to recreate her works Cat’s Cradle and Negatives. Hannah performed these works first at The Tate Modern in March 2018, and again at art festival KunstFestSpiele in Germany in May 2019.
Image 1: Cat's Cradle, pictured walking in the centre
Image 2: Negatives, pictured far left behind banner
Seke Chimutengwende - Mass, Material and Disturbance
Mass, Material & Disturbance was a 3 week research project at TripSpace, as part of TripHazard.
‘Mass’ is like how do we work together? And 'Material’ is like what is the stuff that we’re working with? And ‘Disturbance’... I feel disturbed by a lot of things that are going on in the world. And I feel like I also want to disturb existing ways of thinking, existing orders that I think don’t function well.
Pictured centrally reading from book
Teaching
THE MOVING VOICE - Praxis, Oslo May 2024
THE MOVING VOICE workshops - London Performance Studio July 2023
DT17 - Children’s dance classes (2018 - 2023)
Seated Dance - For adults with reduced mobility (2019 - 2023)
Movement direction for Nat Norland, Dreamsick 2022
Movement direction for Emergency Chorus Theatre Company 2020
ProDance Training at TripSpace (February 2018)
Choreographic Assistant, GLYPT (2018)
Falling with Style - Contact improvisation workshops for festivals (2015 - 2018)
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