Nottingham Contemporary, 18 June 2015
A Place to Dance? Session 1: A Provocation by Joe Moran
Artistic Director of Dance Art Foundation and choreographer Joe Moran presents his thoughts on dance within galleries and visual art contexts.
“How do we stand up for dance, for its embodied knowledge and critical acumen? How do we make visible dance’s extraordinary bodies of knowledge?” - Joe Moran
Joe opts for a position of hopefulness and excitement about the potential for dance within the explosive resurgence of interest in the art form from the visual arts. He shares his subjective perspectives on its opportunities, tensions, problems and possibilities. Joe invites his collaborator, sculptor Eva Rothschild, Director of Nottingham Contemporary Alex Farquharson, writer, dramaturg and Trinity Laben lecturer Martin Hargreaves and artist and curator Sam Rose to join a panel discussion.
The event will also include Joe’s work Singular (2011), performed by dancers Rosalie Wahlfrid and Helka Kaski.
There will also be a presentation from Dancer and Choreographer Sara Wookey about her new publication Who Cares? Dance in the Gallery & Museum. The book includes a series of conversations with dance artists, curators and directors, who share their experiences of presenting or performing dance in museum and gallery spaces. Its purpose is to offer a platform of individual voices that - as a collection - renders visible shared and differing perspectives, value systems and ideologies about movement-based practices within visual art-focused cultural spaces. The publication will be available to purchase throughout A Place To Dance? from information points at each performance venue.
Joe’s current research Why Everyone Wants What We’ve Got is a yearlong project that creates context in which to grapple with embodied critical knowledge. Take a look at the Why Everyone Wants What We’ve Got Tumblr page here.
This session is part of A Place To Dance? - a series of provocations happening from 18 - 21 June, about where is a place to dance. Over the course of four days, you will experience dialogue, debate and performance looking at dance placed outside of traditional spaces.
