DRAF, Symes Mews, London, NW1 7JE, 21 November 2015

DRAF Studio | Live Forever. An afternoon of conversation and performance

At 4pm, a panel discussion between Teresa Calonje (Author, Live Forever: Collecting Live Art), Claire Louise Staunton (Director, Flat Time House), dancerEllen van Schuylenburch and Jonah Westerman (Postdoctural Research Associate, ‘Performance at Tate’) asks does performance need collecting? We invite questions from the audience, before taking a short break at 5pm. From 6pm we present two performances. FernandaMuñoz–Newsome performs 2 Dive In, a tapestry of dance and spoken score. The elastic counterpoint of movement and found text fragments form a study into how meaning is shaped in performance; shapeshifting between ”the jester, the witch, the shaman and the poet”. Choreography by Fernanda Muñoz–Newsome, sound composed by Nena Zinovieff. Next, at 6.30pm, a live music set bysinger, pianist, performer and “Baroque creature” Mathilde Fernandez. This unique voice is trained with an operatic coach for performances which celebrate “freedom, madness, poetry and savagery”.