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body:language is a series of autumn talks in the Lilian Baylis Studio. These Monday evening discussions give us the chance to hear artists and cultural commentators talk about their art and work free from a specific show, project or creation.
In 2008 four talks took place with dramaturg and writer Guy Cools in conversation with four key choreographers. This year we look at ideas of structure and form, and how these can be defined in dance.
- "Art, like science, observes the generating forces of life, identifies its patterns and processes, and offers concentrated ritualised or symbolic expression of these forces in space and time. Life is always in motion, always responding to and creating rhythms. As a dramaturg, I’m interested in the interplay between movement and meaning, and in the dynamic structures that underlie all of our encounters with one another and the world. My work looks at the relationship between order and disorder, chaos and equilibrium, changing scales, the behaviour of disturbed systems and the creation and rearrangement of patterns of language and movement in live performance. "
- RUTH LITTLE
This is one of three body:language talks taking place in the Lilian Baylis Studio this autumn.
Siobhan Davies Dance
Liz Lerman & Wayne McGregor
Transcripts of body:language talks 2008 are available here:
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Akram Khan
Rosemary Butcher
Chaired by Sadler's Wells Producer Emma Gladstone.
Supported by the
Jerwood Charitable Foundation as part of the
Jerwood Studio at Sadler's Wells research programme.
