Decoda in collaboration with Dance Art Foundation & C-DaRE present
Arrangement/Obverse
Two performances by Joe Moran
Friday 24 October 2014
Performance: 7pm
Coventry University
Photography: David Edwards
Assembly: early evening performance
Two works by choreographer Joe Moran, each a very different response to the question ‘what can dance say, today?’ The bold all-male ensemble, Arrangement is presented in a double-bill with the trio Obverse, commissioned for The Place Prize for dance sponsored by Bloomberg. Full-bodied dancing, stillness, virtuosity and overblown masculinity all come under inspection in this arresting evening of dance.
‘Wilfully deviant dance’ – londondance.com
‘Thoughtful, challenging and wide-ranging’ – Time Out
Critical Dialogues: afternoon symposium
The performances are preceded by a half day symposium at C-DaRE.
Is there value in discussing performance as an audience? Is it possible for large groups of individuals to engage in meaningful discussion? Is the post-performance discussion fatally flawed and redundant? Is it possible to conceive an approach that supports multiple voices, perspectives and needs?
Professor Sarah Whatley (C-DaRE, Coventry University) and choreographer Joe Moran (Dance Art Foundation), in partnership with Decoda, co-convene Critical Dialogues, a short symposium on the potential of audience discussion. Sarah and Joe invite an artist, producer and critic to present brief responses to this series of questions, offering a context and reference for shared navigation. In the early evening, Joe’s performance Assembly will be an opportunity to test out discussion models we may have conceived.
Bookings and further information
Performance
Full Price £12 | Concessions £7
email bookings@decoda-uk.org to book your ticket
Symposium
Full Price £12 | Concessions £7
For symposium bookings please visit www.c-dare.co.uk or email researchadmin.ad@coventry.ac.uk
Assembly: Critical Dialogues is a partnership between Dance Art Foundation, C-DaRE and Decoda. It is part of Joe Moran’s Assembly national tour produced by Dance Art Foundation and funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and The Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, with support from The Place, South East Dance, Movingeast, Artsadmin and Merseyside Dance Initiative. Photography: David Edwards.
Decoda presents Body Not Fit For Purpose
Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion
Monday 17th November 7:30pm
The work of Burrows and Fargion radiates delight even as it makes the audience think. Over the past ten years the two artists have built a body of duets which mix the formality of classical music composition with an open and often anarchic approach to performance and audiences, bringing them a worldwide following.
Body Not Fit For Purpose is the duo’s first overtly political work, taking as its starting point the inadequacy of the dancing body to express that which is of concern and at the same time the inherent radicality of the attempt. The performance unravels the link between meaning and action, raising questions in the midst of our laughter.
‘There’s a beguiling mix of the scholarly, the quizzical and the righteously indignant that is unique to Fargion and Burrows…the concentration of their work demonstrates how much expressive power even a small gesture, a tiny variation of tone or rhythm, can possess’ Judith Mackrell on Body Not Fit For Purpose, The Guardian London, 23rd June 2014
Body Not Fit For Purpose is commissioned by the Venice Biennale and supported with public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion are co-produced by Kaaitheater Brussels, PACT Zollverein Essen, Sadler’s Wells Theatre London and BIT Teatergarasjen Bergen. They are currently in-house artists at the Nightingale, Brighton England and would like to thank also Canon Richard Moatt and St Anne’s Church Lewes.
Management: Nigel Hinds – nigel@nigelhinds.co.uk More information at www.jonathanburrows.info
Bookings and further information
Full Price £12 | Concessions £7
email bookings@decoda-uk.org to book your ticket
Venue: The Ellen Terry Building, Coventry University. Click here to see a map.