I am sitting in the cafe at St. Pancras Station where I met Lea Anderson at the beginning of the process. This seems the most appropriate place to reflect on what happened last night at the Southbank Centre. What we did to the programme, to the space, to the stage, to each other, to the [...]
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We arrive in the morning. At the beginning of the day we sit onstage and talk about A Meeting Place. Who we are. What we might do. How we might inhabit each other’s worlds or be sensitive to the logic of each other’s offering. Thomas’ section, which explores his inter-relationship with objects, would be impacted [...]
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Another day. Another train. I’m heading to London to meet Sue, Boris, Thomas, Eszter, Pedro, Stine and Gauri at South Bank Centre. Lea will arrive later. I am listening to the soundscape Bathysphere have created for the event on the train. Sue says ‘So I arrived at the meeting place’ and her voice repeats. Folding [...]
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I am sitting on a train heading home after performing at a live art festival in Cambridge. The landscape is gun barrel straight as the Fens whizz past the window. Tomorrow I will be on another train to London for A Meeting Place. Some of the artists are already at the Southbank Centre. Gauri Sharma [...]
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Bank Holiday Monday and as the roads are gridlocked and the trains delayed we are putting the finishing touches to the rehearsal schedule. Understandably no one wants to start rehearsing at 9am in the morning on Wednesday. There will be jetlag. Lea Anderson missed our first meeting because she was in Australia and New Zealand. [...]
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Following on from yesterday’s post about ‘in between spaces’, Lea Anderson told me I should claim the spaces in between. I am creating a soundscape with Bathysphere to play in between each artist’s work. We are sampling interviews with the artists themed around different areas of interest e.g. audience, body / movement / dance, change, [...]
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Less than a week to go until A Meeting Place and we are moving faster. We are trying to find a swing for Gauri Sharma-Tripathi. We are trying to find archive recordings of J. G. Ballard in the QEH. We are trying to work out ways to invite the audience onstage. There is no precedent [...]
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This event will be followed by live Election coverage in Queen Elizabeth featuring big screen live TV and Twitter feeds, a late bar and expert analysis Find out more I am thrilled to be working on A Meeting Place at Southbank Centre and very excited about the event next week. I recently wrote an article [...]
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This event will be followed by live Election coverage in Queen Elizabeth featuring big screen live TV and Twitter feeds, a late bar and expert analysis Find out more A Meeting Place is one of the highlights of our 5 Days in May festival – a short season for the dance curious introducing international dance [...]
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