The Opening
The Opening
DATE: 24 June 2021 ◊ TIME: 12 noon UK ◊ LOCATION: Zoom ◊ LANGUAGES: English, Spanish
Opening of Bodies:On:Live
with
Parvathy Baul and other guests to be announced
DATE: Thursday 24 June 2021
TIME: 12 noon UK – find your local time
LOCATION: Zoom
LANGUAGES: English, Spanish
Parvathy Baul is the most recognised woman Baul performer in the world. She is a practitioner, performer, storyteller, painter and teacher of the Baul tradition from Bengal, India. She has performed in over forty countries, including World Music Centre, NYC; and Festival of World Sacred Music Fez, Morocco. http:/parvathybaul.com
Bodies:On:Live
Bodies:On:live
Thursday 24 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 13:00-15:00 ◊ LOCATION: Zoom ◊ LANGUAGES: English, Spanish
What is LIVE-ness and LIVE?
What happens to theatre when bodies are distant, when here is also there? How are our many senses engaged through the online space? This panel opens up a discussion and insights on how practitioners engage LIVE-ness in their practice?
Panelists: Jill Greenhalgh, Rakini Devi and Maria X
Moderator: Elizabeth de Roza
DATE: Thursday 24 June 2021
UK TIME: 13:00-15:00 – find your local time
LOCATION: Zoom – you will receive the zoom link once you have booked in
LANGUAGES: English with Spanish translation
Jill Greenhalgh is the founding artistic director of the Magdalena Project. She makes performances, primarily with women. She has toured globally for the last 40 years.
https://themagdalenaproject.org/en/content/why-magdalena
Dr. Rakini Devi is an Indian born, Kolkata, and Sydney-based multidisciplinary performance artist. Her work centres on female religious iconography as protest against global misogynist atrocities including female infanticide and global femicide. Dr. Devi is trained in two forms of Indian classical dance, Bharatanatyam and Odissi, and from 1991-98 her Kalika Dance Company integrated classical Indian dance forms into a contemporary context. Her doctoral exegesis, “Urban Kali: From Sacred dance to secular performance”, incorporated her three decades of performance and practice led research.
https://rakinidevi.net
Maria Chatzichristodoulou (aka Maria X) is Professor in Theatre, Performance and Technology and Associate Dean Research & Enterprise at Kingston School of Art, London. Maria has worked as a curator, producer, performer and community organiser in the UK and internationally. She has published and lectured widely, and is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media.
https://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/professor-maria-chatzichristodoulou-1131/
MODERATOR: Elizabeth de Roza is an artist-scholar, performance maker, theatre director and actor-movement trainer. As a practising artist, Elizabeth’s works range from site-specific social engagement to cross-cultural/disciplinary performances and to intense black-box physical performances. She focuses on embodied experiences, thinking and practice through making, embodied cognition and cross-cultural performance at the intersections of both decolonial and feminist theories.
www.elizabethderoza.com