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Actions and conversations exploring choreography, embodiment and power
Slought is pleased to announce "Choreo_Drift: Choreography and Disenchantment," a series of actions and conversations exploring choreography, embodiment and power from January 28-30, 2015 at Slought and the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.
The program has been organized by choreographer and professor Cristina Caprioli, and produced by ccap, a site for production of choreography based in Stockholm Sweden. It will examine the relationship of choreography to political narratives and movements, and propose an understanding of choreography as a political practice. In particular, participants will address how language, gesture and action can function as "choreographic orders of power" and challenge traditional modes of participation and discourse.
The conversations will be structured around both live and pre-recorded provocations. These include att att and Omkretz, which will be performed live on January 28th at Slought and January 30th at the Annenberg Center's Prince Theatre, respectively. We are also pleased to release online audio recordings of Julia Kristeva's talk "Going beyond the Human and Dance" and Irit Rogoff's talk "A Pantheon of Disenchantment" from ccap's recent Weaving Politics symposia (2012).
Speakers include Cristina Caprioli, Felicia McCarren, Mark Franko, Adham Hafez, and Mattias Gardell. ccap collaborators include Ulrika Berg, Philip Berlin, Emelie Johansson, Pavle Heidler, Sebastian Lingserius, Louise Perming, Pontus Petterson, and composer Yoann Durant.
Opening remarks by Cristina Caprioli
6:00 – 6:30 pm
Choreographic input (att att)
6:30 – 7:00 pm
French Moves: cultural politics of 'le hip hop'
Lecture by Felicia McCarren, with ccap
7:00 – 8:30 pm
Choreographic input
8:30 – 9:00 pm
Dance and Articulation
Lecture by Mark Franko
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Songs from the End of the World
Lecture by Adham Hafez
2.00 – 3:00 pm
Beyond Victim and Terrorist: Ship to Gaza/Freedom Flotilla
Lecture by Mattias Gardell
3:00 – 4:00 pm
General discussion & Choreographic interferences
4:30 – 6:00 pm
ccap collective talk
6:00 – 6:30pm
Omkretz
6:30 – 7:20pm
A Pantheon of Disenchantment
Collective performative reading writing speaking discussing the lecture by Irit Rogoff
7:30 – 8:30pm
Good-bye and drinks
8:40 – 9:00 pm
Cristina Caprioli
After more than two decades of continuous innovative work, Caprioli has gained the indisputable position as one of Sweden's foremost choreographers. Her choreography acts as critical discourse and therefore demands, but also generates attention and participation.
Mattias Gardell
Mattias Gardell is Professor of Comparative Religion at Uppsala University. His research focuses on the tension between religion and politics, often in relation to some mechanism of exclusion such as racism, anti-semitism or islamophobia.
Mark Franko
Mark Franko is Professor of Dance and Coordinator of Graduate Studies, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University, and Professor in Performance and Visual Studies, School of Performing Arts and Media, Middlesex University. His choreography has been produced at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, Berlin Werkstatt Festival, and at many New York and San Francisco dance venues.
Felicia McCarren
Felicia McCarren is a cultural historian and performance theorist teaching at Tulane University. In her work, Felicia has focused on how performances, with their tremendous cultural power in certain historical contexts, created the conditions of possibility for new ways of understanding bodies and the modern medical, visual and industrial technologies that have shaped them.
Adham Hafez
Adham works in Egypt producing performances, publications, initiating festivals, programming international artists residencies and research and educational programs, archiving Contemporary Dance Choreography in Egypt, as well as presenting his own work of performances, compositions and installations internationally. He founded HaRaKa: Egypt's first Dance Research, Development and Archive project, and has been awarded First Prize for a Choreographer by the Cairo Opera House and Egyptian Ministry of Culture.