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MANY MOUTHS, ONE VOICE
A GATHERING FOR FREELANCE DANCE ARTISTS
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/2Pdq9o0Bu
This gathering is made by and for freelance dance artists and is adapted to the community in which it takes place. It’s linked to a performance called Fully Automated Luxury Dancing! which lays bare what it’s like to be a freelance dance artist both on and off stage and talks about why we (continue to) dance when it’s such a difficult profession to shape a career for oneself in, and why we (continue to) do this even when the world is on fire. What purpose does dance serve in this world that we are living in now and how does it serve us?
The gathering is a way to create a space for discussion after the performance, and to create a sense of community in the freelance community in which it takes place whilst also asking if that’s even possible with people who have radically different trajectories, schedules, aims, desires but maybe the same or similar frustrations, anxieties, uncertain futures. It’s a way to let frustrations, anxieties, and even anger, arise and be heard, and shared, in the communities in which they circulate. What are the common angers we share and how can this anger be used to provoke change, in our field and beyond? In the words of Audre Lorde, ‘anger expressed and translated into action in the service of our vision and our future is a liberating act of clarification’.
During the workshop, we will work with a writing and speaking score called ‘many mouths, one voice.’ In this score, we will write from the place of the personal, but speak with the voice of the collective. The score aims to feel the pulse of our dance ‘community’, facilitate an atmosphere of mutual support, and get things off our chests that we sometimes hold too close. At the end of the session, the group will be left with a text which speaks about their shared and conflicting desires, a poem of collective anger and hope. And there will also be some dancing 🙂
Event presented within The Perennials project. Co-financed by AFCN.
Supported by Life Long Burning – Creative Europe Programme. Partner: STUK – House for Dance, Image and Sound
