Via Simon Ellis: Some news as London takes a leisurely stroll towards summer ...

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

1. She is ...

... a dance experiment. As part of The Place's 40th Anniversary weekend called Something Happening, I'm asking audiences (4 people
at a time) to say what they are thinking as they are thinking it ... or
just a bit afterwards. The material will be performed by Paea Leach and
Elisabetta d'Aloia, and we'll be recording the audio as will as
videoing the dancing (up close). I don't know what it will be like, or
what I'll end up doing with the audio/video material, but it should be
good fun. If you are in London this Sunday 16 May, stop by The Place and have
a look. We are in session 5 starting at 4pm. www.skellis.net/sheis

2. Improvisation workshop & research

Marika Rizzi and I are sharing a bit of practice each morning between 10am and 12pm from 14–18 June at Roehampton University (all welcome -
just drop me a line). This is part of a week of improvisation research
with Kirstie Simson, Le Quan Ninh, Henry Montes, Marika Rizzi, Darrell
Jones, Kenso Kusuda and me. It'll be a dense period of working, thinking
and reflecting and will include a couple of performances: one at 19:30
on Wednesday 16th June at Roehampton University, and the other at 19:30
on Friday 18th June at Siobhan Davies Studio. Kirstie is also going to
be teaching in the mornings out at Siobhan Davies Studio through Independent Dance.
There are more details at http://june2010.posterous.com, and we'll be keeping a
pretty active online presence there during the week.

3. Recovery

After a few sessions in March in Melbourne, Natalie Cursio, Shannon Bott and I are going into another stage of development and testing with
Ben Cobham, Ben Cisterns, Pete Brundle, Paula Levis and Vanessa Chapple.
We'll be working at Arts House in Melbourne in July, and you can follow
a bit of chatter online at recovery.posterous.com as we work towards a hopeful
premiere around February/March 2011 in Melbourne.

4. Desire Lines

This project has been commissioned for the latest incarnation of The Place Prize and I'm currently in full pre-production (reading, scheduling, wondering
how it can possibly work) mode before work begins in the studio in
June. skellis.net/desirelines
with inevitable research blog somewhere around there.

5. Polar Twin

NZ choreographer/film-maker Daniel Belton and I are in the very early stages of developing some ideas for a trans-hemisphere adventure
scheduled for 2011-2012. We've been thinking about the nature of
'interpretation' in relation to imagined and actual experiences of the
North and South Poles and probably heading towards some screen-based
outcomes. We may be some time.

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All the very best, Simon