Event overview
Performance Research Forum (PRF) hosts another excellent line-up of talks and events. These free events will take place on Zoom, and can be booked through Eventbrite.
Sudip Chakroborthy: Nationalism and the Possibilities for Plural Identities in Bangladeshi Performance
My research paper will aim to examine how a variety of ethnic, religious and cultural communities can co-exist and co-create performance against a backdrop of nationalism in Bangladesh today.
I look at how theatre might promote dialogue and understanding in Bangladesh. My practice-as-research project seeks to open conversations to both local and global understandings and experiences of plural identities.
Sudip Chakroborthy teaches at the Department of Theatre and Performance at the University of Dhaka. He co-authored a book on Traditional Games of Bangladesh, published by UNESCO and Tencent. He is actively involved in numerous national and international theatre creations, workshops, seminars and festivals in around the world. Sudip's directorial plays have been showcased at ‘Tin Forest’ during the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014, and at the Theatre Olympics in Delhi. Since 2013 he has also contributed to workshops and masterclasses for UK Bangladeshi diaspora community theatre-makers in co-operation with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Maud Lannen: Per-forming the haptic maternal: dialogical neo-human dances and choreographies (21st century narratives of transmission, exchange/communication, flow and residue)
Art and life sit uneasily across each other’s boundaries, making living – the practice of the sensual, feeling, thinking body – an ambiguous artform and perhaps the most complex one yet.
For the American postmodern dancers, this known imbrication led to consider what would become the most enduring and ever more pressing question in dance today: ‘What does a body do to survive?’ (Paxton, 1972 in Nelson, 2004) calling forth the fundamental question: what does the body need? My practice-research PhD builds upon American postmodern somatic inquiry and theoretically-informed methodology, most narrowly, Paxton’s theoretical reassessment of mother-child communication in the development of the radical dance form, Contact Improvisation (CI).
This talk presents preliminary findings derived from a fresh reappraisal of maternal relations (through its concepts of body, ecology, touch and its economy).
Maud Lannen is a French artist, choreographer, dancer, philosopher and poet. Her transdisciplinary practice brings together training in Fine Art and Performance Making, with a focus on postmodern dance. Her research is centered on reproduction (mechanisms and the bodies of) and touch as practice and ethics, which she grounds in the genealogy of resistant and aesthetic movement practices.
Maud is guest speaker at PeARL (Performance Artistic Research Lab): a year-long transdisciplinary laboratory of research between London and Moscow; and a published author: ‘Per-forming the Sense of Touch’ (2020) (https://doi.org/10.16995/bst.329).
Dates & times
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| 10 Feb 2021 | 6:15pm - 8:15pm |
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