Event overview
Tales of the Unexpected - Andrew Dawson, Chasm of Sorrow: Chekhov on Sakhalin Island
The Performance Research Forum is a meeting ground between contemporary practitioners, researchers, students and staff in the college as well as the general public via a programme of cutting edge talks, events and performances.
Curated and chaired by Professor Anna Furse, the next unmissable event is with Andrew Dawson.
Andrew Dawson is a director, performer, Feldenkrais practitioner and hand model. Andrew originally studied dance with Merce Cunningham in New York, and theatre in London with Desmond Jones, and in Paris with Phillipe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux and Jacques Lecoq. Performances he has created include Space Panorama, Quatre Mains, the award-winning Absence and Presence, Amnesia Curiosa for Rainpan 43 in Washington DC and The Idiot Colony with Redcape Theatre. 2008 saw him make his choreographic debut at the New York MET with Dr Atomic an opera by John Adams. The production was subsequently presented in London at the English National Opera in February 2009. In 2010 he choreographed The Pearl Fishers also for English National Opera. His interest in movement led him to study the Feldenkrais Method and he became a practitioner in 1994.
About Chasm of Sorrow
Andrew Dawson and neuroscientist Jonathan Cole explore Chekhov’s extraordinary journey across Siberia to visit the penal colony on Sakhalin Island in 1890. The project is grounded in this astonishing, singular exploration. At great personal risk he toured settlements, interviewed thousands of people and categorized disease and living conditions in one of the largest epidemiological studies of its time, publishing the results in a book, Sakhalin Island (1893/94) which combined his literary observation with medical data in an attempt to humanise conditions there.
The project is a dramatic adaptation of the book. This will explore Chekhov’s relevance today as pioneering epidemiologist and biomedical historian, and how his experience in this penal colony influenced his subsequent, more famous, literary output.
The event takes place in the George Wood Theatre, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, Lewisham Way, SE14 6NW, at 6.15pm.
Entrance free of charge, but booking is essential.
Email d.louzioti@gold.ac.uk
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 4 Feb 2015 | 6:15pm - 8:00pm |
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