Dance Presentation at Trent Park FYI

Dear Colleague

You are warmly invited to a seminar 'Dancing in a Shaking World' on

Thursday March 11th 2010 4.30-6pm,The Orangery, TP

Chris Bannerman, Shobana Jeyasingh & Richard Layzell (ResCen, Middlesex
University)

This presentation offers emerging reflections on Danscross: Dancing in a
Shaking World, a collaborative, creative research project which took
place in Beijing over a three-month period (www.rescen.net). Within
newly emerging realities of changing global power structures, and in the
light of the increasingly globalised arts marketplace, this research
investigated the practices of artists and relevant intercultural
debates. Bharucha's (2000) notion of the 'intercultural body' provided a
lens for this reconsideration, but this presentation proposes that the
increasing mobility of Asian people and culture, and the turning tide of
power from the West to Asia, are throwing up new plural modernities, and
new relationships to the past, which can be glimpsed in the creative
processes and current practices in the performing arts. In particular
the role of the body as dynamic agency and presence in performance
practices and creative processes is highlighted.