Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Thursday, 24 February 2011

our first LISTENING SPACE is next sunday

Listening Space - A Resource for Makers
with Luke Pell & Rachel Gomme

Chisenhale Dance Space 2011
Listening can be a valuable resource for making work. So often we are focused on producing ‘something’ that we have no time to sit back and listen to what is already here.
Session 1 ‘Listening to Yourself’

Sunday 6th March 2011, 11am-4.30pm
£35/£28 concession

The first workshop will focus on listening to ourselves. Using a series of exercises working with stillness, movement, writing and drawing, we will explore how listening to our bodies and our thoughts can open up new spaces and act as a source for ideas and creative ways of working.
Session 2 'Listening through Touch'
Sunday 3rd April 2011, 11am-4.30pm
Fee: £35/£28 concession
Both 6th March & 3rd April £62/£50 concession

Building on principles introduced in the first workshop, we will focus on tactile encounter as a starting point for making. By listening to ourselves, each other and the spaces we inhabit, we will explore textural stimulus as a way of enriching our practice.
Rachel Gomme is a practising Artist/Practitioner, Arts Advisor her work in performance and installation, focuses on time and process as experienced in the body of both performer and viewer. She is interested in the immediate moment of performance, and to what extent it is possible to create a shared space of experience between performer and viewer.

Thursday, 16 December 2010

New Year Workshops

Listening Space - A Resource for Makers
with Luke Pell & Rachel Gomme

Chisenhale Dance Space 2011
Listening can be a valuable resource for making work. So often we are focused on producing ‘something’ that we have no time to sit back and listen to what is already here.
Session 1 ‘Listening to Yourself’

Sunday 6th March 2011, 11am-4.30pm
£35/£28 concession

The first workshop will focus on listening to ourselves. Using a series of exercises working with stillness, movement, writing and drawing, we will explore how listening to our bodies and our thoughts can open up new spaces and act as a source for ideas and creative ways of working.
Session 2 'Listening through Touch'
Sunday 3rd April 2011, 11am-4.30pm
Fee: £35/£28 concession
Both 6th March & 3rd April £62/£50 concession

Building on principles introduced in the first workshop, we will focus on tactile encounter as a starting point for making. By listening to ourselves, each other and the spaces we inhabit, we will explore textural stimulus as a way of enriching our practice.
Rachel Gomme is a practising Artist/Practitioner, Arts Advisor her work in performance and installation, focuses on time and process as experienced in the body of both performer and viewer. She is interested in the immediate moment of performance, and to what extent it is possible to create a shared space of experience between performer and viewer.

Monday, 5 April 2010

WAITS...Images and text from the work


Photos from Manuel Vason for new work WAITS....

First solo performance created for an indoor theatre space will be performed in The People's Palace, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road in early May 2010

this is your infected umbilical, the size of a small fist,

this is the chip in your enamel from falling into the bird bath,

the crooked bone and thinned nail of dropping iron weights,

these are the golden beads creeping in your damp peppered brow

this is you a new unknown quiet, in winter blue,

you tucked, folded, curled in hummings

these are scarlet angry islands rising

coating every underbelly of your surface

this is you hiding soaking from the white summer, your rasping rattling chest

brown water and your potting belly

this is the twinge of your paddle hip between plastic pincers

this is the maddening heat of you pressing into you, clad in grey, refusing to soften

this is you scalding pink, crossing, uncrossing, shifting in the corner

your gentle sloping, slipping, your fixed twisting neck tearing and giraffed

this is you lifting lace up around swollen drying humps

flaking weary limbs

the pause….

the first hole in that lobe as you began to smoke,

the tiny diamond where your teeth caught

the white line of cutting lavender in the summer,

the second hole, sharp inhalations, iced, pressed in hairy metal hooped well

the dip in the shadow of your bottom lip and all those nights on knees in toilets after,

this is you, all laid out, sweet pink tips pressed upon the cream, the tiny prick and buzz spreading unseen midday sun

this is the shiny patch from the pan of boiling water,

the damson heath weeping above your forced smile

the tighter corner from the swelling,

the half star from the glass mirror,

you swooning, stomach knotted, buttocks pressed in clotting sauce

this is you twisting golden hair,

yanking to make rope

you shoving, a shower of glass sparks

this is the crescent at the end your brow shaped by slate wall,

the glare of orange light splashed across your face

a distant rumbling on the tracks

the pause….

clove sweat, rose trickle

your hot clammy hand hooked around windpipe

red LED blinking

this is you dragging down ancient wood chip covered over and over with emulsion

the treacle tear carpet fissure

the crick from you squeezing until it all went black,

the pause......

before clambering on all fours back

the grey thinness of really seeing,

you smoking in the dead light

dim green glare on your aching wrist

the tobacco cloud about your head smothering panicked gaze

the pause…

this is you slowly crimpling

these are your scorched veins, heathers trickling

this is you mapping channels, running just below the fullness of his moon

this is the brightness of you mouthing

the going underneath

this is your hair spread like iron soldiers along the pillow

these are your lips pursed, dry, peeling

the gulp twist as you try to draw in air

and pause…

rings on runners

the ward darkened weight of this waiting space

this is you husking

gazing at a blinking city through weary corner

this is you pressed against the wall looking out the other way

seized by laughter caving into crying

your panic as the door opens

this is your pink TIP straining

throat raw reaching

this swollen creature lingers

waits, for the trains to come,

nudging not quite here

this is you turning in the dead night, pushing at the window with salt eyes

your hot shivers

the scratch of heavy white against your powdering leg

you clawing

a weighing down of your chest

your dumb struck brittle ribs

your silent howl, shudder, heaving, coming and going

this is you here not gone

this is you yellowing

teal creeping through

the gold hoop, stuck, in the cold creases of your fingers

the smell of you drying, the heat of you struggling,

the gurgle of you going­

the pause...