A genre-blurring experience for solo audiences at home: Your movement, electronic music and contemporary storytelling create a new imagining of the place you are right now.
By some form of accident Bridget was Miss Junior Showgirl at the Kyabram Show circa 1985. This is where this begins. A work about parading, grief, survival and beauty. A new module in development ‘Entertaining A Small Place’ was presented as part of ‘Watch US Dance’ at University of Salford on November 8, 2019. Performed…
An immersive multisensory performance that is part documentary, part science fiction, part ritual: How to survive a falling lift, a mother’s story of her newborn’s urgency to feed, how to repot a plant and an account of the person who survived the greatest free fall in history all become metaphors for a state of emergency.…
They Gather is an ongoing international collaborative, multimodal, interdisciplinary project, creating ‘gatherings’ of people, action, movement, and sound.
A durational work that looks at our need for freedom, and where, when and how this exists and is expressed. Engaging deliberate & incidental audiences in public spaces, ‘Everyday Freedoms’ proposes states of being while questioning ideas about value, systems, and freedoms. It is an exploration of physical and intangible containment, of boundaries between collective…
A mass public participation work for audience, community and artists exploring our need to connect to others, to be seen and to be heard, ‘Lost In Feeling’ re-imagines being in a large gathering (e.g. a demonstration, a celebration) where the self is both lost within and empowered by being part of a mass gathering. Occupying…
Modern Body Festival examines the nature of our current existence through thematic editions that curate experiences – physical, visceral, immersive and intimate. We seek the modern body within the new worlds that emerge when different artforms intersect, collide, and modulate each other. We focus specifically in the open field that exists between artforms – new…
The Modern Body platform examines the nature of our current existence through thematic events that curate experiences – physical, visceral, immersive and intimate.
We seek the modern body within the new worlds that emerge when different artforms intersect, collide, and modulate each other.
Intelligent Artifacts & Breathing Spaces is the second Modern Body Laboratory edition. In this series we explore emerging themes and ideas in preparation for our next biennial festival edition, and invite you, our public, to brainstorm, experiment and experience with us! Exhibition & performance program at Broedplaats WD4X from Thursday to Saturday, 8-10 February 2018,…
What exactly is the ‘modern body’? We are inclined to think of our bodies as limited to what is contained within our own skin, but technology, philosophy, spirituality, religion, and science all challenge this idea. Modern Body Festival, an initiative organized in The Hague by artists / makers / performers Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis,…