Trinity Laban researcher Irene Fiordilino is the co-editor of upcoming publication Multimodality and the Arts: Creative and Performative Processes as Intersemiotic Translation, featuring contributing authors and Trinity Laban staff Dr Peter Nagle, Dr Carolyn Roy, Dr Vanio Pappadelli, and MA Creative Practice alum Maria Sole Montacci.
Set to be published this August by Bloomsbury, the publication explores the profound relationship between multimodality and translation. Looking at the subject from a wide range of perspectives, this book questions the possibility of redefining art practices and artworks as forms and processes of intersemiotic translation (the transfer of verbal texts into other systems of signification, such as visual, oral, aural, gestural etc. An example would be the rendering of literary texts into paintings). Exploring the connection between multimodality, translation, and the arts, the authors uncover the many overlooked practices of translation already present in artistic research and in the production of multimodal works.
About Dr Irene Fiordilino
Dr Irene Fiordilino is a London-based choreographer and researcher, who completed her PhD in Creative Practice at Trinity Laban. She is the director of Scirocco Dance Theatre Company and associate director of London International Screen Dance Festival. Irene’s original artistic methodology – Transitory Architecture – sits in the space between choreography and architecture: the intention is to bring into the fore the relation between bodies and space, questioning the aesthetics and the politics of cohabitation. Her artistic aim is to promote – through performance – sustainable and ecological forms of inhabiting and cohabiting in our urban spaces, placing an emphasis on the liminal encounters between the natural and the artificial. Her work and research with Scirocco Dance Theatre has been supported by artistic residencies, featured in art magazines, presented and discussed at international festivals, conferences and symposia.
About Dr Peter Nagle
Dr Peter Nagle joined Trinity Laban in 2014 and has worked across the Composition, Jazz, Keyboard, and Wind, Brass and Percussion departments, as well as completing a PhD in Creative Practice in 2024. His practice encompasses improvisation, alternative tunings, drone and loop textures, electronica and movement, often in multi- and trans-disciplinary contexts. His research interests revolve around identities and approaches in transdisciplinary collaboration, and ambiguity and uncertainty as aesthetic strategies. He teaches on the Dance, Film, Narrative and Artist as Entrepreneur modules and is an academic supervisor on the MMus programme. He has also acted as a staff governor since 2022. He performs regularly throughout London and beyond, both solo and in groups, in particular Rising of the Lights with Jonny Martin and an ongoing multidisciplinary collaboration with Claire Zakiewicz, Petra Haller, and Emily Suzanne Shapiro.
About Dr Carolyn Roy
Dr Carolyn Roy is a freelance dancer and writer who has worked in the independent dance sector for over 30 years and also teaches on MA and BA programmes at Trinity Laban. Her work crosses disciplines, with outputs in the form of performance, writing, audio work, and political action. Her practice is concerned with improvisatory and somatic processes, particularly in durational performance; politics and the social agency of dancing; trans-disciplinary encounter and exchange; the pedagogy and writing of dance practice.
About Dr Vanio Papdelli
Dr Vanio Papadelli is a movement and theatre artist and educator. Her practice fuses elements from Eastern European Laboratory theatre and dance-theatre; yoga; somatic movement; postmodern dance; Laban/Bartenieff; Contact Improvisation; and experimental theatre. Key inspirations and interests include feminist theories, ecological philosophies, surrealism, ritual and phenomenology of performance. Since 2020, she has been leading the module Writing the Body that explores interdisciplinary and embodied approaches to writing for the MA Creative Practice at Trinity Laban where she also supervises MA and MFA projects. She also teaches a 3-week intensive to MA Choreography students.
About Maria Sole Montacci
Maria Montacci is a freelance dancer / performer and co-director of the SolAnd Dance Company (SADC). She trained in different schools, graduating both in contemporary dance and classical dance at the professional school “Centro Studi Balletto di Roma” and later received her bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance at the “Accademia Nazionale Di Danza di Roma”, followed by a master’s degree on the techniques of improvisation dance-music in Rome. She studied the MA Creative Practice at Trinity Laban and regularly collaborates with the dance company MCDC.