Has the world changed or have I changed?

A new dance work from Trinity Laban’s MA/MFA Dance Performance in collaboration with SERAFINE1369

Has the world changed or have I changed? 

Trinity Laban’s MA/MFA Dance Performance students work with dancer, choreographer and body-focused researcher SERAFINE1369  on embodied approaches to change, transformation and resilience in a changing world. Drawing on existing images, sounds, memories, song lyrics and materials, the performance connects to cyclical rhythms and processes of formation and dissolution to conjure an atmospheric world on stage.

SERAFINE1369 works with dancing as intimate technology, and as a philosophical undertaking, a political project with ethical psycho-spiritual ramifications for being-in-the-world.  They work with/in the context of the hostile architectures of the metropolis towards moments and states of transcendence and transmutation. Cycles, time and haunting are recurring themes in their work which they describe as being an oracular practice.

SERAFINE1369’s approach acknowledges the cosmic oneness of all things as manifested through ecologies of relation and the fact that everything is made of the same stuff. They are intensely curious about the magic and mysteries of life-processes of distinction, variation, cycles, decomposition; the inevitability of movement.

Their practice is concerned with the integrity and efficacy of structures (bodily and social), collaboration, hosting and an interest in somatics, semiotics and symbiotics from a body-led, experiential position. Their work prioritises listening and is responsive to the specifics of context.

Thu 26 March

A pre-performance introduction from our friends at Fest En Fest, an international festival of expanded choreography initiated and curated by H2DANCE. This project makes space for artists and audiences to come together and present performances and ideas, twisting and turning the definition of what choreography can be.