The Light Fantastic

A workshop for those interested in exploring the creative interface between improvised dance & video dance practice lead by Kirstie Simson and Katrina McPherson

Friday 25th, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June 2010, Bristol

To complement the workshop, on Friday night there will be a screening event at Picture This, co-curated by Kyra Norman (The Light Fantastic) and Beth Alden (Picture This).  The programme will include locally-sourced and international work - if you are a Bristol-based artist with work to contribute, contact Beth (email below).  on the Saturday night, Kirstie and Katrina will introduce a selection of their own work.

Kirstie and Katrina are world-renowned,  leading artists in the field of improvisation and dance and we are extremely excited to be bringing them to Bristol.

Unexpected Encounters was developed by Lisa May Thomas with Katrina McPherson, Kirstie Simson and Kyra Norman, and Picture This

For more information, please contact beth@picture-this.org.uk

From 7th April - 11th April 2010, the What If... festival, curated by artists Lucy Cash, Becky Edmunds, Claudia Kappenberg, Chirstinn Whyte and Gill Clarke will take place at Siobhan Davies Studios.

Kyra Norman is one of 10 writers invited to respond to the unfolding events of the festival as they happen...

For further details, see: www.whatiffestival.co.uk

In May 2009, the AHRC Network for Discourse and Publication in Screendance was launched: an international network, advancing an interdisciplinary theoretical and practice based discourse on the artform. 

Kyra Norman is a participant in and Administrator for the Network.  This work furthers her commitment to creative collaboration and active engagement with the contexts in which screendance is made, presented and thought about.

For further information, visit: http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/screendance

A two-day research event for artists, researchers, curators and others engaged in screendance, screen media and/ or choreographic practices

on Tuesday 7th & Wednesday 8th April 2009

at the University of Bristol's Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television

"Video space as a site for choreography is a malleable space for the exploration of dance as subject, object and metaphor, a meeting place for ideas about time, space and movement. The practice of articulating this site is one in which, through experimentation with camera angles, shot composition, location and post-production techniques, the very nature of choreography and the action of dance may be questioned, deconstructed and re-presented as an entirely new and viable construct."  

Douglas Rosenberg, 'Video Space: A Site For Choreography'.

Contributors include:

Becky Edmunds :: www.beckyedmunds.com

Chirstinn Whyte :: www.shiftwork.org.uk

Pascale Moyse :: www.movementonscreen.org.uk

Augusto Corrieri :: www.augustocorrieri.com

Lucy Baldwyn :: www.lucycash.com

Claudia Kappenberg :: www.ckappenberg.info

Kyra Norman :: www.thelightfantastic.co.uk

This 'meeting place for ideas' makes room for in-depth discussion, debate and screenings, structured around insights from these and other contributors. In particular, through a focus on the screen as site, we will address questions around:

Screendance: process-led practice; Non-dance screendance & Maya Deren's notion of vertical narrative progression; Screendance, artists' film & video & questions of genre; the screen's operation in the experience of live performance; The activity of vision

For further information contact Kyra Norman by email: kyra@thelightfantastic.co.uk

This event is organised by Kyra, in collaboration with the contributors, and supported by the University of Bristol's Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television

"Hi all,

I want to propose an "International Screendance Houseparty" for Friday 1st May 2009. Get your friends around, stick on a pizza and watch some good video dance work.

"Of course you can choose a different date that is more suitable for you but it would be great if until then we could share links of screendance films we like and consider as good. It is an opportunity for yourself to be the curator of your own private dance on screen festival, create a platform for screendance and a chance to show friends who maybe do not know anything about this genre what it actually is....

"Let's do it!
Sabine Klaus, Creation Editor
www.creationeditor.co.uk "