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CHOREOGRAPHIES: TRACING THE MATERIALS OF AN EPHEMERAL ART FORM

By Jacky Lansley
Published by Intellect Books
In Choreographies, Jacky Lansley covers her own practice from 1975 to 2017. The book delves into an important period of change in contemporary British dance - exploring British New Dance, postmodern dance, and experimental dance outside of a canonical US context. Lansley offers unique insight into the processes behind independent choreography and paints a vivid portrait of a rigorous practice that combines dance, performance art, visuals and a close attention to space and site.
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DANCE RESEARCH STUDIO HAS A SUCCESSFUL FIRST PERFORMANCE OF ABOUT US

ABOUT US Research and Development project, curated by DRS and choreographed and directed by Jacky Lansley with:
Interdisciplinary artists including film artist Roswitha Chesher, Composer Sylvia Hallett, Dramaturg Ramsay Burt and Performers: Vincent Ebrahim, Ursula Early, Lucky Tuck, Esther Huss, Ingrid MacKinnon, Maria Ghoumrassi and Fergus Early. The project explores a range of issues impacting on the independent dance sector; public sharings of creative R&D and open workshops. The first performance was on 2nd November 2016 at Siobhan Davies Studios. Please contact info@danceresearchstudio.com for more information and upcoming tour details.

DANCE RESEARCH STUDIO RECEIVES ARTS COUNCIL GRANT FOR CROSSING PATHS

DRS is delighted to announce that - a seven month interdisciplinary research and development project - will be supported by Arts Council England.
The project will consist of creative studio R&D led by Jacky Lansley and DRS Associate Artists with linked activities including: CROSSING PATHS one-day performance event hosted by DRS 'ABOUT US' at Siobhan Davies Studios, November 2nd, 4.30 (please contact info@danceresearchstudio.com for more information) – to explore a range of issues impacting on the independent dance sector; public sharings of creative R&D and open workshops.

CELEBRATING 30 YEARS
OF CHISENHALE DANCE SPACE

Jacky Lansley was one of the group of radical artists who made an old veneer factory in Chisenhale Road Bow their creative home in the mid1970s. Some thirty years later, Chisenhale Dance Space is still a space for artists making cutting edge work.

THE CHISENHALE DEBATE
As part of the celebrations, Jacky Lansley chaired a discussion: Feminism and Dance – have things improved?
"After at least two decades in the shade a new feminism is revealing itself. This provides a fresh opportunity to discuss the particular challenges facing women choreographers and dancers; to ask questions about women's artistic practice and the contexts in which it endeavours to take place – have things improved and if not what can be done about it?"

2012 Crossing Borders Talks

JACKY LANSLEY IN CONVERSATION
WITH JULYEN HAMILTON

Siobhan Davies Studios | MAP

Julyen Hamilton in conversation with Jacky Lansley, choreographer and performance artist who shared many of the formative contexts in the development of New Dance practice in the UK. Julyen is one of Europe's foremost improvisors and has been teaching, performing and making work for 35 years. He is a key figure in the development of New Dance. This conversation explored some of the practices and evolution within Julyen’s work and his current thinking as a choreographer and teacher.

2012 Crossing Borders was curated by Frank Bockand and invited a series of UK and international practitioners whose work understands movement and embodiment through a variety of different forms. Art practice, neuroscience, somatics and curation underpin the many contexts where such explorations take place. Crossing Borders was organised in collaboration with the Graduate School of London Contemporary Dance School and Dance Umbrella. The series offers fresh vantage points on artistic practice and environment, and feeds into current debates on the UK dance ecology.
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THE WISE BODY: CONVERSATIONS WITH EXPERIENCED DANCERS

Edited by Jacky Lansley and Fergus Early
Published by Intellect Books
In The Wise Body, choreographers Lansley and Early interview twelve distinguished dancers who continue to enjoy exceptionally long performing careers. In discussing the challenges of being older dancers in a profession in which youth is idolized, the interviews invite a radical reappraisal of the development of modern and postmodern dance. The essays reflect wide-ranging concerns, and connect the experiences of senior practitioners in areas as diverse as health, philosophy, psychology and crossart form research, giving an extraordinary picture of the worldwide network of independent dancers and their practice.
Contributers: Philippe Priasso, Lisa Nelson, La Tati, Julyen Hamilton, Yoshito Ohno, Steve Paxton, Jacky Lansley, Will Gaines, Jane Dudley, Pauline de Groot, Bisakha Sarker, Fergus Early.
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GUESTS R&D DOCUMENTARY FILM

Directed by Jacky Lansley and Tim Brinkman
Lansley has created a documentary film based on interviews, rehearsal and performance footage from the project GUESTS R&D, a partnership project between Dance Research Studio and Hall for Cornwall. The project took place throughout 2010 and a final performance was presented at HfC in September 2010. The film includes the following performers: Ursula Early, Claudia Hope, Brett Jackson, Angela Kelly, Polly Motley, and Tim Taylor; with music research by Jonathan Eato, design research by Fiona Chivers, camera work by Lucy Beech, and editor Roswitha Chesher.

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