April 2011

Movement and Noise – Compositional dialogues between music and dance

Photo : Scott Smith

The central theme of this month is an exploration of sound for performance, and sound as performance, making analogies between the composition of movement, and the composition of sound, as time based mediums. The events in the programme aim to make accessible strategies for exploring the accompaniment of dance, to engage with a wider public & stimulate critical debate around the question of sound for dance.

Through a combination of performances, intensive workshops, master class lectures and discussions, participants will be exposed to inspired performance work, and to formative concepts and techniques that underlie the relationship between music and dance. These activities will offer participants multiple viewpoints from which to perceive the links between sound and movement, which are not always obvious.

There will be opportunity to use Lisa Nelsons ‘Tuning Scores’, as context and tool for examination of materials.