i n v i t a t i o n –
Please join us for the last autumn event our Performance Research Seminar
series:
Wednesday November 27: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Drama Studio, Gaskell Building 048, Cleveland Rd.
Brunel University London
Anna Semenova-Ganz (dance dramaturg, movement researcher, Hamburg/Moscow)
“Performativity of things and their material regimes”
Referring to her artistic project “Dacha”, Anna Semenova-Ganz will share the
methodology of group movement research in the old abandoned Soviet summerhouse,
and will analyse the experience of creating research-based performative
installations within between gap of anthropology and choreography, where the
material heritage of socialist era is regarded through the prism of new
materialism.
Bio
Anna Semenova-Ganz is an artist, dramaturg, and movement researcher. She
studied Media Communication at Moscow State University and Performance Studies
at Hamburg University. Anna creates her works with combined genres of
performance, public art, media art and choreography, inviting spectators to be
a part of the group research process, which she facilitates. Her works are
focused on the relation between the space, the body and the objects, they were
performed in city-spaces, theatre stages, and museum white cubes. In the center
of her artistic research there are identity issues, post-soviet body, body
politics and the creation of the new spaces. Her chapter “Objects that
Choreograph Us – Notes on Movement-research at an old Soviet Summerhouse,”
appeared in the just published anthology on dance and new materialism Tanz der
Dinge/Things that dance, ed. Johannes Birringer & Josephine Fenger, Bielefeld:
transcript 2019.
There will be a reception after the Talk to celebrate the launch of the new book
TANZ DER DINGE/THINGS THAT DANCE (transcript, 2019).
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Research Seminar Coordinator: Johannes Birringer
Contact: +44 (0)1895 267 343
Check our series at: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/ResearchSeminarSeries.html
