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INdependence: Programme

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:12:00 -0400

The Programme for the 4th July INdependence event is now ready to view in our Photo Gallery. The event opens 19.00 with the Fine Arts exhibition, and the performances start from 19.30 with live music, followed by a series of exciting pieces of choreography and theatre.

Dont' forget to book your tickets!

INdependence: a performance and fine art event on 4th July

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:35:00 -0400

On 4th July, the SpaceEngineering Dance Studio presents INdependence. This is an event which will present live performance art, dance, music, video screenings, and a fine arts exhibition. Participating artists include John Harrigan (Director of FoolishPeople) Simona Rossi (Cofounder of P(h)ur Old Banal), Martin Jessup (Fine Artist), and the Coreographer Emily Ayers.

Tickets cost £4, and may only be purchased in our Web Store. No tickets will be sold by the door, so get your ticket early!

Thinking through Performance Group Symposium

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:24:00 -0400

Dr. Johan Stjernholm is a member of the "Thinking through Performance Group" at London College of Fashion. Thinking through Performance is a small group of practitioners and theorists who meet to explore issues around performance, design, the body, movement and dress from their various perspectives. The group, which is organised by Prof. Helen Thomas, is currently preparing for a one-day symposium, 27th June 2010, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

The symposium is led by broadcaster and writer, Christopher Cook, and the aim of the event is to explore discourses on performance with a focus on the body, space, movement, visuality and dress, whilst enabling participants to share their current practice and research across various performance disciplines and practices, through reflective and/or practical engagement.

Johan Stjernholm: Doctor of Dance

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:52:00 -0400

On April 16, 2010, Johan Stjernholm was officially awarded his title as a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the field of Dance Studies.

Johan's thesis, entitled "Performativities, Virtualities, Abstractions, and Cunnigham's BIPED", explores the complex relations between dance movement, perception, and embodiment. Drawing on phenomenology, gender studies, and concepts of the virtual, the thesis reinvestigates the vitalist tradition of dance critique and contemporary performative practices.

The thesis will shortly appear in electronic form, available for download as a PDF, both at the British Library and the library of University of the Arts London. For more information, please fill in our contact form.

Johan Teaching performance practice at the Cochrane Theatre.

Photography by Alex Traylen, costume design by Ju Chong.

Picture gallery for "A Red Threatening Sky"

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:37:00 -0400

Pictures from the collaboration "A Red Threatening Sky", by FoolishPeople and SpaceEngineering, are now posted at the FoolishPeople website. All photography by Yiannis Katsaris.

Faint Associations: SpaceEngineering No.9

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:10:00 -0500

Our Video Gallery has just been complemented with a short video called "Faint Associations: SpaceEngineering No.9", which is Johan Stjernholm's latest movement study.

"This is not simply a performance; it is an experience not to be missed" - Gabriella Apicella, Remotegoat

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:24:00 -0500

Rave reviews are starting to appear for the latest collaboration between SpaceEngineering and Foolishpeople: "A Red Threatening Sky", directed by John Harrigan and choreographed by Johan Stjernholm.

According to Garbriella Apicella, writing for Remotegoat, "the detail and beauty of this work is spellbinding, so that at times one loses all sense of where the performance begins and the truth ends".

Howard Loxton, in the British Theatre Guide, says that "Anyone who has lived at all will find moments that will be personally painful but this is a fascinating experience and it is performed with such reality by the actors that it is totally absorbing".

The performance will only run until 20th February, so hurry to get the tickets at www.clubaethereus.com

More information about the piece and about FoolishPeople may be found at www.foolishpeople.com

Photography by Yiannis Katsaris

Rehearsals with FoolishPeople and dance classes

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:28:00 -0500

SpaceEngineering is currently creating a work in collaboration with FoolishPeople. Due to our rehearsals, there will be no weekday afternoon classes for the time being.

The performance is called "A Red Threatening Sky", and it will be performed from 11-20 February 2010 at The Old Abattoir, 187-211 St. Jon's St., Clerkenwell, London EC1V 4LS.

For tickets and more information, please see clubaethereus.com

The above photo from one of our rehearsals was taken by Yiannis Katsaris, and the dancers are Reiko Mori, Fumie Sakamaki, and Johan Stjernholm.

"Ch_ers:)" exhibition gala performance

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:42:00 -0500

A picture from the opening gala performance of the 2009 Ch_ers exhibition: the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever to have been curated with young Chinese artist in London. Staged at the Bargehouse, Southbank, 19th November. For more information, please visit exhibitioncheers.com

Choreographer: Johan Stjernholm

Art Direction: Jennifer Yan.

Mise en scene: Kun Chen.

Performers: Reiko Mori, Farah Mounze, Akanksha Kaila, Emma Wallace, IsabelEeles, Sylia Panayiotidou, Tomofumi Yamasaki, Aya Arden-Clark, Michelle Sima, Thierry Bidet, Laura Campbell, Grace Wong, BrittaArendes, Michelle Warren, Safiya Patel.

Curators of the exhibition: Elva White, Johnny Yang, Justin Shi.

The Abattoir Pages

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:23:00 -0400

The Foolish People are currently performing their latest work The Abattoir Pages at the Old Abattoir in Clerkenwell, London. This is wholeheartedly recommended. Hurry to get there as they only perform until Sunday 1st November! For tickets and more information, please visit their Abattoir Pages.