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Workshop: Latent Gestures
19/01/16 5pm
The first in a series of events hosted by our current exhibiting artists. This interactive physical workshop, led by Farah Saleh, investigates how artists can contribute to social and political change by exploring and problematising memories, using the body as an archive.
Artist, dancer and choreographer, Saleh, focuses on developing interactive performances, using video and other visual means, together with movement. At this three-hour event she will work with participants to archive an array of gestures and movements present in our personal and collective stories, but left out of dominant social and historical narratives. This will be achieved through re-enacting, analysing and commenting on these gestures in different creative ways.
The workshop compliments themes explored in A Fidayee Son in Moscow (2014), Saleh’s interactive video/dance installation, currently on show at The Mosaic Rooms Suspended Accounts exhibition. The installation archives movements of Palestinian children who studied at the international boarding school Interdom, during the 1980s. The school is located North-East of Moscow and was created in 1933 to host children of revolutionary parents from all over the world. The archive will have a form of 4 short interactive video-classes, which will offer the public the opportunity to try the movements themselves and live the Interdom experience.
Farah Saleh is a Palestinian dancer and choreographer. She has studied linguistic and cultural mediation in Italy and in parallel continued her studies in contemporary dance. She has been dancing and choreographing with Sareyyet Ramallah Dance Company since 2010, for which she created Ordinary Madness (2013) and Hana and I (2014). Saleh took part in and toured internationally with Keffiyeh/made in China (2012) and Badke (2013), co-produced by the Royal Flemish Theatre (KVS), A.M Qattan Foundation and Les Ballets C de la B. Saleh has also been teaching dance, coordinating and curating artistic projects since 2010 with the Palestinian Circus School, Sareyyet Ramallah and the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival. In 2014, she won the third prize of the Young Artist of the Year Award (YAYA) for her installation A Fidayee Son in Moscow. She is currently a visiting scholar in the Departments of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and Middle East Studies at Brown University, and is touring with her latest piece Free Advice (2015).
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