Franko B residency

Toynbee Studios, Artsadmin, London, 2007

One of 7 selected artists creating work/discussing practice over a week

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Snout Belly Bowel in performance practice

Chisenhale Dance Space, London, 2005
Artist Residency

desire/love, humour/laughter, pity/grief, anger, energy/vigor, fear/shame, disgust, surprise/wonder (The Rasas)

Making reference to the ancient text of Bharata-Muni’s Natyasastra and Schechner’s performance concept of Rasaesthetics, I led a residency which explored sensory experience and the triggering of memory through taste, aroma and the enteric nervous system as a means with which to approach improvisation and one-on-one performance.

Expo Enez Vaz

Ile de Batz Festival, Brittany, France, 2004
One of 12 artists invited to create a series of site-located interventions on the island

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Dance, Theatre & Digital Arts in Havana, Cuba

5 week research trip to Cuba: interviews and rehearsal observations, including participation as an exhibiting artist in V International Digital Arts with Artery, 2003

An article based on an interview conducted with Ramiro Guerra was published in Dance Theatre Journal (vol 22: issue 2, London, 2007).

Funded by an Arts Council England professional development award

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Dance Film Residency

Park View Academy, London, 2002
5 week residency to create a movement-led narrative film with the students using the empty school grounds as inspiration for a dance film:

An Imaginary day in the Life, 10.20 minutes

Funded by London Arts

Director/ Choreography workshop leader: Lisa Alexander
Camera/ Video workshop leader: Steve Folorunsho
2nd Choreography workshop leader: Jane Munro
Editor and 2nd Camera: Jane Hodge
Runner: Catherine Wilmore

Site-specific performance and installation

OPENLOOK International Dance Festival, St. Petersburg, RUSSIA, 2001
2 week residency with professional dancers and students of Kannon Dance School creating 2 live works (Untitled 1 and Untitled 2). The secondary aim was to report on new dance practices in post-USSR and look into arts networks.

Funded by Pro-Arte Institute and London Arts GO! Award

Image: Improvisation filmed by Russian TV crew

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Working from Location: Vocal and Movement Response

Ekaterinberg Contemporary Arts Centre, Urals, RUSSIA, 2001
Performance lab with undergraduate drama students on Ekaterinberg’s small Metro and the local area at each stop