Andrew Hardwidge
V.16 Workshop
DRAMATURGIES: OB-SCENE AND CONTRAPUNTAL
Tisdag – torsdag 14-17, Ärlegården
Bio:
ANDREW HARDWIDGE is a dance artist, dramaturg and researcher.
He works collaboratively and parasitically in different roles, contexts and arrangements often focused on emerging interactions of performance, embodied practice, and critical cosmopolitics.
His early dance training included periods at London Contemporary Dance School, the Cunningham Studios – NYC and at the Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno Studios – Tokyo. As a performer, he has worked with artists including, Ligia Lewis, Dragana Bulut, Joe Moran, Adam Linder, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Lucy McCormick, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Tino Sehgal, Arcade Fire, Simon Vincenzi, Choy Ka Fai, and Jose Luis Vidal. As a dramaturg, his work has included Dragana Bulut, Salka Ardal Rosengren, Hana Erdman, Leah Landau, Gery Georgieva, and with the Tate Modern and Boris Charmatz’s Musee de la Danse for the project What if Tate Modern were Musee de la Danse. As a researcher he has worked with a focusing on experiences and stories of healing; and currently he works on the project Authorship, Ownership and Control: Dancers Roles and Materials.
OBS! To sign up, please send a brief motivation describing something at stake or in friction in your practice at the moment to info@danscentrumvast.se. The format can be text, video, audio, whatever works best for you. The workshop is aimed at experienced dance artists, but expressions of interest are welcome from anyone. The workshop will be held in English.
Class description:
This workshop offers a forum for collective dramaturgical process and context-making for dance artists.
Participants are invited to bring works, materials, or questions that challenge and feel at stake in their practice as performers, dancers, or choreographers. Materials do not need to be complete or finished; uncertainties and partial ideas are welcome.
I will share tools and reflections from my work in the studio. The workshop is an invitation to dramaturgy as an embodied social practice, attentive to and complicit in production, process, people, materials, and the politics of and between worlds: a way of working with ecologies of practice, sensibility, attention, support, and critique.
The workshop will develop through discussion, sharing, perceptual practices, making and storytelling to explore the different worlds and somatic fictions that emerge, endure, and end alongside artistic works. And how these can inform making, performing, and a broader ethos of practice.
I will offer the figures of the contrapuntal, the minor and the ob-scene to shape the workshop.
The contrapuntal: attends to the multiple and uneven histories, relations, labours, and worlds that sound together in and around a work. Drawing on Edward Said’s work, it offers a way of navigating co-presences and dissonances of empire and resistance within artistic practice.
The minor: what remains small, peripheral, ordinary, or unfinished in a work, and to the ways such matters can still carry force.
The ob-scene: what is a scene excludes, sublimates, or cannot hold: the denied, dirty, taboo, or what surfaces as disturbance, refusal, shame. In a context of mise-en-scène (appearance) and behind the scenes (the support and friction around appearance), the ob-scene approaches the problem of presence through what is constitutively excluded from it.
The workshop takes place on Tuesday and Thursday, with Wednesday held as a space for independent work. You must be able to attend both days.