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Hélène Lesterlin
Curator, EMPAC
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EMPAC: Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY
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*** This email has been sent from the MEDIA ARTS AND DANCE email forum. To respond to all subscribers email [log in to unmask]. ***From: videodance <[log in to unmask]>Date: November 10, 2009 4:35:33 PM ESTSubject: Re: Rattling the CageReply-To: videodance <[log in to unmask]>ironically for this list ...anecdotally John Ashford is known as being less than supportive of screendance andoversaw the demise of Videoworks and Dance on Screen at the Place.Therefore I'm not sure if this should be being posted here being irrelevant to the discourseunless someone can tell me otherwise -I am provoked!bestSimonOn 9 Nov 2009, at 15:11, Dance House wrote:*** This email has been sent from the MEDIA ARTS AND DANCE email forum. To respond to all subscribers email [log in to unmask]. ***
Rattling the Cage
A Dance Provocation
Pool invites you to join RATTLING THE CAGE
27 November 2007 17.30 – 19.00
Traverse Theatre Cambridge Street Edinburgh EH1 2ED
• What’s new or radical or inspirational about contemporary dance?
• Are choreographers challenging themselves?
• Is our new generation of contemporary artists making work which
changes or questions or subverts the rules?
• Who wrote the rules anyway?
• Does contemporary dance provide insights and / or a genuine
experimental edge? Is that what it’s for?
Provocation by John Ashford CBE, ex – Theatre Director of the Place, London
and deviser / founder of the Place Prize and Aerowaves European Dance
Network (www.aerowaves.org)
Chaired by Morag Deyes, Artistic Director of Dance Base Edinburgh
The programme will include a discussion and a 3 min slots for audience
members to rant.
Free but ticketed. Booking 0131 228 1404
For further information on the event got to dancebase.co.uk/thecage
Don’t miss POOL’s performances by Scottish emerging talent showcasing their
work
Friday 27 November at the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, at 20.00
Bookings 0131 228 1404 / www.traverse.co.uk as part of the Traverse
Theatre Autumn Festival 09