dance from 1969 - now
early days of experimental dance?
I wonder if there's anybody out there who has any memories (or photos or programmes or reviews or personal diary jottings...) of experimental dance pieces from around 40 years ago (say, over 10 years, starting just before The Place opened, perhaps 1966 to 1976)? I already put up on this site a few photos of 2 of my own pieces, and there's more where that came from but there must be lots more elsewhere, eg Geoff Moore 'Moving Being' etc.
Lancaster University (with which I've been associated for the last 20 years) is currently running a year-long programme called 'Experimentality', described as "a collaborative exploration of ideas and practices of experimentation in science and technology, the arts, commerce, politics, popular culture, everyday life, and the natural world. Over the course of the academic year, the programme will run a range of workshops and arts events, culminating in an international conference, The Experimental Society, on 7-9 July 2010." I'm participating in this programme, and one of the keynote speakers has noted "the rich archive of experiments in disclosing and constructing space-times in the late 1960s". Dance was certainly part of that, and a lot of it happened in and around The Place.
It would be good to see what documentation we might be able to share on this website... perhaps to 'crowd-source a social history' of the early days of experimental dance in UK (or at least in London)? There are a few scholarly studies available also: what do people think might be useful?
Lancaster University (with which I've been associated for the last 20 years) is currently running a year-long programme called 'Experimentality', described as "a collaborative exploration of ideas and practices of experimentation in science and technology, the arts, commerce, politics, popular culture, everyday life, and the natural world. Over the course of the academic year, the programme will run a range of workshops and arts events, culminating in an international conference, The Experimental Society, on 7-9 July 2010." I'm participating in this programme, and one of the keynote speakers has noted "the rich archive of experiments in disclosing and constructing space-times in the late 1960s". Dance was certainly part of that, and a lot of it happened in and around The Place.
It would be good to see what documentation we might be able to share on this website... perhaps to 'crowd-source a social history' of the early days of experimental dance in UK (or at least in London)? There are a few scholarly studies available also: what do people think might be useful?
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