How does the city move you? On bodies, identity and urban design

12.30—19.30, Saturday 30 June Studios 85 St George’s Road SE1 Theatrum Mundi Our cities are built based on generalised ideas about human Room 67 New Wing bodies and how we move. What if choreography could challenge these assumptions and help urban design imagine Somerset House more diverse identities? Theatrum Mundi and Siobhan London WC2R 1LA Davies Dance present an afternoon bringing researchers and [email protected] practitioners from urbanism and dance into dialogue. The [email protected] event explores how choreographic thinking could inform urban design and planning, broadening our understanding of the relationships between bodies, movement and the city. Registered Charity 1174149 We start with two discussions about how architecture imagines the body, and how different cultures of movement can resist this. These sessions are followed by workshops Siobhan Davies Dance on choreographic and architectural design, self-expression 85 St George’s Road through Vogue-Chi, and Latin shaping of public spaces near London SE1 6ER Siobhan Davies Studio in Elephant & Castle. The day is closing [email protected] with performance interventions by disabled and non-disabled dance artists from Candoco Dance Company over drinks. [email protected] Candoco Dance Company has been in residence at Siobhan Registered Charity 1010786 Davies Studios June 25-29. Company dance artists have been researching their own embodied relationship to identity and urban design, in and around the Studios. This afternoon, some of them are sharing their performance practice throughout the building. The event is presented in partnership between Siobhan Davies Dance and Theatrum Mundi Dance artist Tanja Erhardt, formerly of Candoco Dance Company, created a specially-commissioned zine documenting as part of the London Festival of Architecture, her experiences of navigating the city with different physical responding to its 2018 theme of Identity. versions of herself. 12.30 Arrival: Coffee and welcome 12.45 Richard Sennett: The politics of gesture → Roof Studio, 2nd Floor 13.15 Imagined Bodies → Roof Studio, 2nd Floor Sara Adhitya Urban Designer / Research Associate, UCL-squared • Ellie What kind of urban body is assumed? What physical Cosgrave, Director, UCL City Leadership Lab • Joel Brown, Dance Artist • identities is the city designed around? And how can Chair: John Bingham-Hall, Director, Theatrum Mundi choreographic thinking help imagine and articulate other kinds of physicality? 14.15—.30 Break

14.30 Cultures of Movement → Roof Studio, 2nd Floor Sam Causer Architect, Director, Studio Sam Causer • Rosemary Lee, How are shapes and rhythms formed in the social life of Choreographer and filmmaker •Akil Scafe-Smith Public Practice cities? How do queer or migrant cultures of movement, Associate / RESOLVE Co-Founder • Chair: Lauren Wright, Programme for example, inhabit the city? Director, Siobhan Davies Dance 15.30—.00 Break with light refreshments provided

16.00 Adesola Akinleye Choreographing the City: at the city limits → Research Studio, 1st Floor Exploring where choreographic and architectural problems meet, collide and inform each other. The workshop will play with seeing the moving-body as the canvas for how the city shapes and is shaped. Joselyne Contreras and Dr Jorge Saavedra Utman Walking Latin Elephant →Meet in the courtyard What does it mean to inhabit a space? How do our senses embrace cities? Let’s walk through Elephant and Castle to approach the relationship between bodies, representation, memory and identity.

Carlos Maria Romero AKA Atabey → Roof Studio, 2nd Floor workshops parallel one on arrival sign up for Vogue-Chi No previous experience is required. Vogue-Chi is OPEN FOR ALL ages and backgrounds. Vogue-Chi is a multigenerational queer and allies safe space for self-expression and coming together. 17.45 Siobhan Davies: closing remarks Candoco Dance Company is the company of disabled and non-disabled dancers, founded in 1991. Candoco produces excellent and profound 18.00 Performed interventions based on results of experiences for audiences and participants that excite, challenge and research residency: Candoco Dance Company broaden perceptions of art and ability, and place people and collaboration → Throughout the building at the heart of their work. 19.30 Ends DR. ADESOLA AKINLEYE SARA ADHITYA SAM CAUSER ELLIE COSGRAVE — Choreographer — Urban Designer, Research Associate — Director — Director — Middlesex University — UCL-squared — Studio Sam Causer — UCL City Leadership Lab — Adesola Akinleye DancingStrong Co. Sara Adhitya is an urban interaction Sam Causer is director of Studio Sam Ellie is the Director of the City Leadership Adesola Akinleye is a choreographer designer and Research Associate with the Causer, an architecture practice founded in Lab at University College London and leads artist-scholar. She trained at The Rambert Accessibility Research Group at University 2005 and now based in Margate since 2009. the Choreographing the City research Academy. She began her career as a College London. Co-founder of the Universal He is a part-time lecturer at the University within the department as well as work dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem, later Composition Laboratory (UCL-squared), she of Kent, following previous positions at De around gender-based violence and urban working in UK with companies such as Green focuses on the multisensorial design of the Montfort University and the University of form. Through her research, Ellie seeks to Candle and Union. She now directs her urban environment in space-time. Informed Cambridge. Sam is a founding partner of challenge traditional notions and practices own company DancingStrong which tours by her multidisciplinary background in Margate Coastal Park Promotion Group, of engineering design by incorporating new UK and North America. Her choreographic music, architecture and urban design, she is alongside Carlos Maria and Sophie Jeffrey, perspectives, especially those from the arts awards include One Dance UK Champion particularly interested in the composition of whose aim is to research and conserve and social sciences. For the past year, Ellie Trailblazer, Bonnie Bird New Choreography more sustainable urban rhythms. In 2013, she a five-mile stretch of coastal public land has been working with a variety of artists to Award, ADAD Trailblazer Award. She was was awarded a European Doctorate in the in East Kent. Projects under this umbrella explore how urban infrastructure might be awarded Woman of the Year in Community ‘Quality of Design’ of Architecture and Urban include Blushing Pavilion (2015), a research designed from a more inclusive perspective. Dance by the Town of Islip, New York. Planning by the University IUAV of Venice and document ‘Analysis of the Emergence → ucl.ac.uk/steapp/people/cosgrave Adesola publishes and creates in the field the École des Hautes Études en Sciences of a Public Space and its resilience in a of dance scholarship as well as cultural and Sociales, Paris, for her innovative work on Digital Age’ (2016), and arts festival A social studies. She is a Fellow of the RSA. sonifying urban rhythms. Author of the recent Clifftop Wander (2016). Current projects SIOBHAN DAVIES She holds a PhD from Canterbury Christ interactive ‘book’ Musical Cities (UCL Press, in the practice include the conservation — Artistic Director Church University and MA (Distinction) 2017), she continues to explore how sound of the community spaces of Maxwell Fry’s — Siobhan Davies Dance from Middlesex University. This summer and music can improve the design of our Grade II* listed Modernist Kensal House in Siobhan Davies is Artistic Director of Siobhan DancingStrong is touring UK with two cities. She also collaborates creatively with north London, and interventions into and Davies Dance and a renowned British works made (with and) for young audiences non-profit organisations around the world repair of a Capability Brown landscape in choreographer who rose to prominence in –‘Found’ & ‘Light Steps’. towards improving urban liveability and Northamptonshire. Studio Sam Causer is the 1970s. Davies was a founding member → dancingstrong.com/architecture sustainability through participatory design included in the Architecture Foundation’s of London Contemporary Dance Theatre and planning. decennial survey of significant emerging and in 1982 joined forces with Richard → rhythmicities.com practices ‘New Architects’ (2016). Alston and Ian Spink to create independent JOEL BROWN → cege.ucl.ac.uk/arg/ucl-squared → samcauser.com dance company Second Stride. Establishing — Dance artist → @uclsquared Siobhan Davies Dance in 1988, she — Candoco Dance Company consistently works closely with collaborating Joel Brown is an American paraplegic JOSELYNE CONTRERAS dance artists to ensure that their own artistic dancer based in London. He has toured JOHN BINGHAM-HALL PhD student in Curatorial Knowledge enquiry is part of the creative process. By extensively with Brown Rice Productions — Director — Goldsmiths 2002 Davies moved away from the traditional and AXIS Dance Company from 2011-2014 — Theatrum Mundi — Latin Elephant volunteer theatre circuit and started making work and is currently engaged with Candoco John Bingham-Hall is the Director of TM, and Joselyne Contreras is curator and for gallery spaces and other sites. Her Dance Company since 2015. He has Honorary Senior Lecturer at UCL STEaPP. researcher, currently doing a PhD in artistic practice involves bringing together a performed works by and collaborated with He has held academic posts at LSE Cities, Curatorial Knowledge at Goldsmiths, collective of artists and choreographers to choreographers such as Yasmeen Godder, UCL STEaPP, and CSM, and has worked University of London. Currently she is create within an environment that supports Arlene Phillips, Alexander Whitley, Trisha outside academia in cultural programming. curator of the Public Programme at Latin them to share common investigative Brown, Yvonne Rainer, Marc Brew, and John holds a BMus (Music) from Goldsmiths Elephant, London, and the curatorial project concerns alongside their own work. In 2006, others. Joel was nominated for an Isadora College, and an MSc Advanced Architectural Sala de Carga, Chile. Her work explores the RIBA award-winning Siobhan Davies Duncan Award for “Outstanding Achievement Studies and PhD Architectural Space and issues around curatorial thinking and Studios opened in London, UK, realising in Performance” in 2013 and was recently Computation from UCL. practices, politics, decolonial, museum and Davies’ long-standing goal of establishing awarded an “Emerging Artist” grant from → theatrum-mundi.org galleries studies with particular emphasis on a permanent base for the organisation and Unlimited to create a new duet with himself → @public_culture contemporary Latin American art. for independent dance artists. The Studios and former Principal Dancer, → latinelephant.org are now a vibrant arts space in central Eve Mutso. London, filled with dance, film and visual art → candoco.co.uk through a regular programme of exhibitions, performances, classes and new commissions from contemporary artists. → siobhandavies.com ROSEMARY LEE JORGE SAAVEDRA RICHARD SENNETT LAUREN WRIGHT — Choreographer & filmmaker — Dr in Media and Communication — Professor of Sociology — Programme Curator Known for working in a variety of contexts — Goldsmiths — LSE — Siobhan Davies Dance — Latin Elephant volunteer and media, Rosemary creates large-scale Over the course of the last five decades, With over 10 years’ experience as a visual site-specific works with cross-generational Dr Jorge Saavedra is Postdoctoral Fellow Richard Sennett has written about social arts curator, writer and researcher, Wright casts, solos for herself and other performers, in the Centre for the Study of Global Media life in cities, changes in labour, and social was formerly Director of Programme at the video installations and short films. Her work and Democracy, Goldsmiths, University theory. His books include Families Against Hepworth Wakefield. In 2015 she was Artistic is characterised by an interest in creating of London. His work as a researcher and the City, The Hidden Injuries of Class, The Director and Curator of the 2015 Biennial of a moving portraiture of the performing activist explores issues around politics, social Fall of Public Man, Authority, The Corrosion the Americas in Denver, Colorado, where her communities she brings together, whilst also movements, media, communications, art and of Character, Respect, The Culture of the projects included major exhibitions, public exploring and highlighting our relationship cultural organizations. New Capitalism, Together, The Craftsman, artworks, residencies, performances and with our environment, be it urban or rural. → latinelephant.org and Building and Dwelling. He has had a talks involving over 50 international artists Her recent work includes Square Dances public career, first as founder of the New and dancers including Marcela Armas, involving 150 performers in four London York Institute for the Humanities, then as Mariana Castillo Deball, Karl Haendel, Erick squares, Without, a seven-screen video AKIL SCAFE-SMITH President of the American Council on Work. Meyenberg, Robert Longo, Bernardo Ortiz, installation capturing a panoramic view of the — Associate / Co-Founder For the last three decades, he has served Tania Perez Cordova, Adam Pendleton and city of Derry/Londonderry as hundreds of — Public Practice / RESOLVE as a consultant to various bodies within the Eduardo Terrazas. Between 2010 and 2014, participants move through the streets, Calling RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design United Nations; most recently, he wrote the Wright was Curator at Turner Contemporary Tree (co directed with Simon Whitehead) collective that aims to address social mission statement for Habitat III, the United where her many projects included new which takes place in and around urban challenges by combining architecture, art, Nation’s environmental congress. Five years commissions, group exhibitions, and trees, and Passage for Par a durational work technology and engineering. Run by Akil with ago, he created Theatrum Mundi, a research performance and participation programmes for 30 women crossing tidal sands. She is his colleagues Gameli Ladzekpo and Seth foundation for urban culture, whose board of involving artists such as Rosa Barba, Tracey an Artsadmin Artist, a Work Place artist, Scafe-Smith, RESOLVE’s inaugural project trustees he now chairs. Emin, Ellen Harvey and Maria Nepomuceno. Senior Research Fellow at C-DaRE Coventry was the Rebel Space Pavilion, a temporary → https://www.richardsennett.com Among her independent curatorial projects University, ResCen Research Associate Artist event space in the heart of Brixton, for are Sleep: Warhol/Cage/Satie, a major 2007 (Middlesex University). London Design Festival 2016. They have performance at Tate Modern. → artsadmin.co.uk/artists/rosemary-lee since gone on to deliver a series of projects, → siobhandavies.com workshops and talks, also working with UCL Engineering Outreach to pilot projects CARLOS MARIA ROMERO that introduce young people from under- AKA ATABEY represented backgrounds to STEM subjects — Dance Artist and concepts in interdisciplinary design. In Carlos Maria Romero a.k.a. Atabey 2018 he became part of the first cohort Mamasita, is a London based Colombian of Public Practice, an initiative supported multidisciplinary artist and performer by the Mayor of London that places a with a background in dance and live art new generation of planners within local working in the fields of performing and government to shape places for the public visual arts, heritage and architectural good. Under this initiative he is currently activism, pedagogy and curating. Maria working as a Project Officer for Placemaking Romero is the third member of SPIT! in the London Borough of Croydon’s Spatial (Sodomites, Inverts, Perverts Together!) Planning Team. with whom they wrote and keep presenting → Resolvecollective.com a series of queer manifestos responding → @akilscafesmith to contemporary pressing issues of sexual and gender oppression, and a founding member of Vividero Colectivo, a group of multidisciplinary artists and architects revealing narratives in which historically marginalised social practices and architectural sides are (re-)claimed as cultural heritage. → carlosmariaromero.com