I started this article 16th April 2016. Now in Feb 2017, I’ll endeavour to finish it…Yesterday’s News finally written today. 16th April 2016 I picked up a Sunday paper’s supplement a while a go and the feature article was an account of body dysmorphia affecting teenagers. It interviewed a teenager and her mum alongside a profile of a mental health centre offering…
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Short talk for ‘Dance, Diaspora and the role of the Archive’; A conference by State of Emergency in Partnership with Society for Dance Research, University of Bedfordshire
As I am sure has been covered much today, in one way or another, archives and archivists are not impartial, neutral or objective. I think that archives have the power to make memory and the power to withhold or forget memories. Archivists Joan M Schwartz and Terry Cook have written that archives ‘have been about power – about maintaining power,…
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Stamina
I wrote this as part of Project O’s screening of SWAGGA – a film by Katarzyna Perlak at Artsadmin. It’s about the moment in my piece O where I don’t think I can bend and straighten my knee one more time. It’s about how our bodies carry on. http://feministshakedown.tumblr.com/post/129517817681/i-wrote-this-as-part-of-project-os-screening-of
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A story of bones
A bone worries, left abandoned in an inky black space. Muscles have departed and there are gaps between connections. The whole skeletal system is finding it painful to stand still, polite and upright – no sloughing. But These elemental structures, these rocks within us move if we’d only listen. Steve Paxton’s smalldance. Like marble – crystalline and without straight lines. Refreshingly…
