In March 2017, we were pleased to offer 5 artists/groups an award to develop their Dance on the Radio proposal. Below are summaries of their ideas and we will update the blog with news of their development at key milestones in each project, so check back soon.
ERIN HILL
RADIO IS DANCE
Radio is Dance is a live radio improvisation. The show frames itself through the theme of the body at work. Wondering where does body-sensitivity go when people are busy with something else. What if our doing was perceived in terms of movement, would working become a dance? And what if we could sensitize ourselves to the point of perceiving the invisible: the radio wave just before emission, or the energetic surplus of the movement just after it was danced? If the invisible movement of radio is dance, then dance is also radio- so let’s dance.
http://local-business.website/RadioIsDance
HAMISH MACPHERSON
FLOATING
A radio programme about floating…literal and metaphorical floating…about light, continuous, flexible movement… drifting between interviews, music and sound recordings…from dance practices and out into the environmental, psychological and sociological…What swirling logics and ideas does dancing bob up and down in?…what matters are held afloat by movement?
MAURICE KELLIHER
LOST BROADCASTS
In Lost Broadcasts, the ghost of a dancer haunts a vacant MW radio frequency.
The ghost's consciousness, memories, experiences, attempts at contact, and choreographic ideas are to be discovered in the fragments of sound we hear - each one a glimpse into the dancer’s prior lived experience. This is an active haunting - as though the ghost has curated a collage of audio clips in an attempt to communicate with us through the radio signal. Their thoughts on, choreographic ideas about, and memories of movement haunt the airwaves.
SHARON GAL
DANCING BODY DANCING MIND
Dancing Body Dancing Mind (working title) is a piece for radio which invites participation from the listeners. Residing somewhere between a guided meditation, a choreographic score, a composition and an invitation to collaborate, it highlights listening as a participatory activity, exploring movement and dance as an idea , a thought and an inspiration.
Informed by recent research in the fields of psychology and neuroscience, which examine the effect of visualisation on the brain, and findings that suggest that what we imagine to be happening is actually happening as far as the brain is concerned, Dancing Body Dancing Mind aims to activate the brain through listening and explore movement, flow and our relationship with space through thinking and imagining.
TEMPURA BATTER AND FIONN DUFFY
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'~' is an album of incompetant singing. Three figures try to sing along to a contemporary pop album without having heard it before. The performers are exposed through this choreographic proposition, as they move between hesitation, awkwardness, pleasure and glee. The echo of sociality - the laughter, the enjoyment, a mocking edge - propose an ambiguous proximity and distance to the listener. Fionn, Rohanne and Paul will be continuing their research this summer in a collaborative residency in London.
Listen to the album ~
RADIO IS DANCE
Radio is Dance is a live radio improvisation. The show frames itself through the theme of the body at work. Wondering where does body-sensitivity go when people are busy with something else. What if our doing was perceived in terms of movement, would working become a dance? And what if we could sensitize ourselves to the point of perceiving the invisible: the radio wave just before emission, or the energetic surplus of the movement just after it was danced? If the invisible movement of radio is dance, then dance is also radio- so let’s dance.
http://local-business.website/RadioIsDance
HAMISH MACPHERSON
FLOATING
A radio programme about floating…literal and metaphorical floating…about light, continuous, flexible movement… drifting between interviews, music and sound recordings…from dance practices and out into the environmental, psychological and sociological…What swirling logics and ideas does dancing bob up and down in?…what matters are held afloat by movement?
MAURICE KELLIHER
LOST BROADCASTS
In Lost Broadcasts, the ghost of a dancer haunts a vacant MW radio frequency.
The ghost's consciousness, memories, experiences, attempts at contact, and choreographic ideas are to be discovered in the fragments of sound we hear - each one a glimpse into the dancer’s prior lived experience. This is an active haunting - as though the ghost has curated a collage of audio clips in an attempt to communicate with us through the radio signal. Their thoughts on, choreographic ideas about, and memories of movement haunt the airwaves.
SHARON GAL
DANCING BODY DANCING MIND
Dancing Body Dancing Mind (working title) is a piece for radio which invites participation from the listeners. Residing somewhere between a guided meditation, a choreographic score, a composition and an invitation to collaborate, it highlights listening as a participatory activity, exploring movement and dance as an idea , a thought and an inspiration.
Informed by recent research in the fields of psychology and neuroscience, which examine the effect of visualisation on the brain, and findings that suggest that what we imagine to be happening is actually happening as far as the brain is concerned, Dancing Body Dancing Mind aims to activate the brain through listening and explore movement, flow and our relationship with space through thinking and imagining.
TEMPURA BATTER AND FIONN DUFFY
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'~' is an album of incompetant singing. Three figures try to sing along to a contemporary pop album without having heard it before. The performers are exposed through this choreographic proposition, as they move between hesitation, awkwardness, pleasure and glee. The echo of sociality - the laughter, the enjoyment, a mocking edge - propose an ambiguous proximity and distance to the listener. Fionn, Rohanne and Paul will be continuing their research this summer in a collaborative residency in London.
Listen to the album ~
