Obverse: a new trio by Joe Moran
Commissioned for The Place Prize 2012, sponsored by Bloomberg
Day 5 of “5 days of dance” culminates with the 2011 work-in-progress sharing of Joe’s new men’s piece, Arrangement, at The Place last summer. This new work is currently in development for its premiere in 2012. Watch this space!
“5 days of dance”: posting of Joe Moran’s recent works. Day Four: On The Off Chance (2011) takes presence and choreography as its subjects, navigating a series of choreographic principles through the deployment of rhythmic walking and running. Enjoy!
‘5 Days of Dance’ sees recent works by London-based choreographer Joe Moran posted online, one-dance-a-day for 5 days: Thurs 12 - Mon 16 April.
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Thurs 12 April - Ending (2007/08)
Fri 13 April - Singular (2011)
Sat 14 April - The Swarm Quartet (2011)
Sun 15 April - On the off chance (2011)
Mon 16 April - Arrangement (2011)
At Once Twice: two very different versions of the same solo by Deborah Hay, performed and adapted by Christopher House (Toronto) and Joe Moran (London).
www.danceartfoundation.com/at-once-twice.html
Photography: Gunter Kravis. Graphic design: designedbydavid.com
Arrangement, new work by Joe Moran, will premiere in 2012. Research began at The Place in London as part of its 2011 Summer House festival. Photography: David Edawrds
Workshop-Audition
Joe Moran is holding a workshop-audition in London for male dancers on Sat 30 July, 11am-4pm. In the first instance, dancers are sought for a two-week research project and informal performance at The Place, 30 Aug – 9 Sept (part of Choreodrome/Summer House festival), in addition to future projects, autumn/winter 2011- spring 2012.
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http://www.facebook.com/notes/joe-moran-dance/workshop-audition-london-sat-30-july/235911523097427
Apprehension of good work
I have become unexpectedly inspired by the poetic qualities of philosophical thought and critical theory, and enthused to explore the physicality of concepts and ideas. I have come to experience ideas can be a departure point for a process of discovery and understanding that is navigated through the practice of choreography and dance making; resulting, hopefully, in work that is specific as well as resonant with possibilities. This is the position from where I currently conceive the creation of new work. It is a position that demands that I do not seek refuge in critical thought or to justify work on the ground of its conceptual concerns. Rather, it demands that I deepen my apprehension of the elements of good work and the constraints of choreographic form. I currently understand these elements as: work that is alive and unfixed in its performance vitality; work that consciously attends to its audience and understands the particularity and demands of that relationship, as well as its offer and invitation; work that is rigorously developed – in whatever form it takes; work that is bold and is free from any demand or manipulation to achieve its audience’s regard; work that is confident and can liberate both performers and audience from a tension to get it right or to work; work that is thinking and that manifests, demonstrates and articulates its intelligence and inquiry; work that is thrilling and in some way complex, that can draw one into thinking, feeling and physical sensation.
New Work
The group work, Arrangement and solo, Decommissionare new works for an international company of male dancers conceived for theatrical presentation and concerned with critical choreographic practice and men.
Drawing upon an abiding interest to foreground the individuality of the performers with whom I work, these works are a reaction to the heteronormative, misogynistic and homophobic anxiety of numerous contemporary works focused on men and male experience, or dance for all (or predominately all) male companies. Research will consider strategies for the re-deployment of movement in dance that extend the formal concerns of recent critical propositions: attempting to question and comment critically on the viability of dancing in contemporary choreographic practice, through dancing. Works inquire into the apparently mutually exclusive relationship between 1) choreographic formalism and conceptually driven dance and 2) full-bodied, unmediated dancing. Research begins as part of Summer House/ Choreodrome 2011 at The Place, towards performances in Spring 2012.
Surveyed (2011), map of sound installation
Sound work by Joe Moran, edited by Jamie McCarthy
Differ & Repeat
I find myself both fascinated and enthralled by dance that is driven by an apparent and lively compositional intelligence. I experience some logic or method at play; one that I may not fully understand but nonetheless grips me and offers me a potent sense of meaning. Differ & Repeat arises from this fascination: a fascination with the ability of choreographic composition to provide, almost physical, experiences and approximations of meaning.
In late 2010, I set out to consider these interests through the isolation of choreography. Experimenting with choreography as a form and discipline that may be distinct from dance and dancing, and also as a subject for performance. Curation as a choreographic endeavour has been an extension of this experiment: bringing together individual artworks in taught, dissonant and complementary spatial and temporal relation to each other, to operate as a wider choreographic whole.
It is with enormous excitement that I present, in counterpoint to my own work, 14 international artists considering new, critical and disparate choreographic propositions to form Differ & Repeat. I hope audiences enjoy the show and its questions, and the exceptional performers who bring it to life.
http://www.danceartfoundation.com/differ-and-repeat.html
Joe Moran
London, 2011
Nine Moves for Pontus
Joe Moran and dancers Andrew Graham, Helka Kaski, Anne-Gaelle Thiriot and Sasha Roubicek in London share material with Pontus Pettersson in Stockholm in advance of his visit to London to join them for The Swarm Quintet, an adaptation by choreographer Joe Moran of Alex Howard’s solo choreographic score Swarm.
