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TEACHING & FACILITATION
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'They Gather'
Responding to shared and personal need, crisis, and underbellies of now, ‘They Gather’ creates gatherings: in vulnerability, in celebration, to be heard, and to find meaning.
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Blending visceral and sensitive movement with original soundscapes and voice, 'They Gather' asks us to engage with each other, our environment and our humanity.
“They Gather...has the potential to encapsulate global politics and humanity's empathy in intimate and bespoke site activations, in theatre performances and community engagement programs. The work places people at its core coupled with an exquisite immersive soundscape. It is visually stunning and an important contribution to the cannon of performance art”
Kate Usher, Festival Director, Supercell Festival Of Contemporary Dance
BRIDGET FISKE & JOSEPH LAU with STELIOS MANOUSAKIS & STEPHANIE PAN and COLLABORATING PERFORMERS
‘They Gather' is an international multimodal and interdisciplinary project creating ‘gatherings’ of people, action, dance, sound, and music.
These interrelated performances explore the boundaries between audience, participant, and performer in public, festival and cultural spaces subsequently creating dialogue with environments, societies, politics, and histories and creating speculative futurologies. 'They Gather' aims to empower and create dialogue around the complexities and polarities of contemporary living.
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‘They Gather’ was developed through observations formed across 20 years of socially and politically engaged artistic practice, ideas and reflections on the relationship between the individual and the collective, and being inspired by Nonviolent Communication and the feminist philosophy “the personal is political”.
​​Works have been presented to date at/by: The Lowry (UK), The Place & Chisenhale Dance’s 'How Do We Tune Into Sensation?' festival (UK), Modern Body Laboratory (NL), Rewire international electronic music festival on-line edition (NL) , and Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance (AUS).
Delivery of engagement activity, and creative performance projects has occurred with: The Lowry Centre for Advanced Training (UK), University of Salford (UK), HWY Festival at La Boite Theatre Company (AUS), Supercell Festival Of Contemporary Dance (AUS), Queensland Academy Creative Industries (AUS), ATOM Choreographic Series (BG), and HOME Centro Coreographica (IT).
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Find out more: https://www.projectauske.com/they-gather