Author: Rebecca Loukes

I am on the train from Exeter to London, in the process of ‘leaving home’ and already ‘being elsewhere’ preparing to arrive and begin the exciting prospect of watching all that will develop over the coming weeks. As I posted on the forum last week, my own recent writing has been concerned with processes of transmission — in training and in developing material…

Ted talked on his post yesterday about the terms of engagement which we are using and are in the process of defining here in London.  We began Friday morning with one such very rich discussion about the word ‘cosmopolitanism’.  It derives from Greek cosmos (the universe) and polis (city) and it is…

After Martin’s seminar yesterday on Practice as Research, where he encouraged us to think about the ways we’re watching the work in the studios and how we communicate what we see, I recalled being in Riccardo’s rehearsal the previous evening.  While cueing the sound for a run through of part of a sequence he noticed his phone…

Following Martin’s blog post (Unravelling and Rewinding Identities) I was in Zhao Liang’s rehearsal yesterday afternoon.  The group was looking at a picture on an iphone of one of the intricate positions they can had created using their giant elastic band.  They were trying to solve a very concrete problem, together (see photo…

I visited Zhou Liang’s rehearsal yesterday just in time to see the first run through of the whole main sequence with music. It ‘worked’ — all the dancers ‘got through’ the webs of permutations of the elastic to the end of the piece. The choreographer was pleased and encouraging: ‘Now we have to work on the details…’ They then worked through…

During yesterday’s seminar session led by Ted Warburton, we were encouraged to think about the assumptions that we bring to this gathering and how these affect the ‘frames’ through which we view the work we’re watching.  In looking ‘Across Disciplines’ Ted used the example of sociology and how its paradigms have…

Last night we watched the first run through of all the pieces together in the theatre.  There were no lights yet, but sound was used.  It was incredibly exciting to see the work filling the space of the theatre.  Over the past days we’ve become used to observing the work ‘up close’ from…

I’ve been in Beijing for just under a week, observing the final rehearsals and performance of nine pieces selected from the past five years of ArtsCross. The programme for the show on 23rd October consisted of works by chorographers from Beijing, Taipei and London. The pieces were reworked in various ways and included some of the original dancers and some new…