Saturday Artists 5 MARCH 3 Marina Abib Main space 12 Main space
Joel & Pete Marcella StĂŠen Main space 9 James Morgan Main space 15 Jonathan Rogerson waterloo room/bar 17 Stijin Demeulenaere basement 14 The Control Room Cloakroom 20 Amy Ling & Al Hodgson bar (Video booth) 16 Bella Comaschi around the venue 19 Anne Verheij Outside the Cloakroom 10
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Sunday Artists 6 MARCH
Virginia Scudiletti main space 2 Susan Sentler Main space 18 Subtle Kraft Co. Waterloo room 6 SlapDash Main space 8 Irene Russolillo Main space 4 Traceworks Main space 13 The Hiccup Project Main space 11 Backspace Collective Main space 5 SalsaRosa Main space 7 Bella Comaschi around the venue 16 Jonathan Rogerson waterloo room/bar 15 Stijin Demeulenaere basement 17 The Control Room Cloakroom 14 Amy Ling & Al Hodgson Main space (Video booth) 20 Anne Verheij Outside the Cloakroom 19
Welcome to Swallowsfeet 2016 to Brighton’s only annual dance festival to a weekend of eclectic and experiential performance to twenty original dance and performance works from exceptional local, national and international artists
Thank you to The Old Market and their wonderful team, upstairs and downstairs to our featured artists, choreographers and performers to our audience, you, for joining us at this Festival, and supporting these artists
We invite you to roam freely through the venue to experience new ideas to discover new artists to enjoy!
Saturday & Sunday
The Swallowsfeet Collective Eight artists, choreographers and performers, Five nationalities, living and working in six different cities. We bring together dance artists, at all stages of their careers, through their shared drive to show innovative work in new spaces. The Swallowsfeet Festival is an open environment for artists to take risks, present ideas, share work, and connect with other artists. This artistic community is what influences us in our work that continues all year round: in performance, delivering workshops and during residencies. Our work is a reflection of our democratic working mode both in choreography and production. Swallowsfeet was originally founded as a performance platform in 2013 by Jessica Miller, a Brighton born dance artist. After the first two successful editions, with more artists keen to share their work and a growing audience Jessica initiated the start of the collective and kickstarted the evolution of the festival. Now in 2016, our Swallowsfeet community is bigger than ever. The collective received over 100 applications from all over the world (from Brighton to Brazil, Norway to New York) to participate in this year’s Festival. The programme has increased from one day to six days including classes, workshops, discussion, installation, socials and much more. Enjoy! We look forward to seeing you again very soon.
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Sunday
Sputi
Main space
Sputi was created and produced within Inteatro Festival Academy Thanks to: Claudia Dias, John Ashford, Nick Figgis, Inteatro, Spazio Saravà, Clarence Mews creatives (Caroline Salem)
Company/Artist: Virginia Scudeletti Performers: Virginia Scudeletti Music/Sound: Virginia Scudeletti
Solo
The body is a place of passage in a cyclical process of exchange with the surrounding environment. Sputi is a contradiction in its ultimately passionate critic of a consumeristic society devoted to the multinationals gods. The performer inhabits a sterile, transparent space, engaging with different means of expression: from an alchemy of spits and colours, to the use of words, advertising, music and movement, in the attempt to finally say the names, numbers and even the ingredients of what defines us as human beings.
Virginia is a dance artist who works with compositional methods exploring the territory of the planned and the improvised. Her choreographic work has been shown at Laban Centr , Teatro Dom, Vaults Festival, Inteatro Festival, OT301, The Place.
Virginia Scudiletti 2
Marina Abib
3 Main space
For those who embrace me under storm, Jo達o Felipe Wallig, Vera Abib and Mauricio Candusso. For the best brother I never had, Eduardo Camargo. For the partnership, Maria Eugenia Almeida. For the love and care, Angelo Madureira and Ana Catarina Vieira
Company/Artist and Performer: Marina Abib Music/Sound: Eduardo Camargo
Solo
Saturday
A Cabra
A Cabra is a process of honest exposure of recognition about yourself. Your instincts, emotions, and dreams built from a collective ground. A Cabra is the female who digs up the roots. A Cabra is the wild animal, rebel.
Marina Abib Candusso is a dancer and foundress of the Soma Company, from S達o Paulo, Brazil. Degree in Social Sciences develops ongoing research, through theoretical references and fieldwork experiences, about the construction of a contemporary corporeality developed through the matrix of Brazilian traditional dances.
Sunday
The Speech (Extract)
Main space
Creation lisi estaras and irene russolillo Performance Irene Russolillo Production Fondazione Musica per Roma, ALDES. Collaborations les ballets C de la B/studio-Gent, MonkeyMind vzw, Santarcangelo dei Teatri irenerussolillo.com, aldesweb.org
Company/Artist: lisi estaras/irene russolillo Performers: Irene Russolillo Music/sound: call me maybe carly rae jepsen
Solo
Based on a recent solo by Estaras, the speech is a new attempt in trying to fill up our personal “empty spaces”. Using our physical and emotional memories can help us to bring them once more close to us. It allows us to get carried away, to manipulate our own story, somehow, similar to many others. A chaotic attempt to talk to the audience and even better, make the audience read our thoughts and language ,made up of extreme gestures. An invitation that reveals something intimate. A desperate and beautiful call or maybe just an excuse to show the very raw of what we are made of.
Lisi is an Argentinian Belgium based performer and chorepgrapher, part of Les Ballets C de la B. She worked with the Batsheva Ensemble, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Alain Platel. She collaborated with several other artists internationally. Irene is an italian performer and choreographer, winning Best Performer Equilibrio Roma 2014, 19Masdanza Best Performer Prize, Prospettiva Danza Prize for choreography 2015; also candidated as a finalist Premio Virginia Reiter, for the best young Italian actress.
Irene Russolillo 4
Sunday
Unbaptised Infants
Main space
Thank you to Backspace Collective for their guidance, to Nick Burge for continued technical support, to Elinor Lewis our rehearsal director, and to Sarah Hoyle for supporting poor penniless artists
Company/Artist: Backspace Collective /Lorea Burge & Hannah Parsons Performers: Lorea Burge, Hannah Parsons
Duet
This is a poem called Thanks You ahh but here To ahh here Welcome A collaboration between two people stuck in a state of transition, condemned to limbo, beginning a quest for happiness. Poetry, not-poetry and rhythmic dancing will do (for now) in this ambitious attempt to find structure and meaning to life. We have not found the meaning of life – However, if you have any revelations, please let us know.
Hannah and Lorea are both founding members of Backspace Collective (est. 2012) and graduates of Trinity Laban. As freelance artists, they have both worked with choreographers including Susan Sentler and Seke Chimutengwende, Lorea with Marina Collard, Kate Johnson among others, and Hannah with Kristian Tirsgaard, and Sarah Blanc.
Backspace Collective 5
Traceworks
Jonathan Rogerson
Images courtesy of The Place Photo: Federico Lupo
The Swallowsfeet Collective
Photo: GChome
Irene Russolillio
Photo: Marta Comesa単a
Anne Verhij
Virginia Scudiletti
Photo: Nick Figgis
Sunday
Hiatus Hiatus is a duet by inclusive contemporary dance company, Subtle Kraft Co. Two dancers, an intimate setting and audience. A relationship is created in front of your eyes from close proximity, near misses, adjustments and responses. How does touch (or lack of it) become a marker of how a relationship develops and what is the nature of this relationship? Why is it that when we’re deprived of one thing, everything else becomes so much more poignant? The dancers and audience both wonder if touch will come…and then what?
Waterloo room
Thanks to Contact Theatre (Manchester) and all involved in Sensored Festival where this work was initially created; Miau Vartianen, Anna Bergstrom and to Candoco Dance Company for their continued support
Company/Artist: Subtle Kraft Co. Performers: Kimberley Harvey & Robert Hesp Music/Sound: Jose Puello
Duet
Left to unfold before them in that place, in that moment.
Subtle Kraft Co. is an inclusive contemporary dance company that places great emphasis on communication and what it means to be human. Our work centres around relationships in various forms with their many intricacies and complexities. We’re excited by work that allows us to connect with audiences in different ways.
Subtle Kraft Co. 6
Sunday
Everything was Forever, Until it was No More
Main space
Special thanks to Pietro for giving shape to our sound landscape, Ingvild for commissioning the piece, Arte Danza Lecco and Dance_B Milano for supporting it
Company/Artist: SalsaRosa Performers: Elisa Vassena and Stella Papi Music/Sound: edited by Pietro Magnani (extracts from Pink Floyd, Pino de Vittorio and Kraftwerk)
Duet
…’Once there was a king, sitting on an armchair, who asked his servant tell me a story, and the servant began: Once there was a king, sitting on an armchair… A story which could uniquely be made of beginnings and endings, or neither of those, and inspired by those places that are left in ruins. In the echo of these non-places, two performers, acting as explorers, undertake a research on the notion of time and eternity.
SalsaRosa is a duo formed by Elisa Vassena and Stella Papi, freelance dance artists and performers based in London, making work together since 2013. They have performed in Italy, Holland, Norway, and recently won the Deptford X 2015 Fringe Festival’s first prize with their latest piece On Air.
SalsaRosa 7
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SlapDash SlapDash is a collaborative cross art form project, founded by Tina Krasevec and David Leahy 10 years ago. They have maintained very close professional ties working at Trinity Laban as dance lecturer on the BA programme and dance musician/researcher respectively. More recently SlapDash has perfromed at different venues and festivals and collaborated with Sidney Cooper Gallery, St Gregory’s music centre and Turner Contemporary.
Main space
Company/Artist: SlapDash Performers: Tina Krasevec, David Leahy and Nigeria Music/Sound: Live sound
Duet
Trio for Two is a project that explores the two art forms of dance and music, with a particular focus on investigating the different possibilities of relationship between the two performers and a double bass. The idea originates in the premise that a musical instrument (double bass in our case), is not just a passive artefact producing sound, but has its own identity and presence within a performance environment.
Trio for Two Sunday
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James Morgan & Charley Fone This is a collaborative project by choreographer/performer, James Morgan and theatre-maker, Charley Fone. We’ve worked together since 2013, and co-devise the work from conception to performance. In the studio we seek to create a feeling of play and potentiality, devising through dialogue, improvisation and task-based work.
Main space
Special thanks to The Place and Yorkshire Dance for supporting us in this project Vieira
Company/Artist: James Morgan & Charley Fone Performers: James Morgan and Charley Fone Music/Sound: Designed by Thomas Yeomans Including track: Morgawr by Wilfred Petherbridge
Duet
The world is ending. Please join us for one last dance.
A Dance for the End of the World Saturday
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Marcella Stéen Marcella Stéen is a Swedish-Chilean artist intrigued by the sufficient, smirks and everyday performance. Practice consists of working with emptying, with being moved. Stéen questions what the movement is for us, and what the movement is per se. Lisa Gustafsson is a Swedish artist, here co-working with Stéen.
Main space
Thank you to Lisa Gustafsson, my sibling Victor Stéen, Simon Halvarsson and Swallowsfeet
Company/Artist: Marcella Stéen Performers: Lisa Gustafsson, Marcella Stéen
Duet
Not doing like before. Nothing new. Only do. Do do do. Do do do do do do. Do, be, do.
Ultimate Fighting Saturday
Sunday
It’s Okay, I’m Dealing With it
Main space
Thanks to South East Dance, Elise Phillips
@thehiccupproj www.thehiccupproject.com
Company/Artist: The Hiccup Project Performers: Francesca Dillon-Reams, Cristina Mackerron
Duet
Award winning, dance-theatre duo present an extract of their new show; an honest, raw and humorous insight into how we cope with our imperfections and vulnerabilities. Cristina & Chess both knocked out their front teeth in traumatic accidents with lasting effects. In a culture preoccupied with perfect smiles and keeping a stiff upper lip, how do we deal with painful experiences? What happens if we don’t want to deal with them? Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we bawl our bloody eyes out and sometimes we try our best to distract ourselves. But don’t worry it’s okay, we’re dealing with it.
The Hiccup Project, a Brighton based Company, formed in 2014. Their first work May-We-Go-Round? was performed at swallowsfeet2015 and Brighton Fringe, winning the South East Dance Award and Fringe Review Award for Outstanding Theatre. This new work is supported by Arts Council, and will be performed in Brighton Fringe 2016.
The Hiccup Project 11
The Hiccup Project
Photo: Tim Andrews
Subtle Kraft Co.
SlapDash
Photo: Miau Vartiainen Photo: Neil Sloman
BackSpace Collective
Joel & Pete
Photo: Finn White-Thompson
Photo: Maria Jansson Lothe
James Morgan
SalsaRosa
Photo: Elena Schondorf Photo: Dan Saggars
Saturday
Dragging Words
Main space
Special thanks to Heloise O’Donoghue, Paul Tucker, Martin Moriarty, Daniel Fulvio, Rosemary Maltezos and Amy Welch, as well as to all those that have supported Joel & Pete over the last few years
Company/Artist: Joel & Pete Performers: Joel O’Donoghue and Pete Yelding Music/Sound: Dragging Words, Pete Yelding
Duet
Dragging Words wasn’t originally about anything. Joel & Pete began creating the piece without any concept or story in mind (they weren’t even sure if they were making a piece or not). Pete taught Joel how to sing (a bit) and Joel taught Pete a short movement phrase. As a result of this, and other tasks the pair set one another, they created Dragging Words. The end result is something that reflects the development of their collaborative process. Despite their initial aimlessness they have found an understanding of who they are to one another within the work. This is their take on the quirks of London Underground.
Joel began collaborating with Pete in 2013, during Crash Festival, Birmingham. Since then they have continued to develop their artistic partnership, exploring the mutual coexistence between dance and music. Over the last year they have invited a mixture of directors, performers and designers to collaborate with them on a variety of different projects.
Joel & Pete 12
Traceworks
13 Main space
Many thanks to Ali Steele and the staff at Academy Performing Arts (Greenwich Leisure Ltd) for their rehearsal space and continued support
Name of Company/Artist: Traceworks Performers: Julian David Lewis, James Aiden Kay, Catrin Lewis, Jessica Haener, Rosa Firbank Music/Sound: Twelfth Street Rag, Business in F, Black and Tan Fantasy, Teddy Bears’ Picnic, White Heat – recorded by Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra Lighting Designer: Lucy Hansom
Trio +
Sunday
Jazz Scene
Syncopated, spirited and impulsive, Jazz Scene is a physical reaction to the upbeat, nostalgic accompaniment of the irresistible Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra. Collaborative ensemble, Traceworks, presents a medley of short dances. The dancers interweave, accent and contrast to the lively and characteristic music. 5,6,7,8... Get ready for a dynamic quintet.
Traceworks explores artistic integrity and ownership by collaborating with other art forms, improvisation and searching for a new choreographic toolkit. Co-directed by Julian David Lewis and James Aiden Kay, Traceworks aspires to engage with a variety of audiences and communities with its both thought-provoking and accessible work.
Saturday & Sunday
The Control Room
Cloakroom
Many thanks to hARTSlane Studios, London and Swallowsfeet Festival
Company/Artist and Performers: Killian Butler, Phoebe Knight & Beatrix Joyce Music/Sound: Beatrix Joyce
Installation
Would you rather experience a series of misfortunes or sit around doing nothing ? An interactive installation inspired by excessive waste and our political climate. Welcome to The Control Room. Your goal is to maintain the balance of morality in a space inhabited by an overseer. The key to success is undecided. The Control Room is your challenge. Let’s begin. One-to-one durational performance
The Control Room was conceived in April 2015 as part of HUIS CLOS, an arts initiative with interdisciplinary collaboration at its core. It was built in Hartslane Studios in New Cross, London and it has been shown at a variety of events in multiple formats.
Killian Butler, Phoebe Knight & Beatrix Joyce 14
Saturday & Sunday
Nobody Knows Where My Johnny Has Gone
Waterloo room/bar
Special thanks to Robert Jack
Company/Artist and Performer: Jonathan Rogerson
Performance
Nobody Knows Where My Johnny Has Gone is a magnification of a moment of pop-song despair. An act of digging into sentimentality. An intimate, sound-based performance, taking the form of a choir of one. Responding to the striking recurrence of the name Johnny in popular music, the performance asks: who is Johnny, and what does he reflect about our anxieties and desires? Both the broken voice calling out to Johnny and its echo returning from the dark.
Jonathan Rogerson is a London-based artist making work which intersects theatre and live art. he has presented solo performances at venues across the UK and in Italy, and continues to work as a collaborative theatre maker.
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Stijn Demeulenaere
Susan Sentler
Photo: Stijn Demeulenaere
Bella Comaschi
The Control Room
Photo: Beatrix Joyce
Photo: Bella Comaschi
Mariana Abib
Photo: Mauricio Candusso
Marcella StĂŠen
Amy Ling & Al Hodgson
Photo: Al Hodgson
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Bella Comaschi Since graduating from Brighton Arts University, my travels around Japan, Australia and New Zealand have heavily influenced my illustration. Mainly drawing based, I work with a variety of mediums and use geometric shapes combined with realistic drawing methods. Expressing the human form and the power of nature in a surrealist manor. Working with the idea that a photograph and a drawing can both stop time itself, capturing a glimpse of a dance piece that evokes emotion through a story is both interesting and important for visual documentation.
Around the venue
bellacomaschi.tumblr.com
Exhibition
I endeavor to capture the fluid actions of dancers, which are visually and aesthetically intriguing. Visual communication is a growing field where diverse practices can collaborate to form new, innovative ideas. I am delighted to be part of Swallowsfeet and hope to produce some really exciting work.
Drawing from Life... Saturday & Sunday
Saturday & Sunday
Pressure Sequence
Basement
www.stijndemeulenaere.be
Installation
What happens if you strip away the visual layer of dance? What remains of dance when we can’t see it? Pressure Sequence is an installation exploring the physicality of dance, the intimacy of the moving body. It’s a surround sound installation that puts the spectator between invisible dancing bodies. He hears people shuffling around him, breathing down his neck, jumping into thin air. All visual cues removed, the spectator stands alone in the complete dark, having only the sound to hold on to. The moving bodies needs to be completed by the spectator, thus imagining a performance completely his own.
Stijn Demeulenaere is a sound artist from Brussels, Belgium. He creates soundscapes, installations and performances, and is currently researching the sonic possibilities of contemporary dance as artist in residence of the Pianofabriek Arts Lab. He has worked with choreographers like Veli Lehtovaara, Marisa Cabal, Stav Yeini and Georgia Vardarou.
Stijn Demeulenaere 17
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Susan Sentler Susan Sentler is an artist, working as a choreographer, teacher, researcher, and performer. Her practice has a focus on site specific/gallery contexts. Susan’s films and installation work have been exhibited in Europe, USA, and Asia. Currently she is a Lecturer of Dance at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore.
Main space
Thank you to the artists of Swallowsfeet for collaborating within this work
Company/Artist: Susan Sentler Performers: response by the members of Swallowsfeet Music/Sound: from Hajsch 1992
Installation
The little red dot is a term referring to the country/state of Singapore. This work is a mode of connection into a new place, a new habitus… by exploring Singapore’s HDB housing; their seductive repetitious linear designs that communicate into the spectator’s embodiment.
Connecting Lines Within the Dot Sunday
Saturday & Sunday
Ones 2 women 2 countries 2 disciplines ------1 installation
Outside the cloakroom
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Artist: Anne Verheij Performers: Miku Tsuchiya Sound: Jack Goodwin
Installation
Ones is a collaboration between Dutch visual artist Anne Verheij and Japanese choreographer Miku Tsuchiya, in which film and dance are explored across various urban sites in London. Ones aims to engage the spectator through juxtaposing two dance films created out of the same footage, capturing the individual’s rhythm beating amidst the pulse of the restless city.
Anne Verheij is a Dutch visual artist based in London. Working primarily with dance and often employing improvisation in her process, she explores rhythm, movement and light to create dynamic multi screen video installations.
Anne Verheij 19
Saturday & Sunday
KinaeStatic KinaeStatic; a collaborative, audiovisual film piece uniting choreography and experimental video synthesis in a stylistic and unorthodox communication of human movement and mannerism within dance. Set to a bespoke electronic score, KinaeStatic uses experimental analog video processes and glitch-pattern to highlight the structured dance technique and fragmented shape and pattern in a choreographed work by dancer Amy Ling.
Bar/Main space (video booth)
Performer: Amy Ling Directed by: Amy Ling & Al Hodgson Choreography: Amy Ling Soundtrack: Trespur Cinematography: Phoebe Fleming Post Prod./Video Synthesis: Al Hodgson Lighting: Henry Howe Lighting Assistant: Ramzey Sabbagh
Video/Film
In symbiotically combining these forms, a unique portrayal of movement is discovered; developed to interpret the unique way in which we see one another and the dance we are unconsciously dancing, whilst simultaneously nodding a psychedelic homage to an obsolete analog age.
Amy Ling is a dancer and fine artist, trained in a broad range of creative disciplines. Her work often combines surrealist chaos with structural, disciplined patterns. Al Hodgson is an experimental video artist focusing on analog process and abstract visualisation. Drawing influence from the early digital aesthetic of the 90’s; Al ranges his visual approach across film, live audiovisual performance, design and installation.
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A massive thank you to all of our wonderful and generous supporters, partners and sponsors. Without them Swallowsfeet simply would not happen. Thank you
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