Alexandra Wingate
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In a time of increasing complexity, fragmentation, and systemic crisis, how might we artistically and collectively sense and respond to the forces shaping our lived experiences? How can the body become a site of knowledge, not only for personal expression but also for collective understanding and transformation? Choreo-Constellating is an emergent artistic practice that offers
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A interview with Liv Schellander and Alexandra Wingate talkning about Animalarium, Choreo- Constellating and the Perform Europe project Animalariums´ Constellations. By Ingeborg Zackariassen. Published by 3:e Våningen September 2024. Link to interview.
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We are interested in the relationship between “Being” and “Showing” in our own field of contemporary dance, but also as a factor in show formats such as sports, self-produced material for social media, live streamed pornography, surveillance footage. And in show formats where humans are not the primary performative subject / object such as in
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In our first series of works, Shows for Extinction, Shows for Shows, Animalarium – a pop-up Zoo and Animalarium, we use the screen as a medium to challenge the threshold of how we experience live and recorded. Our aim is to explore methods that allow Animalarium to have two or more show formats happening simultaneously
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At the core of our approach to making and presenting our first works Animalarium – a pop-up Zoo and Animalarium, is a playful spontaneous creativity akin to how we played as children. It is the approach that underlines how we make, build, and transform our movement materials and scores. And it is recognisable in how we utilize costume
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The author and literature critic J.MCoetzee writes “And indeed it is on creatures least able to bear confinement- creatures who conform least to Descartes’s picture of the soul as a pea imprisoned in a shell, to which further imprisonment is irrelevant-that we see the most devastating effects: in zoos, in laboratories, institutions where the flow
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