waves

Choreography: Helen Kindred & Dancers
Sound: Jóhann Jóhannsson,  Divine Objects: Pt.1 and Pt.2, To fold and remain Dormant, Two is Aprocyphal, Ben Frost, Trauma Theory, with vocals and spoken word composed and performed by Mariana Isabel Carvalho Rocha. 
Visual image/documentation: Cheniece Warner 
Dancers: Roxana Beca, Narina Bîra, Evie Cummings, Macy Dear, Tegan Emery-Barker, Kat Kirwin, Cayleigh Long, Elsa Percival, Ellie Pirie, Ashleigh Stohr, Kaudia Sykut, Sophia Towli

waves
in-motion
passing
encounters 
changing
transforming
body-space-environment
waves is a collaborative exploration, an environment of moevement, sound, light and image. Each element in relation with each other, in continuous flow from the serene to the abject, on-going transformations of bodies and environment.

 

 

Dr Helen Kindred 

Helen Kindred is a dance artist-scholar whose work is underpinned by the practice and philosophy of Bartenieff Fundamentals a life-practice. Helen has toured internationally as a performer, working with Daghdha Dance Company, Janet Kaylo, Doug Varone and Dancers, taught within and beyond formal education and presented choreographic work at venues, festivals and conferences over the past twenty-eight years. Helen is Co-Artistic Director of DancingStrong Movement Lab with Adesola Akinleye, a company committed to access and opportunity in dance and the arts for all and teaches across the undergraduate and post-graduate dance and professional practice programmes at Middlesex University. Her work engages with people and places, creating improvisations of touch, text and image and has been presented as part of the InsideOut Festival, London (2015), 4th International Festival of Theatre and Dance, Wałbryzch, Poland (2016), estancias coreograficas symposium, Oviedo, Spain (2017), Light Moves Festival of ScreenDance, Limerick, Ireland (2018), Inshadow Festival of ScreenDance, Lisbon, Portugal (2018), Seya Festival of ScreenDance, Tehran, Iran (2019), The Place, London (2020) and as part of Global Water Dances, London 2021. Publications include ‘In-the-Between-ness: Decolonising and re-inhabiting our dancing’, co-authored chapter with Dr Adesola Akinleye in Narratives in Black British Dance Embodied Perspectives (Akinleye, A. (ed. 2018), KnowingUnknowing, co-authored DVD published by Farpoint Recordings (2019), ‘Improvisation and Change’ article in Animated (Summer 2020). Helen has been Guest Editor of Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices special issue ‘Wright-ing the Somatic: Narrating the Bodily’ (Summer 2019). 

http://www.helen-kindred.com