Dear MAPP Community

I come to my blog a little late than some so apologies for that. However, I have very much enjoyed the discussions so far and how we are all learning from each other. 

As a dance artist whose preoccupation is how to communicate through the act of making I am less at home with this world of words - how can we manipulate their limitations to express what the body can find in endless possibilities- and yet the nettle must be grasped. I sympathise with any of you who might feel the precariousness of this task. So we can find solise in the writings of others. I mentioned in the discussion on Sunday Anthropologist Tim Ingold in his book 'Making' puts it thus:

'Making..is a process of correspondences not the imposition of preconceived form on raw material substance, but the drawing out or bringing forth of potentials immanent in a world of becoming. In the phenomenal world, every material is such a becoming, one path or trajectory through a maze of trajectories.' (Ingold 2013 p.31)

While Ingold may refer here to the artisan and her/his/their material we can imaginatively consider our bodies, our writing, our thoughts enlivened through a process of correspondences within and without. 

You may want to follow phenomenology with writers Merleau-Ponty, and one could also reference Deleuze and Guattari - Ingold draws on them in this book. 

To other matters we are excited that Middlesex University through its partnership with Dance Umbrella have made the Digital Pass available to all performance students for free! Take a look here:

 

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Dear Anne, With September now upon us we’re excited that it’s nearly Dance Umbrella Festival time. We hope you, your students and staff will enjoy our programme of digital performances, in-conversations, articles and discussions.  Don’t miss Choreographer’s Cut with Claire Cunningham, Nora Chipaumire and Eddie Ladd; brand new digital performances from Jade Hackett and SAY; in-conversations, a panel discussion, articles and Dimitris Papaioannou’s Nowhere – the first time this full edit of the filmed version has been released online.  Explore the digital events below and we can’t wait for you to join us this October!    Middlesex University Digital Pass For 2021 we are pleased to be piloting a Digital Pass with your institution, which will give you exclusive access to all digital content within this year’s festival. Content will be released throughout the festival, and once live, all content will be available on demand until Sunday 31 October*. The promo code MIDDLESEX gives you this content for FREE. To activate the code, select the minimum price (£5), which will be discounted when you enter your code. Having trouble? Please check out our FAQs * with the exception of Dimitris Papaioannou's Nowhere, which is available until Sunday 24 October   Get Digital Pass   Watch the 2021 Festival trailer     Choreographer’s Cut Online from Friday 8 October, 10am BST  Step inside the mind of a choreographer as Nora Chipaumire, Claire Cunningham and Eddie Ladd give an in-depth commentary on a recent work and discuss their creative process with Dance Umbrella’s Artistic Director and Chief Executive Freddie Opoku-Addaie.      Give Them Their Flowers | artists in conversation with Jade Hackett Online from Friday 8 October, 10am BST  Join performer, actress and choreographer Jade Hackett as she shines a spotlight on five artists who have and continue to make significant contributions to the dance world today: Ash Mukherjee, Kev ‘Renegade’ Gopie, Liza Vallance, Phillip Chbeeb and Shelley Maxwell.       Articles | Sonny Nwachukwu, Jade Hackett Online from Friday 8 October, 10am BST  Read new articles from writer, director, and performer Sonny Nwachukwu and performer, actress and choreographer Jade Hackett.      Nowhere | Dimitris Papaioannou Online from Monday 11 October, 5pm BST  Join Dance Umbrella as we present Dimitris Papaioannou’s iconic production NOWHERE – a filmed version of the original stage production. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to see the full edit released online for the very first time.       London Battle | conceived and created by Jade Hackett  Online from Thursday 14 October, 5pm BST  Bringing together some of the most exciting talent from London’s hip-hop dance scene, London Battle is a celebration of the capital’s globally renowned dance and music culture. Witness dancers go head-to-head with a diverse range of styles to create a thrilling digital dance performance.       SAY: AF (And Friends) Online from Monday 18 October, 5pm BST  SAY: AF (And Friends) is a dance film collaboration produced by Dance Umbrella between dance artists Sarah Golding and Yukiko Masui and an exciting range of music artist collaborators. Merging dance influences, SAY create their own unique dance style.      Panel Discussion | curated and hosted by Valerie Ebuwa Live discussion via Zoom on Wednesday 20 October, 11.30am BST  Join DU for an online panel discussion curated and hosted by freelance dance artist, activist, writer and model Valerie Ebuwa.      Explore our live festival performances                 Dance Umbrella | West Wing | Somerset House | WC2R 1LA  020 7257 9380 Charity registration number 277221  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. Read our Privacy Policy here.     Copyright © 2021 Dance Umbrella, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you are the recipient of a Dance Umbrella promotion. Our mailing address is: Dance Umbrella Somerset House West Wing, Strand London, Greater London WC2R 1LA United Kingdom Add us to your address book