Friday 18 May 2012
Thursday 17 May 2012
Collaboration & Production Details
Becoming Bodies (35'')
Collaboration and Production Details
Beatrice Allegranti (artistic director, film maker and choreographer) is Reader in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and
Director of the pioneering Centre for Arts Therapies Research (CATR) at the
University of Roehampton. For the past 20 years she has developed a hybrid and
path breaking approach that integrates her work as a clinician, choreographer,
dancer and filmmaker in the UK and internationally. Her engagement within the
feminist tradition stems from a desire to challenge taken-for-granted
ideas about women, men and the politics of moving bodies in science and
culture. www.embodiedpractice.co.uk
Jill Halstead (composer) is an Associate Professor at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen Norway. She is currently the Director of the Grieg Research School of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, which aims to encourage dialogue across the fields of music performance, musicology, music therapy and music education. Jill’s work is anchored in the feminist tradition and intertwines traditional research, educational innovation and creative practice. She has worked as a practitioner specialising in collaborative, interdisciplinary projects often exploring issues of identity and empowerment through music. She has worked with vulnerable young people, the long term unemployed, and offenders in prisons alongside creative projects with professional groups of musicians and dancers.
Movement devised in collaboration with dancers: Beatrice Allegranti, Jinji Garland, Layla Smith,
Geoffery Unkovich, Elizabeth Harris, Takeshi Matsumoto, Silja Ilmonen, Jason
Keenan-Smith, Meg Stewart.
Photo: Nick Du Plessis
Narrative
Extracts: Dr Murray Unkovich (Soil Scientist, University of Adelaide,
Australia), Dr Ann McNeill (Soil
Scientist, University of Adelaide, Australia), Professor Alexandre
Quintanilha (Biologist and Physicist,
Director, Institute for Molecular and
Cell Biology, Porto), Dr Nuno Ferrand (Evolutionary
Biologist, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Porto),
Professor Sarah Franklin (Medical
Anthropologist, Cambridge University), Professor John Dupré (Director, ESRC Centre for Genomics in
Society, Exeter University), Dr Christine Hauskeller (Deputy Director, ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, Exeter University).
Science Communication: Sonia Martins (IBMC INEB Porto)
Photography for exhibition: Jackie King (British Photographer of the Year) &
Nick Du Plessis.
Motion graphics, Graphic design and publicity: Neil Max Emmanuel (Channel 4, Time Team, BBC,
Fulcrum, Feelgood Fiction, History Channel, National Geographic).
Production Team: TVR
Roehampton.
Collaboration and Production Details
Beatrice Allegranti (artistic director, film maker and choreographer) is Reader in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and
Director of the pioneering Centre for Arts Therapies Research (CATR) at the
University of Roehampton. For the past 20 years she has developed a hybrid and
path breaking approach that integrates her work as a clinician, choreographer,
dancer and filmmaker in the UK and internationally. Her engagement within the
feminist tradition stems from a desire to challenge taken-for-granted
ideas about women, men and the politics of moving bodies in science and
culture. www.embodiedpractice.co.uk
Jill Halstead (composer) is an Associate Professor at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen Norway. She is currently the Director of the Grieg Research School of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, which aims to encourage dialogue across the fields of music performance, musicology, music therapy and music education. Jill’s work is anchored in the feminist tradition and intertwines traditional research, educational innovation and creative practice. She has worked as a practitioner specialising in collaborative, interdisciplinary projects often exploring issues of identity and empowerment through music. She has worked with vulnerable young people, the long term unemployed, and offenders in prisons alongside creative projects with professional groups of musicians and dancers.
Movement devised in collaboration with dancers: Beatrice Allegranti, Jinji Garland, Layla Smith, Geoffery Unkovich, Elizabeth Harris, Takeshi Matsumoto, Silja Ilmonen, Jason Keenan-Smith, Meg Stewart.
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| Photo: Nick Du Plessis |
Narrative
Extracts: Dr Murray Unkovich (Soil Scientist, University of Adelaide,
Australia), Dr Ann McNeill (Soil
Scientist, University of Adelaide, Australia), Professor Alexandre
Quintanilha (Biologist and Physicist,
Director, Institute for Molecular and
Cell Biology, Porto), Dr Nuno Ferrand (Evolutionary
Biologist, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Porto),
Professor Sarah Franklin (Medical
Anthropologist, Cambridge University), Professor John Dupré (Director, ESRC Centre for Genomics in
Society, Exeter University), Dr Christine Hauskeller (Deputy Director, ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, Exeter University).
Science Communication: Sonia Martins (IBMC INEB Porto)
Motion graphics, Graphic design and publicity: Neil Max Emmanuel (Channel 4, Time Team, BBC, Fulcrum, Feelgood Fiction, History Channel, National Geographic).
Production Team: TVR
Roehampton.
Screening/Installation Requirements:
an exhibition space large enough for mounting photography and text (approx 20
images) and a screening space.
Duration: Two
weeks maximum.
Partners: Fundação
para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT),
hybrid Conversations between science and art:
Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology (IBMC) with the National Museum of Porto, University of Roehampton (Department of Psychology), Grieg Academy of Music (University of Bergen).
Monday 14 May 2012
Background Information
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| Photo: Nick Du Plessis |
Becoming Bodies is a new (35 minute) dance-science film by Beatrice Allegranti
The film emerged as a result of an artistic collaboration with the Institute for Cell and molecular Biology
in Porto and the Grieg Academy of Music (University of Bergen) from 2009-2011. During this time Beatrice Allegranti conducted filmed interviews with
leading UK, German and Portuguese scientists and philosophers in the fields of
evolutionary biology and genomics. These interviews reveal individuals who
‘birth’ ideas and unveil the frameworks in which they operate. As such, the
interviews influenced the development of the film and form a direct part of the
film sound score by Jill Halstead.
Becoming Bodies aims to generate
public curiosity about the revolutionary alliance between biology and body
politics in a culturally accessible way. In particular, the film highlights how
bodies are sexed and gendered through a mutually influencing and at times,
pernicious process of biological and
social construction.
Keep an eye out for updates and forthcoming screenings.
See: www.embodiedpractice.co.uk for more details
Keep an eye out for updates and forthcoming screenings.
See: www.embodiedpractice.co.uk for more details
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