Fest en Fest 2022
22 - 27 November 2022
Varied opening times, scroll for details
Festival Opening:
Wednesday 23 November 6 - 8pm
Fest en Fest is an international festival of expanded choreography initiated and curated by H2DANCE presenting UK & Nordic artists working across dance, performance, writing and visual art.
The festival invites artists and audiences to come together for performances, discursive lunches and dinners to experience choreography in different ways.
Fest en Fest aims to expand what dance and choreography can be. It continues to twist and turn choreography by putting it in new spatial settings and relations, troubling current definitions of choreography, thinking about its potential of opening up for new kinds of structures, processes, and knowledges.
The festival explores ways to be in dialogue with the choreographic, working from how it can move and how it moves other things. So it is as much about curating choreography as choreographing the curatorial.
The festival also includes a discursive lunch program at No format gallery.
Second Floor Studios & Arts, Studio AL11, Moulding Lane, Deptford, London SE14 6BN
Includes lunch.
Please visit the Fest en Fest website to book tickets for each performance or event.
Fest en Fest is funded by Arts Council England, Embassy of Sweden London, Royal Norwegian Embassy, Finnish Institute, Embassy of Iceland, Cambridge Junction.
Partnering with APT Gallery, No Format Gallery, Trinity Laban, Firstsite, Cambridge Junction and Sadler’s Wells.
GALLERY OPENING TIMES:
Tuesday – Gallery open 12 – 5pm
Wednesday – Gallery open 12 – 8pm (performances at 5pm and 7pm, with PV from 6pm)
Thursday – Gallery open 6 - 8pm (performance 6:30 - 7:30pm)
Friday – Gallery open 5:30 - 8pm (performances 6pm and 6:45pm)
Saturday – Open 3 – 6:30pm (performances at 3pm, 4pm and 5pm)
Sunday – Open 12 – 7pm (performance 4 - 6:30pm)
Graphic Image: Kaisa Lassinaro
Tues 22 and Wed 23 November
Its contours, Its movements - Joe Moran
Exhibition: Tues 22 – Weds 23 Nov, 12-8pm
Performances (8mins): Weds 23 Nov, 5pm and 7pm
Its contours, Its movements is a two-day exhibition by artist and choreographer Joe Moran bringing together a new configuration of film, spray paint drawings and performance together navigating notions of disruption, complication and unfixity.
Drawing is an established part of Joe Moran’s choreographic work often deployed as instructional scores or as a means of documenting, processing or thinking further. During a series of artist residencies over the 18 months prior to lockdown, Joe experimented with extending his drawing practice in the spirit of expanded choreography – addressing the choreographic as a form, subject and discipline that may be distinct from dance and dancing. For this exhibition, Joe presents several spray paint drawings in varying scales from this new body of work, in counterpoint to his recent film work Materiality Will Be Rethought, presented for the first time as a large-scale installation, and two live performances of his short work Thirst.
Commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery, in dialogue with artist Carlos Bunga’s exhibition Something Necessary and Useful, Moran’s 30min film Materiality Will Be Rethought navigates dance’s potential to animate and disrupt architectural space, physicality of the voice and the moving body as a site of political unrest and complex subjectivities. In Thirst, two performers navigate a complex, shifting terrain of power, submission, complicity and consent. In a singular physical act, one moves from lying to standing to lying, mounted by another who never touches the floor.
Wednesday 23rd November 1 to 3 pm:
Fest en Fest round table at No Format Gallery.
Hanna Gillgren (SE/UK) and Heidi Rustgaard (NO/UK)
An artist get - together over lunch.
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
Thursday 24th November
Performance times:
6 pm: SERAFINE1369
A one-off group performance
Laban Studio Theatre
Thursday the 24th of November, 3 to 5 pm
Fest en Fest Alumni platform. 3 newly graduate artists from Trinity Laban and Roehampton University are presenting their works and practices.
Materiality Will Be Rethought by Joe Moran. Commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery in dialogue with the exhibition Something Necessary and Useful by Carlos Bunga. Dancers: Temitope Ajose-Cutting, Thomas Heyes, Sean Murray and Eve Stainton. Photography: Camilla Greenwell.
SERAFINE1369, 2022. Photography Katarzyna Perlak. Image Rob Heppell.
Saturday 26th November
Performance times:
3 pm: PAPERWORKSBODY a solo performance by Helka Kaski (FI/UK)
Paper works body is a playful relational gamble.
Using rolls of paper and threads, via nooks and crannies, it reveals its chanced doings and un-doings.
The collaboration between the performer and the materials creates a landscape that shifts at its own accord and pace. As the work unfolds it reveals failures and shared responsibilities. Participation is coincidental.
4pm: Two new solo works by Emilyn Claid (UK) in collaboration with Heidi Rustgaard (NO/UK) and Florence Peake (UK)
SKINNED
Emilyn Claid, queer artist in her 7th decade, transforms in performance, teasing gestures of animal and human, crossing the arc between hunted and hunter, power and pleasure, seeing and being seen. Visually intense and intimate, Skinned is made in collaboration with choreographer Heidi Rustgaard and performed to a newly commissioned score by queer pop producer Planningtorock.
Sections of material from Skinned form part of Emilyn’s new solo show emilyn claid UNTITLED.
MATERIAL
“I have squidged my left foot into a block of clay – a heavy, viscous mass – and I am scraping, clawing, molding clumps of it, slapping on shapes. This task feels erotic, a pleasurable experience, manipulating amorphous bulbous contours, forming an entity that is beginning to resemble the base of gnarled old tree trunk. At the same time, I seem to be sculpting an external manifestation of the painful swelling in my osteo-arthritic left ankle ... “ (Claid 2022)
Performed by Emilyn Claid and made in collaboration with choreographer/director Florence Peake.
Sections of material from Material form part of Emilyn’s new solo show emilyn claid UNTITLED.
Saturday 26th November 12 to 2 pm at No Format Gallery.
SERAFINE1369 and Marikiscrycrycry UK/US
Saturday 26th November 7 pm to 12 pm at VSSL Studio.
Extract of DEAD by Beauty and the Beast performed by Amanda Petrea (SE) and Halla Olafsdottir (IS/SE) with food and drink.
Beauty and the Beast is a fake band, a dance performance, a party, a workshop, a movie and a lifelong collaboration between the choreographers Amanda Apetrea and Halla Ólafsdóttir and some of their friends. Their latest dance performance is called DEAD.
Friday 25 November
Performance times:
6 pm: GOING BERSERK a solo by Marikiscrycrycry (UK/US)
GOING BERSERK is a solo choreographic research strand sitting within a wider project looking towards the aesthetics and formal tools of horror making and the live context. GOING BERSERK follows a figure, the Goner, one who is lost beyond belief, further afield, unreachable, through the physical, emotional, and geographic states of lostness, and the fear that being in this state induces for the performer and for the audience.
6.45: SWEET a solo by Stina Nyberg (SE)
”That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
- Emily Dickinson
From our discrete birth to our violent movement across the earth and our coming death. What might seem like a tragic end is probably the beginning of an unknown and shiny future without us.
Sweet is a series of personal, fictive and embodied stories that dig deep into history in order to dare to stay with the unknown future. Stories about the art of living on this planet.
www.nordbergmovement.se/stina-nyberg
Friday 25th November 1 to 3 pm at No Format Gallery
Queer Choreo Curation
Heidi Rustgaard UK/NO
Going Beserk by Malik Nashad Sharpe. Photography:10 Studios
Skinned by Emilyn Claid and Heidi Rustgaard.
Photo by Heidi Rustgaard.
Material by Emilyn Claid and Florence Peake.
Photo by Heidi Rustgaard.
Sunday 27th November
Film installation 12 to 7 pm
Performance times:
4 pm to 6.30 pm: AMPLIFIED EDITION N ° 2 by H2DANCE/Hanna Gillgren and Heidi Rustgaard
Amplified Edition N ° 2 is the 2nd part of the Amplified Edition series. The first edition was based on the black box theatre and its objects and materials. Amplified Edition N ° 2 continues this series by investigating utilitarian and omnipresent plastic sheeting. Using tarpaulin, a cheap everyday material as the prime choreographic material, the work is built around five performance activations that are performed in the gallery. Material and sound accumulate throughout the day, creating a transformative visual sound environment.
Sunday 27th November 1 to 3 pm at No Format Gallery.
Emilyn Claid UK and dramaturg Martin Hargreaves UK
Amplified Edition No. 2 by H2DANCE. Photography: Benedict Johnson