Performance links archive : On Lying and Behind Doors

On Lying - solo performance by Fiona Wright

http://www.aughterlony.com/projects/curatorial-projects/festival-des-urbaines/fiona-wright/
photos: Nelly Rodriguez
 
On Lying 2007 CHICAGO OPENPORT FESTIVAL

photos: John W Sisson



Behind Doors - solo performance by Fiona Wright

http://www.aughterlony.com/projects/curatorial-projects/house-without-a-maid/fiona-wright/

Performance links archive: salt drawing

salt drawing 

2013 France  LINK:
http://www.centrepompidou-metz.fr/en/salt-drawing
video by Becky Edmunds

 (photo credit: Ana Rita Rodrigues)

salt drawing 
 a solo performance by Fiona Wright    2004 -

a body weight measured in salt (and twice her weight as a girl)
one handful dissolved inside a skin - a close-up, uncovered
and covered, quietly now

A short solo performance (5 minutes) designed for a solo audience presented various festival contexts and sites including studio theatres, galleries, a castle and a ship’s cabin.
A short work for the audience and a long work for the performer.
(Serralves Museum for Contemporary Arts, Oporto; Bonington Gallery Nottingham 2004; Navigate festival, Baltic 2005; Gresol Art, Girona 2006).

Supported by Arts Council of England


salt drawing developed after an earlier series of short solo performances/live installations designed for a solo audience, titled:  the small stolen dances. A series of small works, drawing attention to questions of intimacy in performance, adapted for different sites and contexts; a back stage dressing room, a kitchen, a seminar room and a gallery. The performer used a compact mirror to view the audience who were invited to look at the work through opera glasses. (Inbetween Time Festival, Arnolfini; Site Gallery, Sheffield; Dia E Vento, Oporto 2001; Connecting Principle, Newcastle University 2002; Sensitive Skin, Nottingham 2003).
    This body of work was connected to …kneeling down softly/And what is something to cry about then;  a previous solo which was first performed with audience at either end of a 20 metre performance space and later for just 2 audience members as a 20 minute piece, repeated for several hours. This was the first of various pieces using mirrors and also the deadweight of 54 kg of salt, the equivalent of the performer’s own body weight. (Tramway, Glasgow; Chisenhale Dance Space, London 2001; Arnolfini, Bristol 2002).
A Tramway and Arnolfini Live co-commission.

VIDEO
salt drawing: close edit
camera & edit by Becky Edmunds

(photo credits: Ben Ponton & Lee Callaghan)

Performance links - drawing (on ) how the sun lights the earth 2015

drawing (on) how the sun lights the earth
- durational performance version: circular walking on charcoal

DECEMBER 2015 Wroclaw Poland  - Think Tank Triennale - IMAGINE
http://ttt.wroclaw.pl/en/wystawy-ttt/imagine

A solo performance by Fiona Wright

In this part of the world, at the end of each day, the solar system gives us the setting of the sun. Somewhere out to the west, not necessarily visible but perhaps in some way always present in our imagination, the nearest star sinks below the horizon. This is a moment in the day when many things still shift - we go home, we switch on electric lights, and sometimes we walk in museums.

The making of this work is held within an ongoing series of different pieces seeking to talk about not-making, ageing, disappearing, and what seems to last; about not-becoming and non-attainment.

With thanks to Lucy Cash, Andy Smith and Sonia Hughes. Supported by Arts Council England.

Fiona Wright (b. London 1966) has been making solo and collaborative performances since the late 1980s, working through choreography, writing and installation. The interest is around the (this) particular body in performance, with attention often on the detail of functional and stylised movement vocabularies and using simple resources, close to the body. This practice touches on theatricality, questions of intimacy, often bringing the audience close to the live performer.

some thoughts on the relationship between performance and drawing
the connection is process
and the connection is time
and timing

and spaces

spaces between lines, words, bodies - including all the hands and all the feet

spaces
movements

all the movement and all the restlessness

performing and drawing both become a way of being in the world or a place to be at or with it, at least for now

the actions leave traces
some kind of document manifests
necessarily uncertain and temporary

some thoughts looking for some thoughts
nothing very solid in either or in-between
yet resonating

Fiona Wright
March 2016

Awareness Through Movement 2017 WYLAM (Tyne&Wear) Saturday 22nd April

near Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

2017
Awareness Through Movement
Feldenkrais Method
Dynamic Stability in Movement

for somatic learning

the next Wylam day: 
Saturday 22nd APRIL 

11.00am-4.00pm

Wylam Institute, Wylam, Church Road, NE41 8AP, Tyne & Wear, UK
11.00am - 4.00pm
Fee only: £45 standard / £35 concession.*Booking recommended 3 weeks in advance*
CONTACT :  fionawright.05@btinternet.com
 
With a focus Awareness Through Movement we will work in gentle guided lessons with the emphasis on independent process, always finding our own pace.         
The workshops aim to offer an accessible opportunity to take some time and space to explore easier movement and somatic awareness. No particular training is necessary, just an interest in discovering through your own experience.

Bring a mat and/or blanket for floor work and warmth.
[There are regular trains, two stops from Newcastle Central to Wylam. The village is West along the River Tyne, a short walk across the bridge and up the hill. On street parking available.]

pause:reflect:awareness 2017 Workshop LONDON Saturday 11th March

pause: reflect : awareness
Spring 2017

   

with
Fiona Wright

Awareness Through Movement
 Feldenkrais Method

SATURDAY 11th March  1pm-4pm
Venue: Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, 85 St Georges Rd, SE1 6ER
(SOUTH LONDON - near Elephant & Castle / Waterloo)
**there are mats already available at this venue**

Cost: £30
ALL CONTACT, BOOKING & ENQUIRIES DIRECT TO FIONA:  fionawright.05@btinternet.com
**Good transport links and access**

pause: reflect : awareness

A short yet 'gentle intensive' 3 hour Saturday afternoon workshop, to allow space and time to go deeper than a single class might allow.

In Awareness Through Movement (Feldenkrais Method) we work slowly in guided lessons with the emphasis on independent process, always finding our own pace. Any level of experience is welcome and no particular training is necessary, simply an interest in discovering through your own movement experience - this can support other practices and generally offer more enjoyment, ease and spontaneity in everyday actions. http://www.feldenkrais.co.uk/what.html

from The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

"Having disciplined mind and body to quiescence, I must discipline them also to activity. The senses must be used. For the ear, the most vital thing that can be listened to here is silence. To bend the ear to silence is to discover how seldom it is there. Always something moves. When the air is quite still, there is always running water; and up here that is a sound that one can hardly lose, though on many stony parts of the plateau one is above the watercourses. But now and then comes an hour when the silence is all but absolute, and listening to it one slips out of time. Such a silence is not a mere negation of sound. It is like a new element, and if water is still sounding with a low far-off murmur, it is no more than the last edge of an element we are leaving, as the last edge of land hangs on the mariner’s horizon."

from  The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

written in the 1940s, first published 1977 

2011  Edinburgh & London, Canongate. [page 96]

London pause;reflect;awareness Saturday 29th October

pause: reflect : awareness
Autumn 2016

   

with
Fiona Wright

Awareness Through Movement
 Feldenkrais Method

SATURDAY 29th October  1pm-4pm
Venue: Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, 85 St Georges Rd, SE1 6ER
(SOUTH LONDON - near Elephant & Castle / Waterloo)
**there are mats already available at this venue**

Cost: £30
ALL CONTACT, BOOKING & ENQUIRIES DIRECT TO FIONA:  fionawright.05@btinternet.com
**Good transport links and access**

pause: reflect : awareness

A short yet 'gentle intensive' 3 hour Saturday afternoon workshop, to allow space and time to go deeper than a single class might allow.

In Awareness Through Movement (Feldenkrais Method) we work slowly in guided lessons with the emphasis on independent process, always finding our own pace. Any level of experience is welcome and no particular training is necessary, simply an interest in discovering through your own movement experience - this can support other practices and generally offer more enjoyment, ease and spontaneity in everyday actions. http://www.feldenkrais.co.uk/what.html