Dance after Labour
Modern dance as an art form emerged at the turn of the 20th century amid the consolidating industrial capitalism and imperial land grab. By differentiating itself from social dances, in which bodies and movements were subsumed to commodified entertainment, and from the sphere of factory production, in which bodies and movements were subsumed to machines, modern dance constituted itself around the choreographic exploration of bodies and movements liberated from these coercions. This workshop speculatively explores dance’s constitutive relation to the historical transmutations of labour, how its changing forms of expression and organisation integrated post-industrialisation and how, in the present, they integrate the networked world of on-demand work. This will be a starting point for discussing how labour relations are transforming the conditions for the field and an attempt to devise choreographic propositions based on that experience.
is a researcher with a PhD on techno-politics and planetary environmental crisis from Coventry Unversity’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures. For the last twenty-odd years, he has been a member of the theory and publishing team of Multimedia Institute/MAMA and a theatremaker with the performing arts collective BADco. He is currently writing a book with his Pirate Care co-instigators, Valeria Graziano and Marcell Mars.
In English
Limited number of participants