"100 Ways is a survival guide, a movement score, a dance anthem created in response to what it means to be alive as a woman in a city that you want to make your home… The piece explores nourishment, being alone, feeling alive, romanticizing existence, battling stereotypes, trying to prove your worth, consumption, nesting and love. It is a distance duet made in collaboration between Jemima who lives in London and Loukia who’s currently based in Paris. It is a dance between us and the cities that we live in."
Description of no more than 200 words
Jemima and Loukia have independent practices that span across the
mediums of physical theatre, photography, performance art and installation. We
are both associates of National Art Service where we created The Winning Crowd
and In The Dark. This is the first piece they have worked on as a duo. Both
women are currently displaced immigrants in different urban environments, but
both their hearts are in London.
The piece is a survival duet. We want to perform a score using an
alphabet created from the stimuli "100 ways to survive, as a woman, in a
city, that you're trying to make your home"
A scratch showing will be a good point of evaluation for the live
work that is made over long distance. We want to use the sharing to see how
effective and accessible a made up movement alphabet can be in terms of
communicating our thoughts and creating a performance anthem that people can
dance with us.
2 Questions:
1) How do you successfully perform a duet in
two spaces (potentially countries) together?
3) How do you go about creating a performance
anthem that can an audience can replicate?
Name: Jemima Yong
Address: 242 Warehouse Court,
Major Draper Street,
Royal Arsenal Riverside,
SE18 6FF, London, UK
Contact Number: 07532187326
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