Before we blissfully wish the year 2020 goodbye, we are excited to announce who is involved in leading our programme which launches in January.⁠

We are following news and guidelines closely and preparing for the spring programme to shape-shift as we go. We will soon announce full details of all classes and Research Spaces, including booking information, but for now…please save the dates!

Wishing you all a restful time over the holidays and we look forward to seeing you again soon. Let’s hope 2021 is a better year for us all!

*Please note: these classes will be available online only. ID runs MA/MFA Creative Practice in the building for 4 weeks this term with students attending class in the studio. Due to the very reduced capacity required by Covid-19 safety measures, we are unable to offer studio places in these weeks and will instead make the classes available online.

The format of both Morning Classes and Monday Night Improvisation classes will vary week by week and will adapt as required by government guidelines.

We will share full details on the format of each class one week in advance through weekly e-flyers and on social media. 

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Advance booking will be required for all classes. Bookings will open one week in advance on Mondays, and stay open until 1 hour before class starts. 

Studio-based classes | £6
Online offering (resources or Zoom classes) | £4

Kinesthesia is a new festival curated by Dominique Rivoal and Adesola Akinleye (Middlesex Uni), Claire Loussouarn (Goldsmiths), freelance film curator Gitta Wigro and Heni Hale & Nikki Tomlinson (ID).
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At the intersection of dance, somatic practices, experimental film and sensory ethnography, Kinesthesia will bring together artists, scholars, researchers, filmmakers and dancers, inviting submissions of work, from any discipline and format.⁠
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Kinesthesia focuses on the body as the agent of seeing rather than as an object of display while challenging the domination of the visual over other senses in our culture. ⁠
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It will offer a creative exploration of the relationship between sensory moving bodies, and a screening space or platform - fusing two distinct sites in which the codes and conventions of each medium are inextricably linked.⁠

We specifically invite submissions which address experiences, approaches and histories which are traditionally underrepresented in dance, somatics and moving image; as well as submissions from filmmakers and visual artists that explore the kinesthetic and embodied aspect of filmmaking.⁠

Alongside film submissions we invite proposals for short movement workshop sessions that invite an active way of seeing screenwork.

Kinesthesia is part-funded by the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries Middlesex University. 

Click here for full details

Click here for more info on MA/MFA Creative Practice

ID's programme is open to disabled and non-disabled dance artists. Our work is not based on a normative view of the human body, and we strive at all times to create a context where artists with disabilities work as equal participants. We learn about this continually from the artists with whom we work.

Siobhan Davies Studios is fully accessible to wheelchair users, with lifts to both floors. There are two accessible parking spaces available on site which can be booked in advance.

The Roof Studio is fitted with an infra red audio system and both studios have an induction loop hearing system. We are currently not financed to provide BSL interpretation or audio description for events in the building.

Please contact us to discuss any specific access requirements you may have.

Images from top: Francis Angol, photo Robert Waite | Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot & Petra Söör, photos by Akshay Sharma and Maria Andrews, collage | Simonetta Alessandri, photo Michele Cipriani | Amy Voris, photo Christian Kipp | Amarnah Amuludun, photo Will Pace | Mary Pearson and mayfield brooks, How to Be Afraid? Metal, Liverpool, 2017, photo: Jane MacNeil | Photo Dominique Rivoal | Phe-NoumeNow by Marie Chabert, performers Sofia Filippou, Danny Kearns, Louise Spearing, Marc Stevenson, Maya Giulivi; photo Pete Guy Spencer