Well it's been a busy few months...
April heralded What Now Festival at Siobhan Davies Studio, where I presented documentation from Towards Stillness. I also began a collective with a group of other dance artists, so that we can share and explore our practices, questions and research processes.
May saw the performance of my commissioned work for Fal River Festival in Cornwall. Collaborating with dance artist Emmalena Fredriksson, I created and performed a duet for two sites called Passing Place. Made for Jacobs Ladder (a steep and narrow flight of stone steps) and Princes Pier in Falmouth, the improvised scores were developed from ideas around meeting and departing, as well as taking the particular characteristics of each site into consideration.
June brought the opportunity to teach the BA choreography students at UCF/Dartington for the first time. I delivered a week of classes that included somatic approaches to exploring movement, improvisation using imagery, and set sequences. I also presented documentation of Towards Stillness at On the Wire, an artist-curated event at The Poly in Falmouth, and performed their with Freefall Dance.
In July I took a week-long workshop with Rosemary Butcher in London, which explored approaches to making and embodying improvisation scores. The week was very stimulating and I made a visual multi-layered score from drawings, collage and tracing paper for the work which records the particularities of the physical score such as its textures, body patterns, space, context and essence.
I have just been to Edinburgh Fringe Festival, seeing an exciting range of dance works and meeting up with friends and colleagues.
Artistic interests
- Saffy Setohy
- Cornwall, United Kingdom
- My practice often involves working with improvisation, attention to imagery and sensation, and text/writing, all coming from or working in relation to the body. I am concerned with the relationship between the audience and the performance, and the politics of the performance space. The themes in my work are often exploring what it means to be human, and the embodied self in relation to our lived environment. I have an ongoing curiosity around notions of absence and presence, memory, intimacy and states of transition or change. A concern with how the female body is respresented in performance is also an emerging commonality in a lot of my work. Some of my performances have taken place outside of the theatre space, being in the form of installations, video and site-based works. As a teacher I enjoy facilitating people to find their own means of expression, and to find dynamism and ease of movement with a sense of the embodied and whole self.
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
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Invisible Lines (2012)
a performance action involving the negotiation of space and time between two people connected only by an almost invisible fishing wire
Passing Place (2011)
A structured, improvised duet created for the historical Jacobs Ladder site in Falmouth, Cornwall
Towards Stillness (Image: Uwe Brodmann)
A performance at Outlet Festival, Germany 2009