2-day live workshop in East London
9 & 10 November 2024, 10am - 1pm
Facilitators: Daniel Oliver
Join Daniel in his ongoing rude and dorky development of a ‘neurotransgressive’ approach to performance making.
Daniel will provide insights into his dyspraxic-led approaches to performance making and sharing.
We will work our way through practice, performance tasks, sharings and feedback, and discussions. Our focus will be on embracing and reframing ‘dysfunctional’ neurotransgressive modes of being and doing, and exploring their potentials within experimental performance making. This will mean working with our differing relationships with monotropism and polytropism, chaos and quietness, underwhelm and overwhelm, dorky fantasy world-building and stubborn attachments to the real, the socially awkward and the class clowns…. And despite the suffix ‘neuro’ dotted throughout our work together, this will not mean neglecting the role of the body.
Daniel often defines his practice as neurodivergent striptease. He foregrounds a clumsy, naughty, haphazard embodiment and always aims to have bits in his shows where people don’t wear any clothes and its weird and funny and then sort of fine.
Although this will primarily be a doing workshop our discussions together will be informed by a skepticism around what philosopher Erin Manning (2016) describes as the ‘intentionality-agency-volition’ triad that reductively defines humanness in neurotypical ideology.
About the Two Days:
The first day will be split into three sessions, each around an hour, in which we will explore a different question through practical exercises and chat. The final of these sessions on the first day will produce the beginnings a performance idea. These ideas will become the focus of the second day, which will again be split into three sessions, ending with a mini sharing.
It is, however, fine to only attend for one day.
Image: Daniel Oliver, Weird Seance, Spill Festival of Performance 2016. Photo by Guido Mencari