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Joe Moran: Singular & Thirst Gallery Performances
- Wed, 24 Oct 2018
- 2.00 PM - 5.00 PM
Join us at Bluecoat as choreographer and artist Joe Moran presents a new collection of performances in Liverpool for the first time, ahead of On The Habit Of Being Oneself.
Free public performances take place in and around the gallery across the afternoon including Moran’s durational performance Singular and short work Thirst.
Gallery Performances
Wed 24 Oct / Free, Drop in
2-3pm Singular
3.00pm Thirst (12mins)
3.30-4.15pm Singular
4.15pm Thirst (12mins)
4.30-5pm Singular
In the evening, a cast of seven exceptional international dancers perform Moran’s most recent work On The Habit of Being Oneself accompanied by a commissioned sound score by sound artist and composer Kaffe Matthews and costume design by Tom Rogers.
On The Habit of Being Oneself is an arresting dance experiment placing full-bodied dancing under the spotlight. On a stripped back stage dancers navigate complex choreographic puzzles through continuous, relentless dancing. Reconfiguring choreography and the dancing body, the result is a challenging and refreshingly immediate encounter with dancers and dancing. Singular has been presented in galleries across the UK including Nottingham Contemporary, the ICA and most recently Kettle’s Yard. In Thirst, two men navigate a complex, shifting terrain of power, submission, complicity and consent.
"Thoughtful, challenging and wide-ranging stuff" - TIME OUT
On The Habit of Being Oneself
Wed 24 Oct / 7pm / Tickets: £4/£5
Dance Art Foundation Artistic Director Joe Moran creates work addressing dance’s potential as a contemporary art form, both in theatres and galleries; recent and forthcoming performances include Wysing Arts Centre (2018), Kettle’s Yard (2018), Sadler’s Wells (2017) and Whitechapel Gallery (2017). As a dancer Joe worked with many distinguished choreographers including Deborah Hay (USA), Siobhan Davies (Bank project UK), Florence Peake (UK) and Pontus Pettersson (Sweden).
Singular by Joe Moran. Photography: Matthew Booth