Performance Philosophy Workshops

There are 2 performance philosophy workshops being held as part of the project: On Attention and On Listening.

These follow on from a pilot workshop On Dialogue which was held at King’s College London in April 2019.

The workshops are a collaboration between ID Independent Dance, the Centre for Performance Philosophy at the University of Surrey and the Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts at King’s College London. 

On Attention

November 29th-30th 2019 | 12.30 – 20.30pm
Independent Dance at Siobhan Davies Studios
Siobhan Davies Studios
85 St. George's Road
London, SE1 6ER

On Attention is a collaboration between ID, the Centre for Performance Philosophy at Surrey, and the Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts, King’s College London.

The aim is for the workshop to bring together philosophers & researchers in dance and movement to explore potential areas of shared methodological interest, allowing both groups to learn from each other about how they think. 

For this event, we are framing (embodied) ‘attention’, then, as one way of performing thought that has specific traditions in both the history of philosophy and in dance and somatic practices. 

We also hope that the workshop will offer a welcoming environment for both philosophers (who may have little to no experience of engaging physically in performance practice) and movement researchers (who may have little to no formal training in philosophy) to try something new and meet new people outside their discipline, with a view to supporting further collaborations and future conversations. We are keen to explore ways of considering how such conversations can produce outcomes and will use various means of documenting and reflecting to increase potential for future collaborative developments.

The workshop will be structured around practical sessions led by invited contributors who specialise in notions of 'attention' across the fields of philosophy and dance. There will also be more open informal sessions for participants to question and challenge presented material, assert and propose different viewpoints or ways of considering thought or knowledge, and to pursue smaller group conversations.

Olive Bieringa

Is a maker of dances, installations, films, festivals, and workshops from Aotearoa/New Zealand.  She has been collaborating with Otto Ramstad  as BodyCartography Project since 1998. She is a Certified Practitioner and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, and certified DanceAbility teacher, working with performers of all abilities.

Charlotte Derbyshire

Is Artistic co-Director of Candoco Dance Company. She has worked as a choreographer and director of live performance and dance for camera and is an experienced performer, educator, facilitator and certified practitioner of Integrated Bodywork and Movement Therapy. IBMT, founded by Linda Hartley, is rooted in the principles and practice of Body-Mind Centering®, Authentic Movement and somatic Psychology. 

Dr. Wahida Khandker

Is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on intersections between process thought, particularly the work of Henri Bergson, and biology. She is the author of Philosophy, Animality, and the Life Sciences (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), and Process Metaphysics and Mutative Life: Sketches of Lived Time (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). 

Dr. Komarine Romdenh-Romluc

Is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Her fundamental interest is in the body, and what it is to be the sort of embodied creatures that we are. She has published papers on topics such as agency, hallucination, and thought;  and she is author of the Routledge Guide Book to Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception. Komarine is also co-editor – along with Søren Overgaard and David Cerbone – of the book series, Routledge Research in Phenomenology.

On Listening

Workshop at King’s College London on April 2nd 2020. Details to follow.

On Dialogue

Workshop at King’s College London in April 2019.