Creating Traces of Tissues we were delighted to work with a wonderful group of international interdisciplinary artists/performers
Chrysanthi Avloniti is a theatre maker, performer and movement director. Having studied acting at the Greek National Theatre Drama School in Athens, she went on to study Devised Theatre and Performance at the London International School of Performing Arts. As a performer she has participated in numerous theatre productions in Greece and abroad, and she has been creating and directing original performance work with Monamas Theatre Company since 2013. Each performance is the fruit of long periods of research, experimentation and development. Recent work includes immersive performances at the Tate Exchange; London Design Festival; Radiant Gallery in Plymouth.
Daniel Jeremiah Persson is a Swedish dance-artist, based between London and Malmö since 2011. His creative dance practice, combined with interests within psychology, gender studies, documentary film-making and writing, has led him to a variety of dance contexts as a teacher, performer, choreographer and filmmaker around Europe (Spain, Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark, Greece) as well as South Korea and Australia. Since graduating from London Contemporary Dance School in 2014, Daniel has performed in works by various choreographers and artists such as Joan Jonas, Nefelia Skarmea, Megan Rooney, Martin Forsberg & KASPERSOPHIE, Rosie Kay Dance Company, Laura Wilson and Alex Howard (Without Measure) to mention a few.
Robert Williams has lived a varied life; the strands most relevant here are his work as a mime, puppeteer and dancer. Most recently, Robert has taken part in dance/movement projects at the British Museum (Defining Beauty, Hokusai) and at the V&A (Julia Margaret Cameron). He also takes part in elder dance groups at Sadlers Wells, Rambert and is a member of Molly Wright’s ‘Damn Fine Dance’.
Eeva-Maria Mutka, from Finland, has been performing internationally in dance theatre & film, site specific works and cross art form improvisations since 1992: currently in Miranda Tufnell/David Ward/Sylvia Hallett piece Pneuma, Gaby Agis’s Close Streams, and on-going collaboration with Tetsuro Fukuhara. She explores Body, Movement, Environment relationships through dance theatre and offers Somatic movement workshops with Andy Paget under the umbrella of ‘this is somatic’ at Penpynfarch, their rural studio in Wales. She leads Community dance with the elderly, Stroke survivors & adults with learning disabilities, Creative Dance and Movement Play with children, and Touch Trust sessions with disabled children.
Photo credit: Andrea Olsen’s “Body and Earth Seven Web-Based Somatic Excursions” – photo by Scotty Hardwig
Poh-Eng San has been a performer for over 20 years in fringe theatre & dance companies such as Green Candle Dance, Ra Ra Zoo, and Motionhouse Dance Company. Her performance practices interweave sound, movement, nature environments and energy healing. For over 20 years, Poh-Eng has been a teacher and healer, offering workshops in ‘Qi Gong’ and ‘Moving in the Land’, integrating her background as a Buqi healer, Taiji 37 and taijiwuxigong practitioner (with Dr. Shen Hongxun); Plant Spirit Medicine (with Eliot Cowan); Shamanic Training (with Alison Gamblin) and Helen Poynor’s Walk of Life environmental movement training. Advocating embodied practices with the land, she is an activist and ‘Earth Protector’ (Polly Higgins). Poh-Eng is currently a student on the MA in Dance & Somatic Well-Being at the University of Central Lancashire.
Julie Nathanielsz is a movement artist and teacher, interested in how we are composing ourselves in life, art, and culture from the ground of bodily intelligence. Noted for its “deep exploration, poetic connections, and relentless questioning of the body,” Julie’s work has been presented by Fusebox, No Idea, Church of the Friendly Ghost, ElectriCITY Festival, and more. As an organizer, Julie has presented other artists, designed residencies, and coordinated the mixed-ability project Body Shift; she has collaborated regularly with Cindy Stevens and Heloise Gold. In 2016-2017, Julie traveled to Indonesia as a Fulbright Scholar to pursue her project Place Making Body/Body Making Place. Among the pleasures of living in her home base of Upstate New York is dancing through the seasons.
BETWIXT are delighted to collaborate with an international group of interdisciplinary artists on Traces of Tissues
Agnes Saaby Thomsen, fashion designer and photographer based in Copenhagen, has a BA in fashion from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In her creative work with fashion and photography Agnes finds inspiration in fine arts, nature, theatrical costume and bodily movement. As photographer Agnes has clients as Mangor & Nagel Architects, DIS (study abroad in Scandinavia) Rysensteen Gymnasium, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Design and Conservation and several individual artists.
Agnes has created the BETWIXT website. At PQ Agnes photo/video documented the performance Traces of Tissues.
Jeff Higley has worked in the arts for over thirty years as a performer, sound artist and sculptor . He has devised and directed large sale public events and performances for many organizations and councils including the Barbican Centre, the South Bank Centre, Liverpool Garden Festival, WWF and Festival of Sacred Earth Drama. For many of these he also made masks and giant puppets. Latterly he worked extensively performing and recording with overtone singer and musician Michael Ormiston and electro acoustic composer Nick Parkin. In the last decade he has completed many Public and Community Art commissions working as a wood sculptor. During this period, he has continued to perform in the Colourscape touring inflatable installation, as part of the group Hyperyak and also created the commissioned mask performance piece “Spore”. He continues to collaborate with performer and felt artist Barbara Keal and continues his long collaboration with `Michael Ormiston and Candida Valentino with their latest recording “Heartlands”.