Filmmaker and choreographer Lucy Cash reflects on ‘Applied Choreography’ as a way of thinking. She notes,
“…moving between practices, it can often feel like you don’t belong anywhere – which is why I’m becoming intrigued by the idea of an applied craft. For example, an applied choreography, for although I may rarely construct dances, my thinking is indebted to the kind of processes and thinking about time and space, about absence, presence and transition that thinking choreographically offers.”
This talk was part of Crossing Borders 2009 and was presented in partnership with London Contemporary Dance School and Dance Umbrella.
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Films mentioned in the talk:
(only films available online are listed)
Adrian Heathfield: Coming undone (an early and short essay on Goat Island)
Goat Island: aching like birds
Harun Farocki: How to live in the GDR
Lucy Cash: Requiem for a redhead
Lucy Cash is an artist, filmmaker and choreographer. Originally from a background in performance, she began her career with a commission from the BFI. Since then she has made artists’ film and video projects for gallery exhibition and site specific spaces, as well as single screen films, radio, and live performance. She draws on both fiction and non-fiction, attempting, often humorously, to discover discrepancies in our assumptions. Her work has been shown on television (Channel 4, Filmfour, BBC4 and BBC2) and in gallery spaces and at festivals both internationally and within the UK. She has been a Screen Dance Fellow with South East Dance and an Associate Artist with Artsadmin.
Adapted from bios published in 2009
