Tuesday 17 January 2012

Saturday 4th February 2012



Piloting with Michael Parmenter
11 am - 5 pm 
Cost: FREE
Location: Essex Church, 112 Palace Gardens Terrace, London W8 4RT
 

A partner-improvisation workshop in which we will play with the dialogue between moving and being moved: “Sometimes is just got to be all about the Other”.
PILOTING – a practice of guided movement, alternating roles of PILOT and PASSENGER.

Michael Parmenter is one of New Zealand’s leading dancers and choreographers. During the 80’s he danced in New York with Erick Hawkins and Stephen Petronio and in Japan with Butoh dancer Min Tanaka.
He directed his Commotion Company from 1990 – 2008 and has choreographed numerous works for Footnote Dance Company and the Royal New Zealand Ballet. His works span the spectrum from innovative solo works to large-scale opera-house productions.
Over the past decades Michael has taught at Toi Whakaari/The New Zealand Drama School, the New Zealand School of Dance, and most recently at UNITEC School of Performing and Screen Arts where he is Adjunct Professor in Dance.
Michael has recently been developing the partner-improvisation forms PILOTING and TACTICS.
He is currently undertaking a doctoral research co-tutelle between the dance department of the University of Auckland, New Zealand (under Dr. Ralph Buck) and (under Prof. Renaud Barbaras) in the philosophy department of l’Université de Paris-1 (Panthéon/Sorbonne), France.










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