DIY Night - DanceArt Duets: A Screening

About the Show:

A one-night-only screening of Diagrams of Love and Undefined, the Dance Films. Captured live and edited by videographer Edmond Choo.

Undefined (2024) - running time 20 minutes

Seeks to authentically portray the wholly undefineable experience of what it is to be female. This potent cauldron of awakening and self-actualisation has been informed by the art of Ithell Colquhoun, an urge to disrupt the male-defined Triple Goddess archetypes and the lived experiences of the three women involved.

Performed by Samantha Dilena, Sarah Hirsch and Thomas Broda

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Diagrams of Love (2024) - running time 15 minutes

Diagrams of Love is a subversive anti-patriarchal duet that straddles Mixed Martial Arts, sculptural modern dance and Occult Live Art. This is a charged exploration of desire and Qabbalistic transformation, which animates the sex magic corpus of Ithell Colquhoun—radical 20th century woman artist who explored the realms of ecology, magic and mysticism in her work

Performed by Melissa Rayne and Rob McNeill

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Doors open at 19:15 for a 19:30 start. Ticket price includes a drink of your choice.

Content Notice:

The work includes simulated violence and eroticisim.

About the Artists:

Melissa Rayne (Choreographer & Dancer)

I am a neurodivergent & disabled Outsider Dance Artist. My anti-patriarchal trans-disciplinary practice, DanceArt, is an alchemical modality, harnessing automatism to allow space for organic movement to emerge.

Credits include: Arts Council England DYCP Award (2024), Alchemists (2024) choreographed for Trinity Laban/Protein Dance En Route Together, The Tree of Life at The Thamesmead Festival (2023). A freelance performer since 2010, I’ve worked internationally with Site Gallery/Helen Benigson, Budapest Dance Theatre, West Green House Opera, Elrow London.

Edmond Choo (Editor and Videographer)

Accessibility:

Please note, we are on the second floor of a warehouse building, accessed by a staircase only. We regret that we cannot currently adequately support wheelchair users and those for whom stairs are a barrier.

We are committed to removing other barriers to access. If you would like to talk to us about your access needs, please contact: frances@chisenhaledancespace.co.uk. Read more about our commitments to anti-ableism as part of our Artist Community Culture Document

About DIY Nights:

DIY Nights are CDS’s performance programme created in the spirit of grassroots, low stakes performance making and sharing.

Anyone can apply to run a DIY Night, and CDS programmes them on a rolling basis for artists looking for a way to try out new ideas with low financial risk.

If you are interested in running your own night, you can learn more and apply here.