I’ve Lost You Only To Discover That I Have Gone Missing
Event Information
Description
I’ve Lost You Only To Discover That I Have Gone Missing
Michaelis Dance Theatre, University of Roehampton
22nd March 2018
6:30pm
Lecture
This short lecture introduces interdisciplinary choreographic and dance movement psychotherapy practice and research with people living with young onset dementia, their families and the artistic team - Beatrice Allegranti Dance Theatre. Informed by feminist materialism and posthumanism (Barad 2007; Manning. 2013), Beatrice will explore the ethics of creating dance not only for an audience but with and through the audience. As such, a dance movement psychotherapy and neurofeminist (Allegranti and Silas 2016) framing of embodied intersubjectivity is introduced as a way to understand self-other entanglement - in the choreographic process, for performance and, in everyday life.
Performance
I’ve Lost You Only To Discover That I Have Gone Missing is a dance theatre work-in-progress tackling social and medical taboos about loss, intimacy and embodied resistance. The choreography and original music evolved from Participatory Dances during 2017 in collaboration with people who live with the rare diagnosis of ‘young onset’ dementia, their family carers and Beatrice Allegranti Dance Theatre. The project involved co-composing bespoke dances and music that offered kinaesthetic expression of the ubiquity and entanglement of loss - for the person living with young onset dementia, their family carer and, for the artistic team.
Dancers : Luke Birch, Sabrina Gargano, Takeshi Matsumoto, Aneta Zwierzynska
Composer: Jill Halstead
Read the review: ‘Dancing with Dementia’ by Pippa Kelly
Read an article by the Wellcome Hub featuring Beatrice Allegranti
Supported by Arts Council England
In partnership with: Dementia Pathfinders, St George’s NHS, Arts Service – London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames, Merton Arts Space, Dementia Action Alliance, Public Health England, Grieg Academy of Music - University of Bergen, Alexandra Palace, Created Out of Mind at the Wellcome Hub.
Beatrice Allegranti
For over two decades Beatrice’s experience is influenced by several intersecting identities as an independent choreographer, UKCP Reg. dance movement psychotherapist, feminist writer, researcher and educator encompassing choreography and filmmaking (touring UK, France, U.S.A, Norway, Finland, Ireland, Hong Kong, Poland, Brazil), as well as clinical dance movement psychotherapy practice and supervision in the NHS (in adult mental health; dementia; special needs; autism) and in private practice.
