Name: Performance, Ritual, Magic Workshop
Start: 2020-02-13T16:00:00Z
End: 2020-02-13T18:00:00Z
Location: IAS Common Ground

Performance, Ritual, Magic Workshop

‘New Old English: Performance, Poetry, Practice’ brings the innovative and interdisciplinary performance company Fen to UCL as part of the Creative Fellowships programme for 2019-20. Fen is a collaboration between director/choreographer/3D animator Maisie Newman and Eric Gregory Award-winning poet/composer/sound artist Rowan Evans. Combining anarchic choreography, hybrid text and rich sound environments, Fen create exciting and challenging work for a range of audiences.As Creative Fellows, Rowan and Maisie will develop WULF, their dark, feminist adaptation of the anonymous Old English poem ‘Wulf and Eadwacer’, in dialogue with staff and students at UCL. WULF is based on one of only two surviving Old English poems written from a female perspective and combines dance, multilingual poetic text and an original score, enacting a formal and linguistic transgression of the male-dominated poetics of Old English. Through interactive workshops, creative-research-practice seminars and scratch performance rehearsals, amongst other things, the project hopes to involve a broad spectrum of the UCL community in exploring the rich interconnections between scholarship and arts practice.

'New Old English: Performance, Poetry, Practice', A UCL Creative Fellowship Project

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<P><SPAN><SPAN>Join Rowan Evans and Maisie Newman, Creative Fellows at UCL's Institute of Advanced Studies, for a workshop on performance, ritual and magic. </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><SPAN>In this interdisciplinary workshop, we will explore the context of early medieval magic and ritual writing that surrounds the poem ‘Wulf and Eadwacer’: from the Old English herbal charms to the pan-European tradition of ‘Women’s Songs’ in Old High German, to the Old Norse<SPAN> </SPAN><I>galdr</I><SPAN> </SPAN>and runic inscriptions.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>What do poetry and the history of magical language have in common?  How might terms like ‘charm’ and ‘spell’ alter and complicate our own ‘poems’ and the ways in which we translate them into the voice and body? Discussion of modern and contemporary texts by poets and artists including Maggie O’Sullivan and Linda Stupart will invite us to think about how the forms of instruction, procedure, wordplay and mythical symbolism can inform contemporary writing.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>As with our previous workshops, no prior experience with medieval languages, poetry, theatre or performance is necessary. This will be a relaxed and collaborative space where we can take a playful approach to what our writing might be.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>Maisie is a Bristol-based director, choreographer and visual artist. She was recently an associate artist for Gecko Theatre’s ‘The Wedding’. Her work has been presented and supported by companies and venues including Bristol Old Vic, Bristol Ferment, Tobacco Factory Theatres, Headlong Theatre, Hauser and Wirth Somerset, Arnolfini, Gecko Theatre, The Egg Theatre, Theatre Deli and Camden Peoples Theatre.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN CLASS="markiokjgsb0r">Rowan</SPAN></SPAN> is a poet, composer and sound artist whose recent books include <I>The Last Verses of Beccán </I>(Guillemot Press, 2019) and <I>cante jondo mixtape </I>(If a Leaf Falls Press, 2017). He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2015 and a selection of his work appears in <I>Penguin Modern Poets </I>7<I>: These Hard and Shining Things </I>(Penguin, 2018).</SPAN></P>
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