The Knowing Body takes a journey through movement, art and music exploring our inner physical rhythms and responses to the body’s impulse to move. It also looks at what happens when we find ourselves instinctively moving to the same collective rhythm.
The Knowing Body is an interdisciplinary performance art event performed by the Plymouth Performance Art Collective. This work in progress combines dance, music, drawing and painting investigating how rhythm plays an integral part within our daily lives individually and collectively, through internal and external influence including instinct and ritual. Part of the creative process has involved the drawing of long scrolled art works transcribed through the participation and observation of contemporary and improvised movement and dance. The scroll drawings have been interpreted by the performers creating a wealth of individual and collective movement material. An enquiry into the rhythm of sound and music also informs the performers exploring how it can initiate and inspire through play and improvisation, to create large scale spontaneous drawings and paintings. There is also the opportunity for audience members to try their hand at some impromptu collective drawing.
Following the event the audience are invited to join an informal feedback discussion to meet the artists and find out more about the creative process. The feedback will be gratefully received informing the future development of The Knowing Body.
The Knowing Body is devised and directed by visual & dance artist Rosie Allen-Perdikeas. Rosie is currently an artist in residence at RAMP Ocean Studios and during its course has worked on combining visual art and movement developing The Knowing Body. Rosie is joined by dance artists Martha Scholefield, Paula Hocking and visual artist Emily Chung (also artist in Residence with RAMP) who have worked to a collective beat co-creating movement and art material.
More about the performers:
Rosie Allen-Perdikeas
Rosie works as a multi-disciplinary artist and performer based in Plymouth and has a background in dance and choreography. She has worked nationally and internationally; Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, La Scala, Milan and Matthew Bourne, New Adventures. Rosie’s art practice is centred around the exploration of rhythm and movement through the bodily form, and she draws on her wealth of knowledge and experience combining art, dance and performance. She works in mixed media, painting and drawing and strives to procure a sense of liveliness and expression, with interaction and collaboration playing a core central role within her work.
Martha Scholefield
Martha is a dance practitioner and yoga teacher and through her own growth and development as well as working within communities she has nurtured a passion for the importance of improving the relationship we have with our own bodies. She has performed and taught dance for many years and champions creativity across all disciplines.
Paula Hocking
Currently working with older people Paula has an MA in Choreography and is an advocate of Dance for Health and Wellbeing. She is enthusiastic about people of all ages and abilities enjoying all aspects of dance.
Emily Chung
Emily is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Plymouth. Her practice spans diverse media including paintings, printmaking, performance and drawing. Her work draws attention to the everyday causing viewers to reflect on the mundane. She investigates the relationship between her female body, machines and animals, expressing and fostering through her work a dialogue between herself and the world.
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