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This is a place with info about current and recent work by Nicola Conibere. On the left are listings for upcoming and recent performances and a few images from them, and below are descriptions of those works.
Nicola Conibere is a London based artist whose work explores the role of the body in performance with particular interests in how the exchange between performers and audience can be acknowledged through the live event, and how ideas of theatrical spectacle function within that project.
Her work takes the form of durational installation performance as well as more conventional theatre formats and has been shown in theatres as well as gallery / studio spaces. Her work has been shown at Nottingham Contemporary, Laban, The Place, Déda (part of a programme curated by Dance4 and Déda) Siobhan Davies Studios (part of What Now, a weekend of performance curated by Independent Dance) and the National Theatre Studios (part of the SPILL Festival National Platform). She regularly collaborates with Taylan Halici and Theron Schmidt.
Nicola is an Associate Artist at Dance4 (www.dance4.org.uk), and is currently a doctoral candidate at Laban where she is carrying out practice based research.
Contact: nicolaconibere@hotmail.com
2.2.10
Count Two:
Six performers playfully depict a series of recognisable actions and images within a shifting spectacular framework. Through the replication, repetition and re-categorisation of these moments, the piece quietly unsettles the values we might associate with them and the bodies that make them. Count Two light-heartedly manipulates the mechanics of theatrical display to invite viewers to recognise their active role of interpretation in a lively process of evoking and changing meaning.
Count Two was originally created with and performed by Stella Dimitrakopoulou, Taylan Halici, Antje Hildebrandt, Tim Jeeves, Helka Kaski and Elena Koukoli, with lighting design by Rachel E. Stanners
Count Two has been shown at Southbank Centre - London, as part of DancEUnion, Laban Theatre - London, Lakeside Arts Centre - Nottingham and The Place - London as part of Resolution! 2010.
2.12.08
Count One:
First presented in January 2009, Count One is a half hour theatre performance which was created with and is performed by Taylan Halici, Helka Kaski, Florence Peake and Theron Schmidt.
At the centre of Count One is an interest in how the exchange between performers and audience equally creates the event of performance. In this work we engage a simple structure to organise moments of everyday exchanges and interactions. These episodes progress to embrace elements of theatrical spectacle, inviting an array of relationships and meanings to come in and out of effect -- a playful evolutionary journey from handshake to costume and lights.
Count One has been shown as part of ROH2 Firsts at the Royal Opera House, Resolution! at The Place, WHAT NOW at Siobhan Davies Studios and the SPILL Festival National Platform at the National Theatre Studios, all in London.
First presented in September 2008, The Beckoning and the Escapades is a three hour installation piece presented by two performers, to which spectators can enter and exit at will. It was co-created with and originally performed by Taylan Halici and Theron Schmidt, and has since been performed by Taylan Halici and Tim Jeeves.
The piece explores how an event of performance is equally co-created by the audience’s attention and the performers’ presentation, and the role of the spectacular within that meeting. Two performers move through a looped series of everyday and harmonious interactions. These exchanges are interrupted only when they introduce and remove additional environmental elements to the room they perform in. The movement of these elements; props, music, lighting; are determined by the entrances and exits of spectators to and from the performance. This constantly shifting context allows spectators to read a range of interpretations, narratives and emotional implications that are always unstable. The Beckoning and the Escapades is a work whose exact form cannot be predicted but that promises to shift through an assortment of states that are always evocative and frequently tender and delightful.
The Beckoning and the Escapades has been shown at Nottingham Contemporary art gallery as part of a programme curated by Dance4, at Laban in London, and at Quake, an evening of work curated by Dance4 and Déda in Derby.
Transmutory:
First presented in June 2008, Transmutory is an installation performance lasting three hours and can be presented by 8-20 performers.
At its heart is an enquiry into the nature of the exchange between audience and performers, starting from the belief that the audience’s gaze is equally constitutive of the event of performance as the performers’ presentation. When an audience member enters the room, it cues a performer to enter the performance area and begin performing. When that same audience member leaves, that same performer will stop performing and return to the side of the space. Audience members can enter and leave the performance as many times as they wish, capacity permitting (when there are as many people watching as there are performers available the work is full).
The material performed involves a number of everyday two part interactions which require one performer to instigate the interaction, and another to respond. These exist in an open structure that accommodates the constant entry and exit of performers. The material is performed according to a score which introduces spatial, temporal and physical variations throughout the three hours.
Transmutory has been presented at Laban in London.
