About RES 26: Dramaturgy for Resolution

Over the course of this day workshop, we’ll explore playful and practical ways to uncover and amplify the heart, impulse or idea inspiring your Resolution project.

Draw from that heart to develop specific creative tools
Work with not-knowing and getting lost alongside instinct and gut-sense
Develop references or mood boards to drive and resource process
Develop sensitivity towards the ‘felt’ impact of movement, editing, timing and compositional tools
Consider how emotion and/or meaning emerge in your work
Engage with how power and ethical considerations show up in process

This will be a creative session that will include some discussion, drawing, thinking, moving and writing. You’ll be invited to work solo, in small groups and wider group questions.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Orrow Bell’s (they/them) work encompasses performance, dramaturgy, choreography, facilitation, producing and artist wellbeing. Their recent practice and research centres trans creativity and care in contemporary dance. They enjoy slipperiness across embodiment, movement and language. Dramaturgy and facilitation work has included: Anders Duckworth, Charlotte Spencer, Chisato Minamimura, Claire Cunningham, Ebony Rose Dark, Edit Domoszlai, Eli Lewis & Joe Garbett, Fuel/Travis Alabanza, Gary Clarke, Jules Cunningham, Neve Harrington, Performing Gender EU Project, Raze Collective, South Asian Dance Development Programme Akademi/Sadler’s Wells. Orrow was Artist Development Producer at The Place (2018-2022), where they also curated Splayed, international festival of queer performance and digital arts. Other curation has included for Rambert and Yorkshire Dance. Orrow’s solo performance works included installation TOMBO(Y)LA (2017), commissioned by Wellcome Collection and theatre show The Forecast (2018), winner of Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival, selected for the British Council International Showcase. Orrow has performed for emilyn claid, Charlotte Mclean, Alessandro Sciarroni, Tino Sehgal, Hussein Chayalan & Damien Jalet, Lea Anderson, Maresa von Stockert, Neon Dance, Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin, Marco D’Agostin and Chiara Frigo. Orrow has led creative practice workshops in Brazil, Hong Kong, Russia, the US, across Europe and the UK. They were Lecturer on the Expanded Dance Practice MA at London Contemporary Dance School (2022-24) and Facilitator for Next Choreography at Siobhan Davies Dance (2016-18).