Our next event is titled ‘Learning from Nature,’ and takes the form of a two-day collaborative interdisciplinary research gathering at Hawkwood Centre. During this time we will address the theme through dialogue and practice, asking what we can learn from more-than-human structures and modes of organising. On 14th June two of the guest participants, Melanie Kloetzel (Canada) and Marisol Paulina Vargas (Chile) will facilitate a public sharing and workshop from 3-5:30pm at Bath Spa University. To book the free session on Friday 14th June please email info (at) juliapond.com.
We look forward to sharing the learnings with you all on 14th June and in subsequent posts.
More about Melanie Kloetzel and Marisol Paulina Vargas:
Melanie Kloetzel (she/her) is a settler performance maker, scholar and educator based in based in Treaty 7 territory in northern Turtle Island/Canada. Director of the dance theatre company kloetzel&co. and co-director of the climate art collective TRAction, Kloetzel has developed events, workshops and encounters in theatre spaces, alternative venues, and online environments across four continents. Kloetzel’s place-based creations have appeared in spaces as varied as a defunct rail station, a busy urban deli, a corporate skyway system, and an abandoned egg farm, as well as in more conventional sites such as Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church (NYC), Movement Research at the Judson Church (NYC), On the Boards (Seattle), Dusk Dances (Toronto), and the Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia). Films by Kloetzel have garnered such awards as Best of Fest, Best Documentary, Best Cast and Best Experimental Film from international film festivals, and her publications can be found in Dance Research Journal, Contemporary Theatre Review, Choreographic Practices, New Theatre Quarterly, and Performance Research, as well as in her co-edited anthology Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces (2009), the co-authored (Re)Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Perspectives (2019), and the co-authored Covert: A Handbook, among others. Kloetzel is Professor of Dance at University of Calgary.
Marisol Paulina Vargas is a choreographer, dancer, researcher, teacher, curator and founder and member of Nucleo De Ree research, creation, training and collaboration in choreography and Interdisciplinary Arts. She is an artist, researcher, collaborator at SECOS area Arts-Science Instituto Milenio en Socioecología Costera. She has developed the Process Nature project, combining dance, ecology, geopolitics, to explore ways of working with choreography situated in dialogue and coexistence with nature in the Andes Mountains, Chile. She is a member of the ‘Interdisciplinary Research Group’ and has participated in a series of residences, research projects and seminars SEA and EARTH, facilitated by Andrés Haye, Associate Professor School of Psychology at the Catholic University, Chile, NDE.
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