SOUTH LONDON SCRATCH NIGHT 2021
A digital platform for works in progress
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Event Details
8 April 2021 7:30pm GMT Online via Zoom Due to on going social distancing measures the performances will be pre- recorded at Upper Norwood Library Hub and presented on Zoom with a live feedback session and Q& A with the artists. |
Pay what you can
Please visit the link below to register for free, you will receive a zoom link one day before the event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/147150139027 |
We are excited to present a digital scratch night showcasing works- in- progress by four independent choreographers. You can expect an evening of experimental works combining contemporary dance, physical theatre, text and visual art.
Join us online and share your comments through the chat and online feedback form.
Join us online and share your comments through the chat and online feedback form.
MEET THE ARTISTS
Photo credit: Elly Welford
BAR GROISMAN
Bar Groisman is a dancer, choreographer and writer born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Based in the UK, she is the founder of Sababa Co, currently making works exploring the relationship between text, movement and theatre. In 2019, she graduated from The Northern School of Contemporary Dance where she developed her performance and choreographic skills. Bar platformed her first company work, Aize Balagan, at Resolution! Festival at The Place in London this year. She was then invited to a residency in Lund, Sweden, to create a solo piece, Chameleon Life. Skirt, Wine And Louis Armstrong is about being absolutely "fine", drinking too much wine and trying your very best to stay completely elegant. It is about a woman, a woman being choked by layers and being at the same place at the same time every bloody day, with only the light from her lamp to keep her awake against the grey outside. To abide by rules, and stay absolutely "fine". https://www.sababacompany.co.uk
Bar Groisman is a dancer, choreographer and writer born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Based in the UK, she is the founder of Sababa Co, currently making works exploring the relationship between text, movement and theatre. In 2019, she graduated from The Northern School of Contemporary Dance where she developed her performance and choreographic skills. Bar platformed her first company work, Aize Balagan, at Resolution! Festival at The Place in London this year. She was then invited to a residency in Lund, Sweden, to create a solo piece, Chameleon Life. Skirt, Wine And Louis Armstrong is about being absolutely "fine", drinking too much wine and trying your very best to stay completely elegant. It is about a woman, a woman being choked by layers and being at the same place at the same time every bloody day, with only the light from her lamp to keep her awake against the grey outside. To abide by rules, and stay absolutely "fine". https://www.sababacompany.co.uk
DELICIA SEFIHA
Delicia Sefiha is a Bristol- based artist working within different areas of dance. She trained in contemporary dance and physical theatre for years and holds a degree in combined creative arts (contemporary dance and literature). Her work revolves around stories and characters that exist on the edge, between a real and a surreal world, in a mix of reality, fantasy, movement, text, physicality and imagery. Delicia is currently working as the artistic director of AllouAqui Dance Theatre, which she founded alongside Xavier De Santos and Samuel De La Torre and as an independent dance artist in various dance performance and on screen projects.
Orchaostra tells the story of a conductor wavering between control and disorder as she attempts to keep her unruly orchestra under control, clawing her way through a journey of resisting and accepting chaos. The solo ignites a game between movement and Luc Ferrari’s Strathoven and an invitation to surrender to the unpredictable. Isn’t having control a mere fantasy after all? (Strahoven recorded1985, Luc ferrari, copyright 2018 Maison Ona) https://www.deliciasefiha.com/
Delicia Sefiha is a Bristol- based artist working within different areas of dance. She trained in contemporary dance and physical theatre for years and holds a degree in combined creative arts (contemporary dance and literature). Her work revolves around stories and characters that exist on the edge, between a real and a surreal world, in a mix of reality, fantasy, movement, text, physicality and imagery. Delicia is currently working as the artistic director of AllouAqui Dance Theatre, which she founded alongside Xavier De Santos and Samuel De La Torre and as an independent dance artist in various dance performance and on screen projects.
Orchaostra tells the story of a conductor wavering between control and disorder as she attempts to keep her unruly orchestra under control, clawing her way through a journey of resisting and accepting chaos. The solo ignites a game between movement and Luc Ferrari’s Strathoven and an invitation to surrender to the unpredictable. Isn’t having control a mere fantasy after all? (Strahoven recorded1985, Luc ferrari, copyright 2018 Maison Ona) https://www.deliciasefiha.com/
Photo credit: Lucas Chih-Peng Kao
ANNA DIGHERO
Anna Dighero is a London-based artist. She studied Biological Sciences and Lindy Hop before establishing herself in movement improvisation practices. She is part of a Next Choreography at Siobhan Davies Dance and The Fi.ELD producing programme at East London Dance. Anna co-creates a digital duet project with US artist Kati Payne on subjects such as togetherness, emojis and being candid. She aims to find ways to embody the unexpected and likes collaborating. A lot. LOFT is a movement and sound collage of the loft at home where Anna works, a kind of dedication to this space. http://annadighero.com
Anna Dighero is a London-based artist. She studied Biological Sciences and Lindy Hop before establishing herself in movement improvisation practices. She is part of a Next Choreography at Siobhan Davies Dance and The Fi.ELD producing programme at East London Dance. Anna co-creates a digital duet project with US artist Kati Payne on subjects such as togetherness, emojis and being candid. She aims to find ways to embody the unexpected and likes collaborating. A lot. LOFT is a movement and sound collage of the loft at home where Anna works, a kind of dedication to this space. http://annadighero.com
PK FISKULTURNIK
PK Fiskulturnik is an interdisciplinary performance art project founded and led by visual and performance artist Lara Ritosa Roberts. She is a Croatian born and London-based artist, lecturer and workshop leader trained in both fine art at University of the Arts London, MA Fine Art, BA Sculpture and physical theatre at International School of Corporeal Mime, London. Lara creates work which explores the relationship between ideology, embodiment and historical and personal memory. A Story Which Will Never Be Finished...2.0 is a movement theatre & visual arts cross-over performance, loosely based on Russian symbolist writer Leonid Andreyev’s story written in 1909. The performance is played to the sound collage constructed out of spoken word and atmospheric found footage. A solo performed by collaborator Klaudia Franziska Wittmann. https://fiskulturnik.com/
PK Fiskulturnik is an interdisciplinary performance art project founded and led by visual and performance artist Lara Ritosa Roberts. She is a Croatian born and London-based artist, lecturer and workshop leader trained in both fine art at University of the Arts London, MA Fine Art, BA Sculpture and physical theatre at International School of Corporeal Mime, London. Lara creates work which explores the relationship between ideology, embodiment and historical and personal memory. A Story Which Will Never Be Finished...2.0 is a movement theatre & visual arts cross-over performance, loosely based on Russian symbolist writer Leonid Andreyev’s story written in 1909. The performance is played to the sound collage constructed out of spoken word and atmospheric found footage. A solo performed by collaborator Klaudia Franziska Wittmann. https://fiskulturnik.com/
Excerpts of South London Scratch Night Online 2021
' South London Scratch Night was a warm and welcoming online performance sharing of four experimental solos...the night ran smoothly and was perfectly well organised...This opportunity for discussion, sharing, questioning and building ideas is vital for experimental works, especially artists working independently ' - Stella Rousham, Dance Art Journal
