Hey everyone!
Hope you’re feeling lovely and nice havning just spent the weeknd being relaxed and cute.
Below is this weeks etude!
There’s some proper bangers
Enjoy x
IN NO SENSE by Nile Harris and Trevor Bazile
Available now
Free
IN NO SENSE is a digital ramble in process. The color b(B)lack is thought to only exist in the absence of light. Then perhaps the state of living in a body socialized as Black is that of navigating an obfuscated lense. In physics, a black body is an idealized physical body that absorbs any and all electromagnetic radiation, no matter the frequency or angle of incidence. Taking and taking: forced receptivity. IN NO SENSE uses writing, image capture, and choreological studies of iridescence to create a garrulous maundering that doesn’t make any sense.
29th June until 5th July
€3
Merging dance, gesture, voice, and objects, the performers in “safe&sound” immerse themselves in a percussive play of resisting and giving in to the pull of harmony, the wish to sync, and the temptation of ‘being in the groove’. Through an exploration of rhythm elements as loops, polyrhythm, linear and cyclical time, the choreography gives form to questions of belonging, freedom, and collective decision making, asserting rhythm as a social and political tool.
30th June & 1st July
from $5
Using movement as a force, BLACK.ECO is a dance film that dives into the many worlds that exist within a Black woman. We open on a self-assured and poetic guide, whose sculptural hair is adorned in constellations. With her invitation, we dive into four ecosystems that reside within her, each with distinct movement, casting, color and sound worlds exploring four forms of Black joy. We return to our guide one
final time to find her transformed. Touching on the divinity of the body, sisterhood, and being, BLACK.ECO invites us to experience Black fantasy as a shiny vehicle for transcendence.
Political Mother : The Final Cut by Hofesh Schecter
2nd July to 4th July
Pay what you can
Hofesh Shechter’s iconic stage work Political Mother explodes onto the screen as an UNPLUGGED, unapologetic and exhilarating new short film.
Directed, choreographed, composed and filmed by world renowned artist Hofesh Shechter,POLITICAL MOTHER: The Final Cut gets under the skin of the original; bringing a fresh, new dance energy onto the screen.
From behind the lens, Shechter brings Battersea Arts Centre’s imposing architecture and intimate spaces centre stage. Set against a backdrop of Shay Hamias’ animations and Shechter’s cinematic score, this film is performed by Shechter II, a new generation of young, exciting world-class dancers.
Awaiting Oblivion by Tim Smith-Stewart and Jeffrey Azevedo
available now
from $5
Blurring the lines between fiction and reality, Awaiting Oblivion... follows the story of AO, an anonymous street artist who has tasked Tim and Jeffrey with the creation of a performance as a way to share AO’s “temporary solutions” for existing within our collapsing empire. Inspired by creative processes developed by the 60’s Fluxus art movement, each “temporary solution” is a visual/textual poem contained in a flux kit (a cigar box collaged with stenciled imagery and type written letters). We follow Tim, Jeffrey, and AO in a flurry of street art, secret messages, and performance scores in a poetic, radical fight for survival.
CONTENT WARNING : References to Suicice
It was trans pride on Saturday so who better to send your money to then the always brillaint Trans Mutual Aid Manchester!
Trans Mutal Aid Manchester are a group of trans people in who are creating a fund to provide direct material assistance to members of their community.
The money they raise will be used for things such an healthcare that is not effectively covered by the NHS, e.g. electrolysis, gender-affirmative clothing and makeup, prosthetics, travel costs for appointments, emergency housing, post-surgery recovery costs & legal aid.
Check out their crowdfunding page here!
Thanks again for checking out etude! Tell ur mates about it
Have a lovely week
Josh