The form of this commitment is dance, film, photography, sound, sculpture and life drawn paintings.

Sophia Campeau-Ferman brings that interaction together on paper and ink, while Clare Whistler moves within the installation, interacting from her own heart with the visuals and sound.

Sophia Campeau-Ferman is a multidisciplinary artist, performance maker, director, dancer and certified Somatic Movement Performer (Center for Body-Mind Movement, Pittsburgh). Educated in the Netherlands,where she took a BA in Fine & Visual Arts and Dance & Choreography, she has shown work and performed in Europe, America and the Far East. She has been living near Lewes, East Sussex, for 11 years.

Clare Whistler is a performance maker, choreographer and director with 12 years of dancing and choreographing ballet in the US, 15 years of directing opera, and 20 years of collaboration with other performance artists.

You Whisper – I Listen – He speaks

You Whisper – I Listen – He speaks is a participatory live art and installation piece inspired by the myth of Icarus where the public is encouraged to interact on a one to one basis with the performer. In doing so the public contributes to the continuation of the myth of Icarus after his fall in the sea.

The performance takes place within an installation that recreates the imaginary space where Icarus lives. The performer (Icarus) is a still presence, a blind, traumatised creature that does not speak, but is ready to listen to anyone whispering something encouraging to him, something that will to help him find the courage to come out to the surface again. You Whisper – I Listen – He Speaks is a metaphorical tale on trauma and recovery. It encourages solidarity, appealing to the human capacity to inspire each other through storytelling.

Performance and Installation: Silvia Battista

Performer: Silvia Battista

Sound: Angelo Madonna

You Whisper – I Listen – He speaks

Silvia Battista has spent the first part of her life in Italy, surrounded by the classical beauty of the city of Rome and its contemporary chaotic flavour. She started travelling at an early age with her family and continued to do so as an adult. Travelling became very important for her until 2000, when settling down in London, she started to explore the possibility of travelling as an inward activity.

In London she has been assisting artist Wolfgang Tillmans for many years while working on the three-year multidisciplinary project Icarus Dream and completing an MA in 'Communication Art' at the Royal College of Art and Design.

She is currently in the fourth part-time year of her PhD in Performance Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she also teaches. She is in the process of developing a screen performance piece, All Citizens of My Own, in collaboration with film-maker Simona Pianteri and sound artist Angelo Madonna (who also created the sound for the work shown in the Pieces to fit exhibition).

Video artist: Ludivine Allegue

Vocal art (music composition and all singing): Yvon Bonenfant

Compositional assistant: Francis Silkstone

Image capture: Ludivine Allegue

Video editing: Ludivine Allegue

Choreographic process, devising process directed by Yvon Bonenfant

Performers, choreographic & sonic collaborators, inspirers: Robin Dingemans, Delphine Gaborit, Caroline Gill

Yvon Bonenfant is a vocal artist who extends his work from voice across media. He makes live performance, sound recording, and collaborative installation. His work has been shown in Canada, the US, the UK, Portugal, France, Spain, Slovakia, Brazil, Estonia and elsewhere. In 2009 he held one of the first residencies at the new Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre flagship building in New York to develop the Beacons project. He is currently working on the Queer Voice project Masz with electromusician Cox Ring.

Ludivine Allegue's painted and video pieces explore the nature and constitution of both individuality and conscience across visual arts, music and performance.She worked with internationally acclaimed sculptor Jaume Plensa and her recent collaborators include Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam (Comédie Française, Paris), choreographer Rosemary Lee (UK), and composer Julius Fujak (SK). Her essays on Art have been published internationally (l'Harmattan, Palgrave-Macmillan, Intellect, Sorbonne). She is a member of the Institut d'Esthétique des Arts et Technologies (CNRS-PARIS 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).

This is not My Body is a live game with words, bodies and the currents and effects they create when mediated through screens and other media. It brings together research and experience from various fields like performance, dance, writing, new media, improvisation, visual art. These, in the spirit of the multimodal field of performance writing, come together to explore and enjoy corporeal aspects of writing and dance.

Each presentation is bespoke as the text incorporates the experience of the venue and the visitors' input. Subtly proposing perspectives, This is not My Body focuses on translation to alter languages as a process of bodily and wordly transmediation. It remains a contact improvisation jam for bodies and words, open to the audience's input, movement, sound, live writing and drawing, whatever extent, form or shape this may take.

If you fancy a joyride from body to word using different means of transportation, it might end up being your body. Or, maybe, as the pseudo-poly-autobiography in part C suggests, it might already be.

Christos Polymenakos was born in the US in 1975. He was raised in Greece where he did his BA in acting. He took an MA in Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts – University College Falmouth with a scholarship from the Hellenic National Centre for Theatre and Dance. His first play 1975 was shortlisted for the finals of Young Creators' Competition and different parts of his research project 13μF have been hosted in music, dance and film festivals as well as the 2nd Theatre Reading Festival as text for dancetheatre. He has worked as a professional performer, performance writer and dance editor, interdisciplinary workshop facilitator, production and publicity manager.

His work has been presented in theatres, performance art and dance research centres, festivals and publications in the UK (Arnolfini, The Basement, Roehampton University), Greece (Kinitiras, Isadora Duncan, Highglights), France (hors les murs), Finland (ANTI festival), Germany (ballet tanz), Portugal (Revista Obscena) and elsewhere. He is the Greek director of the Greek-French-Slovenian, Spider Writing Lab. Christos is now based in Brighton.

par-A-phrase

par-A-phrase is a site specific screendance live installation that explores the experience of a relationship through fragmentation.

The piece consists of two parts complementing each other: a screendance live installation and a dance live installation. The joining of the parts/fragments create a sensorial experience based on the visual element of dance and the tactile element of the video.

Compressing time, space and movement through the senses, this piece explores translations between text, the moving body and digital video. par-A-phrase focuses on the transformation of text into choreographic material, of choreographic qualities into filmic strategy, and of filmic qualities into another piece of choreography that explores what is excluded off the frame, in order to produce this interdisciplinary piece.

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par-A-phrase

Director/videographer/video editor: Marina Tsartsara

Choreography: Marina Tsartsara with the performer

Sound artist: Dalot

Performers: Soline Pillet (Dance installation), Marina Tsartsara (Live screendance installation)

Plinth construction sponsored by Fowler & Company

Project supported by Arts Council England

par-A-phrase is supported by

par-A-phrase

Marina Tsartsara is a cross-disciplinary artist working with fine arts, visual arts and the art of movement to make live performance, screendance and screendance live installations. Her aim is to make the audience feel, both physically and emotionally. She currently lives in Brighton and is supported by South East Dance (Mentor Bank Program) and The Nightingale Theatre (Supported Artist in kind). Marina's works have been shown/performed in venues such as Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona (CCCB), Pia Almoina Museum (Barcelona), Athens Biennale, London Biennale, Tate Modern, Teatro Vascello (Rome), Contemporary Art Museum of Zulia (Venezuela), Moves Festival (Liverpool), IDN Festival (Barcelona) and the National Review of Live Art (Glasgow), amongst others.

Soline Pillet graduated in contemporary dance in Canada in 2004, training in modern, ballet, improvisation and dance-theatre. She collaborated as a dancer in Canada, France and the UK with Liz Aggiss, the Voodoo Vaudeville, Ireen Kurvers, Audra Brandt and Claire Linda, amongst others. In 2005, she joined the Dance and Visual Art course at the University of Brighton where she collaborated with Marina Tsartsara on a variety of pieces. Soline also worked as a cultural journalist and a life model in Paris. She is currently completing an MA in Cultural Studies in Paris-Sorbonne. Back in the UK in 2010, she joined the creation of par-A-phrase to revive her creative partnership with Marina Tsartsara.

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