Jacky Lansley Choreographer

A response to Visual Language workshop

2011-07-28T10:19:00.000-07:00

Visual Language and the Performer workshop, directed by Jacky Lansley.

A few days have passed since the workshop and learnings and findings have resonated and settled in my body and mind. The process of digesting everything expands beyond the day. Working with different artists: dancing together feels exciting and a time to discover something new about each other. I love the electric space that exists between two people on the edge of the known and the unknown; finding out, following our intuition and feeling the way.

Materials and objects spark the imagination and tell stories of their own, either held in the palms of hands, placed face to face, or placed in space relative to us.

Each story carries its thoughts and emotions to the viewer and there is space to respond in the moment. The effect of these moments linger for a while after the initial impact and cause ripples of ideas to tap into and choose the inspirations we like to form new ideas for future research and performances.

Working with a visual stimulus: What does this say to you? How do you read this image\language?

We interpret impulses and responses in our minds and bodies and form a physical landscape embracing the emotional, visual performance. The tools we have learned to use and intuition come hand in hand - it's really about your own experience inside the worlds we created. You’re feeding back to yourself, and the questions and findings seep through the practice like little impulses or sparks that appear and move you forward into unexpected and surprising places.

When we finish a workshop or class with Jacky, we always reflect on what has happened and things that come up for us and it is surprising the leaps you can take without even being aware that there was a barrier there at all. Integrating aspects of the work, the voice, body and other stimuli, from the very beginning through to the end, and out into life and practice, it’s a wonderful feeling to achieve something that came so naturally and organically, and is enjoyable as part of the process. In reaching out into unknown places we all support each other in our individual and collective journeys. We arrive at fascinating places, and each arrival feels as new and exciting as the last.

Katie Keeble, June 2011

Who Became Those

2011-07-28T10:17:00.000-07:00

Jacky Lansley & Fergus Early - Who Became Those from Matt's Gallery on Vimeo.

Jacky Lansley & Fergus Early are part of ninety collaborators that have been commissioned by Matt's Gallery, London, to contribute a film to TAPS: Improvisations with Paul Burwell.

"In this short film, Jacky Lansley and Fergus Early celebrate the experiences they shared with Paul of working and performing in Butler’s Wharf in the late 1970s. Locations range from a trendy riverside cafe below the once derelict ’B Block’ which housed Paul’s studio and Lafone Street where X6 Dance Space, founded by Jacky and Fergus with others, was situated. Paul’s drumming accompanies a dance that inhabits the shoes of the past with the feet of the present"

Paul Burwell was infamous for his exuberant fusions of fine-art installation, percussion and explosive performance. He was a staunch advocate of, and passionate participant in, all forms of experimental art. TAPS: Improvisations with Paul Burwell, realised by Anne Bean, Robin Klassnik and Richard Wilson embodies his prolific practice.

HELLO AGAIN

2011-07-27T12:48:00.000-07:00

There has been a gap in my postings but I am back watch this space!

RESEARCH TRIP TO JAPAN

2010-02-04T05:19:00.000-08:00

JACKY LANSLEY TO VISIT JAPAN...
Choreographer and Artistic Director of DRS has been awarded funding from The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation and The Sasakawa Foundation to support a 6 week research visit to Japan to observe and explore interdisciplinary performance practice i March - May 2010.
Watch this space for more detail...
http://jackyjapan.blogspot.com/

ARTS COUNCIL SOUTH WEST - SUPPORT FOR GUESTS R&D

2010-01-25T10:46:00.000-08:00

The Dance Research Studio is delighted to announce the start of GUESTS R&D an interdisciplinary research project co-directed by Jacky Lansley and Tim Brinkman which will take place in London and Cornwall over the next 6 months. GUESTS is a co-production between DRS and the Hall for Cornwall.

Watch this space - further information available soon...
http://guestsrd.blogspot.com/

DANCE RESEARCH STUDIO

2009-12-02T06:28:00.000-08:00

The Speaking Dancer:

Interdisciplinary Performance Training

Programme Director Jacky

See http://www.jackylansley.com/ for further information

About the Artist

2009-12-02T06:26:00.000-08:00

Jacky Lansley – Choreographer

Jacky Lansley is a choreographer and film maker and has been practicing for more than three decades; she forged her unique style from a rigorous training in both classical work with the Royal Ballet Company and in the radical, conceptual worlds of Performance Art and New Dance practice with collaborators including Sally Potter, Rose English, Richard Alston, Fergus Early, Hugo Glendinning, Mary Fulkerson; and in theatre as a choreographer on projects with The Women’s Playhouse Trust, The Manchester Royal Exchange and The Bristol Old Vic. The artist's choreography combines visual and theatrical disciplines and is concerned with space and the site specific; she has made works in many different kinds of indoor and outdoor environments and one of her most recent projects View from the Shore, which premiered at The Hall for Cornwall, was inspired by the Cornish coastal landscape with which she has had a long term special relationship. In 2008 her new work Standing Stones premiered at York Minster and toured to 14 UK cathedrals. The artist was a founder of UK's major independent dance studios, X6 Dance Space and Chisenhale Dance Space and in 2002 she founded the Dance Research Studio, which has supported the making of more recent works including: Holding Space (2004 Clore Studio, The Royal Opera House, London); Floor (2004 Chisenhale Dance Space); View From the Shore & Anamule Dance (2007 HFC and The Clore Studio, Royal Opera House); a short narrative dance film The Life Class (March 2008 London premier – The Horse Factory); and Standing Stones (2008 for 15 major UK cathedrals). Alongside her practice Jacky Lansley is a highly experienced teacher and guest lectures at a variety of institutions; she is Artistic Director of the Dance Research Studio, London, where she will direct a new modular programme - The Speaking Dancer: Interdisciplinary Performance Training - commencing February 2009 (www.jackylansley.com for further details); she is an Associate Artist with the Hall for Cornwall, Truro, and an Associate Lecturer at Plymouth University.