Dani Brown
A Strategy for Combining Text and Movement

It gets sweaty and loud, creepy and glorious, delicious and unnerving. A big part of Dani’s practice is concerned with the possible dimensions of combining text and movement, and how uncanny juxtapositions between physicality, voice, and textual content function to bring about a complexity of poetics in the eye of the viewer.

Each day of the workshop will begin with an intense physical and vocal preparation, followed by practices to introduce Dani’s strategy for combining text and movement. Participants should come prepared with a memorised short text (approximately 45 seconds of text if read straight through). The content of this isn’t that important, as the main focus will be the technique of delivery in strategic combination with voice and movement. That said, participants should choose something that interests them, or something they already have memorised (e.g. a monologue, song lyrics, poetry, conceptual / philosophical / scientific text, or a story).

The main objective of this workshop is not only for participants to gain practical experience developing text and movement combinations but also to inspire their own practice, research, and development.