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BODIES IN FLIGHT make performance where flesh utters and words move, challenging and re-energizing the relationship between audiences and performers, and audiences and place. Emerging from rigorous interdisciplinary and collaborative methods, often with new technologies in cutting-edge venues, we insist on the buzz of ideas, on philosophy and poetry, using words and images, movement and stillness, voices and bodies, through which they aim to move audiences emotionally and spiritually. Organized in a highly visual design, this volume is both a history and a workbook with selections of scripts and archival material from 30 years of making devised theatre and performance in the UK and internationally, plus texts by collaborators, arts professionals and scholars exploring the company’s collaborative working method, contextualizing it in the wider performance ecology and culture. Intended as an inspiration to emerging artists, the volume covers key questions for any maker of contemporary performance: the relationship of choreography and spoken word, the use of new technologies and multi-media, the role of original music and soundscapes, the differences between work presented in a theatre or gallery or sited in non-theatrical places, the persistence of theatre as an art-form in an increasingly digital culture.
Simon Jones is a theater director and writer. Simon is director of Bodies in Flight and Emeritus Professor of Performance at the University of Bristol, UK. Sara Giddens was a choreographer and theater director. She was also Professor of Choreographic Practice at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
ABOUT BODIES IN FLIGHTSIMON JONES MARKING THE TIMES: EXPERIENCING BODIES IN FLIGHTFOREWORD BY ANDREW QUICK UNCONCEALING THIS MAKER’S VOICESARA GIDDENS 1989-1995: THE FIRST SERIES: PERFORMANCE AS ENERGY, IDEAS AND PROVOCATIONDEADPLAY (1989) PLAYING DEAD … BECOMING PROFESSIONALRACHEL FEUCHTWANG EXHIBIT (1990) CONTROLLED CHAOSBARNABY POWER LOVE IS NATURAL AND REAL BUT NOT FOR YOU MY LOVE (1990) MY (OTHER) OTHER COLLABORATOR: PHILOSOPHY ALONGSIDE PRACTICESIMON JONES iwannabewolfman (1991-92) WORKING ALONGSIDESARA GIDDENS ROUGH (1992-93) FROM FAN-BOY TO PROGRAMMER – MEMORIES OF A RELATIONSHIP WITH BODIES IN FLIGHTRICHARD DUFTY AS IF FOR THE FIRST TIMEGRAEME ROSE SPEAKING IN TEXTS: WRITING BEYOND MEANINGSIMON JONES BEAUTIFUL LOSERS (1994) HEARING BODIES IN FLIGHTDARREN BOURNE LITTLUNS WAKE (1995) 1996-2009: THE SECOND SERIES: PERFORMANCE AS (NON-)COLLABORATION ACROSS MEDIADO THE WILD THING! (1996) THE MAGNIFICENT MINUTIAESARA GIDDENS CONSTANTS (1998) SET-UP AND SITUATION – DRAMATURGY AS TRANSFORMATIONSIMON JONES DELIVERUS (1999-2000) A DIALOGUE AT THE GLOBE THEATRE (LONDON)POLLY FRAME in conversation with SIMON JONES DIALOGUES & DUETSJOSEPHINE MACHON DOUBLE HAPPINESS (2000) BEAUTIFUL LOSERS RE-WORKEDKAYLENE TAN FLESH & TEXT, a document (2001) SKINWORKS (2002-3) BEING IN-BETWEEN: COLLABORATION AS NON-COLLABORATIONSIMON JONES WHO BY FIRE (2004-5) WHO BY FIRE: VERY SLOW DECAYSLEEPDOGS: TANUJA AMARASURIYA and TIM X ATACK in conversation TRIPTYCH (2005) THE TRANSMEDIATED IMAGETONY JUDGE THE SECRECY OF SAINTS (2006) MODEL LOVE (2008-11) RENDERING VISIBLEPAUL GEARY FINDING SUSPENSIONSARA GIDDENS PERFORMANCE/ PHOTOGRAPHY/ PHOTGRAPHY/ PERFORMANCE [AND ON/ AND ON]EDWARD DIMSDALE HYMN (2009) 2009-PRESENT: THE THIRD SERIES: OPENING OUT TOWARDS CO-CREATING THE PORTFOLIO WORKDREAM→WORK/ DREAM→WALK (2009-16) GYMNAST (2011-13) A PLACE THAT IS INTELLIGENT, A LITTLE BIT PUNK EVEN … BUT ALWAYS HUMANSUZANNAH BEDFORD MAYFEST AND MAYK: FROM FESTIVAL TO CO-CREATIONMATTHEW AUSTIN in conversation with SIMON JONES DO THE WILD THING! REDUX (2012) STILL MOVING: MOVING STILL (2012-18) DEVELOPING A PORTFOLIOSARA GIDDENS LIFE CLASS (2019-22) MAKING AND BREAKING, FAILING AND FAKINGMORVEN MACBETH THE DARE OF OTHER VOICES – FROM VERBATIM TO CO-CREATIONSIMON JONES UNBOX ME! (2023) AFTERWORDPAUL RUSS POSTSCRIPTSIMON JONESINDEX