J Neve Harrington in conversation with Michaela Gerussi and Daniela Perazzo (guest curator)

This is the second episode in a two episode mini-series on the theme of Re-enchanting British dance, guest-curated by Daniela Perazzo and supported by Kingston University. These two episodes are three-way conversations between an invited artist, a member of the podcast team, and Daniela Perazzo.

This joint conversation between Michaela Gerussi, Daniela Perazzo and invited guest J Neve (Neve) Harrington takes Neve's recent project Satelliser (and accompanying digital publication satellising) as a starting point to discuss her work through a range of topics, concerns and approaches.

Below is a short text on Satelliser to help situate the listener:
“Satelliser: a dance for the gallery is a durational performance work for an intergenerational group of women. These dancers subtly alter their spatial configurations in response to the visitors’ movements, playing with the relationship between performance, visitor, and space...
Accompanying the live work is a digital publication and podcast satellising.com. which holds together contexts around Satelliser: a dance for the gallery.”
(https://jnharrington.com/satelliser-a-dance-for-the-gallery)

Some of the topics that come up throughout the conversation include:
containers
labour
parts
transparency
dance training
unison
difference
relationships
revealing difference
visibility, the primacy of vision
partial narratives/perspectives/multiple subjectivities
playfulness
materiality
the nervous system
touch

References:
Some of Neve's earlier projects which are mentioned in this episode include Screensaver Series (https://jnharrington.com/screensaver-series) and The Human Clock (https://jnharrington.com/the-human-clock-)

Neve mentions a previous episode of Dance Outside Dance with artist Florence Peake. That episode cane be found here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/danceoutsidedance/florence-peak-mixdown

Michaela quotes from a text on satellising.com which references Ann Cvetkovich. That text is Satelliser as Crafting by Else Tunemyr
https://www.satellising.com/satellising-publication/satelliser-as-crafting

Michaela reads a quote on craft by anthropologist Stephanie Bunn from her text The importance of Materials

Bios:

Michaela Gerussi is a Canadian dance artist based in London, UK. Michaela’s dance practice is nourished by her inquiry into the nervous system, interoception and attunement, in relation to her studies in Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy. Her choreographic work considers shifting relationships between people, places and materials, layering subtle perceptual detail with a functional, dynamic approach to movement.

J Neve Harrington (London, UK) is an artist whose work includes writing, dance & choreography, drawing, video, installation, costume and space design. She works mainly in gallery and non-stage spaces where her work prioritises explorations around access, play, agency, confrontation by times/scales beyond the human, neuroqueer experiences of information processing and attention.

Daniela Perazzo is a dance and performance scholar with a specialist interest in the intersections of the aesthetic and the political in interdisciplinary movement practices and experimental dramaturgical processes. She joined Kingston University London in 2014, having previously taught at the University of Surrey. She is a Senior Lecturer in Dance and Postgraduate Research Coordinator for the Department of Performing Arts and the School of Arts. Her first monograph, Jonathan Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.