Monday 17 - Friday 21 March

Bob and Emily are developing a collaborative contemporary circus practice, exploring where their practices meet through partnering and juggling. The residency will support time for creating early stage choreographies and scores for moving with juggling objects together.

Throughout the residency they will share their different movement practices which both focus on carrying and being carried – Bob’s through object manipulation and juggling, Emily’s through partner acrobatics and partnering. A playful and improvisation based inquiry will focus on the relationship between each other and object, asking what movement choreographies are created from the qualities of an object – how the affordances of an object can offer pathways for movement together and a score through which the body follows. These acts of passing and receiving, and how we negotiate our bodies around passing and receiving, create perhaps a score for telling stories of our entangled interdependence with both each other and our environments. Our negotiations as a kind of dance.

The work sits alongside Emily’s wider project Waiting for Weight. Through working with objects, Bob and Emily explore specifically the things we carry and hold for each other, and how the work of support is done in community, passing them back and forth.

Sharing

Work-In-Progress Sharing | Friday 21 March | 15:00 – 16:00 | BOOK NOW

Company class | Thursday 20 March | 10:30 – 12:00 | BOOK NOW

About Emily

Emily is a circus artist with a multidisciplinary practice interested in the overlapping roles of artist, neighbour, citizen, friend. She has recently been exploring a softer approach to circus due to living with arthritis and navigating a wildly fluctuating relationship with her own body. She has worked internationally as performer, acrobat, rigger, photographer, stage manager, producer and support worker. Performing credits include working with Ockham’s Razor, co-devising the award winning Tipping Point, Mimbre, Nofitstate, Nathan Johnston, Ellen Renton, Laura Fisher and OceanAllOver. Her collaborative project Waiting for Weight was supported by The Work Room and Manipulate Arts. She was Associate Producer for Manipulate Arts, Jerwood Fellow with Imaginate and is creative assistant to Greta McMillan in association with Oily Cart.

About Bob

Bob is a circus artist with a background in juggling, object manipulation and clown. Recently he has been researching dance and movement styles to explore different means of expression and draw new inspiration for his own practice. Over the last 10 years Bob has collaborated and created with the likes of Circus Alba, PyroCeltica and Delighters Theatre, performed at some of the country’s largest and smallest events, and now also works as Lead Tutor for Think Circus.

Instagram @emily_nicholl_

Website www.emilynicholl.com

Instagram @wobbilin.bob

Supported through Dance Base’s Paid Artist Residency Programme