Bodies in Flight

06/12/2023

Dear Friends of Bodies in Flight,

I am writing with some very sad and shocking news:
Sara Giddens, choreographer and co-director of Bodies in Flight, died in hospital last Friday.
I have few details, suffice to write that she was with all her family at the end.

Sara had been diagnosed with breast cancer five years ago and following treatment was given the all clear in 2021. Her continuing good health gave us all grounds for thinking positively about the future, and we had very recently received confirmation of project funding from ACE for the Third Edition of our current project Life Class in Blackpool in spring/summer 2024. We were also completing revisions to a book about our work to be published by Intellect early 2025.

Her husband Tony and her family are understandably unable to deal with any communications at this time.
And it will take me some time, in conversation with collaborators, to find a way forward for Bodies in Flight.

Please bear with me; and I will communicate as soon as I can.

Wishing you all well,
Simon

SIMON JONES, co-director, on behalf of BODIES IN FLIGHT

23/11/2022

22/11/2022

Celebrating Life Class & thank you to all our supporters!

Dance Consortia North West Cheshire Dance Lakeside Arts UCLan Dance Dance4 Fever Dance Company

Bringing together performance and rehearsal footage, alongside interviews with makers and participants from Nottingham and Preston performances.

https://danceconsortianorthwest.org/f/showcase-on-life-class-from-dr-sara-giddens

12/04/2022

Missed Flesh and Text or wish to revisit? We have you covered...LIFE CLASS a Dialogue is LIVE on Youtube now!

LIFE CLASS, a dialogue by Bodies in Flight, takes one strand from our current project exploring the role of social dance in people's lives and loves.

WATCH HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak18SMJWHKs&t=301s

08/04/2022

Incredible to think I’ve entered a fourth decade of work and collaborations with BIF!
Here’s to plenty more…

Espace Sport Rives De Bercy (Weight / cardio training room), Charenton-le-Pont steroids for bodybuilding pro chrome 7kg short dumbbell – silver – bodybuilding – tunturi – sport. BODIES IN FLIGHT, co-directed by Sara Giddens and Simon Jones, make performance where flesh utters and words move,...

08/04/2022

Flesh and Text, Preston 2022.

Thank you to everyone who came along and explored the exhibition. Flesh and Text was a monument to the past three decades of Bodies in flight, encompassed in 27 performances. All brought together in one lovely space through text, artefacts, video, and sound.

In the words of an audience member "It was a pleasure to stand, move, feel into the ages of work.” We enjoyed sharing our past with Preston. Now to think about the future, stay tuned...

Espace Sport Rives De Bercy (Weight / cardio training room), Charenton-le-Pont steroids for bodybuilding pro chrome 7kg short dumbbell – silver – bodybuilding – tunturi – sport. BODIES IN FLIGHT, co-directed by Sara Giddens and Simon Jones, make performance where flesh utters and words move,...

10/03/2022

https://youtu.be/SALciH9tTtM

Triptych, Digital Film, 33 mins.This three-screen montage, made by video artist Tony Judge, a long-time collaborator with Bodies in Flight, draws together ar...

03/03/2022

Today Bodies in Bodies Flight will be delivering two text workshops in line with our Flesh and Text Exhibition, with UCLan Dance

Don’t forget you can still drop into the exhibition anytime between 10am-5pm on weekdays or come along to our VIP Launch today at 4pm!

Email [email protected] to be added to our guest list for today!

02/03/2022

The exhibition is open NOW. Drop in on any weekday from 10am-5pm between 1st-8th March!

Here is just a little teaser of the exhibition. Don’t miss out on the chance to explore the performance work of bodies in flight in person through text, sound, video and print.

02/03/2022

And we’re in….

Flesh and Text exhibition is now live in the at in Preston. The exhibition will run from the 1st - 8th March on weekdays 10am-5pm.

If you would like to join us for a special event launch on the 3rd March at 4pm please email us at [email protected] to RSVP (spaces are limited)

28/02/2022

Flesh and Text Exhibition will celebrate 30 years of performance making with Bodies in Flight. Where flesh utters and words move, don’t miss out on viewing the wonderful work as well as the latest edition of Life Class: Preston!

✉️ VIP launch night 3rd March 4pm please RSVP [email protected]
🗓 1st- 8th March (free)
📍, Victoria Building, UCLan, Preston