Continuous Network

03/10/2023

"The dance is hypnotic, a measured, unhurried, repeating phrase. A visitor asks about it and Harrington replies with a meditative description of each of its parts, musing on the evocations and influences they touch upon and the feelings and functions brought to mind by them. The repetition and tempo, she says, is not particularly exciting, not in and of itself a ‘good’ dance nor is it meant to be. It facilitates the real focus of the piece, which is on the collaborative, free-flowing conversation.'

Caitlin Russell shares her reflectins of ‘Satelliser a dance for the gallery’ by .neve.harrington and co-workers at back in July. Thank you for sharing your review of the final CONTNIUOUS presentation!

Read now on at blog and - links in bio

📸 by Genevieve Reeves

31/08/2023

Last week we reflected on ‘Spirit Compass- Where there is Movement there is Change’ by Lucy Suggate - one of the inaugural Commissions and our first tour in 2019.

‘Spirit Compass’ toured to , , , and where together dance artists worked through 'tidal meditations,’ a practice of deep listening and moving informed by a detailed score focused on the pelvis.

Beginning on the ‘shoreline’, performers ‘cast off’ into a performance space lit with changing sunset colours. Propelled by Tom Page’s absorbing live drumming, they move through a process of internal and external detection and connection to energy.

Lucy is currently working with collaborator Charlie Ford on TENDER STONES. This interdisciplinary performance brings Charlie’s drawing, image and object making practices into orbit with Lucy’s dance research. During the performance they construct paper stones to access the imagination and play with illusions of time, weight and tenderness.

Thank you Lucy for sharing with us how you continue to move the needle in dance, installation, and interdisciplinary imaginaries.

TENDER STONES will be performed at Pembroke Open Doors Festival, part of Open Cambridge 2023
Pembroke College Auditorium
Saturday 16th September 3pm & 6:30pm



https://www.tenderstones.studio/

Images courtesy of and

23/08/2023

We begin our season of reflection with the first CONTINUOUS Commission, ‘Spirit Compass: Where there is movement there is change’ by Lucy Suggate. 

“Spirit Compass- Where there is Movement there is Change was attempting to create a space that gathered multiple perspectives into states of absorption and detection as opposed to scrutiny and traditional forms of concentration. It was deeply satisfying to glance around as see bodies reclined and in some sort of slumber or tending to other modes of being, it makes me think of the conditions required to watch/witness/be with abstract dance work and how the installation and gallery space can support this type of dance work.” Lucy Suggate, 2023

Commissioned by and , Spirit Compass was a site for communal listening and embodiment – an island or a temple of sorts. Audiences in 2019 and early 2020 at , , , and were invited to relax and witness the movement while sitting or lying on a ‘shoreline’ of cushions resembling smooth stones. 

Suggate worked with an exceptional group of dance artists: Annie Hanauer, Alexandrina Hemsley, Alexah Tomey-Alleyne, Claricia Parinussa, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Isabella Oberländer, SERAFINE1369, Stephanie McMann, and Rowdy SS; musician Tom Page and jewellery designer Lydia Hartshorn.

www.lucysuggate.com

A massive thank you to Lucy, her collaborators, and the inaugural CONTINUOUS Team for their pivotal influence on the CONTINUOUS Network, paving the way for the rest of the programme and dance in the gallery!

SPIRIT COMPASS CREDITS:
Dance Artists: Annie Hanauer, Alexandrina Hemsley, Alexah Tomey-Alleyne, Claricia Parinussa, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Isabella Oberländer, SERAFINE1369, Stephanie McMann, and Rowdy SS.
Musician: Tom Page
Costume Designer: Lydia Hartshorn

CONTINUOUS Team: Lauren Wright, Sally Rose, Nancy May Roberts, Tessa Norton, Jonny Goode
BALTIC: Kate Hickman

18/08/2023

Join the CONTINUOUS Team, Sophie Brassard and Lucia Fortune-Ely, Irene Aristizábal, Head of Curatorial & Public Practice at , and founder Siobhan Davies for the final CONTINUOUS Collaborations online chat, marking the final year of the CONTINUOUS Programme!

They will be in conversation with CONTINUOUS Commission and Touring Network artists, friends, gallery curators and collaborators, including SDS Co-Artistic Directors Kat Bridge and Annie Pui Ling Lok.

We’ll explore the collaboration needed between artists, disciplines and venues in order to make dance happen in gallery spaces. Come along to reflect on the last 4 years, delving into the lessons dance in the gallery has taught us, and imagine what lays ahead!

🗓CONTINUOUS Collaborations: Wednesday 6th September June, 3:30-5pm
📍Zoom 🎟BOOK IN FOR FREE IN BIO!
BSL interpreted by and

📸 Photography credits: Genevieve Reeves , Rohan Ayinde , Brain Roberts, and Luke Waddington

16/08/2023

After 4 years of touring dance to gallery spaces, CONTINUOUS hosted its final live performance at the end of last month.

The project has encompassed 3 new commissions, 4 tours of existing works, films, screenings, podcasts, workshops, websites, and online events. We’ve reached over 10,000 audience members and have worked with well over 100 artists across the nation and beyond.

Over the next 8 weeks we will be:

celebrating the performances in a series of posts
reflecting on the experience in a final CONTINUOUS Collaborations online chat
and evaluating the experience of this project for the artists, organisation and spaces involved.

It’s been a pleasure, a challenge, and a rewarding journey for the CONTINUOUS Team past and present. For the artists, many of the works were years in the making; each a joyous feat, with vibrant legacies and futures ahead of them.

Over this season of reflection, we’d love to hear your memories of these performances and events! Stay tuned for more!

📸 Photography and performance credits:
1. Tiu Makkonen for ‘INCHOATE BUZZ’ 2023, by Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome at

2. Genevieve Reeves for ‘Satelliser: a dance for the gallery’, by J Neve Harrington and coworkers at
3. Brian Roberts for ‘Everybody with me, always’ 2022, by Freestylers at
4. Luke Waddington for ‘To Earth’ 2022, by Julie Cleves and Robbie Synge at

04/08/2023

Thank you for satellising with us, Bristol! 🌀🧵

‘Satelliser: a dance for the gallery’ by .neve.harrington at last weekend was utterly joyful, and a such a serendipitous end to the CONTINUOUS Network programme.

A massive thank you to Neve, all the wonderful coworkers, Arnolfini staff and visitors across the weekend.

Coworkers in Bristol:
Iris Yi Po Chan
Katye Coe
Christine Bramwell
Siobhan Davies
Ngozi Oparah
Arabella Stanger
Mia Quimpo Gourlay
Jay Yule
Bonni Bogya
Jia-Yu Corti
Lorna Fox
J Neve Harrington .neve.harrington

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26/07/2023

Satelliser: a dance for the gallery by .neve.harrington and co-workers will be at this Saturday and Sunday!

These are the final live performances as part of the programme, a partnership between & , taking dance into gallery spaces across the UK.

Satelliser: a dance for the gallery is a durational performance you can drop in and out of - a space of speaking, listening, moving, embroidering and resting. Come and go as you like across the weekend, each visit will be unique and emerging.

See you there!

🧵Satelliser: a dance for the gallery
29 July - 30 July, 11:00 - 18:00
Arnolfini gallery spaces
Free entry!

🎧 visit satellising.com for more from J Neve Harrington and Coworkers 🌀
📸 Genevieve Reeves at 2021

30/06/2023

"Our bodies built more heat together as Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome began initiating our participation. Falling in step, we pulled our hands along our arms one by one, slowly over our shoulders and our faces, and down to our stomachs, breathing intentionally."

Read Gwendolen Dupré's reflection on INCHOATE BUZZ at now on

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📸 Photos by Tiu Makkonen

23/06/2023

📣📣Full audio recordings and transcripts for all three of our CONTINUOUS Collaboration talks are now live! Give them a read or listen through the link below!

Episode 3 - Lucy Suggate and Nancy May Roberts on Spirit Compass, TENDER STONES, and cultivating practice.

Episode 2 - Freestylers in conversation with LJ Findlay Walsh from Tramway

Episode 1 - J Neve Harrington .neve.harrington, Ngozi ‘N/A’ Oparah and Dee Ajiba from Turner Contemporary

Through the last months of CONTINUOUS programming, we will be sharing more from all the artists we've worked with, and more opportunities to chat with curators, producers and galleries in the network.

Siobhan Davies Studios

CONTINUOUS Collaborations is a series of informal online conversations running once a month from January to June 2023. The series marks the final year of the CONTINUOUS programme and offers a space to publicly share reflections from artists, galleries and audiences. CONTINUOUS Collaborations aims to...

02/06/2023

🪡 We are delighted to share that Satelliser: a dance for the gallery by .neve.harrington and co-workers will be at 29th-30th July as part of the exhibition Threads!

These are the final live performances as part of the programme, a partnership between & , taking dance into gallery spaces across the UK.

Satelliser: a dance for the gallery is a durational performance you can drop in and out of - a space of speaking, listening, moving, embroidering and resting. As coworkers subtly alter their spatial configurations in response to the visitors’ movements, they play with the orientation relationships between performance, visitor and space and the kinds of conversations these can support.

“one of the most radical and absorbing works I have seen over the past few years” - audience member, NottDance 2022

Coworkers in 2023 at Arnolfini:
Arabella Stranger
Bonni Bogya
Christine Bramwell
Iris Yi Po Chan 陳以葆
J Neve Harrington .neve.harrington
Jay Yule
Jia-Yu Corti
Katye Coe
Lorna Fox
Mia Quimpo Gourlay
Ngozi Oparah
Siobhan Davies

🎧 visit satellising.com for more from J Neve Harrington and Coworkers 🌀

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CREDITS:
1- John Philip Saage
2-6 Genevieve Reeves at 2021

31/05/2023

Tomorrow online 3:30-5pm, join Lucy Suggate and Nancy May Roberts in the next CONTINOUS Collaborations online chat, marking the final year of the CONTINUOUS Programme.

Unfortunately, this event will not be BSL interpreted as with previous CONTINUOUS Collaborations, but as standard all our online events feature automated transcription and closed captions.

🗓CONTINUOUS Collaborations: Thursday 1st June, 3:30-5pm
📍Zoom 🎟BOOK IN FOR FREE IN BIO!

www.lucysuggate.com

31/05/2023

Tomorrow online 3:30-5pm, join Lucy Suggate and Nancy May Roberts in the next CONTINOUS Collaborations online chat, marking the final year of the CONTINUOUS Programme.

Unfortunately this event will not be BSL intepretted as with previous CONTINUOUS Collaborations, but as standard all our online events feature automated transcription and closed captions.

🗓CONTINUOUS Collaborations: Thursday 1st June, 3:30-5pm
📍Zoom
🎟BOOK IN FOR FREE https://www.siobhandavies.com/events/collab-cont-3/

www.lucysuggate.com