https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site REBECCA DOUGLASS Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:07:06 +0000 https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site en https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/Homepage-left Sat, 17 Sep 2022 12:15:15 +0000 REBECCA DOUGLASS https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/Homepage-left window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-BDB35WJNPQ'); REBECCA DOUGLASS <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d61aa432e0b87243918410d660958b822fcd5b84124e1ccb3d440aecafb7a64/_MG_8816.jpg" data-mid="153190316" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d61aa432e0b87243918410d660958b822fcd5b84124e1ccb3d440aecafb7a64/_MG_8816.jpg" />CREDIT: Gaby Conn @GABYCONNPHOTOS <img width="3803" height="5704" width_o="3803" height_o="5704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f09963f1bf2a3519253576de06be35300550330fa399f78156afc01fddff522a/_MG_8965.jpg" data-mid="153190317" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f09963f1bf2a3519253576de06be35300550330fa399f78156afc01fddff522a/_MG_8965.jpg" />CREDIT: Gaby Conn @GABYCONNPHOTOS Rebecca Douglass (she/her) is an Artistic Researcher and Organiser recently graduated from the Art and Performance Research Masters at the University of Amsterdam, during which she studied the intersection between walking, place and anarchival practices. Arriving from a background in Contemporary dance, she has enjoyed a varied career as performer, critic, independent curator and project manager. She is distinctly drawn to producing as it unites her expertise; bringing complex projects to life, facilitating creative connections, and navigating the space between concept and execution. She carries out frequent work for Springback Magazine, where she is a performance journalist and critic. She is the Program Manager at The Feminist Lecture Program, an online Gender Studies lecture program. In her artistic practice she works across disciplines of text, performance and new-media art. She received a First-Class Bachelor of Arts degree from the London Contemporary Dance School, and further deepened her practical experience on the Architetture di Corpi HUMUS Professional Programme, Bologna. Her foray into the intersection between dance and digital art is explored in ‘The Opposite of a Black Hole’ (2022) - for which she received Arts Council Funding - and ‘Digital Permaculture’ (2023) - created in residency in remote Northern Sweden - both collaborations with Berlin based artist Tasha Hess-Neustadt. She has produced several multidisciplinary art events including ‘Dancing Together Festival’ (2023), ‘VERTICAL TERRAIN’ (2022) and ‘erms? extravaganza’ (2021).&nbsp; https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/ABOUT Sun, 18 Sep 2022 15:06:53 +0000 REBECCA DOUGLASS https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/ABOUT window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-BDB35WJNPQ'); REBECCA DOUGLASS <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d61aa432e0b87243918410d660958b822fcd5b84124e1ccb3d440aecafb7a64/_MG_8816.jpg" data-mid="153248944" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d61aa432e0b87243918410d660958b822fcd5b84124e1ccb3d440aecafb7a64/_MG_8816.jpg" />CREDIT: Gaby Conn @GABYCONNPHOTOS <img width="3803" height="5704" width_o="3803" height_o="5704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f09963f1bf2a3519253576de06be35300550330fa399f78156afc01fddff522a/_MG_8965.jpg" data-mid="153248945" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f09963f1bf2a3519253576de06be35300550330fa399f78156afc01fddff522a/_MG_8965.jpg" />CREDIT: Gaby Conn @GABYCONNPHOTOS Rebecca Douglass is an Artistic Researcher currently completing the Art and Performance Research Masters at the University of Amsterdam, where she is studying the intersection between walking, place and anarchival practices. She works across disciplines of text, performance and new-media art, arriving at these through her background in Contemporary dance. She received a First-Class Bachelor of Arts degree from the London Contemporary Dance School, and further deepened her practical experience on the Architetture di Corpi HUMUS Professional Programme, Bologna. Her foray into the intersection between dance and digital art is explored in ‘The Opposite of a Black Hole’ (2022) - for which she received Arts Council Funding - and ‘Digital Permaculture’ (2023) - created in residency in remote Northern Sweden - both collaborations with Berlin based artist Tasha Hess-Neustadt. She has produced several multidisciplinary art events including ‘Dancing Together Festival’ (2023), ‘VERTICAL TERRAIN’ (2022) and ‘erms? extravaganza’ (2021). Alongside her personal freelance portfolio, she carries out frequent work for Springback Magazine, where she is a performance journalist and critic, and The Feminist Lecture Program, an online Gender Studies lecture program for which she is the Programme and Communications Coordinator. Her professional experiences stretch to a proficiency in organisation, management and administrations for cultural institutions. CREATIVE AND PERFORMANCE CV&nbsp;︎︎︎ https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/FINDING-VIEWS Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:58:55 +0000 REBECCA DOUGLASS https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/FINDING-VIEWS window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-BDB35WJNPQ'); FINDING VIEWS DATE: Friday 21st February TIME: 13:00 - 15:30 WHERE: Meet at Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof - we will be walking around the surrounding neighbourhood. IMPORTANT INFO:&nbsp; Prepare for all weather! Wear comfortable shoes and bring waterproof clothing. Carry water and a snack if you think you’ll need this. If the weather becomes too difficult for a walking workshop, an alternative exercise will be proposed. RSVP is not essential, but encouraged! You can either email me at rebeccadouglass7@outlook.com or text at +31624215459 -- What is The Walking-Working Group? Walking, strolling, ambling, sauntering… the Walking Working Group is a series of workshops for anyone interested in passing through the city on foot, experimenting with different ways to connect to our sense of place! This project is less concerned with getting from A to B - rather the many unique and important experiences that can happen in between. During each workshop we’ll be focussing on a new idea, seeing how walking can connect us to writing, listening, drawing, talking, eating and more. <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c9dc5903922bd1d9f0f24237f37024d1aaf89025ce1131fe1a98747d080dd58/POSTER-1.png" data-mid="226732425" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c9dc5903922bd1d9f0f24237f37024d1aaf89025ce1131fe1a98747d080dd58/POSTER-1.png" /> How can we capture the fleeting moments of a walk? Or is fleetingness the very essence of the walk after all?... For this Walking Working Group, we will focus on the passing of sights, images, memories as we pass through Slotermeer - what ways are there to see? How can we compose images for each other? How can we experience fleeting moments of a walk? During this exploratory adventure, we will walk through the neighbourhood armed with simple viewfinders - little squares of cardboard through which you can frame your view. Throughout the walk, we will create and share fleeting moments of place through our viewfinders - you might even decide to make your own viewfinder during the walk, or to use your surroundings as viewfinders in themselves. An act of instant composition, this game asks us to listen and look with all the care of a photographer, without the permanence of the photo. During and after the walk, there will be moments to record our impressions of this game and of place through guided automatic writing, freeing your writing to the curves, pathways, and compositions we have experienced during the workshop. -- Who is this workshop for… This workshop is open to EVERYONE. I recognise the exclusionary implications of walking and choose to co-opt this word to mean being physically present and visible in space, moving through it in an impactful way. There will be no pressure to walk at a certain speed, and pauses are greatly encouraged. If you have any questions or requirements, you are more than welcome to drop me a message at +31624215459. You might like this workshop if… You live and/or work around the Slotermeer area - my research is situated here, so I am always excited to speak to and learn from people with specific knowledge of this area. You want to try different modes of creative production - walking as artistic research practice is an exciting, unique and stimulating mode of creation. It gets the blood flowing, but it also connects your thoughts to the passing through place and time. If you want to get inspired in your creative practice, this might be a fun way to experiment. You enjoy walking and would like to do this activity in a group - walking alone is amazing, walking together is even better! https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/A-POSTCARD-FROM-SLOTERMEER Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:07:06 +0000 REBECCA DOUGLASS https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/A-POSTCARD-FROM-SLOTERMEER window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-BDB35WJNPQ'); A POSTCARD FROM SLOTERMEERDATE: Friday 28th February TIME: 13:00 - 15:30 WHERE: Meet at Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof - we will be walking around the surrounding neighbourhood. IMPORTANT INFO:&nbsp; Prepare for all weather! Wear comfortable shoes and bring waterproof clothing. Carry water and a snack if you think you’ll need this. If the weather becomes too difficult for a walking workshop, an alternative exercise will be proposed. RSVP is not essential, but encouraged! You can either email me at rebeccadouglass7@outlook.com or text at +31624215459 --What is The Walking-Working Group? Walking, strolling, ambling, sauntering… the Walking Working Group is a series of workshops for anyone interested in passing through the city on foot, experimenting with different ways to connect to our sense of place! This project is less concerned with getting from A to B - rather the many unique and important experiences that can happen in between. During each workshop we’ll be focussing on a new idea, seeing how walking can connect us to writing, listening, drawing, talking, eating and more. <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abf104c000153bd626588a813078eedcbd0110591a93a1210c38beaec60f91e7/SEND.png" data-mid="227338252" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abf104c000153bd626588a813078eedcbd0110591a93a1210c38beaec60f91e7/SEND.png" /> The postcard - a snapshot of some of the most picturesque parts of town, static, sexy and often nothing like the real thing. The postcard - a love letter to someone far away; a glimpse into your life at that very moment and a chance to connect. The humble postcard is the inspiration behind this week’s Walking Working Group. Rather than the unachievable stamp of pristine photography, how can we use walking to gather matter, scraps, trash and treasure to create our own postcards of Slotermeer. What sketches, scribbles and words can be combined to create a more embodied postcard of place? What might this postcard reveal about a place that goes beyond the photo-worthy monuments? And who will you address your postcard to; who do you carry with you on your walk? This workshop is an exploration into walking as an artistic research practice that surfaces the hidden elements of place, and combines walking out in the neighbourhood with a collaging and writing session. -- Who is this workshop for… This workshop is open to EVERYONE. I recognise the exclusionary implications of walking and choose to co-opt this word to mean being physically present and visible in space, moving through it in an impactful way. There will be no pressure to walk at a certain speed, and pauses are greatly encouraged. If you have any questions or requirements, you are more than welcome to drop me a message at +31624215459. You might like this workshop if… You live and/or work around the Slotermeer area - my research is situated here, so I am always excited to speak to and learn from people with specific knowledge of this area. You want to try different modes of creative production - walking as artistic research practice is an exciting, unique and stimulating mode of creation. It gets the blood flowing, but it also connects your thoughts to the passing through place and time. If you want to get inspired in your creative practice, this might be a fun way to experiment. You enjoy walking and would like to do this activity in a group - walking alone is amazing, walking together is even better! https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/DIGITAL-PERMACULTURE Wed, 19 Jul 2023 19:43:41 +0000 REBECCA DOUGLASS https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/DIGITAL-PERMACULTURE window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-BDB35WJNPQ'); DIGITAL PERMACULTURE MAY - JUNE 20223 MOSKOSEL CREATIVE LAB, SWEDEN _______________CREDITS Rebecca Douglass &amp; Tasha Hess-Neustadt: Concept, Performance, Camera, Editing Rebecca Douglass - Sound Thanks to Jake Burgess and Louis Caspar Schmitt for technological assistance! Additional Support: Gerardo Salas _______________This project was created in residency at Moskosel Creative Lab, Sweden, as part of Northern Sustainable Futures’ iM KONSTHALL commission. It received funding from Northern Sustainable Futures and will be shown in a portable gallery container around Northern Sweden as part of a remote touring network throughout 2023-24. Please read more about Northern Sustainable Futures’ work with iM KONSTHALL and additional projects at:&nbsp; https://www.northernsustainablefutures.com/ <img width="600" height="340" width_o="600" height_o="340" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30c660bd39344f2c9031a7e77784fdb3829b1009cb6c11dfa70b7af73339a819/ezgif.com-video-to-gif.gif" data-mid="185547623" border="0" data-scale="72" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/30c660bd39344f2c9031a7e77784fdb3829b1009cb6c11dfa70b7af73339a819/ezgif.com-video-to-gif.gif" /> Digital Permaculture is an immersive work incorporating dance, poetry, voice, &amp; digital intervention. It’s a continuation of a shared artistic practice &amp; an interest in the crossing of lexicons when talking about bodies in natural vs. digital spaces through eco-glitch feminist perspectives. Through World Building practice, desires &amp; fantasies for a new world are fed into a Google Doc using a co-writing score &amp; they begin to manifest. The boundaries between physical &amp; digital blur. A typed script/archive of the world building process unravels. A digital world is born from embodied/danced imagination, morphed environments &amp; the collation/fabrication of stock footage from the infinite content bank of the post-internet, hyper-aestheticised online space. Natural imagery is taken from the surrounding area, blending real &amp; digital. Inspired by geographical placement, Digital Permaculture has absorbed the nature &amp; wildlife of Moskosel, documenting the interconnectivity between creative process &amp; natural world. We hope this work sparks personal reflections on the relationship between nature &amp; technology as we dream of ways to deal with modern catastrophes by manufacturing an escape into digital utopia. We’re questioning the impossibility of achieving ‘utopia’ outside of digital software, cyclical patterns &amp; throwaway culture in which old worlds can be ‘Moved to Trash’ &amp; new files opened.ABOUT THE COLLABORATORS: Rebecca &amp; Tasha’s artistic research centres around cyberspace as a container for &amp; extension of multi-selves beyond the material world. Within the digital sphere, they’re interested in queering the representation of bodies, gender, identity, &amp; story, imagining a poly-form digital dance practice. They use DIY methodologies; re-appropriation of rudimentary technology (Zoom) as self-recording tools, amateur SFX &amp; co-writing on Google Docs. This is a source of empowerment &amp; escapism, imagining alternate universes &amp; ecologies &amp; morphing the digital body, inspired by Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism. THIS PAGE IS IN PROGRESS, WITH MORE VIDEO AND PHOTO CONTENT TO ARRIVE ONCE THE PROJECT HAS BEEN COMPLETED https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/THE-OPPOSITE-OF-A-BLACK-HOLE-LAB Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:47:24 +0000 REBECCA DOUGLASS https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/THE-OPPOSITE-OF-A-BLACK-HOLE-LAB window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-BDB35WJNPQ'); THE OPPOSITE OF A BLACK HOLE: A PARTICIPATORY SCREENDANCE LAB 12 JANUARY 20223 FIELDWORKS DANCE, LONDON _______________CREDITSIdeation: Rebecca Douglass + Tasha Hess-NeustadtFacilitation: Rebecca Douglass, Tasha Hess-Neustadt + Madison Pomarico Live Sound Design: Jake BurgessParticipating Artists: Franck Boulegue Daniela Carler Thea Kallhed Moller Claudia Kappenberg Dominic Manson Ella Posti Video Editing: Madison Pomarico Soundtrack: Jake Burgess _______________Thanks to the following organisations for generously supporting this project:ARTS COUNCIL ENGLANDFIELDWORKS DANCE FESTIVAL DE VIDEO DANCE DE BOURGOUGNE As part of our Arts Council England funding and overall project, we were able to expand upon our digital-dance research initiated in the creation of ‘The Opposite of a Black Hole’ through leading a digital-dance research lab that was free to attend, open to artists of all disciplines, and structured to make room for both in-person and online participants. The intention of the lab was to continue delving into our film's themes, techniques and ideas but in a ‘live’ context, finding ways that technology can be integrated into live performance circumstances. The lab centred around ‘stations’ which participants could engage with based upon loose suggestions. These included: VOCAL: writing scripts and/or reading text into a mic. Sound artist Jake Burgess live-manipulated sounds into sonic landscapes amplified in the space. MOVEMENT: physical scores typed by virtual participants embodied by in-person participants. GREEN SCREEN: playing with this as a tool for instant composition. PROJECTIONS: selecting/projecting videos into the space, reacting physically to this. CAMERA: accessing multiple cameras including professional but also introducing phone cameras. Capturing things from multiple angles - camera as active component, not just documentation.The ethos of the lab was to cultivate a playground-like atmosphere that would allow artists to build familiarity with tools otherwise reserved for ‘professionals’ in digital fields, demystifying the integration of tech in live performance. The raw footage from the lab was collectively generated and shared as open source amongst all the participants. We were (and hope to continue) experimenting with a new non-hierarchical approach to output, in which each person involved has equal access and permission to reappropriate the footage for their own creative means. The outcome will be a collection of short and unique Screendance productions that, whilst filmed within the same parameters, have their own identity. As a way of conclusion, this lab was the first of what we hope will be a series of open research sessions where we constantly question the role of performer and cameraperson, blur the lines between being in the space physically or virtually, and create opportunities for dance artists to learn about digital equipment in a safe and experimental space. https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/THE-OPPOSITE-OF-A-BLACK-HOLE Sat, 17 Sep 2022 12:15:16 +0000 REBECCA DOUGLASS https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/THE-OPPOSITE-OF-A-BLACK-HOLE window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-BDB35WJNPQ'); THE OPPOSITE OF A BLACK HOLE2022 - 2023I wonder what it’s like to float.Airborne, airport, airbound,I think therefore am I profound?Oh, I’m thinking,I’m thinking about….I’m thinking abouuuuuuuttt…Following the selection of a 2020 Screendance project ‘erms?’ [see page 10] as part of the International Screendance Festival Freiburg 2021, this project was a commission from the Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne, made in collaboration with Tasha-Hess Nesutadt, Madison Pomarico and Jake Burgess. Our research, whilst existing as a stand-alone project, would form part of a 50 minute collective Screendance entitled Somnambulists for an Ensemble, created as a compilation of segments from 10 selected international female artists. The project pulls from the renowned experimental filmmaker Maya Deren's unfinished dance film Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951). The invitation was for the artists to create their own vision of what a finished version of this film would look like, freely reimagined and adapted to our times. The work is both a tribute to Maya Deren, a personal statement by the artists involved, and a commentary about our present situation from global female perspectives.&nbsp; ABOUT OUR SEGMENT...The opposite of a Black Hole is a digital flaneur, an audiovisual journey through the wandering mind of a pinhole camera, exploring the clashing of old and new technologies in relation to the dancing body and the moving image. The film meanders through homages to old cinema romance, existential dread, and glitch-feminist fantasy, all the while paying tribute to the pioneering figure of Maya Deren.The opposite of a black hole is a disembodied reflection on what we are made of. It imagines the relations of dust, DNA &amp; pixels to the human body, as well as the malleability of human flesh and voice in the digital realm.&nbsp; The wandering pinhole voices the pleasure of thinking as entertainment, the transformation of thinking to panicking, and the many contradictions of our times, through dreams, nightmares, and tangential distractions.The artists seek to enter inside the universe of their tributee, digitally penetrating the boundaries of culture and technology that prevent us from time travelling to meet our predecessors - with curiosity, humour, and reverence. SCREENINGS: Premiere: October 20th 2022, Festival de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne &amp; L’arc at Château de la Verrerie, Le Creusot FR [October 2022] Coctelito de Videodanza 2022-2023 Season, Mexico [November 2023] Fieldworks Dance London Screening [January 2023 ] ____________________________________ CREDITS:Co-Direction: Rebecca Douglass, Tasha-Hess-Neustadt, Madison Pomarico Choreography, performance: Rebecca Douglass and Tasha Hess-Neustadt Camera: Madison Pomarico Editing &amp; Animation: Madison Pomarico Text: Rebecca Douglass and Tasha Hess-Neustadt Sound: Jake Burgess ____________________________________ SUPPORTED BY ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND AND FIELDWORKS DANCE LONDON <img width="1440" height="900" width_o="1440" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36be1b995e72aed42ec027c2937909a6eb5bc628ead665bd0269ded01ac5794e/5.png" data-mid="153250437" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36be1b995e72aed42ec027c2937909a6eb5bc628ead665bd0269ded01ac5794e/5.png" /> <img width="1440" height="900" width_o="1440" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/525bbbe6002a42023c27833d15e33e9c0289003afb3a0e5b90e99ca7e4fc811b/7.png" data-mid="153250438" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/525bbbe6002a42023c27833d15e33e9c0289003afb3a0e5b90e99ca7e4fc811b/7.png" /> <img width="1439" height="896" width_o="1439" height_o="896" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78ef5403202bd4408f0290f351de1e48d66c2d0992cebd590d217371046162a1/OOABH1.png" data-mid="153250094" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78ef5403202bd4408f0290f351de1e48d66c2d0992cebd590d217371046162a1/OOABH1.png" /> <img width="1000" height="563" width_o="1000" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ddafabea939a7fd11688e2f854eb6b846bf46854124faf0445e35049a71d3dec/Somnmbulists.jpg" data-mid="153250553" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ddafabea939a7fd11688e2f854eb6b846bf46854124faf0445e35049a71d3dec/Somnmbulists.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="900" width_o="1440" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed79a64fb80a8b32c98839d446bd1d6f61b9cf7920208bb315d6af09eb4d0bae/OOABH2.png" data-mid="153250097" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed79a64fb80a8b32c98839d446bd1d6f61b9cf7920208bb315d6af09eb4d0bae/OOABH2.png" /> <img width="1440" height="900" width_o="1440" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1e541a6efdf52df4374fc53480b41c587a2f3a339dd08816efe425eda4b8fc9/OOABH4.png" data-mid="153250095" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1e541a6efdf52df4374fc53480b41c587a2f3a339dd08816efe425eda4b8fc9/OOABH4.png" /> https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/SHALLOW-WATER-WAVES Sat, 17 Sep 2022 12:15:17 +0000 REBECCA DOUGLASS https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/SHALLOW-WATER-WAVES window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-BDB35WJNPQ'); SHALLOW WATER WAVESJUNE 2022 A live trio performance, partially improvised and partially choreographed, Shallow Water Waves uses expansive, delicate movement, spoken word and an other-worldly soundscape to confront existing norms with a willingness, certainty and insistence for change. It premiered at The Place as part of Resolutions festival 2022. The work was devised at SET Woolwich. Shallow Water Waves is a celebration of soft power. Three dancers invite, support, uplift and love, indulging in their desires as bodies of water, of nymph-like playing anchored amongst real-life experiences. Let us queer our listening towards the quiet voices. We are powerfully and truthfully being soft in a hardened world. Yet bellflowers break through pavement tiles, and tsunamis are caused by shallow-water waves.“To be soft is to be powerful” - Rupi Kaur _________________________________ CREDITS: Choreography: Katie Serridge Dancers: Rebecca Douglass, Gilles Geissbuhler &amp; Dominique Baker Sound Design: Luisa Mateo Dupleich Rozo Photography: Anouk Jouanne _________________________________ <img width="6774" height="4492" width_o="6774" height_o="4492" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe52204e000af7a5f4b6202bcc10f5aedb817023ba7022239987143a6dffa925/SWW2.jpeg" data-mid="153251295" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe52204e000af7a5f4b6202bcc10f5aedb817023ba7022239987143a6dffa925/SWW2.jpeg" /> <img width="4434" height="6687" width_o="4434" height_o="6687" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c404e43f9a340b2033f5f547ff16d0794cd6581b85d41f4bd9f67f347c184e12/SWW1.jpeg" data-mid="153251293" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c404e43f9a340b2033f5f547ff16d0794cd6581b85d41f4bd9f67f347c184e12/SWW1.jpeg" /> <img width="3046" height="4594" width_o="3046" height_o="4594" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25768d6230549339f489fab00844569fee833b53610b4e682860e326aabb1b4d/WW3.jpeg" data-mid="153251296" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25768d6230549339f489fab00844569fee833b53610b4e682860e326aabb1b4d/WW3.jpeg" /> <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1c1c343b985e4599a9e0b041fbbf07815b1e2b7a1caff7b69d50842138d6bb8/SWW4.jpeg" data-mid="153251294" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1c1c343b985e4599a9e0b041fbbf07815b1e2b7a1caff7b69d50842138d6bb8/SWW4.jpeg" /> https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/ERMS Sun, 18 Sep 2022 15:56:22 +0000 REBECCA DOUGLASS https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/ERMS window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-BDB35WJNPQ'); ERMS? AUGUST 2020 - MARCH 2021 CREDITS:Rebecca Douglass: Performer/Choreographer/Editor Tasha Hess-Neustadt: Performer/Choreographer/Assistant Editor Jake Burgess: Sound Artist Robert Hall: Cameraman/Special FX Louis Caspar Schmitt: Animation Special thanks to Themselves Collective, Venue MOT Unit 18 and Legacy Russell. Welcome Old Friend,You find yourself now suspended in a digitized universe. Confronted with the vast unknown. You are infinite and the future looks orange. You encounter two multi-beings. They welcome you, sweet traveler. The aroma of pluralities caresses your nostrils, promising the limitless. Rebecca Douglass and Tasha Hess-Neustadt began working on this project in August 2020, with the impulse to dance together, and to embrace the absurdity of dancing at that time. In the midst of global uncertainty, erms? develops the idea of positioning two bodies as magic 8-balls that can answer the unanswerable. erms? brings to life Rebecca and Tasha’s desires to expand, to absorb and be absorbed, to touch, and to envision ways of moving joyfully.Since August Rebecca and Tasha have been working on erms? remotely.&nbsp; As bodies and ideas extended into the ether, the project was deeply influenced by Legacy Russel’s “Glitch Feminism” manifesto. erms? explores the manipulation of gender, character, identity, and story, within and beyond the physical body - dismantling and reimagining the boundaries between the self and the world, scrambling the binary. &nbsp;erms? is compiled of footage from a live performance in London in August, and screen recordings on Zoom, intentionally “glitching” the function of the greenscreen to reflect an orange cyborg body on their own skin.&nbsp; The soundscape, created by Jake Burgess, consists exclusively of digital manipulations of Rebecca and Tasha’s own voices. __________________ erms? was premiered at erms? extravaganza, an online festival curated by Tasha and Rebecca in April-May 2021. READ MORE ABOUT ERMS? EXTRAVAGANZA HERE&nbsp;︎︎︎ erms? was selected for ‘2. INTERNATIONAL SCREENDANCE FESTIVAL FREIBURG 2021’ which took place online in May 2021. https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/TIGHT Sat, 17 Sep 2022 12:15:17 +0000 REBECCA DOUGLASS https://rebeccadouglass.cargo.site/TIGHT window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-BDB35WJNPQ'); TIGHTFEBRUARY 2020 This project, as part of a third year interarts module at London Contemporary Dance School, was a 3 hour durational performance in which I built a large tapestry that hung suspended off the ground out of wooden frames and mesh materials, mostly tights. Accompanying my process was a video, a collage of my own and found footage that pieced together the history of ‘gendered’ crafts, from construction workers to fabric weavers.As part of this project I chose to put my concept into the format of an essay that you can read HERE&nbsp;︎︎︎ ___________________ <img width="2400" height="3600" width_o="2400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2bf3bfcabf2f5a5d931bc017f30b86e22e9fde43d3c74d2cda40ba6bf44fe569/61D4018D-C7E0-46ED-996B-B75E37AD66B5.jpeg" data-mid="153252817" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2bf3bfcabf2f5a5d931bc017f30b86e22e9fde43d3c74d2cda40ba6bf44fe569/61D4018D-C7E0-46ED-996B-B75E37AD66B5.jpeg" /> <img width="2400" height="3600" width_o="2400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e23becdddfc7f617c43b026d41646e1e9c4b43b37738d8f49276735bcf074bc/CB42265A-1B15-47C8-B615-25BB7BB01F4C.jpeg" data-mid="153252816" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e23becdddfc7f617c43b026d41646e1e9c4b43b37738d8f49276735bcf074bc/CB42265A-1B15-47C8-B615-25BB7BB01F4C.jpeg" /> <img width="2400" height="3600" width_o="2400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d5ed6526fe115b161f5515cb1c9551b4620b2f305fb6cadc935ca768322f674/E4354192-E3DF-4A16-B1AF-3B6EDA24718A.jpeg" data-mid="153252818" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d5ed6526fe115b161f5515cb1c9551b4620b2f305fb6cadc935ca768322f674/E4354192-E3DF-4A16-B1AF-3B6EDA24718A.jpeg" /> PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROCIO CHACON