Jasmin Vardimon / Helen Thomas

12.30-2pm | Friday 12 February 2010
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, LSE

Speakers
Jasmin Vardimon, Artistic Director of the Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company
Helen Thomas, Professor and Research Director at the London College of Fashion

Chair
Luc Bovens, Professor of Philosophy, LSE

Dance is generally concerned with non-verbal bodily communication, while literature is text-based and disembodied. However, the long relationship between dance and text has been explored both through textual interfaces by collapsing the boundaries between different art forms such as physical theatre, dance and literature and within the world of text, these boundaries are negotiated through the body of literature written about dance.

The exploration of the interactions between dance and literature opens up possibilities for exploring social and political, philosophical, and methodological problems concerning time and space as the constitutive elements of dance, the possibility to ‘write’ dance, and the social, cultural and political issues which dance expresses. This session aimed to create a dialogue between dance practitioners and dance authors; between those who practice dance and think of texts on the one hand and those who write texts and think of dance on the other hand

Organisers: Luc Bovens (Professor of Philosophy, LSE), Dana Mills (University of Oxford) and Dr. Jennifer Tarr (Methodology)