it’s either on or it’s off.
with Claudia Palazzo
Course Structure: 1 × 3 hour workshop
Course Venue: Chisenhald Dance Space
Course Dates: February 2026
Course Fee: Pay what you can (£10 suggested min)
A movement and stillness workshop using the body and objects to explore presence and absence.
Building from Palazzo’s recent choreographic work, Our Suspended Corridors, research into spatial self replacement, and other practices. its either on or its off explores the capacity to perform with, through, and be represented by objects. Such practices call into question the capacity, care and legacy of the body, its relation to technology, architecture and territory and queries what we might mean to be a performer’s ability.
An ideal workshop for those exploring new relationships to bodily capability and those interested in embodiment and conceptual choregoraphic practices.
This course is for:
Individuals exploring new relationships to bodily capability
Individuals interested in embodiment
Artists interested in conceptual choreographic practice
Claudia Palazzo is a London born and based artist and dancer working across the intersections and contradictions of dance, performance art, installation, alternative cabaret and film using her body as a responsive site to her environment and territory. Her work exists somewhere between the nightclub, gallery and street, and focuses on the live experience and a place to be able to shift through, let go and sit/deal with. It is often poetic, feral, meditative and violent in its structure, influenced by roots in nightclub culture, inner-city concrete dwellings and psychophysical training.
Images:
1) Lead Image: Our Suspended Corridors, Zbigniew Kotkiewicz
2) Secondary Image: Our Suspended Corridors, Zbigniew Kotkiewicz
3) Bio Image: Ian Buswell