queer big brother in ur bedroom but dance
with Courtney
Course Structure: 1 × 2 hour movement session + 1:1 mentorship
Course Venue: Online
Course Dates: March - April 2021
Course Fee: Pay what you can (suggested minimum £10)
This course explores the connection queerness can enable through shared movement practice.
It takes the form of a facilitated exploration between all participants of identity and movement. We will ask: what is (your) queerness? who do you move (queerly)? and permutations of these questions as they leak into auto-choregraphic potential.
The outcome of this course will be a short film that explores queering videography and film.
This course is for:
LGBTQIA+ individuals or allies who are intersted in queer choreographic practices
Artists who want to integrate, or further develop, choreography and dance-on-camera within their practice
‘Queerness is for whoever needs it’ - said a friend of a friend.
This module will be broken down into 3 sections,
Part i. Movement Analysis / Discussion
Looking at the complexities of what is queer dance
Is it queer because a queer person is dancing?
Is it Destabilising hetro-normativy?
Is it about sexuality ?
Is it Dance gone wrong?
What is it to me what is it not to me?
Sharing references
Part ii. Improvisation
Guided meditation
Guided dance improvisations and tasks
Explore movement in your own space
Are there any take-aways?
A way to access embodiment - connection
Part iii. Autocours (Creation)
In your own time film yourself dancing in your bedroom,
We will come back together to share our videos
I will also speak to participants one on one looking at how we queer dance
Footage collected from the module will be developed in to a filmic documentation for the Queer Extension website (participants are not required to have their footage included).
Courtney Dehn
I am a queer, POC, working class, interdisciplinary artist. I am currently an associate artist with Clod Ensemble and supported by Hackney Showrooms. I am half of DragonT with my partner Xavia. My debut audiovisual EP [Scrolling Subconscious] launched via NTS and Dazed.
As a choreographer I have made music videos for Tirzah, Goldfrapp and Harvey Causon and I have collaborated with Rebook, Vivienne Westwood, Dazed, Nowness and Jools Holland. I have worked on numerous projects with director and choreographer Holly Blakey, including a film adaptation of Francis bacon Triptych for the Francis Bacon Institute coming in 2021 and ‘Cowpuncher My Ass’ at Southbank Centre
I am one half of bullyache.
Images:
1) Lead Image: Artists collage
2) Video: Documentation from workshop, 2021
3) Bio Image: Daniele Fummo