South East Dance Festival This Weekend !! Details , Times and Venues

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Flannel Dream (photo by Ingrid Styrkestad), part of Butch Tribute, a triple bill of works presented at Fest en Fest X Undisciplined on Sat 21 March.
Fest en Fest X Undisciplined
Sat 21 & Sun 22 March

Join the crew this  weekend for our annual Undisciplined festival with a twist as we welcome Fest en Fest, the international festival of expanded choreography, to The Dance Space. Explore identity, memory and encounters with the body in a programme of free or £PayWhatYouCan performances, discussions, workshops and social gatherings.
Listening Furniture (work in progress)
Sat 21 March, 2pm-7pm &
Sun 22 March, 11am-1pm & 3pm-5pm
£FREEThis work in progress, imagined and devised by sound artist, Alberto Ruiz Soler in collaboration with choreographer, Charlotte Spencer, is an immersive sonic experience. Rest, reset your body and take time out in a space where listening can be felt by the body as well as heard.
Discursive Lunch
with Anna Maria Nabirye and Darragh O’Leary     
Sat 21 March, 12pm-2pm
£PayWhatYouCan
Includes shared vegetarian lunchJoin Anna Maria and Darragh as they explore ideas around historical truth within the context of their work. Inspired by Audre Lorde’s concept of Biomythography, they will lead a conversation around historical truths, as told by the coloniser, versus other modes of knowledge which are led by the gut, the land, memory and ancestral wisdom.
Butch Tribute
Sat 21 March, 7.30pm
£PayWhatYouCanThe term butch is used about masculine women in the Queer community, a group that is often marginalised. This artistic and political triple bill, created and performed by Norwegian dance artists and choreographers Marte Sterud and Ann-Christin Kongsness, explores and celebrates what a butch is and can be.
Objects as Portals   
Sun 22 March, 10.30am
£PayWhatYouCanHow can we access sensory memory, movement and language through our everyday environment? Drawing on practices from Charlotte Spencer and Shivaangee Agrawal’s Memory Table, Charlotte and Shivaangee co-lead this workshop using objects as access points into multi-sensory experience, memory, tactility and language.
Discursive Lunch
with Marte Sterud and Ann-Christin Kongsness
Sun 22 March, 1pm-3pm
£PayWhatYouCan
Includes shared vegan lunchNorwegian dancers and choreographers Marte Sterud and Ann-Christin Kongsness of Butch Tribute will share the motivation behind their ongoing performance series Butch Tribute and their interest in exploring queer female masculinity.
Memory Table    
Sun 22 March, 3.45pm & 4.30pm
£PayWhatYouCanMemory Table, by Charlotte Spencer Projects, is a delicate participatory performance work set around a table, where two performers use a collection of everyday objects to evoke a series of tactile, sensory memories.
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