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What is Rose Choreographic School?

Rose Choreographic School is an experimental research and pedagogy The theories and practices of learning project, based at Sadler’s Wells East in Stratford. We are a small team of 2, a Head and a Producer, and we work para- and cross-institutionally and with artists from all practices and inclinations for whom the concept of the choreographic the choreographic can refer to choreography, and to the writing of dancing bodies, but it can also refer to modes of generating and circumscribing movement that do not register as dance, or as art works. is a central concern. We propose a postdisciplinary This is a key term for us – linking our interest in educational practices that exceed academic disciplinary boundaries together with the critical rethinking of medium specificity and the notion of a dancerly discipline. approach to the question of the choreographic the choreographic can refer to choreography, and to the writing of dancing bodies, but it can also refer to modes of generating and circumscribing movement that do not register as dance, or as art works. , and use an expanded notion of a school to frame our explorations.

The School interacts with researchers and audiences in a variety of ways. We host a podcast series, þ thorns þ, where guests are brought together to discuss research and the choreographic and we host a wide range of other artistic research publications on our website.

Every 2 years we also have an open call to invite artistic researchers to form an Artistic Cohort The emphasis on a cohort learning approach values collaboration and the contamination of ideas as we all work through our research in relation to each other.. Across a 2 year cycle, each researcher in the Cohort follows their singular Denise Ferreria da Silva argues for singularity rather than individuality, as a means to articulate specificities within larger plural entanglements. choreographic the choreographic can refer to choreography, and to the writing of dancing bodies, but it can also refer to modes of generating and circumscribing movement that do not register as dance, or as art works. enquiries and collectively imagines a school with us through which knowledges and practices can be developed and shared.

Why do we call ourselves a School Gathering places for teaching and learning. Also, a school of thought is an idiom that suggests the sharing of traditions of philosophical and intellectual practices. ?

We use the idea of a School Gathering places for teaching and learning. Also, a school of thought is an idiom that suggests the sharing of traditions of philosophical and intellectual practices. to explore the potential of collective study. Rather than adopt conventional institutional patterns or frameworks we are focused on the core principle that schools are gathering places for teaching, learning and exchange. We are not teaching choreography but asking what happens when people are brought together to think about the choreographic.

We, as the Head of School and the Producer, are referred to as the Faculty. The artistic researchers who are invited for each cycle are referred to as the Artistic Cohort, rather than as students. The School hosts a regular schedule of in-person meetings where the Faculty and Artistic Cohort come together. These meetings are called Cohort Assemblies and are focused on the question of how to experiment with the conditions needed for learning. Faculty and Cohort work together to plan and programme these Assemblies. There isn’t a set syllabus, or an expectation of a predetermined outcome, and there is no curriculum other than the discourse that emerges and shapes how we work, think, move, and make together.

Why is it a Choreographic School and not a School for Choreography?

One possible distinction between these terms is how choreography is often (but not exclusively) used to name the production of authored dance works, and how the choreographic is used to name broader processes of thinking and working with systems, attitudes and dispositions towards the organisation of movement. The School is oriented towards the latter, towards enquiries into the emergence and operation of choreographic practices, rather than towards the development of finished pieces of choreography. The choreographic the choreographic can refer to choreography, and to the writing of dancing bodies, but it can also refer to modes of generating and circumscribing movement that do not register as dance, or as art works. can refer to choreography, and to the writing of dancing bodies, but it can also refer to modalities of generating and circumscribing movement which don't register as dance, or as art works. We keep the choreographic the choreographic can refer to choreography, and to the writing of dancing bodies, but it can also refer to modes of generating and circumscribing movement that do not register as dance, or as art works. as an open question for the School Gathering places for teaching and learning. Also, a school of thought is an idiom that suggests the sharing of traditions of philosophical and intellectual practices. .

Some of our current choreographic scores:

Thoughtographs is an interview series that captures moments and movements within choreographic research practices. The dialogues aim at making visible the thought processes of artists, through language and other phenomenena, which might otherwise not be evident in presented work. Each discussion develops out of current concerns and speculates on potential manifestations, moving between past archives and future fabulations.

þ thorns þ is a podcast series which proposes to think with the affordances of postdisciplinarity and the choreographic the choreographic can refer to choreography, and to the writing of dancing bodies, but it can also refer to modes of generating and circumscribing movement that do not register as dance, or as art works. . This series seeks to set in motion the possibilities of the podcast as choreographic form, score and modality, as well as haptic space for glitch and grain. Alongside producing this series, we work with invited curators on mini-series. So far, we have worked on mini-series that have thematics of Dreaming Communities and Choreographing the Apocalypse.

As part of the ongoing imagination of the School we are compiling a Glossary of words that artists are using to refer to the choreographic the choreographic can refer to choreography, and to the writing of dancing bodies, but it can also refer to modes of generating and circumscribing movement that do not register as dance, or as art works. . Every time we invite people to collaborate with us we also invite them to donate to the glossary. This is an evolving list of terms and phrases that are circulating around and within the School. It is not exhaustive, and through its partiality we attempt to track and draw attention to the flows and stoppages of the languages we use. The actions of translation, explanation, interpretation and paraphrasing that make up any lexicon are themselves close to choreography, in the sense of movement and writing forming patterns of legibility. The notation symbols used across the site build up webs of connections and expose and flex the tongues of the School. nb: This list of glosses doesn’t rule out the possibilities of glossolalia or xenoglossy or disavow our attraction to shiny surfaces and the lustre of the superficial.

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For more information visit the Glossary or Publications page where we expand on the ideas underpinning this project.