The new cohort of the MFA:CLA is now formed and ready to start its preparations for our first intensive week in September. All of our new students are mature performance artists with a substantial experience in the performance making world. You may read their profiles here.

For their first module on Somatic Investigations the students will have the chance to work with Martin O’Brien and John Bowtell (both of whom are revisiting this course this year) and Pavlos Kountouriotis.

Martin O’Brien will lead the module and his work will revolve around endurance and the embodied self.

John Botwell’s contribution will be about Developmental Transformation and how shamanism and game can help in elucidating the desires of the performer.

Pavlos Kountouriotis work will introduce students to ideas on altered states of consciosness, biofeedback and contemplative practices.

It’s certainly going to be a great new start. Good luck to all of our students.

You are all cordially invited to Vaya Kapousidou’s MFA Dissertation on 25th of May 2014 at the LPAC Auditorium.
This project started as an endeavor of exploration of her relationship between her and her twin. This research provides this dualistic relation between her and her twin sister and investigate if their different personalities affect it.
This exhibition will include two parts: Twin Archetypes and Mirror and Optical Illusions, which are both related with dual identity. This installation struggles to reveal real aspects of our identities, while engaging with sameness and otherness issues. The twins issue is a universal topic. Alternatively, this is a personal project since Vaya approaches the topic from her own perspective. You may not have twins in your family, but you might make your own connection with your relationships, whatever you have twins or not.

teaser from Vaya Kapousidou on Vimeo.

For more information please visit http://vayadance.gr/curation.htm

We are very proud to announce that the collaboration between Fenia (MFA:CLA Student) and guest artist Daz Disley as it manifested in their video work “Here but not here at all” has been officially selected to be featured at the Venice Experimental Cinema and Performance Art Festival in August 2014.
Good luck to both of them.

Here but not here at all at the same time from daz disley on Vimeo.

On Saturday 22nd of February 2014 at 2pm, come and join the highly sophisticated technological installations of the MFA:CLA students as part of their “Technology, Bioart & Cyberbodies” module lead by Daz Disley. Expect to interact with some Arduinos that change your perception of colours, play with touching different object as a way to manipulate visual outputs and discover the anatomy of a spider just by flicking your fingers in the air. Really exciting.

For their module “Technology, Biort & Cyberbodies” students of the MA/MFA:CLA will have the chance to work in February with sound and visual artist Daz Disley. Daz’s work with coding, hacking and programming new software for the visual and audio engineering will prove an invaluable and challenging input for the students. Students will have the chance to work at Daz’s studios, have a field trip to the local zoo to record the sound and movement of the animals, play with Arduino and other interative hardware and build their own technological infrastructures.

For more info on Daz, please visit his website at: http://dazdisley.co.uk/

10-12 December 2013, the MFA:CLA students will curate three distinct mini festivals with invited artists.

10 December: The Social Body by Vagia Kapousidou (For more info click here)

11 December: Remains by Irene Atmatzidi (for more info click here)

12 December: Interconnectivity by Fenia Kotsopoulou (For more info click here)

The MA/MFA:CLA students present their work at the international Frequency Festival of Digital Art on Saturday 26 October 2013 at 18.00 in the LPAC Theatre. 

The event is called “Apocalypse: End of Performance”

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In the year 2014, this performance will die. Obsolescence will empower a new mythology for the old forgotten event, completing the circle from death of performance to its guarantee. Semi live, semi dead, this new Zombie creature will penetrate your imagination and haunt your minds with fears, hopes and doubts about the future of this performance. This is a curated mini festival of Dead/Live Art performances by the students of the advanced MA/MFA Choreographing Live Art programme who function as mediums and clairvoyants presenting their apocalyptic visions from their residency in France. 
For more information and performance times visit our website, www.lpac.co.uk

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The students of the MA/MFA Choreographing will be travelling for 17 days to the Performing Arts Forum (PAF) in France, in order to work for their module: “Research and Development: Studio Practice and Experimenation” from the 25th of August- 10th of September.

For more information about the PAF please visit this link: http://www.pa-f.net

In our artistic residency, the students will be mentored by famous internationally renowned dramaturg, Jan Ritsema, and the Program Leader of the MA/MFA:CLA, Pavlos Kountouriotis.

Nando Messias has recently gained his doctorate’s degree at the Central School of Speech & Drama.  The main focus of his research has been the intersections between the social and the performance elements of the sissy body, abuse and space.  He is originally from Brazil, where he graduated in Dramatic Arts in 2000.  Nando also holds an MA in Performance from the Central School of Speech & Drama, where he has worked as a visiting lecturer.  Since moving to Britain, he has worked extensively in the East London cabaret scene.  He is a founder member of the Eat Your Heart Out Collective and has been working as a performer and as a movement director for the Theo Adams Company, with whom he has performed in Tokyo, at the ICA in London and in Austria.  In 2009, Nando appeared alongside Vaginal Davis in Bruce La Bruce’s theatrical production of The Bad Breastin Berlin.

Gnarl Fest is the new Festival in Live Art and Choreography in the city of Lincoln.

Gnarl Fest celebrates the precarious interrelatedness between Live Art and Choreography, promoting radical and provocative work ranging from burlesque and trash, to transgressive and guerrilla acts.

Brace yourself to Rock !

Get ready for an intensive week of performances, installations, screenings, workshops and over-drinks discussions led by emerging and acclaimed UK and international artists. The festival hosts artists from more than 10 countries with  3 International and 2 UK Premieres and practices as distinct as saxophone concert, digital performance, academic lecture, live art, dance and theatre. There is certainly something for every performance lover who is interested in finding fresh approaches to art and performance.   

Gnarl Fest is commissioned by the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre and the University of Lincoln.

Another great artist that will join the MFA:CLA team during the second intensive week, is Filippe Canna, who will be directing our show for the “Embracing Failure” module. Filipe is a Portuguese artist working currently in Berlin. His work is an extraordinary amalgamation of radical politics and burlesque show. Filipe works on ideas such as post racism, post sexism, post civil rights and post human rights within political Performance Art, Live Art Performance and Video Art.

More info on Filipe Canha’s work can be found here: http://filipecanha.com 

For the Somatic Investigations (SP1) module (first intensive week), students will work in both group and individual (one-to-one sessions) on Developmental Transformation (DvT) with John Bowtell in order to develop a strong awareness of the continuous transformation of embodied encounters during our studies together in our playspace.  DvT is at once a method of embodied psychotherapy, meditation, performance, and an approach to social change.

Read here more information about DvT: http://www.developmentaltransformations.com

It is with an amazing pride and pleasure to announce that Ron Athey will be a regular visiting artist at the MFA:CLA. Ron Athey has been a legendary figure in live art and his contribution to the work of the visceral body is more than seminal. Ron Athey will be leading a two days workshop on visceral somatic investigations during our first week of residency. Athey’s work explores challenging subjects like the relationships between desire, sexuality, and traumatic experience. He is considered one of the  most important figures in the history and life of Live Art, and it is a great privilege that we will have the time to be with him in the studio and work with him.