FEST EN FEST - The International Festival Of Expanded Choreography And Performance To Run 22- 27 November 2022

H2DANCE presents the programme for Fest en Fest - the international festival of expanded choreography that presents UK & Nordic artists working across dance, performance, writing and visual art.

Taking place across Cambridge, Colchester and Deptford in London from 22 - 27 November, Fest en Fest invites artists and audiences to come together for performances, discussions and social gatherings. For the first time since its inception, the festival will present work in galleries to question what happens when a choreographer works with clay, objects or paint, and uses the body as a canvas to present multi-art form work.

By presenting work within different spaces, Fest en Fest continues to question what choreography is; what it can be, how it can move, and how it moves other things. It further centres the process of choreography and its potential to create new ways to connect, alongside the opportunity to envision future models and ways of working.

Acclaimed for presenting a curious, eclectic and exciting programme, the 2022 festival includes film installations, live performances, discursive lunches and round table discussions, with themes surrounding feminism, gender, horror, queer culture and sexuality.

Full programme below, with more information and tickets here:
http://festenfest.info/fest-en-fest/

Chronologically ordered, the 2022 programme runs as follows:

Tuesday 22 November

• Its contours, Its movements by Joe Moran | Exhibition and Performance
  Tuesday 22 November, 12 - 5pm
  Wednesday 23 November, 12 - 8pm with performances at 5pm and 7pm
  APT Gallery, London

  Kickstarting on Tuesday 22 November, the festival opens with an exhibition and performance called Its contours, Its movements by British-Irish artist and choreographer Joe Moran, Artistic Director of Dance Art Foundation, whose practice incorporates performance, critical writing, drawing, curation and advocacy projects. Taking place at APT Gallery, the exhibition surrounds a series of spray paint drawings created by Joe, alongside his films Materiality Will Be Rethought and Something Necessary and Useful from 22 - 23 November.

  As part of the exhibition, the gallery will host performances of his work Thirst that sees two performers navigate a complex, shifting terrain of power, submission, complicity and consent. Taking place on Wednesday 23 November, the first performance starts at 5pm and the second follows at 7pm after Fest en Fest's opening launch in the gallery at 6pm.

• In Other Words 2: In Conversation with Kate Marsh | Event and Social Gathering
  Tuesday 22 November, 5pm with food and drink included
  Cambridge Junction, Cambridge

  In Other Words 2 is a conversation hosted by disabled artist, researcher and curator of In Other Words publications Kate Marsh, to celebrate the launch of her latest book.

  The books follows the first edition that launched in 2020 that shared urgent reflections from 49 marginalised artists, exploring their hopes and fears for the future at a time of global crisis.

  This second edition focuses on the 'now' and brings together artists from the UK and internationally working across performance, literature, poetry and visual arts, who share their experiences across ableism, gender identity, mental health and racism.

• Dead by Halla Ólafsdóttir and Amanda Apetrea | Performance
  Tuesday 22 November, 7.30pm
  Cambridge Junction, Cambridge

  Halla Ólafsdóttir (Iceland) and Amanda Apetrea (Sweden) present Dead at Cambridge Junction on Tuesday 22 November to open the Cambridge strand of the festival.

  Beauty and the Beast is a fake band, a dance performance, a party, a workshop, a movie and a lifelong collaboration between the choreographers Amanda Apetrea and Halla Ólafsdóttir and some of their friends; composers and musicians Zhala Rifat, Karin Dreijer and Linnéa Martinsson.

  Their latest dance performance is called DEAD; a pornographic poetry reading and dystopian dance performance that merges the beauty of darkness and high and low culture, whilst exploring ways of connecting with an audience that blurs the boundaries between performers and spectators.

  An extract of Dead called Dead Unplugged will be presented at VSSL Studio in London on Saturday 22 November at 7pm.

Wednesday 23 November

• DISCURSIVE LUNCH #1 by H2DANCE / Fest en Fest | Event and Social Gathering
  Wednesday 23 November, 1pm with vegan lunch provided
  No Format Gallery, London

  Artists Hanna Gillgren (Sweden/UK) and Heidi Rustgaard (Norway/UK) of company H2DANCE and Fest en Fest host an artist lunch, alongside a walk to The Women's Art Library to view their archives and special collections.

  This comes ahead of Fest en Fest's opening launch event at 6pm at APT Gallery, and Joe Moran's second performance within the same gallery at 7pm.

Thursday 24 November

• DISCURSIVE Lunch #2 by SAMLINGEN - a feminist approach to choreography | Event and Social Gathering
  Thursday 24 November, 12pm with vegan lunch provided
  No Format Gallery, London

  Amanda Apetrea, Nadja Hjorton, Halla Ólafsdóttir, Stina Nyberg and Zoë Poluch are five choreographers who will share a feminist approach to choreography, as they deal with the history and herstory of dance.

• Fest en Fest Alumni Platform by Nathaniel Parchment, Ivy Tsui and Delicia Sefiha
  Thursday 24 November, 3pm
  Laban Studio Theatre, London

  Nathaniel Parchment (UK), Ivy Tsu and Delicia Sefiha (Greece/UK) are three newly graduated artists who will present their works and practices following graduation from Trinity Laban and Roehampton University.

• Young Art Kommunity Round Table | Event and Social Gathering
  Thursday 24 November, 5pm
  Firstsite, Lewis Gardens, High Street, Colchester

  Fest en Fest in association with Colchester based producer Steve Goatman will lead a round table session for YAK at Firstsite gallery, brainstorming for Fest en Fest YOUTH 2023 with a film screening of the film made during Fest en Fest YOUTH 2022

• A one-off group performance by SERAFINE1369
  Thursday 24 November, 6.30pm
  APT Gallery, London

  SERAFINE1369 is an independent mixed media artist, performer, writer, bodyworker and researcher working with dance as a philosophical undertaking, a political project with ethical psycho-spiritual ramifications for being-in-the-world; dancing as intimate technology and will present a one-off group performance in the gallery.
  Friday 25 November

• DISCURSIVE LUNCH #3 - Queer Choreo Curation | Event and Social Gathering
  Friday 25 November, 1pm with vegan lunch provided
  No Format Gallery, London

  Artist Heidi Rustgaard (Norway/UK) of company H2DANCE and Fest en Fest hosts their second round table conversation with lunch surrounding queer choreographic curation.

• GOING BERSERK by Marikiscrycrycry | Performance
  Friday 25 November, 6pm
  APT Gallery, London

  GOING BERSERK is a solo choreographic research strand sitting within a wider project looking towards the aesthetics and formal tools of horror making and the live context by choreographer and dancer marikiscrycrycry.

  Known for their timely and political work that deals with gender, race, sexuality and subjectivity, GOING BERSERK follows a figure, the Goner, one who is lost beyond belief, further afield, unreachable, through the physical, emotional, and geographic states of lostness, and the fear that being in this state induces for the performer and for the audience.

• Sweet by Stina Nyberg | Performance
  Friday 25 November, 6.45pm
  APT Gallery, London

  In a series of ten evenings, Stina Nyberg's tells ten stories about humanity. From our discrete birth to our violent movement across the earth and our coming death. What might seem like a tragic end is probably the beginning of an unknown and shiny future without us.

  Sweet is a series of personal, fictive and embodied stories that dig deep into history in order to dare to stay with the unknown future. Stories about the art of living on this planet.

Saturday 26 November

• DISCURSIVE LUNCH #4 by SERAFINE1369 and Marikiscrycrycry | Event and Social Gathering
  Saturday 26 November, 12pm with vegan lunch provided
  No Format Gallery, London
  
  Artists SERAFINE1369 (UK) and Marikiscrycrycry (UK/US) host a round table conversation with lunch.

• PAPERWORKSBODY by Helka Kaski | Performance
  Saturday 26 November, 3pm
  APT Gallery
  
  Paper works body is a playful relational gamble.
  
  Using rolls of paper and threads, the collaboration between the performer and the materials creates a landscape that shifts at its own accord and pace. As the work unfolds it reveals failures and shared responsibilities. Participation is coincidental.

• SKINNED / MATERIAL by Emilyn Claid / Heidi Rustgaard / Florence Peake | Performance
  Saturday 26 November, 4pm
  APT Gallery
  
  Two new solo works by Emilyn Claid (UK) in collaboration with Heidi Rustgaard (NO/UK) and Florence Peake (UK)
  
  Emilyn Claid, queer artist in her 7th decade, transforms in performance, teasing gestures of animal and human, crossing the arc between hunted and hunter, power and pleasure, seeing and being seen. Visually intense and intimate, Skinned is made in collaboration with choreographer Heidi Rustgaard and performed by Emilyn Claid to a newly commissioned score by queer pop producer Planningtorock.
  

• DEAD unplugged by Halla Ólafsdóttir and Amanda Apetrea | Performance
  Saturday 26 November, 7pm with food and drink included
  VSSL Studio
  
  An extract of DEAD by Beauty and the Beast performed by Amanda Petrea (SE) and Halla Olafsdottir (IS/SE) with food and drink.
  
  Beauty and the Beast is a fake band, a dance performance, a party, a workshop and a life long collaboration between the choreographers Amanda Apetrea, Halla Ólafsdóttir and some of their friends. Their latest dance performance is called DEAD shown earlier in the festival.

Sunday 27 November

• AMPLIFIED EDITION N°2 by H2DANCE / Hanna Gillgren and Heidi Rustgaard | Exhibition and Performance
  Sunday 27 November, 12 - 7pm with performance at 4pm
  APT Gallery, London
  
  Amplified Edition N°2 is the 2nd part of the Amplified Edition series. The first edition was based on the black box theatre and its objects and materials, and it premiered at Rosendal Teater (NO) in October 2019.
  
  Amplified Edition N°2 continues this series by investigating utilitarian and omnipresent plastic sheeting. Using tarpaulin, a cheap everyday material as the prime choreographic material, the work is built around five chapters that are performed in the gallery context. Material and sound from each chapter accumulate throughout the day, creating transformative sound environments as a result of each performance activation.
  
  The work explores the potential for the material to transcend its normative function into existence somewhere in between object and subject, between sculptural field and figurative presence. Choreography occurs in the meeting between bodies, voices, objects and space triggering movement and sound in the material.

• DISCURSIVE LUNCH #5 by Emily Claid and Martin Hargreaves
  Sunday 27 November, 1pm
  No Format Gallery, London
  
  Emilyn Claid (UK) and dramaturg Martin Hargreaves (UK) host a round table conversation with lunch.

More information and tickets for Fest en Fest can be found here: http://festenfest.info/fest-en-fest/.

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