December 13th

dai hall, unit 29/30 The Piazza Centre, Huddersfield, HD1 2QF

Both events are free but please reserve your place here.

bodies in-between: Workshop. 4pm.

Bringing together Deep Listening, Feldenkrais and yoga practices, a series of exercises invites participants to use sound to acknowledge habitual bodily practices.

Specifically, and perhaps unlike similar meditative activities, attention is brought to transitions both within the body and between it and the environment, such that an instability of focus, or even lack of clarity, is accepted and encouraged.

This focus on ephemerality and embodied listening unearths a sort of (aural) attention that is often latent or suppressed. This reconfiguration of attention is achieved through noticing or (safely) encouraging minor disruptions to corporeal focus, such that control of the body is momentarily lost and participants must find their focus again.

Having cultivated this manner of listening, the session concludes with performance, during which participants may use (consciously or unconsciously) the directive tools outlined through the exercises to freely explore transitions within attention.

bodies in-between: Performance Installation. Doors 7pm

.…hear the body listen to itself…

…piano as an interstice between…distancing and abstracting concrete sounds like voices…transitions both within and between it and the environment…vignettes of poltergeist…such that control of the body is momentarily lost…giving to the room and the room is…genuine (mutated) body scan…

…listen to the body hear itself…

bodies in-between is created and presented by Ed Cooper, Kate Ledger, and Neil Luck across 6–12 December 2021 at Dai Hall, Huddersfield.