In this latest conversation of LGI’s Dance Dialogues series, join dance artists Amaara Raheem (AUS) and Siriol Joyner (SWE) in a relaxed chat about their perspectives on practice and art-making.
The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A.
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About Amaara Raheem
Amaara Raheem is a dance-artist, writer and researcher living part-time in Melbourne and part-time in Black Range, rural Victoria. Her work takes multiple forms including performance, video, installation, text, woven objects and sound. She works as a solo and collaborative artist.
Recent projects include: Fortunes of the Forest with Caitlin Franzmann and Indigenous scholar, Dr. C.F Black (New Museum, NYC, 2020); Satelliser by choreographer Janine Harrington (online, 2020); The Walking Reading Group: On Care with Zoe Scoglio (Arts House, 2021); Activators with Tru Paraha (Chunky Move, 2021).
Recently Amaara has also been working as a curator: Now Pieces (Dancehouse, 2021) a regular platform for improvised performance and Organising For Change with Joe Moran (Dance Art Foundation, UK, 2021), an annual series of online events that bring together community organisers and artists that organise, offering new tools for transformation and decolonisation.
In 2021 Amaara was awarded Research Residency (Critical Path), Regional Art Residency at National Trust house, Mooramong (Blindside), Moving Forward Residency (Lucy Guerin Inc.) and On-Residence (Danchouse and Punctum) to develop a new body of work on relations between dance, objects and ritual. Amaara sits on the Artistic Advisory Group for Chunky Move and the Artistic Directorate for Next Wave.
About Siriol Joyner
Siriol Joyner is an artist working within the field of dance and choreography. She is obsessed with language and its relationship to dance and dancing and the material and political implications of this connection. She is creating movement, text and object works that focus upon the notions of mutation, translation and code-switching.
Her interests are informed by her Welsh identity and the minority status of her mother tongue, Cymraeg (Welsh). An interest in site and site specificity is always present in Siriol’s work. In 2021 her solo piece Listening to- was presented by Cullberg, the national and international repertoire contemporary dance company in Sweden and she is currently making a new group work that begins from asking ‘what is a site specific dance?’; ‘what is the dance of this place?’ She holds an MFA in Choreography from University of the Arts Stockholm and a post-graduate qualification from the Royal Academy of Art Stockholm. As well as making her own work, Siriol performs with/for artists such as Mette Edvardsen, Hana Erdman, Ruarí Donovan, Dora Garcia and Alice Mackenzie.
Images: 23 Days at Sea, Burrard Marina Fieldhouse, photo courtesy of Amaara Raheem. Image of Siriol Joyner, image credit: Stillmotion.