Dance Dialogues (online): Rebecca Hilton and Chrysa Parkinson

Conversations between dance artists exploring what practice is now.

Rebecca Hilton and Chrysa Parkinson join us from Stockholm to discuss their perspectives on practice and art-making. Join us for a relaxed chat followed by an audience Q&A.

REBECCA HILTON
Rebecca Hilton (1964-) is an Australian artist living in Stockholm. Her practices include performing, choreographing, teaching, conversing and writing. Over three and a half decades in dance she has worked with a range of artists including Russell Dumas, Stephen Petronio, Mathew Barney, Michael Clark, Tere O’Connor, Jennifer Monson, John Jasperse, Lucy Guerin, Ben Speth, Tino Sehgal, Xavier Le Roy, Scarlet Yu, Chrysa Parkinson, among others.

Rebecca applies embodied practices and choreographic systems to explore concepts and manifestations of GROUPNESS. Her research environments include, but are not limited to - dance companies, universities, arts festivals, community contexts, friendship circles and family groups. Rebecca is a Professor (Choreography) in the research area SITE EVENT ENCOUNTER at the Stockholm University of the Arts.

CHRYSA PARKINSON
Chrysa Parkinson is a dancer living in Stockholm, and sometimes in Berkeley California. She has been performing and teaching internationally since 1985. Her focus is on experiential authorship and the performer’s agency: how dance situates itself in practitioners’ lives and how performers, in turn, engage with, dismantle and reconstitute these worlds. Recently, Chrysa has been creating and performing embodied essays: ‘Disorienting Front’ (La Caldera, SKH), ‘Weaknesses’ (Mette Edvardsen’s Afternoon Editions), ‘The Cove’ (within Jonathan Burrows’ ‘52 Portraits’, Sadlers Wells), ‘Damaged Fragment’ (within Boris Charmatz’s Expo Zero, 20 Dancers for the 20th century), and ‘A-chronic Visitors’ (within Adrian Heathfiled’s ‘Ghost Telephone’, Sydney Biennale).

In the United States, Chrysa worked as a dancer for many years with Deborah Hay, Irene Hultman, Jennifer Monson and Tere O’Connor, among others. Since coming to live and work in Northern Europe in 2005, Chrysa has created works as a performer with Jonathan Burrows, Alix Euynadi, Eszter Salamon, Meg Stuart, Rosas/Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker, David Zambrano, and Zoo/Thomas Hauert.

In collaboration with Jeroen Peeters and Oralsite.be, Chrysa created The Dancer as Agent Collection, consisting of essays, drawings and interviews with dance artists and theorists from the Dancer as Agent Conference in Stockholm. She has had the pleasure of collaborating consistently with several artists as a researcher, including Frank Bock, Rebecca Hilton, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Paz Rojo and Gabriel Schenker.
Chrysa is a Professor of Dance at SKH (Stockholm University of the Arts), heading the Masters program New Performative Practices since 2011.

Live transcription will be available during the talk.

Images: Rebecca Hilton, Chrysa Parkinson. Images have been edited.