nottdance and the art of creativity

During her recent research residency at Dance 4, the Canadian artist Sarah Chase gave her own personal definition of creativity: “ re-thinking the ordinary”.

How do you define creativity? Is it a state of mind rather than an act of doing? and how do artists and programmers safeguard and feed their creativity while dealing with the day job and the increasingly bureaucratic language of art?

 Have you ever wondered what would happen if you started working on an agenda that was driven by your own creative needs and what about audiences, how are their creative needs being met?

 This year we have extended  our discussion programme to include a series of presentations, curated seminars and personal manifestos, aimed at provoking debate around the notions of creativity, thinking and doubt.  So come along, plug yourself in and re-charge your batteries.
 

Jane Greenfield
Festival Director

the guardians of discourse - seminar day

Friday 13 May / Nottingham Playhouse
11am – 4.30pm 
£10 including lunch and drinks

Seminar 1
11am – 1pm

Seminar 1 focuses on the work of past and present nottdance artists including Wendy Houstoun, Lynda Gaudreau, Karen Christopher of Goat Island, Sarah Thom of The Gob Squad and AC Dickson.  With an ever increasing emphasis on newness and innovation and a sense that doubt or uncertainty is a sign of weakness, how do artists stay true to their ideas and remain open and questioning?

Seminar 2
2pm – 4pm

Guardians of Doubt network members come together with academics and guest international presenters to share current thinking on the cultural trinity of the producer, the produced and producing.  Chaired by Claire Fox, broadcaster and Director of the Institute of Ideas, with further contribution from John Eldridge, Professor of Sociology, Glasgow University, this seminar asks us to consider what we mean by producing, what it is we produce and why some of us are more drawn to risk then others.
Guardians of Doubt network is a partnership between Arnolfini Bristol, Yorkshire Dance, Tramway Glasgow, York St John College and Jane Greenfield with support from the Arts Council of England and Dance 4.