Dancer, Researcher, Thinker, Movement and Multimedia Artist



Emmanuel
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If You are here i assume that you are curious about me and my work. Or maybe not. Whatever the case here you will find Videos, Photographs, and Writings in which i have tried to use my interest in People, Movement and Space to awaken interest in you.


I am an experimental artist, researcher, choreographer and performer working with bodies as instruments of writing and physical resistance. I explore the performative embodiment of ideas, objects and practices, which activates in the consciousness an awareness of the subject in space-time. I am interested in the historical and contemporary formats of rupture, queerness, resistance and subversion within performance practices.


Although my principal medium of enquiry is my Body within a contemporary framework, there is a conscious avoidance of being bound by trends, fashion or styles in the art world. This approach which permits an open, creative mobility, stimulates a vitality, which stems from the body and movement but goes beyond into the realm of photography, video installations, and other strands of artistic representations. ​


projects
About me

dance in the field (premiere 2018)





Methodology : Participant observation".

one of the Benefits of films in dance research is that , you can still observe after participating....” as part of my interest to connect with new Cultures and ways of moving, the dance in the field project was born. This project involves visit to local communities, to initiate a conversation that would lead to an exchange of ideas. Here is a snippet with dancers from the Maasai community, an indigenous African community in Kenya.



IN THE HEART OF THE MOON (Premiere 2019)





Sentimentality: “…the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel…fear of life…aversion to experience…arid heart…secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty.”.. James Baldwin



(the eviction (premiere 2019





An immersive Museum experience. Using performance, sound, photography and installations to re-imagine the Dale Farm Eviction.



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