movement / performance / research http://www.skellis.net/ 2007 Simon Ellis en Desire Lines presented for The Place Prize at The Place in London http://www.skellis.net/desirelines Still in Australia at this time, but production of Desire Lines starts (officially) for the Place Prize http://www.skellis.net/desirelines Continued development of Recovery at Arts House in Melbourne with Shannon Bott, Natalie Cursio, Ben Cobham, Pete Brundle, Ben Cisterne, Vanessa Chapple and Paula Levis http://recovery.posterous.com Launch of the International Journal of Screendance http://journals.library.wisc.edu/index.php/screendance Involving Kirstie Simson, Le Quan Ninh, Henry Montes, Marika Rizzi, Darrell Jones, Kenso Kusuda and Simon Ellis. Working daily from 2.30 – 6.30pm, Roehampton University. Performances at 7.30pm on Wednesday 16th at Roehampton University, and at 7.30pm on Friday 18th at Siobhan Davies Studio, London http://june2010.posterous.com Marika and Simon are sharing a daily practice from 10am to 12pm Monday to Friday at Roehampton University http://june2010.posterous.com Official selection for ADF Dancing for Camera in Durham North Carolina. This is the US premiere of the film http://www.americandancefestival.org/projects/dfc.html She Is is a dancing-audience talking-filming experiment, presented as part of The Place's 40 year anniversary http://www.theplace.org.uk/5038/whats-on/something-happening-session-5.html Gertrud presented at Michaelis Theatre, Roehampton University as part of the Resident Artists Platform http://skellis.net/gertrud Awarded Place Prize commission for Desire Lines, to premiere at The Place in September 2010. http://www.skellis.net/desirelines Leaving is a durational performance commissioned by The Place for the Reveal series at St Pancras station http://www.skellis.net/leaving Official selection for moves10 in Liverpool, UK http://www.movementonscreen.org.uk/ Official selection for dança em foco in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://www.dancaemfoco.com.br/ Tuesday is an official selection of the Loikka Festival in Helsinki, Finland, running from 25-27 March 2010 http://www.loikka.fi Research and development of Recovery with Shannon Bott and Natalie Cursio, Melbourne Australia http://recovery.posterous.com Continued research and development of Conversations with the Dead with Bagryana Popov, Melbourne Australia http://skellis.net/conversations Official selection for agite y sirva in Puebla, Mexico http://www.agiteysirva.com/ Improvisation performance with Gabriele Reuter, Gabriele, Jamie McCarthy, Pete Shenton and Sally Doughty at Congregation Hall, Nottingham http://www.bde2010.co.uk/event/double-bill Gertrud presented at The Patrick Centre in Birmingham for British Dance Edition http://www.bde2010.co.uk/event/double-bill Closing the Winlab Festival 2009 at Siobhan Davies Studio in London is an evening of composed Music and Dance Improvisations with Kirstie Simson, Le Quan Ninh and guests. The performance will be followed by a discussion with Kirstie and Ninh, facilitated by Researcher/Performer Simon Ellis on Improvisation as a Performance Practice. http://www.independentdance.co.uk/what/activities/winlab.htm#week3 Performance-presentation at Roehampton University for the Centre for Performance and Creative Exchange http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/researchcentres/theatreresearch School Jury of InShadow International Festival of Video, Performance and Technology in Lisbon Portugal gives Anamnesis award for Best Film (International) http://bit.ly/1MR94g Performance-presentation at Roehampton University http://www.skellis.net Official selection for InShadow, International Festival of Video, Performance and Technology http://bit.ly/1MR94g then/now screening at The Beetroot Tree, Derbyshire from 25 Oct to 1 November http://www.thebeetroottree.com/ Invited to participate in Emergent Global Corporealities: Dance Technologies and Circulations of the Social at Yale University http://bit.ly/UNGOm then/now screening at Teatro Puccini in Bari, Italy http://skellis.net/then-now/index.html Work in progress showing in Touchwood at The Place, London http://colin-simon.tumblr.com/ Performance-presentation at TaPRA discussing ongoing collaborations with Kirstie Simson http://www.tapra.org/ Short period of improvisation and video research with Kirstie Simson, Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes http://www.skellis.net Choreodrome supported research and development of new project with Colin Poole http://colin-simon.tumblr.com/ Anamnesis presented as part of JMP's 'Mediated Memories' symposium at Sussex University http://www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/1-2-6.html USA premiere of Tuesday as an official selection at ADF Dancing for Camera, Durham, North Carolina http://www.americandancefestival.org/projects/dfc.html Gertrud presented as part of Performing Lives Conference at Kingston University, London http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=904 Annual improvisation immersive in Casine, Italy. This link is for last year's blog http://skellis.net/research07/?cat=17 Pre-production of These Things I Hope For (with Tim Halliday) commences at Northampton http://www.skellis.net Tuesday screened as an official selection DANCE:FILM Scotland in Edinburgh http://www.dancefilmscotland.com Tuesday selected to screen in Brasil at dança em foco – Festival Internacional de Vídeo and Dança http://www.dancaemfoco.com.br/ then/now screening in Sydney, Perth, Darwin, Hobart and Country South Australia http://skellis.net/then-now/index.html Still/Live installed at Screendance in Falkirk http://www.still-live.net Tuesday screened as an official selection Screendance in Falkirk http://www.skellis.net/tuesday Tuesday screened as an official selection at moves09 in Manchester http://www.movementonscreen.org.uk Performed response to Europe in Motion @ Theatre Kikker, Utrecht Netherlands http://www.skellis.net/down Participating in Europe in Motion dialogues as part of Springdance 09 in Utrecht, Holland http://www.springdance.nl Written response to performances at The Little Con on 27 February 2009 http://www.skellis.net/writing/littlecon.html Screening of dance films developed by Simon Ellis, and including discussion http://www.skellis.net Tuesday screened as an official selection of the Montage Video Dance Festival (as part of the FNB Dance Umbrella Festival) http://www.at.artslink.co.za/~arts/umbrella/index.html Tuesday screened as an official selection at The International Video Dance Festival of Le Breuil http://www.videodansedubreuil.wordpress.com Performances of Inert at Arts House, Melbourne as part of Dance Massive http://www.skellis.net/Inert Tuesday presented at Dance and Media Japan Video Dance Festival in Yokohama Japan http://dance-media.com/videodance/2009/aas-program.htm Initial development of solo project with choreographer Helen Herbertson http://www.skellis.net/conversations/helen.html Premiere of new screendance project by Cormac Lally, David Corbet, Bagryana Popov and Simon Ellis http://skellis.net/anamnesis Premiere of Tuesday at Videodansa (Image, Dance and New Media) in Barcelona, Jan 8-11, 2009, as part of The Barcelona Prize http://www.nu2s.org/eng/e_list.php?ida=44545 Installation Still/Live to be presented at Videodansa (Image, Dance and New Media) in Barcelona, Jan 8-11, 2009 http://www.nu2s.org/idn/ Dance film then/now screening as part of Video Dance Italy 08 (curated by Gitta Wigro) in Bassano del Grappa, Ferrara, Ravenna and Civitanova Marche http://www.skellis.net/then_now/ Commence development of dance screen project anamnesis in Melbourne. http://www.skellis.net/anamnesis/index.html Early (remote) development of new project with Colin Poole http://colin-simon.tumblr.com/ then/now selected for EDIT2008 screedance festival in Budapest, Hungary http://www.wsf.hu/edit/ Initial development of solo project with choreographer Bagryana Popov http://www.skellis.net/conversations/bagryana.html then/now selected for Basel International Film Festival for Dance and Performance, Basel Switzerland http://www.screendance.ch/ Awarded City of Melbourne funding to redevelop and present Inert at Arts House http://www.skellis.net/Inert Daily performances of The Place Prize finalists at The Place until 27 September 08 http://www.theplaceprize.com Five finalists for The Place Prize named: Aletta Collins, Adam Linder, Anna Williams, Dam Van Huynh & Simon Ellis http://www.theplaceprize.com/12754/robin-howard-dance-theatre/the-place-prize-2008-finals.html Semi-final performance (one night only) of Gertrud at The Place, London http://www.skellis.net/gertrud/blog Post-production of dance film Tuesday completed http://www.skellis.net/tuesday Initial development of two new solo performances choreographed by Helen Herbertson and Bagryana Popov respectively http://www.arts.vic.gov.au then/now selected for ADF screedance festival in Durham, North Carolina http://www.skellis.net/then-now/index.html Improvisation intensive with Kirstie Simson et al, Syros Greece http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syros Performance improvisation with Kirstie Simson, Christian Burns et al, at Canal Danse, Paris http://skellis.net/research07/?cat=16 The Timed Body published as part of Extensions Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology (Volume 4: TempoRealities of Performance) http://www.extensionsjournal.org Choreographic commission Them & Me premiere at Isham Studios, Northampton http://www.skellis.net/ThemMe/index.html Awarded Place Prize commission for the development and presentation of Gertrud http://www.skellis.net/gertrud/index.html Screening of video component of Inert at moves08 in Manchester. http://www.skellis.net/Inert/index.html then/now selected for moveso8 screedance festival in Manchester. http://www.skellis.net/then-now/index.html Inert selected for Australian Performing Arts Market, 25-29 February 2008 in Adelaide, Australia. http://www.performingartsmarket.com.au Improvisation performance curated by Kirstie Simson at Siobhan Davies Studio, London as part of Winlab. http://www.independentdance.co.uk/what/activities/winlab.htm#week2 Ten day intensive with Bagryana Popov and Paea Leach at Red House Centre for Culture and Debate in Sofia, Bulgaria. http://www.redhouse-sofia.org Screening at After Urban Video Art and Architecture in Williamsburg, Brooklyn New York http://www.skellis.net/then-now Performance of Four Acts of Violence Leading Up to Now at Derby Dance http://www.fouractsofviolence.net/ Two day installation of Still/Live at Derby Dance http://www.still-live.net/ Performative-presentation at Opensource: {Videodance} 2007 in Findhorn, Scotland http://www.bodysurf.findhorn.com/events.php#videodance Screening at After Urban Video Art and Architecture in Baia Mare, Romania http://www.skellis.net/then-now Three day screendance workshop with Lisa Nelson in Brighton http://www.skellis.net Commence development of Boys with graduating students of University of Northampton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_Keep_Swinging Two week residency with Bagryana Popov in Bitola, Macedonia - development of new solo project. http://skellis.net/untitled Dance film selected to premiere at Electrofringe Festival as part of Reeldance: One minute reels http://www.reeldance.org.au/content/view/72/78/ Two week installation of Still/Live at the Fishmarket in Northampton http://www.still-live.net/ Performance-presentation at TaPRA (Performance and the Body working group) at Birmingham University http://www.tapra.org/ One week workshop with Kirstie Simson, Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes at Findhorn, Scotland http://www.bodysurf.findhorn.com/events.php#dvi Two weeks directed research with Guy Cools and Lin Snelling at The Place in London http://www.theplace.org.uk/?lid=5808 Isham Studios Northampton; open showing of research with Paea Leach and Matthew Smith. http://skellis.net/research07/?p=6 With Matthew Smith and Paea Leach. Includes daily public open practice. Visit tumble log from 22.06.07. http://skellis.net/research07/?cat=4 Released as part of Screenworks DVD in conjunction with Journal of Media Practice Symposium at Bristol University. http://www.dad-project.net Premiere as part of Reeldance Installations #03 at Performance Space in Sydney. http://www.reeldance.org.au As part of Le Crocodile at Atelier de Paris - Carolyn Carlson. http://www.skellis/Inert Two weeks with Ros at Atelier de Paris - Carolyn Carlson. http://www.atelierdeparis.org/ Support for professional development and research. http://www.artscouncil.org.uk As part of Reel at Fishmarket in Northampton. http://www.northamptonarts.org/fishmarket/ A dance on screen collaboration with Tim Halliday. http://www.skellis.net/tuesday