The Dance Studies Department is hosting choreographer and filmmaker Rosemary Lee, in collaboration with ŻfinMalta, the national dance company. The seminars are open to all staff and students of the School of Performing Arts.

Seminar 1: Finding the Potential in Everyone

Date: Friday 10 January 2020

Time: 17:00 – 20:00

Choreographer and filmmaker Rosemary Lee will share her thoughts about participation in her work, how she engages with people and creates performing communities. She will reveal why she makes work that is inter-generational and large scale and the ethics and challenges of her practice. The first half of the session will include excerpts of films and stills of her past work and the second half will be practical, giving students a taste of how she works with the dancers in her projects. There will be time for questions and answers too.

Seminar 2: Landscape as Site and Camera as Eye

Date: Friday 17 January 2020

Time: 10:00 – 13:00

Rosemary Lee will show films and extracts of installations and discuss why she works outdoors. She will share her relationship with sites and how and why she wants to animate them briefly for an audience. She will also discuss the role of film making in her choreographic practice and what that offers her that she cannot find in live work. The second half of the workshop will be practical focusing on freeing our imagination around the site and our relationship with it.

Both seminars will take place at the San Ġwann Dance Studios.

Contact: lucia.piquero@um.edu.mt