ABOUT:

In this informal session, Dr Ellen Jeffrey, senior lecturer at Dance City, will give a short performance-lecture that draws upon her ongoing research interest in movement in night-time environments. The After-Hours explores how a multitude of repetitive patterns, enacted by a body in its daytime hours, might seep and spill into sleep, into the hours of rest, generating a night-time choreography of the body-unconscious. Here, there exists the potential of a blurred rhetoric of the concealed mobilities and stilted gestures of all that a body does, and all that a body dances.

BIO:

Ellen Jeffrey is a neurodivergent dance artist, researcher and choreologist working with time-specific choreographic practices. She studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and University of the Arts Helsinki before completing her PhD at Lancaster University. Working collaboratively with local artists and communities to generate performances, films, workshops and writings, Ellen’s work explores the capacity of dance and movement to attune to more-than-human timescale