Performing Medicine - Anatomy Season

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HOME METHODOLOGY PEOPLE TESTIMONIALS ARCHIVE SUPPORT CONTACT WHAT’S ON Open Programme Curriculum	ANATOMY SEASON The Anatomy Season is a series of conversations, performances and workshops inspired by the theme of anatomy featuring brilliant artists, anatomists, medics and thinkers. The Season will take place across London in venues including Sadlers Wells, Wellcome Collection and Whitechapel Gallery. There has always been an intimate relationship between anatomy and performance – from the lavish anatomy theatres of 16th century Italy to the Bodyworlds phenomenon of Gunther Van Hagens. How does the way that bodies are represented in medical culture affect our ways of thinking about them? How does the way anatomy is taught influence doctors attitudes towards their patients? What do artists know about anatomy? Is seeing believing? Human beings seem to have an insatiable desire to know and be known but how much do we really want to find about what’s going on inside us? The Anatomy Season aims to rediscover not just what we are looking at but HOW we are looking at it, whether it is at the micro-level of digital microscopy and imaging, or by taking a step back and taking a broader view of how our society is looking at itself. The history of anatomy is fertile ground to explore the meetings of arts and science, where objective and subjective ideas of the body collide. Full details to be announced in June 2011. The Anatomy Season is supported by A Wellcome Trust Large Arts Award Events include: An Anatomie in Four Quarters Clod Ensemble - Sadlers Wells Theatre 28th October, 9pm • 29th & 30th October 5pm, 7pm, 9pm Set to an original score featuring live strings, percussion and bagpipes, An Anatomie in Four Quarters celebrates the physical structure of the bodies we inhabit and the ways we attempt to see, define, contain, name and value them. The magnificent anatomy of Sadler’s Wells theatre is itself dissected as the audience promenade to different viewing positions throughout the piece, examining what it means to open up and to be opened. An Anatomie is produced in association with Fuel and supported by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award. ● www.sadlerswells.com \| Tel: 0844 412 4300 Image: Manuel Vason Anatomy Lessons Various Artists. (Including Wendy Houstoun ) Lilian Bayliss Studio, Sadlers Wells Theatre 8th & 9th November, 8pm The history of anatomical study boasts many famous anatomy lessons. Over two evenings in the Lilian Bayliss Studio, a handful of artists have been invited to present their own inimitable anatomy lesson, this may be a performance, a lecture or demonstration. The evening will include the anatomy lesson of Wendy Houstoun - a brand new 20-minute performance piece. More information to follow. ● www.sadlerswells.com \| Tel: 0844 412 4300 Image: The Anatomy Lesson Of Dr Tulp, Rembrant. Courtesy of Wellcome Library, London. sand table A work by Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods and Magali Desbazeille Lilian Bayliss Studio, Sadlers Wells Theatre 29th & 30th November, 7pm & 8pm UK PREMIERE Concept: Magali Desbazeille & Meg Stuart Performed by: Heine R. Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki Sound Design: Bart Aga Duration: 20 minutes Light-coloured, fine-grained sand is smoothed over a glass tabletop. The image of a body is projected on to it from above. Two live dancers stroke their hands across the sand, pushing it into tiny dunes. As they move, the image shifts, dissolves and reforms with every touch. Meg Stuart and her company Damaged Goods are based in Brussels. This stunning installation piece - a collaboration with french artist Magali Desbazeille - was originally presented as part of Meg Stuart's acclaimed Highway 101 project in 2000/01. For further information on Highway 101 and other Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods productions please visit www.damagedgoods.be ● www.sadlerswells.com \| Tel: 0844 412 4300 Photo: © Chris Van der Burght.