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Joe Moran, Artistic Director
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Joe Moran (UK, 1977) is a choreographer, dancer and Artistic Director of Dance Art Foundation. He creates dance performance, film and installation for theatres, galleries and public spaces. His work is currently driven by a fascination with a number of choreographic propositions: choreography as a structural intervention to provide a frame for the investment of meaning in the experience of pattern, organisation, variation and repetition; choreography as perceptual directives to cohere action and presence; choreography as an embodiment of ideas and critical thought; choreography as presence and rethinking subjectivities.
Joe trained in dance and choreography at London Contemporary Dance School, following his undergraduate training in theatre at Bristol University. Independently, he studied widely in the UK and America with prominent figures in postmodern and contemporary dance, Jonathan Burrows, Rosemary Butcher, Anna Halprin, Ishmael Huston-Jones, Eva Karczag and Joan Skinner.
Joe’s new works On The Off Chance, Singular, Surveyed and The Swarm Quintet were are presented as part of Differ & Repeat, a choreographic collection of live performance, film and installation that he curated in multiple spaces across The Place (June 2011). As a dancer, Joe has worked with many distinguished choreographers including Deborah Hay, Siobhan Davies (Bank 2008), Gaby Agis, Stephanie Skura, Kate Brown, Florence Peake, and Christopher House (Toronto Dance Theatre). He has also collaborated with visual artists Magali Reus and Shaan Syed. In the 2008/09 Dance Art season, his work was presented at London’s Herald St and Wilkinson galleries.
Joe is intrigued by curation as a choreographic endeavour and often curates other artists’ works in counterpoint to his own. He has curated dance in many of London’s landmark public spaces including Canary Wharf tube station, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, the National Portrait Gallery and Siobhan Davies Studios. He directs Dance Art Foundation’s performance, critical dialogues and dance-in-health initiatives, including the nationally celebrated Breathing Space: dance-in-health programme, and teaches widely for studios, festivals, universities and companies in Britain and internationally. In 2008, Joe co-convened the Dance & Critical Theory Group, a self-organising group of independent artists considering critical theory and contemporary dance practice. His wider freelance work has involved devising and leading participatory and artist programmes for Big Dance, Siobhan Davies Dance, the Royal Opera House and Tamasha Theatre Company.
Further information:
Click here to view Joe's new blog
Click here to view images, video and writing on Joe's blog from Jerwood Bank 2008 with Siobhan Davies Dance
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Photography: Pari Naderi
Courtesy of Siobhan Davies Dance