The ITRC and the Crafts Study Centre are hosting a Symposium later this year title Craft in Performance. As part of the event we would like to invite a dancer/performance artist who uses craft in some way. Our wonderful friends at AMAT (Transparent Boundaries), who introduced us to Masako Matsushita with whom we have worked on The Erotic Cloth, suggested choreographer and dancer Alessandro Carboni who works with ideas of mapping using sometimes threads and sometimes bricks.
After email exchanges with Alessandro I went over to Bologna in January to meet him to discuss how we might work together on the notion of craft in performance. He was fantastic! So much energy! We had excellent discussions with the outcome that he has made 2 proposals: one including a residency and one with workshops and a performance. Both using threads. We are now thinking maybe to move the Symposium to October to coincide with Farnham Craft Month in order to maximise his presence.
