J Neve HarringtonSOME TIMES
Freesheet
About SOME TIMES
Say the planet is born at midnight and it runs for one day.
First there is nothing. Two hours are lost to lava and meteors. Life doesn’t show up until three or four a.m. Even then, it’s just the barest self-copying bits and pieces. From dawn to late morning – a million million years of branching–nothing more exists than lean and simple cells.
Then there is everything. Something wild happens, not long after noon. One kind of simple cell enslaves a couple of others. Nuclei get membranes. Cells evolve organelles. What was once a solo campsite grows into a town
Extract from The Overstory by Richard Powers
Artistic Team & Credits
Made with and Performed by Akshay Sharma, Bonni Bogya, Elisa Vassena, J Neve Harrington, Lee Carter, Stephen Rowe
Community Cast (Big Creative Academy Learners) Alycia Oktona, Porschè-Jennifer Apps, Scarlett Macdonald, Aryanna Jahanbani, Ruth Ekomisa, Nyla Ferrol, Nathaniel Owusu-Ansah, Katrina Reid
Community Cast Group Leader (Big Creative Education) Danielle Starling
Sound Design & Performance Dan Nicholls
Light Design & Programming Jack Hathaway
Space Design J Neve Harrington
Space Design Fabrication Russell James Redwood Harris & J Neve Harrington
Hand, Dinosaur, Bell + House images based on original designs by Paul Paschal for never closer to midnight (J Neve Harrington, 2019)
Costume Lucie Kordacova
Projection Design Lucie Kordacova
Script & Song J Neve Harrington
Rehearsal Direction Katye Coe
Rehearsal Direction (folk) Christopher Matthews
Dramaturgy & Outside-Eyes Orrow Bell, Pete Shenton, Lou Cope (good luck dinosaur scene)
Production Management Michael Picknett
Produced by Eve Veglio- Hüner & Nassy Konan
Pastoral Producer Seyi Adelekun
Participation Producer Heidi Rustgaard
Audio Description Shivaangee Agrawal
Libretto J Neve Harrington
Documentation Genevieve Reeves
R&D including earlier performance of good luck dinosaur Elisa Vassena, Tuan Ly, Luke Birch, Lena Kimming, Katja Nyqvist, Christopher Matthews, Katye Coe, Rachel + Finn
R&D for asemics (in UNFRIENDING commissioned by The Place, 2021) Daniela Carler, Emma Pocq, Ella Holappa, Jule Niekamp
Additional Planning & Research Elisa Vassena
Additional Space Design Sewing Madeline Tanoto + Candy Brown
Production (2019/20) Kat Bridge
Co-Commissioned by Dance City and South East Dance
Supported by Arts Council England and Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund
Supported through residencies with Siobhan Davies Dance and FABRIC
About J Neve Harrington
J Neve Harrington (London, UK) is an artist whose work includes writing, dance & choreography, drawing, video, installation, costume and space design. She works mainly in gallery and non-stage spaces where her work prioritises explorations around access, play, agency, confrontation by times/scales beyond the human, neuroqueer experiences of information processing and attention.
Harrington’s recent works include Satelliser: a dance for the gallery (2016/21) developed at Copeland Gallery, London and Villa Empain, Brussels and presented at BALTIC CCA, Gateshead UK, Turner Contemporary, Margate UK in 2021 and NottDance, Nottingham UK in 2022. A digital publication and podcast series satellising.com, accompanies the live performances, offering insight into the processes and contexts surrounding the work.
Screensaver Series (premiere 2018, Dance Umbrella London) is a kaleidoscopic dance and sound work which explores a neurodivergent attentional space and has been presented at Uferstudios/ PURPLE Berlin, Inkonst Malmö, Wellcome Collection UK, Dance Umbrella UK, Dance North Scotland, Tanz in Winterthur Switzerland. Digital versions of the work including the video essay believe/been (2020) have been screened in various USA and UK contexts.
Harrington recently completed a commissioned work storage for future sunsets with Scottish Dance Theatre & V&A Dundee, which is a durational work for the company and their first work for gallery spaces. sffs also features set, film and costumes created by Harrington for Scottish Dance Theatre.
Other works include good luck dinosaur (2020, Fest en Fest, London), UNFRIENDING (2021, The Place), never closer to midnight (2019, Reading University), The Human Clock (2013, A Million Minutes), Roundhouse 2014, Dance Live Aberdeen 2016, Sånafest Norway 2017, Rise Findhorn 2019, STACK (2018, Horniman Museum), V&A Museum 2018, V&A Museum of Childhood 2018, Our City Dances 2019, and The Performing Book (2011, Camberwell College of Arts), Brighton Festival 2015, Sadler’s Wells Presents: Wilderness Festival 2018, Et20l’Été Paris 2019.
Harrington’s educational background is in visual arts, psychology and dance. As a performer she has worked within museum and gallery contexts across Europe including Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Beyeler, Venice Biennale, Het Stedelijk, Kiasma, Fondation Boghossian. She was a board member of Chisenhale Dance Space in London 2020-22 and was involved with Engagement Arts Belgium 2017/18. Teaching engagements include: Winchester University, London College of Fashion, London College of Communication, Loughborough University, The Place, Trinity Laban, Independent Dance, [openclass], PRAXIS Oslo, Danscentrumsyd Malmö, Uferstudios Berlin, Nottingham Centre for Advanced Training, The Place Centre for Advanced Training. She works to support other artists with access through grant-writing, and mentors around neurodiversity in dance.
www.jnharrington.com
@j.neve.harrington
