Irini Kalaitzidi Artist-Led Session [in person]
Choreographic Scores | Generative Drawings
A workshop for dancers of all levels, who wish to explore the choreographic capacity of coding and generative drawings
In this workshop, Irini invites us to approach programming and digital graphics as choreographic scores, and by extension, explore the affinity between choreographic and computational practices. The session will involve a theoretical introduction to scoring and a practical engagement with generating digital drawings in p5.js — a javascript library that makes coding very accessible to new learners. Ready-made p5.js sketches will be provided for everyone to be able to tweak and play with, as a score-making process. After creating our own computational scores, we will bring them to life through interpreting them, dancing to them, and understanding how technology can reconfigure the ways we communicate, archive, and transmit choreography.
This workshop will be running in-person and online simultaneously and is open to anyone interested in choreography and coding as scoring. No prior coding experience is expected but if you already have a computational practice, you are welcome to bring your tools and methods into the score-making process. Everyone should come along with their computer fully charged and be ready to constantly switch between coding and dancing.
For those that cannot attend in-person or would prefer to join online, you can join this session remotely via Zoom at 11am on Tuesday 9 July. Please click here for further information and to book.
Part of Sadler’s Wells Artist Development Programme: Artist-Led Sessions. You can find out more about the selection process for this programme online here.
Irini Kalaitzidi
Irini is a dance artist, researcher and educator. Her practice revolves around choreography and artificial intelligence, exploring critical and caring ways of engaging with the human body. She usually employs qualities of speculation, liminality and playfulness to address issues of physical and digital injury, optimisation and (mis)classification.
Her works vary from performance lectures to video art, articles and scores and have been presented in venues such as Onassis Stegi, Somerset House, The V&A, Stanley Picker Gallery, Bangalore International Center, and Cairo Citadel.
Parallel to her artist practice, Irini works as a lecturer of Computational Arts in Goldsmiths University of London and the Creative Computing Institute of UAL, teaching Machine Learning for Artistic Practice, and Choreography as Hacking among other modules.
Heath & Access Requirements
We can put a range of things in place to best support your participation in this workshop.
Please contact artist.development@sadlerswells.com with your specific requirements.
Performances
Age 16 - 30?
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