ResDance S3: Episode 2: Experimental Approaches to Dancing-Writing and Indisciplinary Collaboration with Alys Longley

ResDance Series 3: EP2: Experimental Approaches to Dancing-Writing and Indisciplinary Collaboration with Alys Longley Alys Longley offers insight into her ways of working and approaches employed in her research and practice. Through exploration of approaches to her ‘dancing-writing’, she discusses ways of working with language and fostering a physicality with language -taking space to the page. In situating her ideas in her past and present research interests and indisciplinary collaborations, we discuss ideas relating to geopolitical borders, translation studies and materiality of practice. Aly’s Longley is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and teacher, Alys’s work exists as live performance, artist-book, installation, film, education curriculum, poetry, performance writing and lecture-demonstration. Over the last decade, Alys has been exploring mistranslation studies, working across languages and disciplines to explore the spill of ideas beyond conventional systems of meaning, through a series of international artistic-research projects in Berlin (Germany), Santiago (Chile), Coimbra (Portugal), NYC (US), Chicago (US), Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland (NZ), Poneke/ Welllington (NZ), Vienna (Austria) and Stockholm (Sweden). Her books include The Foreign Language of Motion (2014), Radio Strainer (2016) Let Us Drink the New Wine, Together! (2022) and alys & pavle (2020), Life is A Sting on the Bicep of the Fabric of the Universe (2021) and Time Does This For You (2022) all with pavleheidler.  Alys has been based in the Department of Dance Studies, University of Auckland, since 2006, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Contact details: Email: a.longley@auckland.ac.nz Website: alyslongleymoving.com Social Media: instagram.com/alyslongley instagram.com/humattering https://www.beberemoselvinonuevojuntos.com/ Please share this episode with students, educators, practitioners, performers, and interdisciplinary researchers curious to learn more about dance research in action.