Collaborative Practise
Music Off Canvas hold seminars in collaborative practise for conservatoire and university level students.
Co-directors Hannah Grayson and Vanessa Howells, encourage arts practitioners to open their minds to cross-arts work through both presentation of their professional development as young entrepreneurs in setting up their own company, to guiding practical exercises with expert guest collaborators of varying artistic disciplines.
Previous seminars include speaking at the Royal College of Music in November 2013 for a "Careers Day" organised by their professional engagements department.
Co-directors Hannah Grayson and Vanessa Howells, encourage arts practitioners to open their minds to cross-arts work through both presentation of their professional development as young entrepreneurs in setting up their own company, to guiding practical exercises with expert guest collaborators of varying artistic disciplines.
Previous seminars include speaking at the Royal College of Music in November 2013 for a "Careers Day" organised by their professional engagements department.
Guest Speakers
Raquel García-Tomás is a composer specialised in multidisciplinary creation who pursues a doctoral research at the Royal College of Music supported by a Neville Wathen Award. Her research project –Multidisciplinarity: An expansion of my creative approach– investigates how other areas (particularly those related to visual art, spatial dimension, movement and interaction with the audience) can enrich herself as a composer. Her recent projects include works for the English National Ballet, the Royal British Society of Sculptors and various instrumental pieces with electronics and video, both created by her. Raquel is currently working on the collective opera Go, Æneas, Go! awarded by the Neuköllner Oper with the Berliner Opernpreis’14.
www.raquelgarciatomas.com
www.raquelgarciatomas.com
Malika Booker is a British writer of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage, who writes poetry, plays and solo monologues. Her poems are widely anthologised in anthologies and journals including: Out of Bounds, British Black & Asian Poets (Bloodaxe, 2012) Ten New Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010) Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women's Poetry (The Women's Press, 1998), The Penguin Anthology of New Black Writing and the India International Journal 2005. She has represented British writing internationally, both independently and with the British Council in Slovenia, New Zealand, Malaysia, India, Russia and Azerbaijan. She has performed her work at many venues around the world and has written for the stage and radio. In 1999 her first solo theatre show Absolution was commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre and the Austrian Cultural Institute and enjoyed a three-week run at the Battersea Arts Centre. Her first musical play, Catwalk, commissioned by NITRO ran at the Tricycle Theatre in June 2001 and had a successful UK tour. Malika was Hampton Court Palace Writer in Residence in 2004. In Spring 2005 she was sponsored by the Arts Council England for a three-month writer fellowship at the India International Centre in Delhi. She was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 to create Bloodlines in July 2005, and in August, to create Scattered Experiences on BBC Radio's Woman's Hour, as part of their Travel Stories series. Her one-woman show, Unplanned, which explored issues around women's fertility, cultural and gender identities, was produced by Apples & Snakes - directed by Rachel Mars and toured nationwide throughout 2007. Since August 2001, she has co-run 'Malika's Kitchen,' a writers' collective based in London and Chicago, which offers weekly writers' surgeries, publishing opportunities in anthologies and showcasing new work at UK and Chicago venues. Malika is a sought-after workshop facilitator and has run creative writing courses for organizations including The Arvon Foundation, National Theatre, Young Vic and The British Festival of Visual Theatre (BFVT). She has more than 15 years experience working with young people in schools in the UK and abroad as a workshop facilitator, visiting writer and creative mentor. Malika currently teaches at City Lit and Westminster University. Her collection Breadfruit was published by flippedeye in 2007, and recommended by the Poetry Book Society. She was inaugural Poet in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Imogen Bland
I graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2011 with a first class BA honours. Since then I have been leading or being part of creative projects.
I like to create my own work and use external stimuli to challenge myself and keep exploring new ways to think, in particular the influence of psychology, sociology, culture and language.
I am co-director and resident choreographer/performer in Sounding Motion,a collaborative company of musicians and dancers.
My work'Naturale' with Sounding Motion was selected for Resolution! 2013 dance festival.
I have created and produced works which performed at Testbed1,Battersea; Chisenhale Dance Space, Simpkins Lee Theatre, Oxford, The Blue Elephant Theatre and The Robin Howard Dance Theatre.
I collaborate with different artists, most recently musicians and performance artists.This has drawn my practice to be more focussed on live improvisation and dance theatre.'
I graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2011 with a first class BA honours. Since then I have been leading or being part of creative projects.
I like to create my own work and use external stimuli to challenge myself and keep exploring new ways to think, in particular the influence of psychology, sociology, culture and language.
I am co-director and resident choreographer/performer in Sounding Motion,a collaborative company of musicians and dancers.
My work'Naturale' with Sounding Motion was selected for Resolution! 2013 dance festival.
I have created and produced works which performed at Testbed1,Battersea; Chisenhale Dance Space, Simpkins Lee Theatre, Oxford, The Blue Elephant Theatre and The Robin Howard Dance Theatre.
I collaborate with different artists, most recently musicians and performance artists.This has drawn my practice to be more focussed on live improvisation and dance theatre.'