Producer for Inchoate Buzz at London Contemporary Music Festival, June 2022 , Tramway 2023 and ongoing/potential future versions.
Artist and choreographer Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome presents INCHOATE BUZZ, featuring works and performances by invited artists. An immersive work that invites audiences into sensorial experiencing, tuning to perception, touch, voice and sensation.
INCHOATE BUZZ is an ongoing project conceived by choreographer and dance artist Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, merging the artist’s practices of performance, collaboration and curation. Iterations feature performances by Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome and invited artists SERAFINE1369, Mica Levi, Isabel Muñoz-Newsome, Nkisi, Eve Stainton. Core collaborators are sound designer/ new media artist Josh Anio Grigg, artist and researcher India Harvey and light designer Charlie Hope who create an immersive sensorial environment.
INCHOATE BUZZ explores relational presence with our environments and each other, re-orientating amongst performance, music, sculptural soft objects and somatic practices. Audiences are invited into a sensorial space traversing different qualities of liveness through sensory perception, voice and movement.
INCHOATE BUZZ premiered at Sadlers Wells 2019, supported by Jerwood New Work Fund and Arts Council England. Previous iterations produced by Nikki Tomlinson.
2022 iteration supported by Arts Council England, CONTINUOUS Network, Siobhan Davies Dance and ICA.
Images: Anne Tetzlaff and David Lakowski at LCMF 2022
I’m working with artist Claudia Palazzo across all projects from 2022 onwards.
Claudia Palazzo is a London born and based artist and dancer working across the intersections and contradictions of dance, performance art, alternative cabaret, and film using her body as a responsive site to her environment and territory. Her work exists somewhere between the nightclub, gallery, and street and focuses on the live experience as a place for highly charged connections. The work/ dancing seeks to build new territories and hold spaces to consider/feel non verbal agreements and subliminal desires and understandings.
Claudia is often preoccupied with, how to move through, deal with, process and oppose systems of violence.
Surreal urgency.
On the edge of feral.
With a bassline.
Claudia has presented her work internationally in a wide variety of contexts and has spent a long time on the club scene.
Current works:
gone to the dogs (that ain’t gold)
Images from gone to the dogs (that ain’t gold) at SPILL festival 2018, taken by Christa Holka
It begins in darkness is a dance full of ghosts.
In this stark, stripped back performance, five dancers move through a series of mysterious and experimental rites of passage, channelling past, present and future tensions through their bodies and voices. As if to exorcise the haunted house of history, the dancers whisper, jump, wrestle, shiver, wail and laugh, filling the space with horrors, both real and imagined.
It begins in darkness is an environment for processing the fear, anger and confusion which arise from the histories of slavery and colonialism that haunt the present.
Dancers: Rhys Dennis, Adrienne Ming, Mayowa Ogunnaike, Rose Sall Sao and Natifah White
Choreography and text: Seke Chimutengwende with the dancers
Created with input from Alethia Antonia
Dramaturgy: Charlie Ashwell
Lighting design: Marty Langthorne
Costume design: Annie Pender
Composer: Aisha Orazbayeva
Sound technician: Michael Picknett
Producer: Eve Veglio-Hüner
2023-24 TOUR TO BE ANNOUNCED
Ace funded tour 2022:
Tuesday 27th September - Friday 30th September, The Mount Without, Bristol
Tuesday 4th October, The Place, London
Tuesday 11th & Wednesday 12th October, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton
Thursday 20th October - Nottdance festival, iC4C, Nottingham
Thursday 27th October, Bluecoat, Liverpool
Main image by Jack Barraclough and Karin Xiao 2022. Performance images by Jemima Yong 2022.
CAJ COLLAB (casual collaboration) is an experimental performance platform co-created and produced by me and Michael Kitchin. We invite two artists, from different disciplines, who have never worked together before to have one day to create and then perform that evening. It comes from a desire to remove labour intensive processes for artists and create a low stakes environment to (re)discover something about exchange, play and collaboration.
There have been 9 iterations of CAJ COLLAB, including at Tate Modern as part of Block Universe in 2019 and at The Place, as part of Splayed Festival in 2020.
Previous artists include:
Nando Messias, Rebecca Bellantoni, Eleanor Sikorski, Lindsey Mendick, Xana, Temitope Ajose-Cutting, Lewys Holt, Zia Ahmed, Suren Seneviratne, Steph McMann, Oren Shoesmith, Amy Morvell, Amy Barton, Anuradha Chaturvedi Seth, Akeim Toussaint-Buck, Jemima Foxtrot, Fernanda Munoz-Newsome and Eva O’Connor.
Image credits:
Top - Eleanor Sikorski @ Tate Modern - image by Amina Onitilo
Middle - Zia Ahmed + Lewys Holt @ Poplar Union - image by Jack Smith
Bottom - Jemima Foxtrot + Akeim Toussaint-Buck @ Poplar Union - image by Bhav Mistry
Developing Your Creative Practice is a grant from Arts Council England for creative freelancers in the UK to undertake development in a self-directed programme. I have been fortunate to receive a DYCP grant in the September 2021 round for activity running from Dec 2021 - May 2022.
My focus is to significantly develop by upskilling in curatorial skills to build cross artform frameworks with experimental approaches that enable artists to explore in low stakes environments + present new alternative ways of making. I will be undertaking research, training, shadowing, mentoring and intensive development time with collaborators and independent artists. I’m very excited about the possibilities and extremely grateful to have this incubation time.
I also support other artists who have barriers to access apply for DYCP grants, please get in touch with me to discuss this.
A surprising, interactive, playful day of art and discovery between Roman Road, Old Ford Road, and all the hidden spaces in between.
Produced by me for Chisenhale Dance Space and curated by Moi Tran, the free arts programme included contemporary dance, live art, plant soundscapes, audio walks, balloon art, origami sculptures, book readings and more—for all ages!
The projects playfully explore community care, spaces of joy and the importance of sharing and collecting stories. We together decide, we can be the shape shifters of the stories we care for.
With participatory experiences from Anna Sulan Masing, Caro Gervay + Lily Ly, Eelyn Lee, Jason Singh, Kimvi, Moi Tran, ShumGhostJohn, Quang Kien Van and Roman Road Trust. Shared experiences are more important than ever, and we have planned our arts day in line with Covid-19 restrictions and have clear procedures in place to keep everyone safe.
Image credit - design by Lan Le Huong
I am was an Assistant Producer with producing collective The Uncultured, March-December 2021, supporting them in their producing and access writing work.
Ashleigh Bowmott and Laura Sweeney are arts independents working collaboratively to produce, curate, facilitate and advocate. They come together as those who refuse to be domesticated, civilised, or to adhere to the status quo. Basically they’re a bit feral.
More info: www.the-uncultured.com
Feet off the Ground is an all-female performance collective making innovative, physical and engaging dance in varying settings and contexts.
I am their producer for outdoor, family friendly work Creature Comforts, currently available for touring in 21-22. I’m also working with them to develop their most ambitious project to date ‘Women of the World’ looking at climate change as a feminist issue.
For more info on FOTG’s work please contact me and/or visit www.feetofftheground.co.uk
Image credits: FOTG Creature Comforts - image by Rafa Carbonell
Encounter Bow is a one day, outdoor arts festival, in the heart of Bow, East London. Produced by me and Chisenhale Dance Space and curated by Alisa Oleva.
With performances and participatory experiences from Esprit Concrete, GIRL GANG, Harold Offeh, Janine Harrington, Mickael 'Marso' Riviere with Mad Dope Krew, Rachel Gomme, Casson and Friends, and The Demolition Project.
Dance Reading is a month-long celebratory festival of dance in Reading, UK. I have co-produced the 2016, 2019 and 2020 online iterations alongside the Dance Reading team.
