Embodied Practice Group: Royal Swedish Ballet Dancers Nathalie Nordquist and Jonatan Davidsson
11th Jul 2022 6:30pm-7:30pm
Join the conversation with practitioners and researchers from different parts of the world and different disciplines to learn about how they integrate and understand embodied practice – tacit knowledge and skills - in their work. Our guests present their work, bring different perspectives and lived experiences about embodied practices and approaches to creative and academic projects.
Our second guests in the series are Nathalie Nordquist and Jonatan Davidsson who are ballet dancers with the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm. As dancers they interpret and embody their roles through movement and music. They are also married to each other and parents to a young child.
For this Embodied Practice Group online symposium, the format is more conversational and will be shaped by your questions so please join in and ask your questions. There will also be clips of Nathalie and Jonathan performing role and character through their bodies and emotions which can help guide and inspire specific questions such as about gender roles in ballet, symbols in the language of ballet.
We'll be exploring questions such as what dimensions there are there to growing into a character over weeks of rehearsal and performance that can help us understand aspects of embodiment and disembodiment in our own research?
And how do we leave them behind at the end of the performance?