This week we shine the spotlight on the incredible practice of choreographer, performer, educator and researcher, Alethia Antonia.
Alethia is currently Work Place Artist where she performed her first full-length solo, Inscribed in “Me” in March, a piece centering around the complex experiences of Black womxn, exploring personal, historical, and collective trauma through movement, voice and music.
This exploration of feminine blackness continues through Alethia’s research. As a PhD student in Leicester, she’s researching methodologies for decolonisation and accessibility in contemporary British dance.
In 2021, We Are Dance, a leader in choreographic research in the UK, published Public Dance Pack written by choreographer and curator Grace Nichol in collaboration with Alethia Antonia and other dance artists. It’s a practical and thoughtful resource designed to help navigate commissioning and making performance for public spaces such as galleries and museums.
“Due to the pandemic and global movements such as BLM, the need for additional care when working with art-forms that deal with the live body has been thrown into sharp relief. [It considers] how we might use this new understanding to take care of bodies in a wide range of performance settings. It can be seen as a transferrable approach to wellbeing in any artistic project.”
The pack contains downloadable info sheets with suggestions for information that artists and venues might want to share with one another.
https://www.grace-nicol.com/information-sheets