{"id":6264,"date":"2023-07-21T20:44:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T19:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/?p=6264"},"modified":"2023-08-04T15:36:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:36:18","slug":"whats-lou-doing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/whats-lou-doing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Lou Doing #2: Life, Death, Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Come hang out with me! In this new series, I share what I\u2019ve been to, what I\u2019m going to and what I\u2019d like to see.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Manchester Collective, Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs and Metamorphosen<\/a> \u2014 Bold Tendencies, Peckham (London UK)<\/strong>
15 July
I loved this performance! I didn\u2019t know too much about the Manchester Collective before I went but they were incredible and so generous with their knowledge. What I love about Bold Tendencies is that it\u2019s exposed to the elements and you can hear the sound of the Overground as it turns the corner. To see the weather change from sunny to cold and windy as they performed a work about life and death, celebrating the beauty and inevitably, was amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NOW Later: Draw-In<\/a> \u2014 NOW Gallery, Greenwich (London UK)
<\/strong>16 July
Curator Jemima Burrill and the NOW Gallery team design the most thoughtful events that really do bring people together. I often go by myself and meet such lovely people and have really interesting conversations. I was really happy to see that artists Laxmi Hussain and Frances Costelloe were hosting workshops. While I wasn\u2019t able to do Frances workshop, I did get to see Laxmi paint Margie Belle with her signature electric blue fluid lines \u2014 both a soothing and thrilling experience \u2014 and do a little life drawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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George Rouy: BODY SUIT – Live with Sharon Eyal L-E-V with music by Soft Toys<\/a> \u2014 Hannah Barry Gallery, Peckham (London)
<\/strong>16 July
I was incredibly lucky to be invited to this! After the Draw-In, I dashed to Peckham to see my favourite choreographer Sharon Eyal\u2019s L-E-V company perform against the backdrop of George Rouy\u2019s latest exhibition BODY SUIT. Five years in the making, this was an incredible collaboration between George Rouy, Sharon Eyal, the L-E-V dancers, Hannah Barry and Maria Grazia Chiuri from Dior. Each artist drew inspiration from the other artist\u2019s work, creating something completely unique and I doubt I\u2019ll ever see anything like it again. And to meet Sharon and some of the dancers afterwards, including one of my favourites Alice Godfrey, to thank them and tell them how much the work means to me is something I will hold dearly. Sharon\u2019s choreography is inspired by club nights in Tel Aviv and getting lost on the dance floor. I\u2019m still there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oona Doherty: Hope Hunt<\/a> \u2014 Bold Tendencies (Peckham, London)
<\/strong>22 July 2023
I\u2019m really looking forward to seeing the Irish choreographer Oona Doherty\u2019s work Hope Hunt this Saturday \u2014 and I\u2019ve heard amazing things about the dancer Sati Veyrunes\u2014 and while I don\u2019t know what to expect exactly I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019ll be blown away by a distinctive and intense performance. I\u2019ve also seen a car was hoisted onto the car park for it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes<\/a> \u2014 South London Gallery (Peckham, London)
<\/strong>5 July – 29 Oct 2023
I was sad to miss the opening night of Lagos, Peckham, Repeat as Kieron Lewis who we interviewed worked with South London Gallery on the design for the exhibition. The exhibition is co-curated by Folakunle Oshun, founder and director of the Lagos Biennial, and explores the relationship between Peckham, known as \u2018Little Lagos\u2019 \u2014 home to one of the largest Nigerian diaspora communities in the UK \u2014 and Lagos in Nigeria. The exhibition showcases works by thirteen Nigerian and British-Nigerian artists across sculpture, photography, sound and film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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untitled fck miss s<\/em>*gon the play<\/a> \u2014 Royal Exchange Theatre (Manchester, UK)
<\/strong>17-22 July 2023
The people of Manchester are so lucky! I\u2019d love to see anything at the Manchester Festival this year. Winner of the inaugural Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2019, International Award, from reviews it sounds like Kimber Lee\u2019s is both ferocious and hilarious, blasting Asian stereotypes and confronting colonialism and attitudes and stereotypes about South West Asia. Luckily for me, this is coming to London so I will definitely be booking a ticket!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester Collective, George Rouy, Sharon Eyal, Drawing, Lagos, Peckham, Repeat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,185],"tags":[119,83,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6264"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6437,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions\/6437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}