*This pop up collection will be open from Thursday – Saturday between 12PM and 5PM.
The Nottdance Reading Room is a pop-up collection that will be available for 3 days during the festival bringing together a range of publications by artists and a selection of readings around relevant themes.
A rare chance to encounter a temporary gathering of some of the many excellent self-produced publications being created by different artists in the dance field today – in the form of original zines, books, scores, documentation and more. We’re delighted to say Hamish MacPherson will be bringing a collection of artists’ zines he has gathered from Chisenhale Dance Space in London, alongside his own zine Still (see full contribution list below).
The Nottdance Reading Room will also host a selection of books and articles that open up thinking and discussion around important subjects and questions. These will include a selection of readings on climate activism and artistic practice, contributed by Rita Marcalo (aka Instant Dissidence), and a selection of readings on Anti-Racist Practices in Dance.
This space is for you to browse, have a chat, open up a new conversation but also an opportunity to take home one of the original artists’ publications that will be for sale.
Join us on Thursday 10 October for Reading Room Hang-out. An event that shines a light on The Nottdance Reading Room in an informal chance to hang out and discuss with some of the creators of the publications and reading lists.
Suitable for all.
| HAMISH MACPHERSON’S ZINE COLLECTION | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamish MacPherson | Still Life issue 1-4 | stilllifemag.org | £2 |
| Casson and Friends | Choreocracy | cassonandfriends.com/shop | £5 |
| Channing Tatum | Pocket Book | channingtatum.bigcartel.com | £5 |
| Channing Tatum | Footnotes | channingtatum.bigcartel.com | £5 |
| Channing Tatum | Thing for people to do | channingtatum.bigcartel.com | £3 |
| Katherine Hall | Movement of Care | katherine-hall.com/Movements-of-Care | £10 |
| CLIMATE EMERGENCY & ARTISTIC PRACTICE, CONTRIBUTED BY RITA MARCALO | |
|---|---|
| David Wallace-Wells | The Unhabitable Earth: A story of the Future |
| George Monbiot | Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an ages of crisis |
| An Extinction Rebellion Handbook | This is not a drill |
| Rob Hopkins | The power of just doing stuff: How local action can change the world |
| Greta Thunberg | No one is too small to make a difference |
| Lucy Neal | Playing for time: Making art as if the world mattered |
| ANTI-RACIST PRACTICES IN DANCE | |
|---|---|
| Miguel Gutierrez | Does Abstraction Belong to White People?: Thinking the politics of race in contemporary dance. BOMB bombmagazine.org/articles/miguel-gutierrez-1 |
| Alexandrina Hemsley | 50:50 Dance Programming – Is It Time For Quotas In Dance?, 7 March 2019 alexandrinahemsley.com/5050-dance-programming/ |
| Rebecca Chaleff | Activating Whiteness: Racializing the Ordinary in US American Postmodern Dance. Dance Research Journal, vol. 50, no. 3, 2018, pp. 71–84 |
| Royona Mitra | Talking Politics of Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton Dance Research Journal, vol. 50, no. 3, 2018, pp. 5–18 |
| Thomas F DeFrantz | I Am Black: (you have to be willing to not know) Theater 47 no. 2 (1 May 2017): 9–21. doi.org/10.1215/01610775-3785122 |
| Contemporary Dance Whiteness resource list | danceandwhiteness.coventry.ac.uk/resources |