Newsletter – Tanja Liedtke
Foundation
October 2017 Lauren Langlois
(left) in Berlin.
Lauren Langlois reflects on her Tanja Liedtke
Fellowship in Berlin.
Our fifth Tanja Liedtke Fellow, Lauren Langlois conducted her
Fellowship program in August. Below are her reflections on the experience.
“The Tanja Liedtke Fellowship has facilitated a pivotal chapter in
realising my own creative and choreographic interests. The first stage
development for Twenty Forty Six consisted of a series of explorative
writing, theatrical and physical tasks to form an elaborate movement
language and story-driven world. Like most creative processes, I
encountered both astonishing moments of inspiration, and disheartening
moments of frustration. I have always had an affinity with process, and
revelled in those moments where a kernel of an idea would develop into
something surprisingly unexpected. I would walk home feeling dejected some
days, only to wake up feeling elated the next. These stages and
opportunities for growth were what made this experience transformative for
me.
The opportunity to show our 17 minute piece at Nah
Dran was an unexpected blessing as it provided a timeframe in which to
formulate all we had researched and worked on over the previous three
weeks. I decided I wanted to develop a constructed piece of work within
the frame of a beginning, middle and ending. In hindsight I realised I
could have presented a series of separate choreographic ideas and this
would have been fine. However, this pressure to present something whole,
resulted in a cohesive performance and a clear idea for a new work which I
would love to explore further.
I am grateful to the
Foundation for this opportunity, and to my collaborators James, Nicola and
Chimene for their hard work, boundless energy and commitment to this
development. This Fellowship has provided an opportunity for me to explore
and unearth the foundations of a new work and I look forward to the next
opportunity to delve further into my own choreographic
practice”.
Lauren Langlois, 2017
TLF is very pleased to see
Lauren’s hard work come to fruition. We wish her all the very best for the
next developments.
TLF
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