Projects

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 D.H.S.S is a performance training school for young LGBTQ+ performance artists. Directed by Ursula Martinez and based in Hackney, Duckie have recruited 13 young benders and pretenders to take part in 18 days of new wave show business, post-queer subterfuge, DIY entertainment and poncing about.

Throughout this process artists will create two short performances pieces - one short piece for the stage and one outdoor site specific piece for the streets, local shops and latitude festival.

May - July 2023

Image: Courtney Nettleford

Providing facilitation support during RADiate sessions. The focus of these sessions is to engage children and young people through dance, movement, music and sensory props, and to develop their physicality and boost their self-esteem. As part of this work continued professional development takes place termly for saff to discuss and implement best practice.

Sessions are created and supported to respond to the individual needs of the children. Dance Artists and support facilitators work alongside the school staff to engage and encourage each learner using ideas based on class topics, or led by their interests. 

April 2023

Image: Collage. Loren McK RAD

Adieu will explore the life of the filmmaker, director, painter, gardener, activist, writer and polymath Derek Jarman in his final years while living in Prospect Cottage at Dungeness. 

The work allows the performers to connect to important and complex subjects that are traditionally reserved for non-disabled or academic environments, which in turn opens up new conversations and awareness for audiences. Thick & Tight and Corali Dance Company will transport you to a reverie, somewhere between a flowering sea, a nuclear garden and a primary coloured dream.  

March 2023

Image: Collage. Loren McK May 2021

Guided by expert mentors, over 900 students from programs across Dance and Music at TL come together with visiting artists from around the world to create, develop and rehearse projects. Students are given the chance to develop skills and relationships across genres and disciplines, take risks, experiment and play.

Projects since 2016 have included exploring ideas around silence, duration, intimacy, image, translation, copyright, performing gender and posing the body.

Project leader, mentor, facilitator and sharing co-ordinator.

2016-2023

Image: Colab 2023 Loren McK 

 ‘Certain Circumstances’ : is the first solo exhibition by artist Jack Thomson. Presenting archived and new works the exhibition showcase will be an encounter with Jack’s dynamic range between traditional and experimental photographic processes, whilst continuing to follow his commitment to unearth the deep expressions of the body when choreographic thinking is applied to image-making. 

Choreography: Theo Canham Spence

March 2023

Image: Jack Thomson

Working with MA: Expanded Dance Practice students at LCDS with a focus on expanding their creative artistic practice in dance and related fields  alongside Lauren Potter, Hilary Stainsby, Katye Coe, Florence Peake, Tom Hastings, Natifah White and other invited artists.

This unit supports the development of tools for students to contextualise, re-frame and challenge their practices and to plan research projects which resource and communicate their ideas. Students are encouraged to explore their relationship to other materials present in their practice (clay, wood, writing) .

The course faciliates and develops conversations around the context in which art can be situated across social, political, historical, and artistic contexts.

Image: Laure Potter EDP 2023

 Lesbian Dance Theory: a seriously humorous lecture, multimedia performance and fuck you to the hyperbole of right wing commentators who coined the term. This work centres around dialogues, practices, histories and futures for those who identify as, with or adjacent to the term Lesbian. As part of this work Loren has interviewed artists inlcuding  Eve Stainton, Jules Cunningham, Jay Yule, Shivaangee Agrawal and Eleanor Perry and was mentored by Florence Peake and Martin Hargreaves.

Nov 2022 - ongoing 

This work is being shared at Resolution Festival at The Place on 25th May 2023. Book at https://theplace.org.uk/whats-on

Image: Rocio Chacon

Resisting Authority Part 1 & Part 2 are lec/dem sharings which enact feminist practices in pursuit of discovering and embodying a feminist practice from the outset.

A starting, where the artist reestablishes bases outside of expected trajectory.

Loren was an invited artist and speaker at a symposium on Feminist Practice in Arts in conjunction with Roehampton University. Sharing about the practice of refusing to centre the figure of the solipsistic male choreographer and the possibility that spills out of feminist art practices. 

Image: Tom Hastings