About this Event
The workshop embraces the themes of interruption, levity, unruliness, and autobiography as participants will engage in a series of multi-disciplinary exercises and prompts drawn from Ballou’s own practice and research into performance-making. You might find yourself drawing, writing, moving, singing, and tending to your little ones as needed. We will work unapologetically alongside our babies who will certainly interrupt us and that’s rather the point.
Starting with a check in exercise and gentle warm up we will approach the main themes of the workshop through a variety of exercises and prompts.
Levity: We will explore ridiculousness and perform personal narrative.
Interruption: I'll offer a series of creative prompts in rapid succession, not leaving enough time to 'finish' anything. They will include writing, movement, drawing, verbal, solo, partnered, collaborative, creative, and menial actions. We'll also inevitably be interrupted by our babies, but for once, this is a good thing
Unruliness: We will explore the Unruly Woman as conceived by feminist humour scholar Kathleen Rowe. Mothers are constructed as paragons of virtue and order. We will disrupt this. We will also do an autobiographical exercise derived from the work of Bobby Baker.
Artist Biography
Hannah Ballou’s work is feminist, sometimes autobiographical, and challenges configurations of the comic body by asking who is funny, when, how, why, and why not? She is known to work with live animals and sleeping children. She once found out she was pregnant live on stage. She is behind the Marina Abramopug project, neo-burlesque alter-ego Lambchop Magoo, and is founder of Kingston Live Art. Recent works include Shhh, The Doctor Is In, and the hoo:ha series. She is a senior lecturer in Drama at the Kingston School of Art.
Access information
LADA and The Garrett Centre are wheelchair accessible by lift and provide gender inclusive bathrooms. Should you have any particular requirements regarding access or have any questions, please email us and we will be happy to offer further support.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Live Art Development Agency - LADA, The Garrett Centre, London, United Kingdom
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