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Chisenhale Dance Space presents an evening of new work and exploration. Kira O’Reilly, MIKS, Olivier Rodriguez, and Helen Schoene, will share the outcome of their research projects supported by The Space Bursary Programme. This unique event will showcase a diversity of movement and body based work by artists at the cutting edge of their artforms. KIRA O’REILLY - Syncopal Actions & Falling States Kira O’Reilly will consider the question: ‘How to have a body now?’ Her research will explore cultivating emergent dances at the point of break down and dance on the edge of the ability to balance. Kira is interested in movement material that does not follow a compositional, dramatic or kinetic logic, but upsets the harmonious mechanics of the body. HELEN SCHOENE - What I Wish For - Helen will experiment with live animation and movement, using live performance and animated drawings to create single, but moving frames, similar to stop-frame animation. The drawings will be derived from popular tales and symbols, and will become the site to play on and with. Helen will be working in collaboration with animator and filmmaker Ahmad Habash. MIKS - n+1 - MIKS is a dance theatre collective with four artists: Ida Uvass, Sara Lindstrom, Pauline Huguet and Anais Bouts. Inspired by the writings of Georges Pérec and Oulipo. Oulipo is a gathering of writers and mathematicians in the 1960’s who created works using constrained writing techniques. MIKS will adapt constrained writing techniques to body, movement and spatio-temporal structures, in order to create new choreographic systems. OLIVIER RODRIGUEZ - And/Or - is a collaboration of dancers, filmmakers and musicians, exploring how each form can have a productive interaction in real time, giving the performance work a quality of its own rather than being a dance, film or music piece. The project will involve stripping down the disciplines to their essential elements: sound, image and movement. In the studio Olivier will find new means to escape preconceptions and patterns for making work in order to create a dynamic and exciting fusion of art forms.