BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6432@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210714T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210716T180000 DTSTAMP:20210618T151449Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-residency-seke-chimuten gwende/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: Residency - Seke Chimutengwende DESCRIPTION:Bluecoat Residency - Seke Chimutengwende\n12 - 16 July 2021\nEv ent: Wednesday 14 July at 6pm\n\nThe Bluecoat welcomes acclaimed dance art ist\, teacher and choreographer\, Seke Chimutengwende\, for a week-long re sidency in July as part of his research for an upcoming group choreography piece. His latest work explores the theme of hauntings\, researching tale s of ghosts and haunted houses which serve as metaphors for the legacies o f slavery and colonialism and how they continuously haunt the present.\n\n As part of the residency\, the Bluecoat will host an online conversation w ith Seke to discuss his work on Wednesday 14 July at 6pm.\n\nChimutengwend e’s residency at the Bluecoat is particularly poignant because of the bu ilding’s colonial roots and links to the slave trade. The Bluecoat is Li verpool’s oldest city centre building\, founded in 1716 as an orphanage and charity school by merchant Bryan Blundell. Blundell profited from the transatlantic slave trade and goods that it enabled\, such as cotton\, sug ar and tobacco. These histories have been interrogated by artists over the decades including Keith Piper and Elaine Mitchener. The Bluecoat remains committed to making research into the origins of the building and its colo nial past public\, exploring stories about slavery\, migration\, diaspora\ , independence\, race and identity.\n\nChimutengwende has been making chor eographies since 2011\, including The Time Travel Piece\, a semi-finalist for The Place Prize 2012\, and Black Holes\, a collaboration with Alexandr ina Hemsley\, which was selected for The British Council’s Edinburgh Sho wcase 2019.\n\nSeke Chimutengwende says of the residency:\n\n“I’m part icularly interested to come to Bluecoat at this stage in researching the w ork due to Liverpool’s significant role in the history of the transatlan tic slave trade. It feels important to come to places that are haunted by that history\, and to let that inform the work. I’m also interested in p resenting my choreographic work in visual art contexts in the future\, so Bluecoat is a great place to start thinking about that.”\n\nChimutengwen de will be at the Bluecoat from 12th - 16th July. He will be joined by a g roup of 5 dancers - Natifah White\, Rose Sall Sao\, Rhys Dennis\, Alethia Antonia\, and Adrienne Ming - as well as dramaturg Charlie Ashwell for col laborative research time.\n\nMarie-Anne\, Head of Programme at the Bluecoa t says:\n\n“I’m delighted that Seke Chimutengwende is spending time wi th us this summer. His research will deeply connect with the colonial lega cies of our building and the wider histories of Liverpool while opening up new ways to explore them”.\n\nAs part of the wider project across June - August 2021 Seke will be undertaking residencies at the Bluecoat\, Dance 4\, Newstead Abbey and The Place\, funded by ACE Project Grants. Previous research residencies have taken place at Battersea Arts Centre\, The Place (Choreodrome)\, Wainsgate Dances and Chats Palace during 2019 &\; 2020 .\n\nThe Bluecoat will host a live online event with Seke Chimutengwende o n Wednesday 14 July at 6pm. Seke will be in conversation with the Bluecoat 's Head of Programme Marie-Anne McQuay to discuss his research into haunti ngs &\; colonial histories as well as earlier projects including the ri se &\; fall of a mythical performer Plastic Soul and imagined landscape s &\; Afrofuturism Black Holes. The Bluecoat will share the artist’s current research reading and viewing list online if viewers would like to read or watch along.\n\nBook onto the Zoom event via Eventbrite. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2021/06/unnamed.png LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat:geo :53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210328T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR