Julyen Hamilton

Julyen Hamilton was born in England. He has been creating and performing dances for 40 years throughout the world. He trained in London in the 1970s’ and has been an exponent of innovative performance since that time. His work is mostly improvised: he composes dance works instantly as well as the texts which often accompany them. Since the 1980s’ he has performed continuously in close collaboration with many musicians from all over Europe, it is with some of these musicians that he gives readings of his poetry. He is at present performing the solos The Immaterial World, Landscape Portrait, Interview, together with bass player Barre Phillips. His latest piece, Burst, premiered in 2018. As a pianist he plays regularly with Hamilton Carroll, his new poetry album Jack Gets Out of Prison with bassist Wilbert de Joode was released in 2018.

Making dances: the SPACE issue
With this workshop, Julyen Hamilton proposes considering and practising the essential nature of space, in which choreography and dance can be created and performed. The emphasis will be on radial and Cartesian space and how they affect the moving body and the theatrical space where audience and performer meet. Physiology, philosophy, culture, imagination and the future will be evoked.