OPENLAB session on Friday 21 October 2016: “The Pleasure of Making with our Bodies,” facilitated by Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot

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Anne-Gaëlle facilitated this session and she brought in his project The Makers’ Space.

What I assume it to be a space one step further (at least) from the usual space that OPENLAB generally aims to hold.

We were asked to make something, or bring something already made and re-work on it… So many possibilities to reading those two possibilities. We were also invited to watch others making.

I watched and collected from others. At a point I was entertaining ideas about scores and tasks and so I asked for some tasks and here they are collected:


Thank you Tim, Gene, Elisabete, Thelma, Anne-Gaëlle and Thelma (again).

I look forwards to more making and using (or not) the collected tasks.

The end (or maybe… ).

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About Antonio de la Fe

Antonio is a Spanish choreographer and performer based in London with a background in physiotherapy and Pilates. After coming relatively late to dance and initially studying it in Madrid, they came to London in 2006 where they completed a Performance MA at The Place, writing on The Creation of Solo Choreography Through Deep Engagement with The Application of Mental Imagery Specific Processes for his thesis. Since then, the has danced for Florence Peake, Matthias Sperling, Jonathan Lunn, Eva Recacha, Carla Onni, Annie Lok, Melita Spahic and Riccardo Buscarini and his choreographed works include the Place Prize finalist piece (2011) Cameo, an open OPENLAB: a hybrid, Va por Vds., and A void. They are also a co-founder of the performance collective anthologyofamess. Antonio was a recipient of the BBC Performing Arts Fund Fellowship, with support from Independent Dance, in 2015. During this fellowship, they worked on researching and developing their Unrehearsed Series (Crocodile, Make Me Cool, A Piece for Two: Lovers) in collaboration with producer Martine Painter. Currently, they are expanding on the idea of the Unrehearsed Series and developing a set of choreographic practices under the name Speculative Choreographies.

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