March 26, 2025

Cardiff – Open Studio

Its an exciting week Jo, Sonia, Marilou and Alex are back in a room together this time at Chapter working on something they have called Nettles: How to Disagree? Open studio Common Room, Chapter Arts Centre 30th March 2025 4pm- 5/5.15pm nettles-how-to-disagree

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March 21, 2025

Open Studio – Brecon

Open studio invitation to the dance artists: Brecon 9/4/2025 10:00 - 11:30am

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Gwahoddiad i’r stiwdio agored i’r gymuned ddawns gan Anna Seymour, Jo Fong a Gwyn Emberton

Rydych chi’n cael eich gwahodd i ymuno â thri artist dawns, Jo, Anna a Gwyn, mewn ymarfer boreol, wrth iddynt gyfuno eu harferion symud / artistig unigol a’u dulliau i greu ymdrech ar y cyd.

Fel y Wales Collective, maent yn gweithio o fewn casgliad ehangach o artistiaid dawns gyfoes Ewropeaidd fel rhan o iCoDaCo – International Contemporary Dance Collective.

Byddwch yn cael eich cyflwyno i dasgau ymchwil yr wythnos y maent yn eu harchwilio a chael mewnwelediad i beth yw iCoDaCo a beth fydd yn dod ohono.

Lleoliad: Theatr Brycheiniog

Dyddiad: Dydd Mercher 9fed Ebrill

Amser: 10 – 11:30 AM

Rydych yn cael gwahoddiad cynnes i aros ar ôl am ddiod boeth a sgwrs bellach rhwng 11:30 - 12 canol dydd.

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You are invited to join three dance artists, Jo Fong, Anna Seymour and Gwyn Emberton, in morning practice, as they combine their individual movement / artistic practices and approaches into a collective endeavour.

As the Wales Collective they are working within a wider collective of European contemporary dance artists as part of iCoDaCo - International Contemporary Dance Collective.

You will be introduced to the week’s research tasks that they are exploring and gain insight into what iCoDaCo is and will be.

Location: Theatr Brycheiniog

Date: Wednesday 9th April

Time: 10 – 11:30 AM

You’re warmly invited to stay on for a hot drink and further conversation from 11:30 - 12 noon

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February 26, 2025

The Rest Of Our Lives

ON TOUR 2025 March Peterborough Key Theatre 31st July Theatr Brycheiniog Brecon 30th August Padepokan Seni Bagong Kussudiardja (Indonesia) September Homo Novus Festival (Latvia)

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February 24, 2025

Open Studio Cardiff, Dance, Law and Consent

An invitation - FREE EVENT Open Studio Common Room, Chapter, Cardiff 8th May 2025 2.30 - 6pm Hi everyone, I’ve come together with anthropologist James Leach and we are both involved in a research project called The Choreography of Consent. The project brings together Dance and Law practitioners with a question around the movement of consent. We invite you to an informal Open Studio. James and I are approaching this from the angle of how do we “come into contract”, and by this I don't necessarily mean the written, sign on the dotted line version or not even the spoken or physical understandings that come into play. James and I understand, as community practitioners, that consent is complex, messy, layered and continuous. I like the idea of consent being continuous, a navigation, that success, even if it goes wrong, success is how we might go about continuing or ending well.. Many of us like our law to perhaps be able to protect us or even free us. Our law colleagues Sean and Jess talked about how we like our law to be clean, bright lines and they are the first to admit it just isn’t, its blurry and that as far as law and the everyday is concerned, Jess said "law doesn’t really capture the everyday" And as I write this I'm wondering if they would consent to me writing this in a public invitation? (endless layers…) I'm holding this phrase dear “We are consenting to explore the unknown." We’ll be devising ways to meet (moving, listening, dancing, walking…) and devise ways to document and reflect on what is happening together. With James’ anthropological hat on there maybe things to notice or acknowledge, feedback or gather For us there will be no clear line at the end but we hope to begin to articulate what is happening and honouring the idea consent is complex, evolving and takes into consideration everything including space, time, who, how and why. In general, as a facilitator, I never ask anyone to do anything, I simply ask people to be themselves, which as we have learnt can often be a work in itself. I will make sure there will be fruit and snacks!

Please email jofongjofong@gmail.com to book a place. And of course, if you have access needs you would like to tell me about, just let me know.

Photo Cheniece Warner @chen_lightcapturer

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February 12, 2025

Open studio – Llandudno

Email JanFeb Get InvolvedJo Fong, Gwyn Emberton and Anna Seymour have begun a 15 month collaboration with iCoDaCo. The artists will gather to research as the Wales Collective and connecting with 12 collectives from across Europe.

The Wales project has been led by Jones the Dance . Find out more about our Open Studio events in Cardiff and Llandudno in Jan / Feb 2025.

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December 17, 2024

Dance Law Consent

The Choreography of Consent AHRC Research Network Led by Film Dance Artist Anna Macdonald, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and Professor Marie-Andrée Jacob Jo has just begun an 18 month collaboration coming together with practitioners and scholars from dance and law to develop innovative dance/law research methods that explore the movement of consent. In March 2025 Jo and anthropologist, James Leach will open the studio to people who dance. (Dates coming soon). The Network addresses the growing emphasis on the embodied dimensions of the law and the developing recognition of the refined understanding of movement that dance can bring to legal studies. The Network will bring together UK and international scholars with specialisms in dance improvisation, choreographic practice, somatic practice, socio-legal study, legal ethnography, anthropology, and legal materiality to experiment with innovative interdisciplinary research methods that investigate the following key research questions:

What the distinctive offering of practice-based dance research to legal and socio-legal research might be?
How can law and dance be brought together to understand topical societal issues in a way that avoids simplistic oppositions between language based and embodied ways of looking at things?
How might dance-based research enrich understandings of consent and in turn, how can legal forms of consent enrich dance research-specific, or dance embedded understandings of consent?

Over four events, the Network will: map existing dance/law expertise and methods; exchange and develop new collaborative dance/law methods; test these approaches focusing on the practice of consent; and identify future applications for these innovative methods. Each event will involve dance workshops, performances, academic presentations, and exchanges. Findings will be shared via a blog and podcast hosted in the Independent Dance Digital Library and People Dancing website, peer-reviewed journal articles, conference presentations and an exhibition documenting the Network activities and findings, to be hosted at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, and online by the CSM research website.

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December 1, 2024

Butterfly Soup 2025

Jo will return to Butterfly Soup to lead a session on the 10th February 2025 at Ardour Academy in Roath, Cardiff. Butterfly Soup is a weekly evening Creative Queer Meet-up. To find out more see the LINK

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August 29, 2024

Open Movement sessions – Cardiff

Jo will be leading once again for GROUNDWORK COLLECTIVE in Cardiff. JOIN US Live music 4th and 11th Oct

10am - 11.30am

(studio open from 9.00am)

"The sessions are about your body, bring you and your body, move for yourself, with others, observe, sense, listen, investigate, follow... live investigation is perhaps different from improvisation, perhaps its the same, sometimes its about purpose or need, sometimes for release or sensation, rhythm or repetition, everyday is different, yet to inhabit the body is a quiet and vital attention.

For me, to take time to be with the body, with others is more than medicine, it is joyful and necessary." Jo Fong

For people who are interested in relating to the body.

£10 for a drop in session or BECOME A MEMBER

TERMLY £40 for Thursday OR Friday classes (additional classes at £5)