Protected: Performance Dork: Neurotransgressive Performance Lecture

This will be a participatory performance lecture adapted from Daniel’s show Performance Dork, recontextualised for this conference. It will be a dyspraxic-led exploration of magic, roleplay and a monotropic investment in experimental performance art that is part immersive fantasy show, part clothing optional improvised neurodivergent performance art chaos ritual, and part executively dysfunctional discussion space.

Flags: The piece has optional audience participation, possible nudity, loud noises, and mess.

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Daniel Oliver: Dr Daniel Oliver (he/him) is a lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London in the degree program Performance and Contemporary Art. His research, which is both practice-led and theoretical, focuses on the roles and experiences of neurodiversity in contemporary, experimental performance. Alongside his academic role, Daniel creates solo and collaborative performances that take a neurodivergent-led and wilfully calamitous approach to world-building, audience participation, immersion, comedy, and pretence. His performances and workshops have been presented throughout the United Kingdom and overseas for 20 years. His publications on awkwardness and neurodiversity include Awkwoods: Daniel Oliver’s Dyspraxic Adventures in Participatory Performance, published by the Live Art Development Agency.

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Claudia Palazzo: Claudia Palazzo (she/her) is a London born artist working at the intersections and contradictions of dance, performance art, installation and alternative cabaret. It is often poetic, unmanageable, meditative and violent in its structure. Influenced by roots in nightclub culture, inner-city structures and psychophysical training. 

Her work often exists in a place of tension using the interplay between inherent strength and the impact of damage. Using embodiment and the live experience as a way of allowing transference and mutual recognition with each other and with objects as a way of processing and harnessing the power of a temporary community. Claudia is often preoccupied with how we embody things we don’t talk about and how dancing can exist as mystery, affirmation and transformation. Her work is concerned with alternatives to individualism whilst also trying to decensor her autobiography. 

Claudia is currently looking for things to represent her dancing body in her absence and wonders how we can challenge ableist ideals of mobility without succumbing to soft control that is disguised as care. 

Claudia has also had a 15+ year career as a performer in the work of many artists and choreographers.

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Meeting ID: 978 3254 6180

Passcode: 106299