Uncovering embodied knowledge acquired through performing A String Section

In January 2024, Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk performed A String Section with Reckless Sleepers in the Future Flares Festival at Manchester Metropolitan University. The performance was accompanied by a practical workshop, which she delivered on behalf of the company; the workshop explored themes within Leen Dewilde’s choreographic score for A String Section, using these themes as a starting point for devising. In March 2024, alongside Lisa Kendall (Independent Dance Artist), Rachel delivered the performance-presentation Agency and Awakening at the University of Malta School of Performing Arts conference: Subject/Object/Practice/Place: Connecting Creatively Through the Performing Arts. Linking with practice undertaken during FFF, this scored performance-presentation explores their embodiment of Dewilde’s choreographic score, examining opportunities for activating agency within the constraints of the score and awakening layers of embodied knowledge acquired through 12 years of performing the work.