Miranda Laurence

dance, dramaturgy, architecture, producing, thinking, writing, researching, facilitating, talking.

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

@HM_Passport can you advise where to find information on processing times when applying from abroad?

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

It started so well... but I got laid low halfway through the week with a nasty infection. Very disappointed to miss the Reykjavik sunshine, exploring Iceland and indeed presenting my paper. So grateful to @Katalin_TW for reading my paper for me and giving it an outing. #ITFR2022

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

So proud to work with brilliant colleagues of the @dramaturgs_net who've organised this great event next month.

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

Can't believe I've made it to Reykjavik for my first in-person international conference of PhD life. Enjoyed roaming the world in presentations today - Aotearoa, Italy, Sardinia, Lisbon, London, Estonia... lots of maps! Ended the day with some midsummer sunshine. #IFTR2022

[BodyPoliticUK @BodyPoliticUK]

Only 24 hours until curtain up on THEM @TheNorthWall 🔥

We are so thrilled to bring THEM to Oxford, with a curtain raiser by our masterclass dancers and a post show discussion, with dramaturg @MiraLaur !

Book now, before we sell out:
https://t.co/fVcf5gYV2j

📷: Alice Underwood

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

Do you like discussion with your dance? Next Friday I'll be leading a post-show audience/artist dialogue session after @BodyPoliticUK new show #THEM @TheNorthWall for @DancinOxford festival - free to ticket holders! More than your normal Q&A...
Book: https://t.co/9kcUqojcvO

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

Happy bisexual awareness day to meee! 🌈

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

...and finally I'll be back to old stomping ground in March with @DancinOxford, hosting two audience dialogue sessions @TheNorthWall and @OxfordPlayhouse, with @BodyPoliticUK and @RChappellDance respectively. You can come too! https://t.co/Wv4sM6oNwP

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

So although 2022 finally brought my turn for Covid fun'n'games, I've also managed to fit in some dramaturgy fun'n'games to balance things out a bit! I love working across genres, so far it's been hip hop dance theatre and Bharatanatyam-Kathak fusion...

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

...It's a blast working with team @BodyPoliticUK on new show THEM, touring in March. And I'm so excited to have started working with @NinaRajarani of Srishti Dance on SEVENS, getting its second tour in the Spring...

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

@HMRCcustomers Thank you, this helpline doesn't appear to provide any information about this particular grant.

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

@HMRCcustomers Do I have to pay tax on the Arts Council England Individual Emergency Response Fund Grants which were allocated in Spring 2020? A parliamentary question in June 2020 indicated they are not taxable (https://t.co/0nitUAXzxs)

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

@HMRCcustomers Yes, it was a grant for financial support for individual artists, creative practitioners and freelancers to help with lost income due to Covid-19 Pandemic. https://t.co/4BuwsjM9RX

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

This! Would love you to join us, it’s a new kind of workshop format focusing on the practice of being a dance spectator, centred on Seeta’s Bharatanatyam The Rite Of Spring. TUES 30 Nov 1-4pm ONLINE

[The Mill Arts Centre @TheMillBanbury]

Still time to book for TALK ABOUT DANCE, a fun discursive workshop with @seetadances and @MiraLaur giving an insight into the creative process of making dance. No specialist dance knowledge is needed!

https://t.co/DUNyXuND7R

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

Today: thinking about rainbow as narrative arc. Linking and framing. Drawing attention. Fleeting and repeated. A whole, that is only a part of a whole. Made up of fragments that coalesce in one magical moment of togetherness before dispersing, and the attention wanders off.

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

Today has been spent in the warm glowing company of my @dramaturgs_net colleagues and wider dramaturg community in the UK and well beyond. It's been great. Thank you for your participation, your questions, insights, exhortations, curiosity, values, politics, gentleness.

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

Full credit due to @georgialgeary and the Mill team for taking a risk on small scale regional dance touring that is clearly paying off. Brilliant work @seetadances on the best Q&A I’ve ever facilitated. Excited the journey will continue with my upcoming workshop Talk about Dance!

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

Had a wonderful evening @TheMillBanbury with @seetadances #TheRiteofSpring. Bowled over by the virtually full house of engaged, enthusiastic audience members, who clearly want more. Equally delighted by the beautiful work of dance I got to see.

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

Preparing my bag of tricks for tonight’s Dance Audience Club ⁦@TheMillBanbury⁩ ahead of ⁦@seetadances⁩ performance of #TheRiteofSpring ... looking forward to scratching our collective heads about how we watch dance. Can you guess what part these objects play?!

[Miranda Laurence @MiraLaur]

Turns out what was so far missing from my life was seeing a danced version of the Avengers movies, set to Do Re Mi from the Sound of Music. Thanks for providing, @SpiltmilkDance & @southstreetarts! For escapist fun I highly recommend #DesertIslandFlicks on tour w/ @housetheatre