June 3rd from 1:30 to 3:00 (BST) online (Microsoft Teams)
Pete Shenton, Tom Roden, and Sally Doughty discuss the nature of comedic timing in dance performance. They explore what makes an audience laugh or not, how approaches to time shape that response and why dance audiences often find quite unlikely things funny. Pete and Tom draw on their experiences collaborating as part of the acclaimed comedy stand-up duo New Art Club. Pete will also refer to his current PhD, which investigates this topic through a phenomenological lens. Sally Doughty brings her long-standing embodied practice as a dance artist and scholar, including recent collaborations with Pete that use comedy as part of their performance methodology.