Emma Lewis-Jones

~ cuttin about in spring . . . Getting excited about @rho.mcg ‘s performance at the art school (3rd pic)

A long freekend with mates on Dyke Mountain

Springtime ceiling dances

A new year & a revisiting of This Grief Thing with @feveredsleep at @barbicancentre Grief is like the weather Grief is ours, is ubiquitous, is murk, is living Grief is love Big hugs all 🫂

worky bits 😛 Pleasure to have been on choreo & dramaturgy for Bishop May Down ~ Conversations With Eve Jo Hauge ~ Self Insert Fan Spiral (on ice) & Dan Brown ~ Don’t Look Spaceman #nohomo & developing new work in collaboration w best butch @bishopmaydown stay tuned

Church of Unison ✨ A month ago, we gathered for a day: This project attempted to decentralise a popular performance modality (as we discovered, it is not a generative choreographic device), unison. Undermining it’s authority by queering the approach; we learned intention is more important to us than form. We used insistence and inclusion to discover the remarkable in the inevitably irregular; loving limitations & failing forwards. In order to challenge the model of production, we invited an attitude of intentionality to the fore. Thank you gorgeous gang for coming to sync-up & express cynicism with such generosity, to @the_work_room_dance for endless encouragement, & for funding: @jerwood_foundation @fabric.dance

Thinking about synchronising..? UNISON RESEARCH WORKSHOP QUEENS PARK GOVANHILL PARISH CHURCH 4-5.30PM TUESDAY 26 AUGUST EVENTBRITE LINK IN BIO This workshop will be a relaxed 1.5 hour exploration of performing and witnessing synchronised movement. 💞There are two ways in which you can engage with the workshop: PARTICIPATE AS PERFORMER: learn a simple phrase & perform as a group for a small audience, before an open discussion / PARTICIPATE AS AUDIENCE: watch & analyse the group performance, before the open discussion Video credits:
From youtube clips: Mr C the slide man’s Cha-Cha Slide, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Rosas Danst Rosa, Jeremy Nedd From rock to rock… aka how magnolia was taken for granite, Claire Denis Beau Travail, ballet by Charles Nuitter and Léo Delibes Coppelia, World’s greatest Forro Flashmob
Bbc iplayer clips: Adam Curtis Shifty: archive footage in series 1, episode 2. 
My own: Athen’s changing of the guard ceremony, rehearsals w Dan Brown, rehearsals w Nemo Flouret, rehearsals w Edinburgh College students . @jerwood_foundation @fabric.dance

Flags & wind

Been absolutely rifling & trifling on these research trips Brilliant encounters w @thisisliveart & @ificantdance_ & adventures w @mmwhawell The video is of ‘WE’ by Amanda Piña & Daniel Zimmermann which I found in the LADA archive & loved the first few minutes; the audience watch themselves

6 x free-to-the artist blocks of intensive Dance Dramaturgy support for Emergent Practices in Scotland (up to to four days per artist, with a preparation meeting & an evaluation meeting either side). Deadline: Monday 30 June.
LINK IN BIO XOXO 🫧 Dance Dramaturgy is a practice of critical external support during devising stages of choreographic work that help an artist understand audience experience whilst advocating for the creative idea - sometimes called an ‘outside eye’. 🪩 @the_work_room_dance @glasgowbuzzcut @transmissionglasgow @artistsimaginate @creativescots 📷 @danbrownartist

Mediterranea 20 – Young Artists Biennale opens this weekend (to which I have personally carried some urban flotsam from Glasgow’s streets, to display in windsock form) & my artwork sits on the Slovenia-Italy border. 📍Nova Gorica, Vipava & Gorizia from 30 May to 2 June. #Mediterranea20 #GO2025 #BJCEM #YoungArtistsBiennale @bjcem_aisbl @go_2025 & @skuc_drustvo Gratitude to @giu.liagiulia for the documentation & support & to Kate Power for making space, Odie for the programme image, Molly MW for scavenging, Alex at the McWilliam Windsock Workshop for her patience & wind knowledge. Thanks to my friends for the ongoing conversations about the intersections of emergency & grief TYTYTY 💨 Made from found hi-visibility clothing (Glasgow was the first place in the UK to use hi-vis workwear: railway maintenance workers, 1964) & other urban flotsam, the windsock is installed outdoors on the biennale site. The aesthetic quality of these fabrics embodied by the wind are symbolic of change & talk to a collective sense of urgency.   Flags are objects of nationalism & colonisation; the tubular flag is a reaction against that notion; an attempt to undermine authority & territorialism by taking what is found on the street & raising it high, changing our relationship with waste, & with the flag as a symbol of power. Instead audiences notice the changing weather, the wind briefly captured in conical representation of passing time & what is now.

Proud, grateful, buzzing about Derniers Feux after the developmental phase closes & the tour begins. It’s a show full of synergy & storms & such ecstatic manic joyful attempt & failure. By @nemoflouret It goes to Geneva, Avignon (premier @festivaldavignon ), Berlin, Marseille… & more. Try to see <3