An online event with film and discussion exploring how dance produces meaning for audiences and dancers.
Joe Moran

(Photo credit: Sam Williams)

(Photo credit: Sam Williams)

(Photo credit: Sam Williams)

(Photo credit: Sam Williams)

(Photo credit: Sam Williams)
As part of Bodies of Knowledge, Joe Moran ran workshops with professional wrestler Thomas Dawkins (aka Cara Noir) and Dr Claire Warden, leading performing arts students and trainee wrestlers in an exploration of the notion of “the real” as it relates to wrestling and performance, with attention to the ways in which this concept plays into representations of violence and gender in both disciplines.
A documentary film of the workshop was produced by the filmmaker Sam Williams: this was shown at the Bodies of Knowledge Exhibition at Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, in November 2019. A conversation between Warden, Noir and Moran will be published in the Bodies of Knowledge book, to be published by the Live Art Development Agency in 2020, with support from Loughborough University's Enterprise fund.
Joe Moran is a British-Irish artist and choreographer based in London with a wide-ranging practice incorporating theatre and gallery performance, curatorial projects, lecture-performance, drawing and spray paint works. Joe is Artistic Director of Dance Art Foundation through which his performance and curatorial work is produced. He is currently in residence at Wysing Arts Centre and is a Dance4 Associate Artist. Recent and forthcoming commissions and performances include Sadler’s Wells (2019), The Lowry (2019), London Contemporary Dance School (2019), Wysing Arts Centre (2018), Bluecoat (2018) coinciding with the Liverpool Biennial, Kettle’s Yard (2018), Sadler’s Wells (2017), Whitechapel Gallery (2017), Delfina Foundation (2016), Block Universe/ fig-2 at the ICA (2015) and DRAF (Frieze 2014). Joe contributed to the publication Who Cares? Dance in the Gallery & Museum and Nothing About Us Without Us, a recently commissioned essay on artist advocacy was published by Siobhan Davies Dance in November.
Projects
Bodies of Knowledge
Three discrete commissions using performance and experimental documentary to explore the body as a site for the production and retention of knowledge. Read more
Project Partners
Events
Movement with Meaning: Dance, Identity, Knowledge
Wed 24 February 2021
19:00pm - 21:00pm
An online event with film and discussion exploring how dance produces meaning for audiences and dancers. Read more
Bodies of Knowledge in Residence at Attenborough Arts Centre
Fri 25 October 2019
00:00am - 00:00am
Radar presents ongoing work exploring the body as a site for the production of knowledge. Read more
Texts
Wrestling and Embodied Knowledge: Reflections on a Workshop
Dr Claire Warden reflects on Joe Moran and Cara Noir's workshop exploring wrestling's relationship to embodied knowledge. Read more