Institute of Contemporary Arts

French Mottershead: Club Class

This event runs from 7.30pm till midnight.

Club Class is performance experience created by FrenchMottershead (Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead) that invites participants to explore the unwritten rules that govern conduct during an ICA Saturday night club.

 

Participants choose from four micro-classes led by experts, which explore the possibilities of what might happen when behavioural attitudes are altered. Using bad behaviour, body language or clothing to reassess the customs of a night out, the experience offers the opportunity to devise and play out performance interventions in the ICA bar.

Places are limited, and booking is required. Select and book the micro-class you would like to attend from the Curriculum below.

FrenchMottershead create live work that specifically explores ideas of identity, social ritual and the everyday public and private realms in which they are played out. Through performative events, photographs, instructions and maps they subvert sites and engage audiences complicitly in the creative act.

www.frenchmottershead.com

Supported by Arts Council England

Micro-class 1 - Bad Behaviour with Tom Bruno-Magdich

Earn your SNASBO (Saturday night Anti-Social Behaviour Order)! Trained in 'controlled delinquency', you'll be motivated to step outside of your customary social self and perform wicked misdeeds that disrupt and subvert expectations of a Saturday night out.

Tom Bruno-Magdich

Tom Bruno-Magdich combines his in-depth, academic study of analytical psychology, hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming with over 20 years of working in the entertainment industry, appearing both on the West End stage and on television. Through his work at Impact Factory, Tom hosts training courses on personal impact, leadership, motivational thinking, creativity, communication and presentation skills.

 

Micro-class 2 - Clothing with Marsha Roddy

Are your clothes communicating your self image? Witty ... considered ... glamorous ... spontaneous? What personal imprint do you leave on your clothes? Through discussion, removal and display of your clothes and accessories, Marsha will lead you to explore the meanings of what you and other ICA clubbers wear, and invite you to fashion and try out a new identity.

Marsha Roddy

Marsha Roddy is a costume and production designer responsible for envisioning and realising dramatic works during a 20 year career that has taken her to Europe, America and Asia. A personal passion has been to draw on ideas of tribe and uniform when interpreting and creating character identities through clothing alone. Marsha has worked on numerous feature films, operas, theatre and dance productions. She also works widely on television programmes and commercials for the BBC, satellite and cable channels.

 

Micro-class 3 - Surveillance with David Fowler

This is people-watching under pressure as you experience the world of close-quarter covert surveillance. Unnatural behaviour will betray your ulterior motives so you'll be trained to 'go grey' and blend into the crowd. Building up an intelligence picture of your target and watching for brush contacts, without blowing your cover, is the challenge of this micro-class.

 

Micro-class 4 - Body Language with Athina Vahla

An up close examination of the nuances of your movement through the social microcosm. Athina will prompt awareness of what your gestures, touches and rhythm communicate. Subverting your habitual body language, you'll create alternative ways to relate to fellow ICA clubbers and the interior architecture.

Athina Vahla

Athina Vahla is an award-winning choreographer who has produced critically acclaimed work across London and Europe. A teacher at the Laban Centre and London Contemporary Dance School, Athina has her own dance company and is an Artsadmin associate.

 

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