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ABBOTT

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HELLO I'M IAN

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ABOUT

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ABOUT ME

Currently residing on the edge of the South Wales in the shadow of a transporter bridge, embarking on adventures with artists & writers.

WLTM people who want to: play, challenge institutional power, ask questions & effect change.

Falling in love with the geography of mountains.

WHAT I DO

I rummage in other fields of thought & hunt for the alternative to translate, repackage & enhance existing models.

#InsideChoreocracy is an Interactive Fiction work that charted the creative process of Choreocracy.

I wrote & produced Preppers: The Game - a work for Amazon Alexa that looks at prepping & survivalism.

WHAT I'VE DONE

Founder of the Hip Hop Dance Almanac; a 5 year archive project preserving UK Hip Hop dance voices.

Remixing Criticism is an interactive critique of Hip Hop, dance, institutional power and the erasure of women.

Film maker, DOP & location scout for 30+ short dance films for footSTEPS.

PORTFOLIO

An insight into some of the encounters so far

Producing

Working with Neon Dance, 2Faced Dance Company, Caroline Sabin and Casson & Friends.
Image by Ian Abbott of PuzzleCreature by Neon Dance

Writing

Writer-in-Residence: RISE Dance Festival (UK), Regards Hybride (CA) & Attakkalari India Biennial (IND)

Embedded Criticism & Commissions from: H2Dance, Uchenna Dance, Mamoru Iriguchi, Marc Brew Company, Dickson Mbi, Casson and Friends, Iris de Brito, Cupola Bobber and Goat Island.

Image of Dickson Mbi by Ian Abbott

Programming/Curating

Talks Curator for Seeta Patel's Not Today's Yesterday (2017-19),
Director of DanceLive (2015), Pavilion Dance South West (Autumn 2012 - Spring 2015).

Image by Sean Goldthorpe of Murmur/Inked by Aakash Odedra Company

Performing

Originally trained in Live Art in Scarborough. I've directed & performed my own work at the National Review of Live Art, Diskurs Festival, NOW Festival.

Recently performed in The Box of Delights by 2Faced Dance Company

Consultancy & Facilitation

For Scottish Dance Theatre, Dance Hub Birmingham, Indepen-dance.

"All this intelligence is gold." - Fleur Darkin, Scottish Dance Theatre, 2014
Image by Brian Hartley of Process Day by Scottish Dance Theatre.

Governance/Coach

Previous board of membership of Creative Dundee, ADAD and The Artifact Dance Company. I mentor a number of people inside & outside the cultural industries.
Image by Peter Schiazza of The Art of Defining Me (film) by Seeta Patel, Kamala Devam & Maria Akesson

Writing

In the eloquent writing stable of Nicholas Minns, I share some of my thoughts about the dance performances I encounter across the UK and further afield.
Image by Ludovic des Cognets of Shh...Bang! by Peut-Être Theatre

Vintage Comic Notebooks

Limited edition collection of handmade Japanese stab bound vintage comic notebooks. On sale in Montrose Museum.

Writing

Order Commotion Order is 1/21 poems written for the Judd Morrissey & Goat Island constraint based collaborative writing project, The Last Performance [dot org].

Film Programming

I initiated & curated Bournemouth's first ever regular world cinema & art house film programme (May 2013 - April 2015) at PDSW.
Image from Tokyo Story dir. Yasujirō Ozu

Producing

Annual events at Pavilion Dance South West exclusively for venue programmers to develop knowledge in South Asian, Integrated and Hip Hop dance styles (2013-2015).
Image by Andy Day of STEAM by The Urban Playground Team.

Broadcasting

A weekly radio show which I write, produce and present broadcast on Forest FM. Each hour long show has full of commentary & information about the selected films alongside the most iconic & rare scores from world cinema.

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Performing

Originally trained in Live Art in Scarborough. I've directed & performed my own work at the National Review of Live Art, Diskurs Festival, NOW Festival. Recently performed in The Box of Delights by 2Faced Dance Company