About Kieran
Kieran Mitchell is a dancer from Sydney, Australia. He has training in ballet and modern dance.
For over 10 years he has been a dedicated practitioner of Contact Improvisation (CI). He has taught CI in Australia, Germany, Turkey, Thailand and Scotland. He has been invited to teach at major international contact festivals.
He teaches CI, organises jams and seeks out artistic collaboration.
Projects
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‘Body and Blood’ by the Shiboleth Theatre Company
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Festival for dancers in Sydney. Part of Karen Kerkhoven’s piece, ‘We are the universe, and the universe are within us’.
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As pat of the Limelight Collective, Kieran performe ‘A Third of Stars’.
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Kieran was a founding member of the Fall Before Company, which created a production called ‘Kaksin’, a 45min duet made of improvised and choreographed dance in Berlin
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Kieran taught CI at the Sufi festival in Turkey
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The first moving sculpture at Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi, Sydney and Cottesloe, Perth.
Sculpture by the Sea
On the Cusp Festival
Thoughts About Contact
Kieran is interested in the way CI allows the practitioner to dissolve and reify the borders between the self and the non-self. To ask the question: where do I end? Can I extend myself into another body and access the floor through that body? Where is my attention? Is it focusing on the internal, the external or the sense data itself? Kieran also has a strong focus on technique and how to communicate technical understanding to others. Most of his classes begin with an emphasis on technique; the ‘doing’ aspect of CI (‘moves’ and ‘pathways’), and move towards a forgetting of the technical and allowing the body to express itself in its ‘being’ modality.