Sym Stellium
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'A Mix of Blood and Tongue': Sym Stellium (5 min performance for Black, Queer & Done feature film, 2022)
Commissioned by Black, Queer & Done: supported by Coventry Pride and Belgrade Theatre
'Congregation (Creating Dangerously Remix)': Alberta Whittle (film, 2022)
Commissioned by Grand Union, funded by Birmingham 2022
'The Spirit of an Apple Tree'- Sym Stellium, 2021
Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practise (DYCP) funding
'Surrendering (arms) control'- Sym Stellium, 2021
Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practise funding
'Anywhere is a Dancefloor': The Motion Dance Collective
Commissioned by Birmingham International Dance Festival 2021
House of Bab presents: Serving FACE
Commissioned by SHOUT Festival 2020
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'distilled', 04:07, 2022, film by Sym Stellium & melissandre varin
music by Eric Foy / exode exotique
Who are we beyond representation politics? Who do we become when we are put in a position to represent others? In ‘distilled’, movement artist Sym Stellium and film & visual artist melissandre varin explore the ‘wild beyond’ outside controlled environments associated with reality television; outside the stripping away of self and dance culture/ history- and instead tap into the primality of intuitive dance and movement. It is a peeling away of veils and the grief that comes with being the ‘good’ other under gazes of expectation. Using the theory of the undercommons (coined by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten), ‘distilled’ operates within a space of insubordination.
Commissioned by Coventry University Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) with Coventry Pride- as part of BBC History's 'Strictly Inclusive' research for the 100th Anniversary of the BBC.