Description
Filmed at Studio Wayne McGregor in East London, this panel of internationally acclaimed artists, artistic directors, architects and curators explore how art shapes – and is shaped by – the cities we inhabit.
Sites of Meaning considers how culture, memory and migration influence our experience of place in a world defined by a multiplicity of voices and perspectives.
Facilitator: Lisa Anderson - Cultural Strategist & Curator
Panelists:
Andrea Peña - Director & Choreographer of BOGOTÁ (Oct 2025, Sadler's Wells East)
Andreas Lang - Course Leader M-Arch Architecture at Central Saint Martins
Mariam Zulfiqar - Director of Artangel
Chapters:
01:00 - Introduction to the panel discussion and panelists
04:46 - Choreography as social architecture
07:51 - Non-hierarchical approaches to creative practice
12:34 - Rituals for successful creative collaboration
18:41 - What does hybridity mean and how does it manifest in the creative process/output?
22:22 - How do we create spaces for intersectional identities?
29:33 - How the body of labour is presented on stage in Andrea Peña's BOGOTÁ
34:15 - Bringing in bodies that are usually excluded from public spaces
40:22 - How the material world influences Andrea Peña's choreography
44:23 - Audience Question - Smoothness, complexity and ambiguity
51:02 - Audience Question - Which parts of your indigenous practice plays a part in your work and how?
Sites of Meaning: Culture and the Global City was filmed on location at Studio Wayne McGregor, on 3 October as part of Dance Umbrella Festival 2025.
Learn more: https://danceumbrella.co.uk/event/sites-of-meaning-culture-and-the-global-city/
Commissioned and created by Dance Umbrella, in partnership with Studio Wayne McGregor
Filmed and edited by Henry Curtis
BSL interpreted by Vinessa Brant & Anna Kitson
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