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Dance & Political Economy
PhD @kingston.school.of.art (thanks to @technedtp)
Performance @bred.company

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BENTWOOD was an absolute blast. Endless thanks to the artists, volunteers, @rafikiscafe and St Lawrence Chapel, our excellent friends at @field.system and our gorgeous audience who showed up with bells on to celebrate all the beautiful brilliant rural queer stuff with us. See you next year beauties!
@jack_witek your photos are a pure joy and capture the day brilliantly. thank you!

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𝓟𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓜𝓸𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 : 5th - 6th of June at the Old Print Works, Birmingham. A two day programme and exhibition of installations, sound, film, live art performance, sculpture and curated conversations. Bringing together artists and researchers to explore how artistic practice functions as a form of thinking, knowing and inquiry.

5th: Opening evening with performances 4pm - 9pm
6th: Performances and discussions 10am - 6pm

Link to programme: https://canva.link/i5ree8zhcocuzhd
Free to attend

We are delighted to be joined Artist:

Greta Gauhe @gretagauhe
Henrietta Hale @heni_hale
Teddy Hunter @_teddyhunter @forestialvoices
Florence Peake @florence_peake
Deborah Di Meglio @deb_atart
Eve Stainton @evestainton
Tara Fatehi @tarafteh
Frances Yeung @itsyikki ,
Julia Pond @juliapond_
Melissa Pasut @mpasut9
Alexah Tomey-Alleyne
Amelia Crouch - @uhmeeleeuh_krowtch
Timothi Lim - @timothiellim
Loren Mck - @lorenmck_
Manuela Albrecht - @manualbrecht
W.K Lyhne
Jake Parry
Michaela Gerussi - @mgerussi
Marguerite Galizia - margueritecg
Joel Blackledge - @dam.fino
Klaudia Wittmann - @klaudia_f_w @kwamcollective
With collaborators Lara Ritosa-Roberts: @fiskulturnik @masks_sculpture_performance
Zining Liu @ning_zin
With collaborators Hongwei Peng(programmer): @pengrubin233, Ash Xu (visual designer): @ash_xuuu

Supported by Midlands4Cities, AHRC, @weareukri

#exhibition #liveperformance #art #sound #film

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The perfect Spring Equinox…..scampering down into the sacred Lydford gorge to swim and immerse in moss and wild garlic. Emerging out of the valley into the Norman and Saxon world of castles and churches in the village. Beloved friends gathered for the first alfresco feasting of the year. For laughter and ceremonial fireside magic - intentional ‘letting go’ and ‘welcoming in’ messages burned on the fire and oracle cards drawn all under the power of the new moon. To be at the balance moment of the season with people who balance joy and laughter with depth and spirituality feels profound and I’m feeling very grateful for it. #wheeloftheyear #springequinox #ostara #newmoon #spring

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a boat called serendipity ☄️

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Saturday was the second consecutive day of 300 minutes of dancing thanks to some extremely productive KPop Demon Hunters child labour and closed off with some serious moves from @aapiccini

Tomorrow - Wednesday 11th - is the last day of the joyous productivity of The Pod. We need to hit 12 hours. You need to do your bit. Open from 9am. KPIs people. Don't be shy. This is life.

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Did you know that 37 Looe Street was home to one of the UK’s first arts centres? They were set up in 1947 as part of a programme of progressive nation building through access to culture. Collective gramophone listening sessions!

Plymouth Arts Centre may be gone and those 20th-century experiments in cultural democracy didn’t quite work out but we’re still here and we’re still collectively listening to music, moving and doing culture work.

Come join us this week - @juliapond_ Metabolizer continues. Wednesday night is going to be extraordinary: @heni_hale is doing a performance lecture navigating archive footage of a 1970s work relations seminar with a shipping company.

Add your labour to the relational mix!

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Did you know that here at 37 Looe Street we’re at the heart of a bread-forward power nexus?

Come fuel your mothers and prove your dough at tonight’s Optimizer! Companion performance from @bred.company - part of @juliapond_ Metabolizer show.

Not only that, but we’re across the street from sacred sandwich shamans @opecafe and round the corner from masterbakers @heylbakery and vegan valkyries of wraps, bao buns and focaccia @almanac.cafe.plymouth. There are even yeasty whispers in the air of more buns in new ovens.

It’s all about fungal growth here in the Barbican! Eat bread, see art!

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"All dances are too long..." So said American Modernist dancer and choreographer, Doris Humphrey, 100 years ago (when a typical full-length dance performance was around 30 minutes)...

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Such a treat to spend time at 37 Looe Street, bringing my work UP, ACROSS AND ALONG into conversation with Julia Pond's thought-provoking, fun-inducing installation, Metabolizer, and anti-scarcity collaboration series, Optimizer! - examining dance, economics, productivity and exhaustion

Between us, me, special guest performer @angusbalbernie and the generous, attentive folks that gathered with us last night generated over 3 hours of movement, and some really rich conversation around dance, time and value. Oh and we had a super micro disco. Because of course

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And! I'm so grateful to Julia for catching this few-seconds glimpse of my solo that began the evening. Heading home from Plymouth feeling encouraged and inspired. Metabolizer continues for 3 more weeks, with some fantastic guest artists... Go get involved!

@juliapond_
@37looestreet

Music heard here by @kathbuckler

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What if your body was the data?
What if dancing counted as work — and work became music?

Metabolizer is now live at 37 Looe Street, and everyone is invited to take part. Created by artist and researcher @juliapond_ this free, interactive installation asks you to step into a private pod and dance however you like — no experience needed, no audience watching.

Your movement is never seen, but it is counted. It becomes sound, data and a growing visual dashboard tracking collective dance-time across the city. It’s playful, thoughtful and surprisingly freeing; a chance to slow down, move your body, and quietly question how we measure value, productivity and growth.

You can drop in, dance for two minutes or twenty, attend an Optimizer! Wednesday evening event, or just spend time with the work. It’s open, welcoming and totally free.

📍 37 Looe Street
🗓 On now until 11 March (Weds to Saturday)
💃 No dance experience required — just curiosity

Come and metabolise Plymouth. #LetsDance #LetsDancePlymouth

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What if your body was the data?⁠
What if dancing counted as work — and work became music?⁠
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Metabolizer is now live at 37 Looe Street, and everyone is invited to take part. Bracken Jelier meets the creator, artist and researcher @juliapond_ and discovers this free, interactive installation asks you to step into a private pod and dance however you like — no experience needed, no audience watching.⁠
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Your movement is never seen, but it is counted. It becomes sound, data and a growing visual dashboard tracking collective dance-time across the city. It’s playful, thoughtful and surprisingly freeing — a chance to slow down, move your body, and quietly question how we measure value, productivity and growth.⁠
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You can drop in, dance for two minutes or twenty, attend an Optimizer! Wednesday evening event, or just spend time with the work. It’s open, welcoming and totally free.⁠
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📍 37 Looe Street @37looestreet⁠
🗓 On now until 11 March⁠
💃 No dance experience required — just curiosity⁠
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Come and metabolise Plymouth. Find out more by heading to our In Conversation piece - follow the link in our bio. ⁠
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#LetsDancePlymouth #DancinginPlymouth #WhatsOnPlymouth

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METABOLIZER

Julia Pond
6 Feb-11 March 2026

@juliapond_

@37looestreet

Opening night saw 24hrs of growth, rocketing from 17% to finishing the night at almost 200%!

Come and dance in the pod. Create space and time in your day to produce unproductively. Contribute data that won’t go to your employer. Watch how your body intersects with the data points of others.

Keep your eye on Wednesdays’ invited guests for dance, talk, gathering

First up:

11 Feb, 6-9pm
Manuela Albrecht @manualbrecht
Material Entanglements

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What a glorious way to bring in 2026. To host is a great privilege and only made possible by friends who bring their gifts and help create the magic for the group. Endlessly grateful for the humans in my life who help put up yurts in freezing temperatures, come with cars full of disco balls, who DJ and bring sound systems, who shake cocktails and put together canapés, who hold the space as the bell chimes midnight, who herd kids to bed when I just want to dance and everyone for bountiful baskets of gifts and sexy outfits and vibes. Community is everything…..totally blissed out. Happy New Year one and all. #nye #yurts #2026 #newyear #

@juliapond_ @simjaeger_ @samleesong @martinpeterhampton @leoniehamptonrealities @lisampedley @therealcjpedley @beedeeveee @tessacheson @lucyismassive @jonaahearne @botanicalinks @the_modernerotic @lisaangelmeaow @warriner.leather @lilyfraserlawsononeil @bella.bertolotti @gaynerjustin @thelady_ingreen @ionerucquoi

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