MARINA COLLARD
Born in London 1970 - based in London and Whitstable
Up Coming Exhibitions and Events
July 25 / Choreographic Commission, Final Year Performance Trinity Laban Conservatoire at Laban Theatre, London.
2024
October 24 / Exhibition, East Kent Open Houses: open studio showing video, painting and prints. Whitstable.
October - November 24 / Exhibition, Wait acrylic on canvas, 80cm x 70cm at Cafe 39, Whitstable.
October 24 / "Artists Talk Back" - Whitstable Artists' Forum. public talk on practice at Cafe 39, Whitstable.
June / FESTENFEST: international festival of expanded choreography. Exhibition, Sink 1 and Sink 2 paintings, Corner Piece printmaking, Skirting Around the Edges performance and video at APT Gallery, London.
March / Choreographic Project, Slack multimedia performance with 27 students, Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, London.
2023
December / Incubator Exhibition, Episodes in Falling ceramics, curated by Maria Chiara Valacchi and Fabrizzio Pizzuto at Castello di Rocca Sinibalda. (RM) Italy.
June / EXHIBITION - group show, Photo Curtain, Guttering (ceraimcs), Stare-Well (video loop 7') curated by Anja Foerschner, Atelier, San Lorenzo, Roma.
June / It Doesn’t Get Better Than This, installation in collaboration with Bea Campbell at Atelier, San Lorenzo, Roma. 06.06.2023
May - July / INFLUMINE - group show, On Hold painting at Abbazia di Sant’Andrea in Flumine, Ponzano Romano (RM).
April / Skirting Around the Edges - 3hr performance on Festa della Liberazione (National holiday) in the streets of Rome.
April / Looking for the Exit - 3 day durational performance at RUFA space, Roma.
January / MIDLIFE: painting, performance and paraphernalia - solo show at Progetto Esthia, Trastevere, Roma.
2022
June / Open Studio Atelier, San Lorenzo, Roma. 06.12.2022
October / Chalk walk - 45’ durational performance, Piazza San Marco, Venice. 19.10.2022
July - September / Accade! - group show, Don't Stop, Stop. Don't Stop painting at La Nuova Pesa, Roma.
May / Performance - 9hr duration. A spectacular waste of time at RUFA space, Roma.
Collaborations and Collectives.
Area 7073: work as work and the work of making art - video and performance by Marina Collard and Henrietta Hale (since 2018)
The Container Movement Collective: research and performance (Since 2016)
2000 – 2021 Events and Commissions
AND NOW WHAT? online project - Shiv Nadar University Commission, Uttar Pradesh (2021)
Area 7073: Motorways, video installation (2020) and Clean Dream Dream Clean, video installation with performance (2018-2020)
Transition Dance Company Commission: Many much, many much too many – International Tour (2018/19)
Ambedkar University Commission, Delhi: On disturbance, instability and being here - Delhi and London (2019)
Evolution Festival: The act of becoming vertical at The Old Fire Station, Oxford (2019)
Tanz@Namedy Festival: Something’s Going at Namedy Andernarch, Germany (2018)
Kronos quartet honorary award commission with Tony Thatcher - In C, Silent, silent version of Terry Riley’s In C London (2017)
Scores, performed by The Container Movement Collective at Horniman Museum, London (2017)
What this is, is... multimedia event with artists Tom Paine, Michael Mannion, Paul Newland and Tony Wadham. (Uk2016-18)
And So It Goes On: performances include: ICA, London, Le Relais, Normandy and other venues in France - (2015)
Still Going: Performances include: British Council Theatre, Delhi, India (2015) Canada (2014), London (2013 and 2014)
Festival de la Dance Marseille Commission: Selves and others at Theatre do Marseille, France (2015)
Hayward Gallery and Trip Space Commission The Body in and as Space at Trip Space (2014)
Ether with Graham Fitkin at Purcell Rooms, Southbank London (2011)
Watching Paint Dry - Summer Collection Commission at The Clore Studio, Royal Opera House, London. (2006)
Film/video collaborations with film maker Tom Paine
Something from nothing (2013), x2 (2005), DIP (2004), River 2 Cold (2003), Left (2002),
River: 2’31”, Dark Van 3: 4’24”, The Hall: 4’47” - super 8 film series (2001)
Choreographic Residencies
Studio 307 Manchester, (February 2020)
La Traversée Residencies at Le Relais, France, (September 2015)
Chisenhale Dance Space, Refine Residency, (December 2014)
Germinator Scheme. ODF R+D support for 2 seasons, (2012-2013 and 2013 -2014)
PAF France (2007)
Bath University - Associate Artist (2004/05)
Beaconsfield Art Space Vauxhall (2000)
PAL Choreographer’s Lab, Bore Place Kent (1999)
Sound Moves, choreographic residency at The Place (1999)
Commissions in Higher Education
MA Performance: Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance (2018-2019) Many much, many much too many for Transitions Dance Company
MA Performance Practice (Dance) - Ambedkar University Delhi, India (2019) On disturbance, Instability and being here is a research project undertaken with MA Performance Practice (Dance) students for the Investigating Practice Module, completing with a studio-based performance integrating video projections and live performance.
Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance -Why I’m not talking 2018, Shell suit 2015, Something from Nothing 2013, again and again 2008 and Falling and Failing 2005
Coventry University - Why Dance 2012, London Contemporary Dance School - Somewhere in Zone 4 2010 , INTOTO London Studio Centre 2007, Roehampton University 2007.
Performing / Teaching / Mentoring
Marina has an extensive career in the field of contemporary dance as a choreographer, performer and teacher in professional and educational settlings. She has performed for ceramicist Claire Twomey, theatre director Deborah Warner and a wide range of independent choreographers and dance companies. Funded by the British Council, her work has been shown in India, Russia and Canada. Marina is a visiting lecturer at Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Other institutions where she has worked include London Contemporary Dance School, Central Saint Martin’s (Design for Dance), Centre National de Dance Contemporaine(Angers, France) Henny Jurriens Foundation Amsterdam, Holland. Tanz Theatre Freiburg and Heidelberg Germany. Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore India, Gati Dance Summer Choreographic Residency, Delhi, India, Ambedkar University Delhi India. Akademgorodok – Novosibirsk, Russia.
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