SUN 29 MARCH, 7pm
APT Gallery
6 Creekside, Harold Wharf
Deptford, SE8 4SA
FREE
Booking required
Visual artist and scenographer Nadia Lauro joins writer and curator Noémie Solomon to discuss NADIA LAURO, SCENOGRAPHIES, a monograph recently published by Les Presses du réel. Since the early 2000s, Lauro has designed a series of striking visual environments, fictional landscapes, disorienting architectures, and living sets that have played a pivotal role in shaping the field of contemporary dance and performance in Europe and beyond. This conversation fleshes out Lauro’s singular approach and method, and more broadly the role of experimental scenography at the intersection of choreography and dramaturgy in making manifest a series of questions, intensifying affects, and situating dancing bodies alongside key material and epistemological issues.
Access
APT Gallery is a step-free venue with wheelchair access and toilets.
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ARTISTS
Nadia Lauro conceives scenographies for theatres, landscape architectures, and museums. She has collaborated with numerous choreographers and theatre directors including Vera Mantero, Benoît Lachambre, Alain Buffard, Barbara Kraus, Emmanuelle Huynh, Antonija Livingstone, Fanny de Chaillé, Laeticia Dosh, Latifa Laabissi, Marcelo Evelin, Jonathan Capdevielle, Zeena Parkins, Antonia Baehr, Jule Flierl, Yasmine Hugonnet, Nosfell, Emilie Rousset, Louise Hémon, Kate McIntosh, Marion Siéfert, Meg Stuart, Flora Detraz, Kayije Kagame, Enkidu Khaled and Jennifer Lacey with whom she co-authored numerous projects. Their collaboration inspired the publication Jennifer Lacey & Nadia Lauro, dispositifs chorégraphiques by Alexandra Baudelot (Les presses du réel, 2007). Lauro has also created a series of performances-installations: Tu montes?, As Atletas, and I hear voices presented across Europe, the United States, Japan, and Korea. She designed the performance-concerts Stitchomythia in collaboration with electro-acoustic composer Zeena Parkins and Transhumance in collaboration with Cocorosie et Gaspard Yurkévitch. She has conceived curatorial and visual environnements such as La Clairière (Fanny de Chaillé/Nadia Lauro), Centre Pompidou, 2013 and Garden of time, Festival de la Cité Lausanne, 2020. She received a New York Dance and Performance Award (The Bessie) for her visual installation in $Shot (Lacey/Lauro/Parkins/Cornell) and is an awardee of the Villa Kujuyama with Jennifer Lacey in 2003. Between 2014 and 2022, she worked as associate artist with the Extension Sauvage festival (Latifa Laâbissi / Figure Project). www.nadialauro.com
Noémie Solomon works as a writer, teacher, dramaturge, and curator alongside experimental artistic practices. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University and has taught dance and performance histories and critical art theories at New York University, Wesleyan University, Brown University, McGill University, and currently at Central Saint Martins, London. Since 2018, she is Director of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance. She works as an independent curator and advisor around various dance and performance initiatives across cultural and museal contexts. Recent publications include a bilingual monograph on the work of visual artist and scenographer Nadia Lauro, as well as the anthology RECIPROCITIES: Sustaining Dance Across an Ocean with Villa Albertine (2025).