Defiant Embodiments: Kira OReilly
Channel: Dynamic Tensions
Date: 2017-05-09

Defiant Embodiments in Theatre, Sport, and Performance: An Interdisciplinary Symposium. Brunel University London, 29 April 2017. www.dynamictensions.com

KEYNOTE PERFORMANCE LECTURE

Kira O’Reilly (Theatre Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki)

muscle/pause/poesis

A series of contemplations of muscular embodiments across scale and duration, invoking gyms and laboratories and crashing on mats in the desert. A performance lecture of a body in muscular pause, enacting endocrine worldings of aging, specifically the thresholding of female middle aging.