Today I had a fencing lesson with Szilvi Naray-Davey, a colleague in the English department at Salford who has been fencing competitively most of her life, as well as being an actor, director, playwright and translator! My maternal grandfather used to fence and I took a single fencing lesson about ten years ago, but recently […]
Vital Signs photo session with artist Roger Bygott
Today we met with artist Roger Bygott, whose studio is near campus at the Hot Bed Press premises in Salford. Scott met Roger dancing the Five Rhythms and previously worked with him on a series of photographs to accompany his book Poems for the Dance. Today’s session was all about introducing Roger to Vital Signs […]
Vital Signs in Paris 9-10 July 2018
The Vital Signs project took a new and exciting turn when we were invited to Paris for two days by Boris Wiseman, director of the Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP), whom we met in Manchester during our involvement in Aesthetic Enquiry Across Disciplines (a research network at […]
