During Autumn 2025, Dance students from Kingston School of Art undertook a Dance Artists-in-Residence opportunity with Stanley Picker Fellow Davinia-Ann Robinson, contributing screen-dance works in dialogue with her exhibition Through an Embodied Practice of Stillness. Their filmed responses, developed through sustained engagement with Robinson’s somatic, ecological, and material research processes, will be shared online as part of the artist’s extended digital programme. This collaboration has offered students an exceptional environment in which to explore the intersections of movement, stillness, and clay-based practice, and the Department extends their sincere thanks to Davinia-Ann Robinson and the Stanley Picker Gallery team for facilitating such a valuable and generative experience.
Stanley Picker Gallery were extremely impressed by the body of work created are pleased to share the outcomes of one group’s collaboration below.
HOPE
Choreographer/Creator: Edith Stagg/ Bahar Fehresti/ Precious Adeniran /Zoe Bell
Performer(s): Edith Stagg/ Bahar Fehresti/ Precious Adeniran /Zoe Bell
Music/Sound Credits: x
Embodiment is a significant symptomatic component of site-specific dance performance. The process of being in the moment during our performance gave tangible form to our ideas of releasing, healing, and identity. Each performer developed a subjective response that evolved at every site; yet collectively, we questioned where we might next find hope. Do we look for hope within ourselves — in a past, present, or future version of who we are? Or do we find hope through our relationship with the environment around us? The environment that Davinia-Ann Robinson created was designed to awaken the viewer’s senses. Therefore, we chose sensory, opposing environments for our next site-specific explorations. We followed only our instincts while engaging with touch, sight, smell, and sound, during which the body became open and receptive to its surroundings.
Edith Stagg writes
Over the reading week, I travelled to a location near my family home in Bath to extend the site-specific exploration in a calming, meditative environment to contrast with our second filming location near the playground. This was without my group, as it was a long way for them to travel, but I I have edited the footage and added it to the Screen Work we presented in the final week of this project. Here is a link to the final outcomes, which I posted on my YouTube channel.
