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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">School of the Arts and Media, UNSW,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">&nbsp;present</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">Dr Simon Ellis, Roehampton University</span></p>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Weds March 28, 4-5.30 in</span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">&nbsp;Robert Webster G17&nbsp;</span></b></span></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Verdana; "><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">N.B. this seminar is on a different
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">In this presentation, I'm going to talk about some experiences of&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">dancing on and near screens. Sometimes I see myself dancing,
 and&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">imagine my mediated/screened self shouting, &quot;Shut up, so that they do&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">not realize
 that you are here with me&quot; (Michel de Montaigne). What if&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">the relationship between performer and her/his mediated companion were&nbsp;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">to
 be thought of as oscillating between friendship and solitude? How&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">might such a conception of our affair with screens and data be useful&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">to
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><b>Simon Ellis</b> is Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Roehampton, London.&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">In 2008, his solo
 performance&nbsp;<i>Gertrud</i>&nbsp;was a finalist in the Place Prize, and in 2009 the film&nbsp;<i>Anamnesis</i>&nbsp;(developed with David Corbet, Cormac Lally and Bagryana Popov) was awarded School Jury Prize for Best Film at the InShadow Festival in Lisbon.&nbsp;</span></div>
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