Workshop with J Neve Harrington
“Scaffold and decoration– Workshop by J Neve Harrington”
- Date: 29. August 2025
- Location: St. Elisabeth-Kirche, Invalidenstraße 3, 10115 Berlin
- 11:00 Soft Arrival
- 11:30–13:00 Workshop incl. breaks
The workshop will introduce aspects of the research practice underlying Neve Harrington’s works and particularly the “Screensaver Series” score: a graphic, poetic and physical practice.
We'll explore how imaginative materials and ways of working with attention shape our dancing. This includes pattern, texture, togetherness, and differentiation. We’ll work with images, touch, and sharing weight (for those who wish).
We’ll welcome relationships between: the habitual, training, desire, mood, and all the other multiple agencies in the room. There’ll be space for moving, drawing, watching, resting and talking.
The workshop is aimed at neurodivergent people who are interested in dance and movement.
Access
The workshop takes place in the venue of the performances at St. Elisabeth church, a relaxed space with a variety of seating options including chairs, beanbags, and cushions. Next door in the Villa Elisabeth is a quieter area with eye masks, headphones, and stimming toys.
The space is movement-friendly – all forms of movement are welcome.
There will be regular breaks.
The church is accessible for wheelchairs via the sidedoor.
The workshop will be held in spoken English.
For detailed access information, please contact access@tanzimaugust.de
To register for the workshop: Please register via email to access@tanzimaugust.de until 11.8. and inform us about your access needs.
In cooperation with Making a Difference.
J Neve Harrington (London, UK) is an artist whose work includes writing, dance & choreography, video, installation, costume and space design. She works mainly in gallery and non-stage spaces where her work prioritises explorations around access, play, agency, confrontation by times/scales beyond the human, neuroqueer experiences of information processing and attention.
“Screensaver Series” (premiere 2018, Dance Umbrella London) is a kaleidoscopic dance and sound work which explores a neurodivergent attentional space and has been presented at Uferstudios/ PURPLE Berlin, Inkonst Malmö, Wellcome Collection UK, Dance Umbrella UK, Dance North Scotland, Tanz in Winterthur Switzerland. Digital versions of the work including the video essay believe/been (2020) have been screened in various USA and UK contexts.
She works to support other artists with access through grant-writing, and mentors around neurodiversity in dance. She was the first Artist Associate with The Place in 2024, is a mental health first aider and is alumni of Clore Leadership’s Inclusive Cultures course 2024.
More about her work can be found at: www.jnharrington.com
To download the workshop description as a PDF, click here.
