DOG KENNEL HILL PROJECT
DOG KENNEL HILL PROJECT is the archived site of choreographer/dancers Ben Ash, Henrietta Hale and Rachel Lopez de la Nieta. ​Running between 2004 - 2023 DKHP was an umbrella company for our collective and collaborative performance research and making.
MOST RECENT PROJECTS
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~ snakeskin in the wild ~ bringing formalism and anarchy to the examination of liveness and the aesthetics of science, we integrated artistic and scientific experiments. The performance confronted head-on the slippery task of attempting to measure liveness in the wild situation of a theatrical performance event instead of controlled lab conditions.
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image credit - Paula Puncher
“Our preoccupation, when observing an object in a live situation, is that the tools used to observe something either constrain it or change it, so that we’re never observing the thing itself – what we’re observing is always that which has been shed ~ a snakeskin.”
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This performance was both an artistic event and part of a scientific research process. NEUROLIVE is a 5-year interdisciplinary research project bringing artists, scientists and audiences together to study what makes live experiences special. ~ snakeskin in the wild ~ was the third performance commission created as part of this research.
