Florence Logan - Oh Look! I'm Leaking: Dysmorphia into Metamorphosis

Graduate Residency 26 – 31 August

'This residency is dedicated to researching a new method of moving and to developing a new choreographic performance. Having struggled with eating disorders and body dysmorphia, I have felt trapped in my body and my obsession with its strict external image has distracted me from the plentifulness that poured inside, pooling in the hollow of my palate. This project is a joyous slipping-in. I intend to explore movement as a form of escapism - not to escape out of our bodies but to escape deep within. I want to embrace the transformative quality of our leaky, fleshy, fatty bodies to explore everything the body can become - its delicious metamorphosis.'

About the artist
'I’m a French/Scottish contemporary performance maker and facilitator. Inspired by the clowns and physical theatre makers I grew up watching in rural France, I work with experimental, accessible and expansive forms of storytelling which centre around the audience's experience and imagination -merging our inner and outer worlds together. I make work for both adult and young audiences. Recurring themes in my work include obsession, mothering, care, the natural world and revolt (as in 'to disgust' or 'to be disgusting' and 'to rebel against'). I often work with smaller spaces and audiences. Experimenting with strength and flexibility, I explore movement that feels delicious, fleshy and indulgent. In my practice (of Ashtanga yoga, somatic dance, bouffon, Butoh practices, commercial choreography and improvisation), I work with patterns, images and dances found in nature and invite them into the body. I write through site-specific explorations which inspire my movement and grow into fantastical and sensorial stories - inviting in the invisible and the impossible.'

Florence Logan is a recipient of a Graduate Residency 2024, one of our week-long residencies for recent performance graduates in partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Contemporary Performance Practice course. Supported by Take Me Somewhere and Tramway.

Image; Oh to be a snail (Clubroom CCA, 16/02/2024) Photography credit: Jassy Earl