Performance for Margarita (2008) Arnolfini, Bristol
Profile
Michael (aka Dogruff) is a Live Art Mongrel who trained in Dance, Drama and Fine Arts before discovering a passion for Live Art and Performance. He has worked with the Pacitti Company (2006) and with Guillermo Gomez Pena and La Pocha Nostra (2007) as well as working with local artists and showing his own work both in the UK and internationally.
Michael is currently undertaking a practice based research MPhil at The University of Bristol and is writing his dissertation on issues arising from One-to-One Performance practice. Inherent within the research there are unavoidable questions of trust, intimacy, risk, authenticity, confession, etiquette, gender, sexuality and identity which inform and in some ways limit the live encounters he creates.
Michael writes a regular blog and has contributed articles and interviews to arts websites as well as organising artist led events both through and independently of the Arnolfini.
Please see Image/Performance page for documentation of performances/encounters
Selected Exhibitions/Performances
- Define Me [STRIP], 06/11/2009, Act Art 7 (London)
- La Petite Mort, 11/09/2009, Battersea Arts Centre (London)
- The Moment Before We Kiss, FIERCE Festival 24/05/2008 - 25 /05/2008, Secret Location (Birmingham) – Part of the festival by public vote
- La Pocha Nostra Residency and performance, 03/11/2007, Arnolfini (Bristol)
- 99 Red Balloons, 07/01/2006, South Hill Park Arts Centre (London)
- Guest Performer Pacitti Company, 02/04/2006, Inbetween Time Festival (Bristol)
Selected Press/Publications
- Laban Dance Theatre Journal Review ‘Define Me’ at Arnolfini. 22:4 Summer 2008
- FIERCE Festival Preview, 24/05/2008, Lyn Gardner
- Finding The Moment, 09/04/2008, Article for Artshub
- Curate your own festival, 01/04/2008, Lyn Gardner Guardian Arts Blog
- Local Body of Work, 11/01/2008, Interview/Preview Metro Newspaper
- Interview with Dogruff , 03/01/2007, Theatre Bristol Interview
Contact
Michael David Jones
mrmdjones@gmail.com
