ARTIST PROFILES

We have five wonderful and varied emerging artists presenting work in Insights Digital 2020. The platform will be available to watch on our website for four weeks, ending on December 11th, and during this time we will bring you artist profiles; giving you a further look at our artists, their backgrounds and what they do. ​

PENNY CHIVAS

As part of Insights Digital 2020, Penny Chivas shares her work, Phased Isolation. Self-shot, edited and danced by necessity, "Phased Isolation" was created amid the growing uncertainty and isolation created during Lockdown. Inspired by the need to be both visible and yet slip away at the same time and be somewhere else. The work represents a moment in which Scotland realised that Coronavirus was a far reaching problem with longer term repercussions than originally imagined. Phased Isolation was based initially on exercises from Katrina McPherson's Screen dance course supported by Dance Base in 2020. 

Penny has created several other screen dance works, most notably, Dissipate, made in collaboration with Paul Michael Henry and Alan Patterson. Dissipate has been shown as part of; Screen.dance Scotland, Mexico City Video Dance Festival Platform and Exchange Choreography Festival (US) (all 2020) and will screen as part of Rogue Dancer Journal in 2021, as will Phased Isolation. In 2020, Penny received a micro-commission from Magnetic North to further investigate self-filming practices.

Dissipate

​Originally from Australia, Penny Chivas is a dance artist based in Glasgow. Penny is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) BA (Dance), the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Honours, and is currently studying part-time on the Master of Education and Learning in the Performing Arts at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Learn more about Penny and her practice on her website: www.penny-chivas.squarespace.com