<aside> <img src="/icons/microphone_gray.svg" alt="/icons/microphone_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Welcome to spiiill by Shannelle ‘Tali’ Fergus aka the powerhouse behind identity.ideas.industry. spiiill flips scratch nights on their head: a scratch of an artist rather than of their work. Creating opportunities for artists (particularly in the street dance sector) to learn how to talk publicly about their work.
Here you’ll hear Tali’s thoughts on what incorporating a bit of scratch culture into existing platforms might mean for the street dance sector.
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spiiill, presented by iii as part of Scratch Renaissance, is an event that features the artists as the scratch work, the unfinished article.
it exists in recognition that
but that both are necessary skills, often called upon in important settings where there may be resources and support at stake.
so let’s practice articulating the practice.
three artists will be in conversation with Tali and each share a piece of their work on screen - a rehearsal, an improvisation, a show trailer, a completed work or extract thereof.
Shannelle ‘Tali’ Fergus is a London raised, Margate based creative working within the dance community and in the dance industry – with 20+ years’ experience and a unique 360 perspective, working across performance, choreography, teaching and talent management.
Tali is founder, producer and lead facilitator of identity. ideas. industry. (iii), a programme and method designed to encourage dance artists’ curiosity about their creativity and the industry at large, through movement, conversation and literature.
The programme, in its 8th year, has been supported by breakthrough initiative Artists4Artists (One Dance UK People’s Choice Award nominee), Chisenhale Dance Space, Impact Dance, Redbridge Drama Centre, casting agency Sillis Movement, Siobhan Davies Studios and Studio Wayne McGregor.
spiiill joins an expanding roster of offers under the iii umbrella, including the *‘A Deep Dive With..’*series, hosting culture shifting figures from the dance community, ‘The Artists’, a paid professional development programme, in collaboration with ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company and ‘tiiiny humble opinions’, a soon to launch podcast series.