Tuesday, December 10: Un-nevering – collaborating across the veil - with Thea Patterson " This talk/sharing will source from writings in, around and alongside the practice and creation of Patterson's work Un-nevering which grapples with the 2021 loss of her partner Jeremy Gordaneer to a (still unsolved) homicide. It asks, what is it to un-never as practice, as a way of knowing, as a performative mode, as a dramaturgy, and as a dance piece? How is it that things come to be and then slip away again within a performance frame? And how does this tie to notions of presence, absence, disappearance and loss, as well as what stays, or remains… traces and ephemera… ghosts. What form(s) might un-nevering take? Or not take? Can the shape, texture and tone of loss/grief exist within the frame of our being together (or not together)? Can it be a place and a container of/for embodied exchange and healing across the threshold of (dis)apearance? Can we still collaborate together … especially and in particular across the veil of loss that seems so (in)finite? "