Alice Labant Since Autumn 2020 Alice has been with Exit Map writing and recording for the audio guides. Alice Labant (1991) graduated from Trinity Laban and is the recipient of the Marion North Award for Outstanding Achievement in Performance and the Excellent Dancer Prize. Alongside working with Mara Vivas and Angela Woodhouse and being part of Medeber Teatro – avisual theatre company- she has recently worked with Gary Stevens, Charles Linehan, Vania Gala, Sonia Boyce, Owen Parry, Tony Thatcher and Marina Collard. ​ Drawing from several art fields, she creates choreography works trying to depict with playfulness the discontinuous functioning of the mind. ​ She is collaborating on performances or films with visual artists, videographers and musicians. At present and since 2018 she researchs and creates works with dancer and musician Gordon D. RAEBURN ( Swallowsfeet collective). She has performed in iternational venues such as the ICA (London), NUS (Singapore), Norwegian National Opera (Oslo), TanzZeit at Podewil (Berlin), Alserkal Avenue (Dubai), La Villa Arson (Nice- France), Royal Society of Sculptors (London), Richmix (London), MAC (Birmingham) Tripspace (London), the National Museum of Belgrade (Serbia), The Old Market and Fabrica (Brighton – UK) The Place (London), the Nouveau Monde (Fribourg, Switzerland), La Coursive (La Rochelle, France), United – C (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and L’horizon (La Rochelle, France).

Objects of Exit Map ​ Objects ​ Is to link professional development for dance artists based in SE London with events (collective and for the public) by providing space (for practice and creation) and dialogue. Exit Map advocates collectivity/ community for dance artists and the general public. The vision is for relationships to emerge and manifest based on our understanding and ongoing creative engagement with body and presence. Exit Map facilitates creative crossovers by inviting artists to work alongside and dialogue. Events are crafted for the general public, disseminating work that has received peer support, feedback and has to some extent collective ownership at its base. Content and structure of these collective events challenge collective creation and Exit Map’s role is that of safeguarding people and practice, to ensure content is in line with proposals and oversee management. Social support and resilience is the larger objective of Exit Map where artistic and social engagement drive progress by installing connectivity. Exit Map facilitates interaction and integration of self amongst/ in other (people and environment) for collective well being. It is a collaborative platform where body and movement are at the centre of attention to provide creative and alternative performance solutions to further a culture that embodies cultural, social and environmental values. Exit Map will provide different levels of engagement for artists and people. Starting from the least involvement to the most involved one Memberships (non-voting member) to access events such as Moving On or the Shared Practice on a discounted basis with information about on how to be involved more Artists - advising members are supported by the Shared Practice regarding their professional development and who are invited to contribute to events such as Moving On or Community events at the Green where their personal practice is integrated but also extended to include the collective curation of events. Exit Map directors Laura Doehler , managing director, Anne-Gaelle Thiriot and Tania Soubry have executive decision making rights that can be passed on to Committees such as the Advisory Board. Their work is to safe guard artists and objects of Exit Map and observe rights and responsibilities. Guest artists may join temporarily to contribute to events who share Exit Map’s objectives and vision and whose professional contribution not only furthers projects of Exit Map but professional development for artists that are regularly engaged Exit Map encourages all artists in collaboration with Exit Map to join the advisory board to collectively handle responsibilities and decision making that concern the structural set up of events and therefore integrates authorship and ownership deeper. Exit Map provides the frame for projects but it is artists that provide content. Together we approach democratic processes however in order to align artistic proposals with the overall objective of Exit Map, directors reserves the right to determine choices should disagreements ensue. ​ Exit Map is registered in Lewisham, London, UK Status Nonprofit, non charitable social enterprise, private company limited by guarantee, S60 exempt

Elisa Vassena painting by Elisa Vassena Elisa is co-facilitating Collective Movements and joins/ supports the Shared Practice with Exit Map. Elisa is a performer and movement artist with a self-taught visual art practice spanning drawing, cyanotype printing, paper-making, and photography. She holds a BA (First Class Hons) Dance Theatre from LABAN, receiving the Marion North Award for Outstanding Performance for her final year(2011-12). Since then she has worked freelance in a wide range of contexts, from gallery and theatre settings to outdoors and site responsive works. She has performed for and collaborated with various artists, including Tilted Productions (Maresa von Stockert), DKHP, J Neve Harrington, Irina Baldini, Kasia Witek, Pablo Bronstein, Tino Sehgal, Ingvild Isaksen, Anders Duckworth, amongst others. Since 2013 she collaborates with Stella Papi in the duo SALSAROSA, making interactive and durational experiences. Alongside working with others, Elisa follows her own creative desires, bridging her movement and visual art practices into hybrid landscapes, and allowing learning to build, spill and translate across contexts.

P a s t events ​ Green Events Since 2017 we are hosted by The Green Community Centre to do our Shared Practice and in exchange we create events that draw local people close to witness what we do and come up with but also to integrate this community centre as a support in people’s lives let it be via classes, talks or participative events. Our intension is to make art and movement accessible and to bring awareness to collective support structures and endow an integration of society into environment via a physical and reflective way of life. Towards a Regenerative Culture, Together we are 29.02.2020 Tree Planting 01.12.2019 Clothes Swap 07.07.2019 Open Day 16.02.2019 Nunhead Arts Trail Open Studios 29.09.2018 ​ ​ Free to Move – and Openly Spaced Out ​ Free to Move invites by passers and friends to move together with us to enjoy co-composing London’s cityscape and to physically understand that space can be used democratically, freely and creatively. If you would like to participate please get in touch. Events take place intermittently. ​ ZINE – Food: Hungry for Change ​ Food is fundamental and buying it matters just as much. It is the thing we need to do, the thing we ought to know – second nature – but how much further could we possibly be away from that? ​ Exit Map Collective 2015/16 ​ Polyticks and Ridiculous Copernicus ​ A proud first full evening programme featuring a double bill that consisted of a public sharing/ performance version of our Shared Training and the next stage of our collective work. This time we applied more structure after careful consideration what structure suits our approaches which allowed for an engaging interplay between improvisation and choreography. It was very well received and we are looking forward to re-staging it soon. Launch and Twerkasonata ​ In Autumn 2015 our first performances as STP or Exit Map collective were launched. They brought together investigations of personal nature but were tied and composed referencing a concern we all shared which is that of care. Three performances emerged based on improvisation scores with each performance being a development of the previous one. At Conway Hall, Longfield Hall and Cockpit Theatre. ​ Here Now ​ In March 2013 nine improvisers coming from music, dance, drama and fine art took over the main hall at The Albert in NW6 London inviting the audience to observe and participate in cross-disciplinary improvisation … ​ V.I.P. Talk ​ May 2011 as part of Accidental Festival at the Roundhouse in London we hijacked visitors of the festival by talking them into a fake identity, treating them to 20 min stardom… ​ Live Social Networking Station ​ November 2010 in the Rag Factory down Brick Lane we embarked on the mission to get people mixed up during the Fishtank festival… ​ Dice Cafe ​ October 2009 at Area 10 in Peckham we set up a cafe where a game of dice took people out of their comfort zone at first but into a harmonious space after … ​ Unknown ​ Commissioned by the Leipziger Tanztheatrer, Unknown premiered at their jubilee in September 2007 in Leipzig, Germany. We received rewarding reviews … ​ Tied Feathers ​ In 2005 Tied Feathers was shown at the Place and the Freshfest as the first ever production by Exit Map…

Community Engagement to grow connections and expand common ground ​ Exit Map offers workshops to communities and cultural organisations to move on or return to conversations about who, why and where we arrived for what to happen. These workshops facilitate processes that organisations engage with to empower members, volunteers and organisers by exploring personal and shared purpose, values and infrastructures. Our aim is to foster practices that enable a full participation of its people and their environment, to meet challenges and change. ​ Do get in touch if you would like to invite us to work wit h your community or organisation. ​ Read on for what we offer and who we are working with. ​ A community is a whole made of many; its parts empowered to act or aiming at diverse equalities because ahead of us lies a winding path of discrimination and hierarchies paved in our past. For safe passage we need rites, practices and performances to allow us to acknowledge and remember our shared humanity and histories. Involving the body through somatic practices, in-person contact and lived experiences, we bring the whole of us, our emotional landscapes, our sensory sense making back into view to enable transparent empathetic conversations. On that ground we may perceive ‘us’ as a felt experience, in real time and space, and we imagine coexistence, expanding on existing ideas and adopting our actions. We want to support organisations who share this ethos and generosity to fully integrate everyone including the more- than -human towards a life-centric rather then people- centric vision. Fo llowing the eco-logical principle of growth and meeting the deeply entangled complex systems of human, ecological and technological nature, we engage the ever increasing plurality of perspectives by engaging the multiplicity of our senses and functions that bodies, nature and life overall provide us with. Exit Map is a community of practice that holds the expertise of somatic movement practitioners, group facilitators and teachers to build a safe container for you to encounter personal and organisational matters; a community in and of itself that thrives through co-learning and trust. We connect to each other and to you to catalyse action towards regeneration by envisioning together what individually we wouldn't be able to see. Our work is to enable you to become a community of practice for ongoing regeneration to root and grow, making space for change. ​ ​ These projects listed underneath are examples and reflections we invite you to join either by reading or participating. Do get in touch if you want to participate or if you have a community group you want us to meet. ​ Imagine ​ project: Catalysing Collective Action ​ Glengall Wharf Garden , Peckham London, UK is run by a dedicated team of volunteers. A space for local residents, it offers volunteer gardening sessions, workshops and grows food through permaculture and forest gardening. Sustainability and ecological welfare are core to the garden’s philosophy to develop the site as a place to build skills, community and wellbeing for all. ​ We ask What social and spatial infrastructures in this urban yet natural environment hold which kind of opportunities for connections between people from varied backgrounds and ages and their respective locality to emerge? ​ Addressing the vision of co-authoring public urban spaces to identify common ground, we will initiate activities of social and creative encounters to explore how participants imagine activities to shape spaces to deal with climate change and counter isolation. A commission and collaboration with the Place that will co-facilitate during 10 days in April and May 2024 with a performance sharing at the end. If you are interested to be part and experience this community do get in touch. project Secular Rituals ​ ​ At Ponderosa Tanzland, Stolzenhagen, DE this intervention and sharing in late Spring 2023 provided a contrast to a weighted climate discussion. Coming back to folk dances as a secular ritual or community practice, the space got infused with laughter as we spun around in Caleigh formations. It counter acted the depression we experience when looking at the looming climate dilemma. It is so important to ask what practices we employ to deal with what kind of information so we can DEAL with it. How do we enable meetings so that we can feel the trouble yet not loose courage to act and make things happen? It was also a time to reflect how Ponderosa is embarking on their change of leadership and methodologies of collective organisation. You can read here on non-linear thoughts and developments. project Moving On Funded by Arts Council England, we offered community workshops as part of the project Moving On for residents of housing co-operatives and council tenants of Lewisham and Southwalk (London, UK). The aim was to stimulate a relationship to their local green spaces for new ways of understanding natural habitats as part of home and community. We journeyed to local parks, cemeteries or inhabited adjacent/ included green spaces to move together and reflect how our relationships to people and environment shifted. What does it mean to embed such spaces into our lives? What practices do we share and which conscious choices may enable us to linger and embrace company more? New Cross - Lewisham Besson Community Centre has a community garden that we dwelled in. We also ventured out into neighbouring Nunhead and visited the local gem Nunhead cemetery. We invited Lewisham Housing Association tenants, visitors of the centre and Ivy Club members, an elderly group in Nunhead. ​ Peckham - Southwalk Cossall Hall is the community centre for a whole council housing estate which features green spaces like a park and smaller green interludes. Dancing where houses meet trees, gave agency to participants and natural space as place of encounters. Ladywell - Lewisham Olan Trust, an umbrella for various housing co-operatives like Chudleigh co-op for instance, was able to bring its Lewisham and Southwalk based members together. We walked up Hilly Fields, moved, ate and talked while leisurely and informally getting to know the people of the wider network. ​ New Cross - Lewisham Nettleton Road Housing Co-op is a street of houses with wonderful big gardens but little communal spaces. Walking up to Telegraph Hill with residents we see and feel how this park is a common ground for people to come together and hang out where there is space to move and expand with body and mind. New Cross - Lewisham Sanford Housing Co-op has a garden that connects all the houses, nurturing a well connected community. We nevertheless took residents further out to their local train strip meadow space which offers open land, a big sky and the opportunity to spread out from an otherwise compact living situation Nunhead, Southwalk The Green Community centre is home to many communities. The Ivy club is a group of elderly who like to chat in the main hall for a long coffee morning. We took them into the garden and it turned out they had not been there for a long time. They hugged the tree, stretched out and thanked us for the reminder. We also connected to the Lewisham based housing co-operatives Deptford and Three Boroughs who we invited to the gardens of the Albany centre and afterwards to the local beach at the Thames. Also Phoenix Housing Association whose residents we took to experience Beckenham Place Park as well as organised meetups in Leeds and Manchester for residents from various co-operatives to enjoy meadows and parks.

About us... Exit Map is a n artistic platform for collaborative and participative processes wherein dance cultivates meaningful connections amongst people and the more- than- human natural worl d. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Together we foster symbiotic relationships among artists, the environment and people to grow a network of interconnectedness that transcends the impact of one's individual movements and actions. As a collective of individual artists, we share unique perspectives and tools towards a collective body where each one of us brings in fresh approaches to everyday encounters, our collective history, present circumstances and future aspirations. Leaving preconceived performances and solitary visions behind, we seek a common ground that establishes a new arena where personal visions align and drive collective experiences and ideas of empathetic coexistence. ​ ​ Through moving together we engage the local community and reach out to the global community to mobilize collective action towards a creative and regenerative future. Our work spans site-specific community workshops to aid regeneration, dance practices and classes to embed embodied life-centric encounters alongside a new and powerful collective imagination through the medium of contemporary dance, somatics, improvisation and relational practices. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ We are a community of practice that visits common ground sites such as nature reserves, parks and community spaces to reach the next and former generation that invests in togetherness. We don't open doors but take them out entirely, returning to the soft edges of nature, sourcing from fresh breath and grounding for a wholesome connectivity. We give 'performance' a new finish by making the freedom to move as we like visible in and outdoors. Our project Moving On supports people in cultivating this agency by returning to nature as space with agency. Likewise, The Dinner of Doing Things and Architectures of Togetherness , shed light on the significance of co-authoring spaces for a truly collective environment to emerge and how secular rituals may seed lasting and impactful transformations that continue to grow. ​ Exit Map is a non-profit company, limited by guarantee, number 13503177, registered in England at 117 Chudleigh Road, London, SE4 1HP ​ info.exitmap@gmail.com ​ To follow us on facebook click here Click on the links to read more about our objectives , constitution and code of conduct

Laura Doehler co-director of Exit Map Dance and performance ar tist, teacher and choreographer Laura initiates collective processes via Exit Map that install a fluid and sensitive connectivity between self and other. Together with Exit Map she produces work and events that people can participate in and witness. The shedding of boundaries of self and other and the integration of performance and practice as part of everyday life are recurring themes. Projects are brought to life in close dialogue with other people and artists to realize collective ownership and is defined by its processes and embodied dialogues. In my words: "I like being mindfully and playfully alive while in direct negotiation with what is around me, weaving the trouble with the beautiful. I attend regularly to what moves me with the Shared Practice and Openly Spaced Out. These are my secular rituals to nurture presence, create some kind of embodied sociability and feel into non hierarchical ecologies. By asking how movement serves as vehicle for life, I find aliveness and with whatever finds me, a conscious integration of belonging and togetherness is generated. Sharing this is my work and passion. ​ I believe that virtuosity of movement is awareness, its articulation and negotiation that manifests because we cultivate it. ​ And it is presence that shapes the future. ​ I suspend myself between the experiential and the objective. " ​ photo Patrick Beelaert (BE/UK) Current ongoing employment: HE lecturer in movement studies at the National Centre for Circus Arts and Siobhan Davies Studios ​ Ways to engage with Laura Mentoring, private tutoring, joining classes, sharing practices or just conversations in green spaces. work in progress @ the Green Performance and teaching history Fall in CI workshop, Turkey ​ Staging Ages , h2dance Say Something by h2dance Cyr meets CI CI movement research at NCCA ​ ​ ​ 2003 ‘moving, moved, you move me’ choreography and performance by L. Doehler NOR 2003 ‘Rites de Passage’ by Sonic word and dance communitas, DE 2005 ‘På Gränsen’ by h2dance, touring SWE and NOR 2005 ‘Entertain Yourself’ participatory solo by and with L. Doehler @ Stranger Than Fiction, UK and @ Ponderosa, DE 2005 ‘Hive/ Silencer’, by Naomi Levebvre Sell, UK >> 2006 North East Youth Dance Meeting, teaching contemporary and devising @Perform(d)ance, DE 2007 ‘To Die For’ by h2dance, touring UK, SWE, NOR 2007 ‘Unknown’ duet created by L. Doehler and performed by L. Doehler and Leila Huwiler @ Leipziger Tanztheater 40 year Jubilee, DE >> 2008 ‘Word Game Workshop’ performance coordination for Kinetika Art International, UK 2009 Kings Cross by Pedro Pires, performer and rehearsal director, touring Portugal >> 2010 teaching professional class at GDA, UK >> 2010 ‘Moondog’ teaching and choreographing at Perform(d)ance, DE 2010 ‘And so to bed, by Shane Shambu, UK 2010 ‘Apologetics', by Michael Picknett, UK 2011 ‘Say Something’ by h2dance, performer, UK touring UK, SWE and NOR 2011 Solo ‘Selbstvergessen’ created and performed Laura Doehler @ Perform(d)ance Jubilee, DE 2012 Improvisation with Leopard Ladies @ Chisenhale Agony Art, UK >> 2012 ‘Mein Name ist Mensch’ teaching and choreographing at Perform(d)ance, DE >> 2012 - ongoing Shared Practice, independent training and movement research facilitation >> 2013 ‘Mein Name ist Mensch’ co-choreographer and dancer as part of an intercultural youth outreach project, DE >> 2012 - ongoing teaching movement in HE, practice and research, at the National Centre of Circus Arts London, UK >> 2013/14 ‘Fremd’ teaching and choreographing at Perform(d)ance, DE 2015 ‘Redux Project’ by Richard DeDomenici and BBC, UK 2015 ‘Staging Ages’ by h2dance, touring SWE, UK 2016 ‘Kronos’ by Marina Collard @ Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, UK 2017 ‘My Turf’ duet by L. Doehler performer by L. Doehler and Monsur Ali @ Leipziger Tanztheater, DE 2018- 2023 performer and collaborator for ‘Anthropo+ screen- by-products’ by Mary Pearson, UK 2018 ‘Bad Faith’ by Tara D’ Arquien, UK and BE *** 2014- 2018 Teaching Contact Improvisation @Tripspace and London Contact Improvisation, London UK​ 2017/18 ‘Say Something’ by h2dance, UK, SWE and NOR *** 2017 guest teacher for contact improvisation at Freiburg Festival, DE *** 2017 teaching CI workshops at GIRNE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Cyprus *** 2017 teacher at the Paris New Years Jam, FR *** 2018 ‘Cyr seeks CI’, movement research led and taught by L.Doehler, collaboration between NCCA and LSCD, UK *** 2018 teaching CI workshops @ Conservatório de Dança do Vale do Sousa, PRT *** 2018 teaching CI workshops at Fall in CI, Turkey *** 2018 CI and improvisation research at Au Brana, FR 2018 ‘Stone Draggers’ by Laura Wilson, UK >> 2018 - ongoing teaching contemporary and improvisation at Siobhan Davies Studios, UK >> 2018/19/20 guest lecturer ‘Devising scenography with somatics’ @ Central School of Speech and Drama, UK *** 2019 teaching CI workshop at LOFFT theatre, Leipzig DE *** 2019 ‘Cyr seeks CI’ article publication with Contact Quarterly, Contact Improvisation Newsletter *** 2019 teaching CI intensive at Netherlands Contact Improvisation Festival, NL *** 2019 teaching at Freiburg CI festival, DE 2019/2020 ‘LOUD OBJECT’, performer and collaborator, by Maria Zemlinsky and Robson Barreto, UK 2019/2020 ‘Cloudmeeting’, improvised movement sound installation in collaboration with Louise Walleneit and Olli Holland, DE 2020 ‘Deep, Deepen, Deepening’ by Laura Wilson, UK 2020 Who Is John Wick? by and with Laura Doehler @ The Green, UK >> 2020 teaching prof class @ Independent Dance, UK >> 2021 teaching Contemporary Dance on Graduate Certificate in Dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, UK *** 2021 teaching CI as intensive teacher at Letanec CI festival, CZ >> 2022 ‘The Ultimate Storyboard’ choreographic guidance for colab at Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, UK 2022/23 ‘Dj Whimsy or What the Climate will be Like’ by Vibrant Matter, LUX 2023 Improvisations with paintings, performer for Catherine Long, UK 2023 ‘Charco’, by Pepa Ubera, UK 2023 ‘Through Sensuous Landscapes’ by Vibrant Matter, LUX *** 2023 teaching CI workshops at Goldsmith CI and CI Minifest, London UK 2024 'A Dance of Becoming' by Lizzy Le Quesne, UK >> 2024 Teaching Improvisation @ The Place, UK >> 2024 Teaching 'Collective Movements' with Exit Map artists, UK >> 2024 Facilitation of 'Catalysing Collective Action', a commission by The Place with GWG community *** 2024 Body to Land COntact Improvisation with Rowan Quarry *** 2024 CI at Moving Connections Camp, Buddhfield and Emerging Hearts Contact Improvisation Camp Performance and Teaching Contact Improvisation Performance Making

Collective Movements photo by Patrick Beelaert, Freiburg Festival 2024 22.02. + 29.02. + 07.03. + 14.03. + 21.03. + 28.03.2024 Booking here for the whole series Booking here for single sessions ​ An adult mixed level evening class that offers explorations of improvisation scores, instant composition and ensemble thinking. 3 multidisciplinary established dance artists share how our bodies can tune in to one another and relate in harmony as well as dissonance in movement. Their distinct approaches utilize techniques of touch, sensation, imagery, drawing, sounding and embodied listening to invite couriousity and receptivity towards the movement and energies we own and those that surround us. It is a journey into a sense making of the moving body and its pathway into interconnectivity. ​ We invite all cultures, genders and abilities to join in to create a space of inclusivity to expand our collective story. We want people to encounter dances to foster a togetherness based on equality and openness that is respectful of our boundaries. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ The dance artists: ​ Elisa Vassena Playfully moving between dancing and mark-making/drawing, Elisa's classes will invite us to cultivate curiosity towards different materialities in motion. We will allow our attention to sharpen, shift and drift while engaging with the dynamic plurality of our bodies in relation to others. Imagination, imagery, and object work will be woven into the sessions as sparks for open exploration. ​ Laura Doehler Laura’s classes will enable us to openly and respectfully meet the perceptive field of territories and boundaries that we bring into the shared space through our bodies and histories. We will work with, pull and stretch our entanglements with these fluid, alien and intimate identities we own to viscerally explore collective sense making through gentle contact work, bodily listening and tuning practices for a new shared imagination to emerge. ​ Sara Ruddock The sessions with Sara invite listening through the body, as a relational and multi-sensory practice, playing with viscerality of voice, sound, rhythm and vibration, being with potentials and many moving parts. Tending to what might open if I listen through the in-betweens and edges of my perception, and how the way I listen might change my experience. You are invited to be with questions that the practice generates for you, as well as co-creating scores/loose frames for improvising together. Where: The Green Community Centre Nunhead SE 15 3QQ ​ When: 6.30-8.30pm 22.02. + 29.02. + 07.03. + 14.03. + 21.03. + 28.03.2024

Dance and sound artists of Moving On Together 8th and 15th of May, London New Cross Gate Cutting Nature Reserve Marina Collard: https://www.marina-collard.com/ Marina is an independent artist, performer and lecturer making multidisciplinary work involving live performance and video and more recently painting. Her work has been presented in theatres and galleries in the UK and abroad and is often made in collaboration with other artists. She is concerned with movement and physicality which reflect aspects of the human condition within the fragile and complex landscape of our world. These elements are aestheticised and paradoxically explored reframing the ordinariness of everyday life rendering the unspectacular visible. The work is painterly in its approach while maintaining a physicality informed by her career as a contemporary dance performer and maker. Marina is a lecturer at Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance and teaches in professional and educational settings both nationally and internationally as well as a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist since 2010. ​ Anne-Gaelle Thiriot https://www.exitmap.org/anne-gaelle-thiriot Anne-Gaëlle is an independent dance artist based in London and, since late 2020, in Marseille. She is interested in the potential of movement and architecture to create and bring communities together, and is hungry for bodies and non-hierarchical ways of working. These days she is creating work through investigating the notion of Public Intimacies (how to create intimate collective experiences in the public space, given the current climate), and ways to engage with, enliven and embody the archives of Contact Improvisation (namely the Contact Quarterly revues). She mainly works through collaborations. She is a certified choreologist (specialist of Laban-based contemporary theory and practice) and has been a guest lecturer for Trinity Laban, Roehampton and Winchester University and as dancer, teacher, facilitator and choreographer, she presently works with Andrew Graham (L’Autre Maison), Mathilde Monfreux, Compagnie Libertivore and Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, and also organises the project Le FIL: Training & Open Studio in Marseille, with fellow Julien Dégremont. ​ Laura Doehler https://www.exitmap.org/laura-doehler Laura choses improvisation and performance as the format to observe change and provide tools to integrate an embodiment that shapes social and environmental connectivity. She initiates collective processes via Exit Map that install a fluid and sensitive connectivity between self and other. Together with Exit Map she produces work and events that people can participate in and witness. The shedding of boundaries of self and other and the integration of performance and practice as part of everyday life are recurring themes. Projects are brought to life in close dialogue with other cross-disciplinary artists to further and inspire collective ownership. These are defined by processes and dialogues; the product being ourselves changing. Laura teaches contemporary dance, improvisation and CI in HE at NCCA and as guest lecturer at Trinity Laban and CSSD and independently across Europe. ​ Dan Nicholls developed an expansive and deeply entangled practice in the field of sound. Casting aside the dogma and seriousness of much artistic practice whilst embracing joy and improvisation in order to search for deeper narratives, Nicholls’ work finds depth and form through quick experimentation and distillation – layering, stretching and collaging sound, and diffracting materials from many places, sonic and otherwise. Dan’s event series and label Free Movements has become a place in which a growing community can join in emergent practices of dance, sound, visual art, speculative imagining and mutual care. Soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/dannichollsldn Free Movements: Ground – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDqDm_XoGQ&t=2318s Mattering and Meaning solo album – https://wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ mattering-and-meaning ​ ​ back to Moving On ​

Archive Walk and Talk and Cake August 2022 Our community event that we co-organised with the Green community centre began with a walk through Nunhead cemetery which is a local gem and a perfect way to get to know new people or catch up with old friends. Afterwards we went to the Green, ate a huge amount of cake and exchanged some clothes based on contributions that everyone brought along. During that day we took time to enjoy each others company and simply take time to connect. The sun was on our side and all donations went to the Green.

Here Now at the Albert, London,2013 ​ Exploring notions of impermanence and the nature of change HERE NOW was a week-long work of live, interdisciplinary improvisation. Over the course of five days nine artists who fused music improvisation, drama improvisation, dance improvisation and visual arts process based work, invited the audience to observe and directly influence the live creative act. The line between observation and participation was fluid and ever-changing just like the ov erall landscape of HERE NOW. Performers improvised with each other and audiences while attending to needs to embed trust and open creative portals for relentless fun. The aim of HERE NOW was to marry performance and action for any kind of audience member and ask how do we relate when there is no structure? How do we deal with the choice of participation, how much makes oneself be available to explore an environment that undergoes change constantly through creative action? ​ As people entered they could watch and be in the midst of creative offers of playful cross-disciplinary engagements that invited the audience to become aware of his or her own attitude towards participation and feel effortlessly enabled to join. ​ In this environment, any kind of expression is welcome and included. Any language and creative communication which somehow loosened language as we know it, laying bare its building blocks and by that reading beyond words, seeing sound and becoming space. Back to Archive

We opened a WhatsApp group Openly Spaced Out for people to join us moving outdoors in more natural environments because we started to perceive and feel how natural spaces give something to the body, to movement, the way we feel and the way we understand nature. That we fell in love with. This group continues to be a meet up and if you want to join just email your name and phone number (ref Openly Spaced Out) to info.exitmap@gmail.com . It is largely SE London based but not only. ​ It is a format where actions or 'undoing' derive from listening to what it is we need or want at this given time in this given space. We soften the edges of what we think we need to do, adjusting our methods and exercises to what feels right and where our curiosity leads us. That may be exercises but it might also be lying in the grass, throwing back a ball to a child, cartwheeling or perceiving tiny shifts of weight on an uneven grassy ground. ​ In not being alone we give permission to do things in our own quirky and untested ways. People that pass by are positively intrigued or don't care much; either way you haven't got much to loose. ​ We also offer audio guides that you can bring to the park via your phone or an audio device and headphones. These were created by dance artists who work somatically and can fine tune our connectivity to ourselves and to nature, through spoken word guidance. These are available via our archive of Moving On which is the umbrella under which these were created. Have a little roam and under the timeline link and you will find much to explore. There are even more audios via our Spotify link which do have a subscription fee attached but you can subscribe for one month only if you like to enjoy a wider range of audios and a wider range of artists who conceived them. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​​