Florence Logan
Oh look! I’m leaking: dysmorphia into metamorphosis

One of the recipients of the 2024 Graduate Residencies; weeklong residencies for recent performance graduates in partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland ‘Contemporary Performance Practice’ course. Supported by Tramway.

About the residency
This residency is dedicated to researching a new method of moving and to developing a new choreographic performance. Having struggled with eating disorders and body dysmorphia, I have felt trapped in my body and my obsession with its strict external image has distracted me from the plentifulness that poured inside, pooling in the hollow of my palate. This project is a joyous slipping-in. I intend to explore movement as a form of escapism - not to escape out of our bodies but to escape deep within. I want to embrace the transformative quality of our leaky, fleshy, fatty bodies to explore everything the body can become - its delicious metamorphosis.

About the artist

I’m a French/Scottish contemporary performance maker and facilitator. Inspired by the clowns and physical theatre makers I grew up watching in rural France, I work with experimental, accessible and expansive forms of storytelling which centre around the audience's experience and imagination -merging our inner and outer worlds together. I make work for both adult and young audiences.​Recurring themes in my work include obsession, mothering, care, the natural world and revolt (as in 'to disgust' or 'to be disgusting' and 'to rebel against'). I often work with smaller spaces and audiences.​Experimenting with strength and flexibility, I explore movement that feels delicious, fleshy and indulgent. In my practice (of Ashtanga yoga, somatic dance, bouffon, Butoh practices, commercial choreography and improvisation), I work with patterns, images and dances found in nature and invite them into the body. I write through site-specific explorations which inspire my movement and grow into fantastical and sensorial stories - inviting in the invisible and the impossible.

Image details: Oh to be a snail (Clubroom CCA, 16/02/2024) Photography credit: Jassy Earl