Encountering Ghosts and Avatars

Encountering Ghosts and Avatars is a movement and reading workshop, led by Gian Singh Sanghera-Warren and Imke Felicitas Gerhardt. 

The workshop explores how we encounter the ‘real’ Other in virtual space, as well as the virtual Other—the avatar—in real space. This embodied research draws from the ideas of Mark Fisher, Brandon LaBelle, and Emmanuel Lévinas. 

Working with imagination, these ideas will be expanded upon and explored from a bodily and spatial perspective, to investigate our relation to the ghost or avatar. Participants will be guided through simple somatic tasks and improvisation exercises. These are suitable for all levels, with no dance or movement experience necessary.

Encountering Ghosts and Avatars contextualises places and performances where ghosts or avatars seem present, loosely suggesting that the avatar is the ghost reimagined: “a version of the self, deconstructed, observable through some sort of augmented view” (Gian Singh Sanghera-Warren, “Avatar vs. Ghosts”, Moving Discourse, March 2026).

Dates and Times

→ Tue 4 Aug / 10 AM - 1 PM
→ Wed 5 Aug / 10 AM - 1 PM

The workshop is the same across both sessions.

Tickets

£5 participation fee
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Location

Studio 5, London Performance Studios
For more info on how to get to London Performance Studios, click here

Access

The workshops takes place in Studio 5, which is located on the ground floor with step-free access and has an accessible toilet. All toilets are gender-neutral.

There is access to a kitchen with drinking water and kettle, some refreshments will be provided but you are welcome to bring your own.

Please wear comfortable clothing.

04/08

05/08

About

Gian Singh Sanghera-Warren (he/they) is an interdisciplinary dance artist and performer, born and based in East London. Gian’s practice is informed by digital culture and contemporary trends, uncovering how the virtual world can be a site of both personal and communal memory. 

Imke Felicitas Gerhardt (she/they) is a performative researcher from Germany, currently based in London. Imke is the founder of Moving Discourse, a platform dedicated to the documentation, archiving, and critical discussion of Performance Art and movement-based practices.

Horizontal Practices is a strand of LPS programming dedicated to promoting peer-to-peer learning and non-hierarchical spaces for conversation. These take form as discursive events, professional training and curated guest workshops.

Horizontal Practices responds to the need for and importance of space for experimental modes of exchange that sit outside the context of institutional ‘education’ frameworks. As with the rest of the LPS programme, queer and feminist practices and those which sit in-between visual art and theatre are at the core of Horizontal Practices.