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Hannah Silva

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About Me

Hannah Silva is a writer and theatre director. She has shown performances in Holland, Germany, at the BAT theatre, Berlin, and Theatre im Pfalzbau, Ludwigshafen (at the finals of the International choreography competition, No Ballet), Japan (Tokyo Design Centre, with Butoh dancer, Tetsuro Fukuhara) and the UK.She performs her poetry regularly in the South West, at events such as The Language Club (Plymouth Arts Centre) and The Surreal Saloon (Exeter Phoenix). In London she has performed at events such as “La Langoustine est Morte”, “Openned." at the Camberwell arts festival and the London Word Festival."Her physical performances, fast-talking delivery and innovative use of cut-up text make her one of the most ambitious and entertaining poets in the country." Top ten literary stars of 2008 (The Times Online )Her poetry is published in Stride magazine, Great Works, Intercapillary space, Hecale, in the Openned anthology, Tears in the Fence & Ink, sweat & tears. She was awarded the 2007 Torbay Artsbase literature award.http://www.hannahsilva.co.uk .. MySpace Profile Editor r

My Interests

food. wine. talking. giggling. eating. other things.

I'd like to meet:

For more soundtracks please go to www.myspace.com/silvadanca, or contact me and I'll send you a cd.14/08/08: I'm performing at a London Poetry Systems event. "A night of entertainment blending music, poetry & film." The fleapit, Columbia Road. nearest tube Old Street. 7:30pm aprox start09/09/08: I'm performing with Canadian performance poet, Shane Koyczan at The Barnfield Theatre in Exeter16/11/08: Reading series curated by Peter Philpott at Cafe Oto in Dalston, other poet so far confirmed is Tom Lowenstein. Sunday afternoons, 3-5, £4 entryTo be on my mailing list please send me your email address, thanks Hannahx

Music:

I studied at The Purcell School of music then went to Amsterdam and studied contemporary music and composition for a year at the Amsterdam Conservatory. I now find myself unable to say what music I like, but it is a dodgy mix from Baroque to pop, Luciano Berio to Miles Davis to Ruben Gonzalez. Don't ask such hard questions.

Movies:

This is easier....anything by Tarantino, Luis Bunuel, Tarkovsky, Lars Von Trier, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders, much more i can't think of right now. I also like cheesy films.

Television:

Shit stuff. Reality TV.

Books:

I do not know how people manage this. "Books"hmmph There are too many. Although I can't read novels anymore. So it's mostly poetry and books about theatre. Ok i can manage that: I read: Richard Schechner, Phillip Zarrilli, Grotowski, Eugenio Barba, Roland Barthes, Sarah Kane, Kathy Acker, Artaud, Genet, Derrida (well i attempt to on a regular basis) Stephen Barber is an incredible writer about cities...I also sometimes read Heat magazine.... and Tears in the Fence, Tremblestone, Poetry Review, etc

Heroes:

Heroes. Superman? Superwoman? Superwo/man? Ok only the mega important ones: Antonin Artaud, Tatsumi Hijikata, Frida Kahlo

My Blog

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[previously published by Hecale and Stride Magazine]died I last at until eyes open wide. With water under swam. I bath the in. Turn my, replied I, line overused an. inside from heart my massage and el...
Posted by Hannah Silva on Sat, 19 May 2007 03:22:00 PST

Intercourse gave way to something

.Desire fed-back against blackwelcomed a brown grey leaf as it fell, became a necklace and fell into her.She became that neck less brown woman, with a s...
Posted by Hannah Silva on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:35:00 PST