Jazz Festival Münster, Germany

Hawkins/Mitchener Quartet

LCMF 5th Edition: In Search of Julius Eastman

Guest performer alongside Apartment House.

Whitechapel Gallery, London

Performance with Jarman Award shortlisted artist Mikhail Karikis. Part of the Film London Jarman Awards weekend.

SPILL Festival of performance, Ipswich

Of Leonardo Da Vinci – UK premiere

SPILL Festival of performance, Ipswich

The festival opened with the premiere of [NAMES] – a 3 hour durational work and a chapter from Sweet Tooth.

Bloomsbury Festival, London

Public sharing of SWEET TOOTH at St George’s Bloomsbury – a Hawksmoor church which is said to have had links with the Abolitionist movement.

The performance featured:
Elaine Mitchener vocalist/movement
Sylvia Hallet, Jason Yarde, Mark Sanders – instrumentalists

ICA, London

Commissioned by the artist Sonia Boyce to create I back…I neck…I face…I chest – a 20 minute ‘anonymous exploration of identity through movement, sound art and vocalisation’ which was performed to an invited audience and filmed as part of We Move In Her Way, a new project by Sonia Boyce. Sonia’s video installation will be shown in Feb 2017.

Aldeburgh Music Residency

SWEET TOOTH – Open Session public sharing on 11 August.

Wysing Polyphonic, Cambridge

with Sam Belinfante