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I will be presenting my real 3D movie project WOMB in Valenciennes, France as part of a 2 days symposium about 3D imagery for stage. 27th and 28th of November. I will present exclusive fotage 3D tests of my stereoscopic projects in Black and White anaglyph and images of the storyboard.

My presentaiton is on the 28th, at 17h00

6 – De la scène au relief

Présidents de séance : Eric Prigent, Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains et Christl Lidl
École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes
16h30 : Images 3D/relief en microgravité – Kitsou Dubois, directrice artistique de Ki Productions
17h10 : Womb, un projet de film stéréoscopique – Gilles Jobin, chorégraphe

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Depuis plusieurs années, les images envahissent l’espace scénique. La présence des écrans sur la scène a été maintes fois remarquée et commentée. Pourtant, l’avénement d’une scène-image – scène et écran se superposant jusqu’à se confondre – n’a que rarement été pris comme objet d’étude. Dans la scène-image, les interprètes et/ou les spectateurs sont immergés dans des images sans écran, en 3D, grâce à divers stratagèmes optiques, à des machines de vision. Le numérique, avec l’interactivité, permet d’agir sur ces images, de les modifier, en temps réel ou en temps différé. Les images deviennent des espaces habitables. Certaines mises en scène de Mark Reaney, Teatro Cinema, Dumb Type, Victor Pilon et Michel Lemieux, Kris Verconck, Kitsou Dubois, Gilles Jobin, Jean-Michel Bruyère… sont caractéristiques de cette démarche.

Des images habitables : Arts de la scène et 3D

http://www.imageshabitables.com/

Call for Applications for Residency  for FEBRUARY 2014
dance-techAIR@Lake Studios Berlin
www.lakestudiosberlin.com

February 1st to March 1st 2014

dance-tech artist in residency in Berlin offers to international interdisciplinary movement and media artists the possibility to live and make art in a peaceful artist run working, living and performance space in Berlin, Germany.

The artists will enjoy the recently opened Lake Studios Berlin, a unique living and creative working space with fast connection into the exciting creative center of Berlin and with the advantage of the quiet and beauty of Mueggelsee lake and a forest at only 5 minute walk for depth concentration on research and creative process.

The resident artist will enjoy a private apartment and access to a dance space with sprung wooden floors. Lake Studios Berlin is primarily a working space for 8 diverse movement artists with the need to go deeper into their work and practice. It is an experience of collaborative living and creation, and the resident will have the opportunity of artistic exchange as well as access to inside information about the dance scene in Berlin.

INCLUDES:

• The resident artist will have access to 100 hours of studio space per month, divided between the large and small Studios.
• There is a possibility to teach classes, workshops and / or organize a performance or work-in-progress showing at the end of the residency period.
• The artists will be featured  and should blog about their process on dance-tech.net for the months of the residency.
• The artist also may decide to use dance-tech.tvLIVE channels to share the  process of exchange with the community.

NOTE: the selected artist brings his/her own equipment. The residency  does not provide any equipment. 

There is one projector available in the big space.

The selected artists will pay his/her transportation expenses, meals and will pay 500 Euros  for the Month.

Artists, scholars and practitioners can apply for the residency. Their practice and research should relate to the  topical themes (not exclusive):

Choreography and creation process

New media and performance

Movement practices  and economy

Improvisation and real time systems

Screen-dance  and movement based installation

Choreographic scores and new media tools (generative tools)

Movement, somatics and technology

Mobile devices, locative media and choreography

Social media  and trans-local collaborations

Contemplative practices and movement

 

Application Process:

The applicants must be a dance-tech member where you write you bio  and profile.

Please send an email including:

1.-Your research goals

2.-What would you like to work on and if you would like to offer master classes, workshops, etc.

3.-Two samples of you work posted on your dance-tech account (urls)

Send it via email to Marlon Barrios Solano to

<marlon@dance-tech.net>

IMPORTANT:

write in the email subject: dance-tech Berlin FEBRUARY 2014

Deadline for application for February: December 5th, 2013.

We will let you know by December 15th about the decision.

Note: this residency is conceived as a sustainable collaboration between dance-tech and Lake Studios Berlin as a way to generate alternative and affordable spaces for independent artists and creative researchers.

Questions?

marlon@dance-tech.net

In May 2011, Tina Tarpgaard published this article in one of the modul-dance newsletters. How does she work as an independent artist in Denmark?

In the fall 2011 I will start the first residency as part of the modul-dance project. Together with my group of dancers and software artists (recoil performance group) I am invited to spend two weeks in the excellent facilities at the Tanzhaus NRW in Düsseldorf. Later we will travel to Ljubljana to spend a week researching in collaboration with the innovative dance house Kino Siska. Both giving us a great opportunity to work focused with the concept we have developed as a base for our new production Living-Room. The performance will be produced at Dansehallerne in Copenhagen with the premiere on March 10th 2012.

The advantages of moving yourself and the group you are working with, to a place "away from home" are many. I think most people know the feeling of the intensity that can buil within a group when you not only work together, but also have a mutual experience of new sorroundings, finding your way together, get lost together, dining together. etc.

It amplifies that feeling of a journey and ties connections that are priceless in a working process - at least to me.

But of course you don't move yourself just for the comfort and team building. The challenges and inspirations are equally important. So the prospect of meeting professionals from different arts communities is exciting, both professionals I usually work with but also to meet different approaches.

For example: The way our support system in Denmark is put together (as well as the habits and traditions I suppose) makes it quite rare that choreographers have the means for close collaboration with dramaturges. I believe that this can be unfortunate for the artistic processes and eventually for the performance that is presented to the audience. I am therefore excited to have the chance to meet and collaborate with with dramaturgical professionals at Tanzhaus NRW. In Ljubjana I will have the chance to meet and collaborate with local dancers, a great source of inspiration for me and the group.

Recoil performance group, with whom I usually work and create performances, has a quite specific interest in the collaboration between dance and software art. The amount of work that goes in to this collaboration is usually quite substantial and of high significance to our productions. Therefore I am hoping, that besides meeting dancers, choreographers and dramaturges, I will have the chance to meet professionals from the visual art, video and software art communities. More over I hope to get the artist from the different ways of creating performing arts, to meet each other. This could be in showings, roundtable meetings or other situations that could facilitate dialog, exchange of experience and ideas etc.

Already being part of the initial meeting in Lyon, late summer 2010, it struck me (not surprisingly) that the production habits, economical support structures, level of intervention/collaboration between dance houses and artists etc., are significantly different in between the European countries represented in the modul-dance project. I hope that by visiting both Tanzhaus NRW and Kino Šiška I get at chance to get a deeper understanding of the structures there and how it affects the work of the artists, the audience building and the general working and presentation frame of performing arts.

Working as an independent artist in Denmark has caused me to raise a number of questions to how our structure is put together. For me the participation in the modul-dance project is a great opportunity to seek inspiration and exchange experiences with houses and artist communities on both the creative process as well as the structures that we as independent artist are surrounded by. Especially as the project spans over all the different steps of creation: research, residency and production/presentation. I find this very valuable and hope to exchange constructive ideas that can facilitate the development of artist communities as well as personal development as a performing artist.

Picture: © Søren Meisner

ASSOCIATE ARTS PROFESSOR

Dance and New Media

Department of Dance

Tisch School of the Arts

New York University/Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dance seeks to fill an Associate Arts Professor faculty position in its conservatory dance program to begin Fall 2014. Long recognized as one of the nation's leading dance departments, the program offers a spectrum of courses integrating artistic process and intellectual enrichment, with a focus on technique, performance, dance composition, and a developing interest in Dance and New Media. The Department of Dance faculty and performing arts professionals maintain a supportive atmosphere of collaboration and continuing artistic achievement.

We currently seek a leader in the field of Dance and New Media with well-rounded knowledge of the latest cutting-edge digital, video/audio software and hardware, interactive movement/sound/image technologies, and an artistic vision that integrates digital media and dance. The ideal candidate will foster a creative environment that will inspire our students to use the latest technology in the creation of new dance/performance, and to publicize their work through digital media. The department wishes to develop global dance theater collaborations by utilizing interactive technological practices such as digital streaming to connect our dancers with other artists across the world. We are looking for a trailblazer with a desire to help build and implement a significant course of study in this broad, evolving field.

Responsibilities include: developing and teaching dance and new media/production courses, and courses in classic and new technologies in film, digital media and online development, specifically as it relates to dance; developing and mentoring students in the filming and broadcasts of multi-camera HD recordings and streams of departmental concerts; and updating the Tisch Dance and New Media site and the Department of Dance site.

Other responsibilities include mentoring student choreographers across the department in using digital technologies to capture their work, as well as teaching students how to use digital media in their performances. This faculty member will serve as advisor for student concerts (particularly involving dance and media), and will counsel students on academic and career goals, create professional media partnerships, and advise dance and new media internships and fellowships.
S/he will also train and mentor graduate assistants and digital student production crews in filming, digital workflows, and dance and new media pedagogy. Service on departmental, Tisch and University-wide committees is required as is continued engagement in professional, creative and scholarly activities.

Minimum qualifications: relevant degree (preferred) with significant experience as a university-level teacher in dance and new media; a national reputation as a dance and new media artist; high-level professional experience with technology and new media; the ability and desire to collaborate with a collegiate faculty on problem solving within the department; and active experience in European or other international dance media contexts. Salary commensurate with experience.

The Tisch Department of Dance enrolls 90 undergraduate dance majors and 30 MFA students. In addition to two theaters and five
dance studios, department facilities include digital media and music studios. Students perform in 13 concerts yearly, with internet-based and inter-departmental collaborations involving composers and media artists.
Applicants should submit: A DVD with a creative sample of their work (dance for the camera, projection design, etc), curriculum
vitae, letter of intent, and 3 references with contact information no later than December 15, 2013 to: Andy Teirstein, Chair of the Search Committee, The Department of Dance, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 111 Second Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10003. For additional information about the department, please visit: www.dance.tisch.nyu.edu

New York University is committed to diversity in both faculty and students, and encourages applications from women and minorities. New York University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution.

http://www.dance-tech.net/profile/AndyTeirstein

Actually, yesterday, editing, again to select, limiting perspectives. I seek an edition without technical voice pic.twitter.com/QOrTTPWDLa

— Carmelo Negro (@CarmeloNegro) November 6, 2013

Actually, yesterday, editing, again to select, limiting perspectives. I seek an edition without technical voice pic.twitter.com/QOrTTPWDLa

— Carmelo Negro (@CarmeloNegro) November 6, 2013

The Italian artist Alessandro Sciarroni was selected for the modul-dance project after being proposed by Centro per la Scena Contemporanea Bassano del Grappa. Here, an interview with him during the research process of his project: UNTITLED_I will be there when you die.

Interview with Alessandro Sciarroni from Modul-dance on Vimeo.

There are a couple places left for the Experiential Anatomy series I have been invited to teach:

Saturday November 9, 16, and 23
from 2-3:30 pm

at The Construction Company
10 East 18th Street, 3rd floor, NYC

There is a maximum of 8 participants so that each person can receive individual attention.

Fee of $50 for all three sessions.

Our investigations of structure and energy will uncover new ways of understanding, releasing and toning core, low back, rotation of the legs–and much more–with a variety of sequencing including core to periphery, head to toe, and from the ground up. The specific needs of attendees will be intrinsic to our focus.

Please let me know if you have any questions and feel free to pass this on to colleagues and/or clients.

Call for Applications for Residency
dance-techAIR@Lake Studios Berlin
www.lakestudiosberlin.com

January  2014
(1 month period)

1st dance-tech artist in residency in Berlin offers to international interdisciplinary movement and media artists the possibility to live and make art in a peaceful artist run working, living and performance space in Berlin, Germany.

The artists will enjoy the recently opened Lake Studios Berlin, a unique living and creative working space with fast connection into the exciting creative center of Berlin and with the advantage of the quiet and beauty of Mueggelsee lake and a forest at only 5 minute walk for depth concentration on research and creative process.

The resident artist will enjoy a private apartment and access to a dance space with sprung wooden floors. Lake Studios Berlin is primarily a working space for 8 diverse movement artists with the need to go deeper into their work and practice. It is an experience of collaborative living and creation, and the resident will have the opportunity of artistic exchange as well as access to inside information about the dance scene in Berlin.

INCLUDES:

• The resident artist will have access to 100 hours of studio space per month, divided between the large and small Studios.
• The residency includes three hours of remote online coaching with Marlon Barrios Solano.
• There is a possibility to teach classes, workshops and / or organize a performance or work-in-progress showing at the end of the residency period.
• The artists will be featured  and should blog about their process on dance-tech.net for the months of the residency.
• The artist also may decide to use dance-tech.tvLIVE channels to share the  process of exchange with the community.

NOTE: the selected artist brings his/her own equipment. The residency  does not provide any equipment. 

There is one projector available in the big space.

The selected artists will pay his/her transportation expenses and will pay 500 Euros per month.

Artists, scholars and practitioners can apply for the residency. Their practice and research should relate to the  topical themes (not exclusive):

New media and performance

Movement practices  and economy

Improvisation and real time systems

Screen-dance  and movement based installation

Choreographic scores and new media tools (generative tools)

Movement, somatics and technology

Mobile devices, locative media and choreography

Social media  and trans-local collaborations

Contemplative practices and movement

Application Process:

The applicants must be a dance-tech member where you write you bio  and profile.

Please send an email including:

1.-Your research goals

2.-What would you like to work on and if you would like to offer master classes, workshops, etc.

3.-Two samples of you work posted on your dance-tech account (urls)

Send it via email to Marlon Barrios Solano @ <marlon@dance-tech.net>

IMPORTANT:

write in the email subject: dance-tech Berlin

Deadline for application: November 25, 2013. We will let you know by December 3 about the decision.

Note: this residency is conceived as an independent collaboration between dance-tech and Lake Studios Berlin as a way to generate alternative and affordable spaces for independent artists and creative researchers.

Highlights of Berlin  (not officially related to the residency):

From January 4 - 14, there is a well known Berlin Dance Festival taking place in Sophiensaele called Tanztage. (www.tanztage.de)

From  Wed 29 Jan - Sun 2 Feb 2014 the new media festival and conference Transmediale 2014 

From  January 24 – February 2, 2014 the fun electronic music festival CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music and Arts

Questions?

marlon@dance-tech.net

A key point for CODA and the research-creation team Époque_Poulin
For the first time in our life, we make today an open call through the Indiegogo social media to collect funds as to be able to reach the summit of our digital dance film CODA, NoBody dance: the Rite of Spring.

We are involved with ideas, time, money and a lot of energy in that making since 2005. Today, we need some financial support on your part as to perfecting this pioneer film the way it has to be as to become a leading one. We wait for you on the site http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/coda-nobody-dance-an-entrancing-21st-century-digital-dance-rite-of-spring-film. We thank you in advance for your interest and contribution.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/coda-nobody-dance-an-entrancing-21st-century-digital-dance-rite-of-spring-film/x/4851049

Martine and Denis, October 31th, 2013

SÂLMON< festival starts its second edition. Mercat de les Flors and Graner remain committed to talent, to creators with new proposals, artists with fresh ideas, European and, sometimes, going against the current. A look at local and international artists in the framework of the artistic residencies offered by Graner, centre for dance creation and the European modul-dance project. A busy programme of events lasting two weeks, with different formats and diverse approaches to the body and movement.

The festival, that will take place from October the 19th to November the 3rd, offers a look at international creations linked to the modul-dance project. The Loose Collective will open the festival with a concert-performance about the Old Testament. Other artists who were in residence at Graner while creating their shows will be presented during SÂLMON

SÂLMON< aims to consolidate itself as a space that gives visibility to different ways of understanding choreography. The festival includes shows, laboratories for professionals, spaces for reflection and spaces for meetings with the public.

More information: www.salmon-dance.com

After four years research into the creation of digital dance scores with guest choreographers, the Motion Bank project of The Forsythe Company will conclude Phase One with a presentation of results both live and on-line and proposals for the future.

LIVE & ONLINE 2013
28 NOVEMBER TO 1 DECEMBER
FRANKFURT LAB
Schmidtstrasse 12, Frankfurt am Main


Live & OnLine will begin Thursday evening 28 November at 7 pm with a first public presentation of the on-line Motion Bankmaterials of guest choreographers Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, Bebe Miller and Thomas Hauert, alongside an updated version of Deborah Hay’s website ‘Using the Sky’ first presented in June 2013 at Tanzkongress, Düsseldorf. Additionally, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, ZOO/ Thomas Hauert will present the German Premiere of MONO. 

Friday through Sunday activities are organised to support a fluid exchange of ideas and approaches to the creation and use of the new Motion Bank materials alongside related choreographic resources published by a growing Community of Practice (see:http://motionbank.org/en/content/research). Key individuals working with these projects have been invited to join the Motion Bankteam members to take part in and contribute to workshops, Q&A and public discussion during the days. Also planned is a major platform for dance students from Frankfurt, Dresden and Berlin to share the results of their research into applications of these resources. 

More information soon under: http://motionbank.org/en/event/live-online-2013

There is no attendance fee for the conference.
We kindly ask you to register for the conference by writing to registration@theforsythecompany.de with the subject-header “conference registration”. 

The performances of MONO cost Fri. & Sat. € 29 / € 14,50 – Sun. € 26 / € 13
Tickets must be purchased through the Städtischen Bühnen Frankfurt under the number 
+49 (0) 69 212 49494 or go to  www.theforsythecompany.com

CHOREOGRAPHIC CODING: A MOTION BANK LAB
26-29 November 2013
Z Zentrum für Proben und Forschung
Schmidtstrasse 12, Frankfurt am Main

Running in parallel with Live & OnLine, Choreographic Coding explores how to translate aspects of dance and choreography into digital form, one of the main goals of Motion Bank. This is a laboratory for 'code savvy' practitioners with expertise in digital media practice, e.g. video, graphics, programming.  Teams combining different skill sets including dance and choreography are encouraged to apply. 
For more information and to register for the lab: 
http://motionbank.org/en/event/motion-bank-laboratory

In September 2011 Anne Juren and Roland Rauschmeier wrote the following text regarding their experience within the modul-dance project. They have developed the project entitled Tableaux Vivants, where the art forms interweave and allow hybrid relations to develop between the paintings, sculptures and videos and the bodies of the performers.

Within the frame of the modul-dance project, we worked in three different locations (Faro/Portugal, Poznań/Poland and Ljubljana/Slovenia) on the conceptualisation, ideal configuration and technical translation of our idea for Tableaux Vivants.

During our stay in Faro, the composer Johannes Maria Staud gave us a compilation of his works based on the suite Berenice so that we could take some initial decisions on the choice of music. We also developed a comprehensive mind map that included socio-historic facts, artists and relevant eras for our performance. The southern atmosphere and some very pleasant and spacious studios made Faro an ideal place to work and make an in-depth study of concepts and ideas in a relaxed way.

In Poznań we analysed our artistic stance in the context of plastic and performance arts so that we could establish the underlying structure of the piece. We decided to develop five thematic groups on Europe’s cultural development, using an approach that spanned several, bringing them together in terms of space and performance set-up.

To do so, we stuck to the time sequence of the themes, starting with the wall paintings of Lascaux caves and moving on to the origins of central perspective in the Renaissance and the optimistic abundance of the Baroque. In the fourth part of our artistic research we hit upon the idea of reinterpreting the Oskar Schlemmer and Bauhaus Triadic ballet. The last part tackles the problems of giving today’s artistic output validity and meaning in relation to the media cannons and their inherent evaluation. The choice of each cultural era is tied to personal experiences, such as a trip to Lascaux or extensive research into the influence that Bauhaus has had on the artistic development of Juren and Rauschmeier.

In Ljubljana, during a relatively initial stage of the project’s conception, we were able to work on the lighting for the definitive performance. This allowed us to dedicate more time to experiment with the inclusion of several media and genres with our performers.

We also made the final musical selection, by this point Staud had already made four versions. We would like to emphasise Johannes Maria Staud’s openness and interest in our work and how he adapted to our – ever changing – way of creating. From a musical perspective he accompanied and complemented the development of the piece. In the woodlands around Ljubljana we organised a photographic session in which we researched the "Bauhaus party” of 1924. This session also led to a number of videos and important ideological considerations for future projects.

In short, without the modul-dance project, we wouldn’t have had access to the conditions and resources necessary to create Tableaux Vivants. We hope to be able to bring our performance to as many project participants as possible!

Picture: © Angela Bedekovic

Contemporary Performance Network is publishing a book called Contemporary Performance Almanac 2013! It will be a compendium of contemporary performance presented during the 2012/2013 season that is available for touring. This is a network funded book (crowdfunded from our network of 4700 artists from 81 countries). The book will be published in January and mailed to international presenters who are looking to invite touring work. So often presenters do not have access to the work of artists that are outside the touring circuit. Contemporary Performance sees a need to give access to both artists and presenters to find each other and start new working relationships. We need 100 artists and or companies to join to be able to produce the book. It will be about 120 page perfect bound book with each artist receiving a full page image and a full page listing that includes:

• Artist/Company Name
• Work Title
• Description
• Artist Statement
• Production History
• Contact information.

Fill out the form after the link if you are interested and we will contact you when we have reached our goal. Each artist company will pitch in US$50 to help publish the book. 

Here is the link to fill out the form.

http://contemporaryperformance.com/2013/09/25/opportunities-publish-your-20122013-work-in-the-contemporary-performance-almanac/

An Kaler will be presenting Insignificant Others (learning to look sideways) on 16th of October 2013 at RMNSC Krakow and on 22nd of October 2013 at STUK Leuven.

What are ways of distributing, or partitioning, or fragmenting presence when being together?

Insignificant Others examines the Tableaux as a shifting structure that diplays the process of the performers co-operating in modes of conducting, structuring and shifting a shared topography of physical presence and absence in fragmented cycles of movements.

The performers are as spectres and carriers of ambiguous images, still and fluctuating. A series of discontinuous but interconnected still postures that make images and situations between the performers but never quite build a shared narrative. Rather than a dramaturgy of determination, the artists are simultaneously working alone together as if in a field of energy that needs careful management, redistribution and direction, here they are making a dance out of the reabsorption of this energy field into the bodies of the empty space, themselves and the perception of audience. Harboured in that which is deemed unaffirmative pure potential is what is performed.

Picture: © Eva Würdinger

The second part of CoFestival will take place between 21 and 27 September 2013. This second round of the festival organized by Kino Šiška Ljubljana will be launched by the 3D film PINA by the German cineaste Wim Wenders, a sensitive homage to the unforgettable dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch. The film will be followed by the already traditional FičoDrom, intended for everybody who misses opportunities to dance.

Programme highlights include the first public presentation of Jurij Konjar’s piece Still (23 Sep at 9pm, Kino Šiška), the show Au contraire (based on Jean-Luc Godard) by the prize-winning Geneva-based artist Foofwa d’Imobilité (24 Sep at 9pm, Stara mestna Elektrarna), The Seagull directed by Tomi Janežič and produced by Novi Sad Serbian National Theatre (25 Sep and 26 Sep at 6pm, Kino Šiška). All shows will be followed by artist talks.

The Festival also promises the Vertigo dance workshop run by Eduardo Torroja, a member of the renowned Belgian group Ultima Vez, a research-art project of the Frankfurt-based dancer and choreographer Lili Mihajlović, and visiting artist Antje Pfundtner.

During the festival, the daily programme will be complemented by the festival team joined by many international artists having a go at The Art of Co-Living, a programme running in the Museum of Contemporary Arts as part of the Triennial of Contemporary Art.

For detailed information visit www.cofestival.net.