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INTERFACES FÍSICO VIRTUALES DEL CUERPO-JUEGO
País: Nueva Zelanda –Portugal
Dicta: Todd Cochrane (presencial) Isabel Valverde (Videoconferencia)
Total horas cronológicas: 2 cursos de 3 horas c/ u
Horario: Miércoles 24 y Jueves 25 11:30 a 14: 30 hrs. hora de CHILE

PHYSICAL INTERFACES VIRTUAL BODY
Country: New Zealand-Portugal
Dicta: Todd Cochrane (face) Isabel Valverde (Videoconference)
Total chronological hours: 2 courses of 3 hours each
Hours: Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 11:30 14: 30 hrs. CHILE time

In SecondLife:



Location 1
LX Factory
Location 2
WI Three


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Photo by Yi-Chun Wu
Michele Boulé, Miguel Gutierrez, and Tarek Halaby in Gutierrez’s "Last Meadow"


FULL PRODUCTIONS HONORED FOR 2008-09

837 Venice Boulevard
Choreographed by Faye Driscoll
Lighting design by Amanda K. Ringger
Set design by Sara C. Walsh
Costume design by Normandy Sherwood
Performers Nikki Zialcita, Michael Helland, Celia Rowlson-Hall
For masterfully invoking a collective past by exploring the raw intensity of childhood; for using text, movement, and song to uncover the falsity of the performance of identity; and for calling forth the true emotions beneath the surface, a 2009 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Faye Driscoll’s “837 Venice Boulevard.”

Pent-Up: A Revenge Dance
Created and choreographed by Okwui Okpokwasili
Directed and designed by Peter Born
Performed by Okwui Okpokwasili and Gloria Huwiler
For conjuring an uncomfortably intimate, viscerally theatrical landscape inhabited by two women—a lone mother and her daughter, who map out the psychic territories of race history, and identity fueled by inexhaustible rage and unknowable anger, yet who are ultimately redeemed by compassion, humanity and a delicate grace at Performance Space 122, a 2009 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Okwui Okpokwasili’s “Pent Up: A Revenge Dance”

Stolen
Choreographed by Yvonne Meier
Music by Alsarah
Lighting design by Kathy Kaufman
Performed by Arturo Vidich and Aki Sasamoto
For leading the audience with absolute sureness and skill, into a magical, mysterious and oftentimes mischievous world filled with ever-folding fabric, electric cords used as jump ropes, and a Buster Keaton-worthy dance with a coffee table at Danspace Project, a 2009 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Yvonne Meier’s “Stolen”.

Crotch (all the Joseph Beuys references in the world cannot heal the pain, confusion, regret, cruelty, betrayal or trauma . . .)
Choreography, performance, installation and visuals by Keith Hennessy
For combining virtuosic improvisation, a history of Western Art in seven minutes and playful, sexy, shamanistic trickery that both enchanted and terrified at Dance Theater Workshop, a 2009 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Keith Hennessy’s “Antibody” and “Crotch (all the Joseph Beuys references in the world cannot heal the pain, confusion, regret, cruelty, betrayal or trauma ... )”

Dark Horse/Black Forest
Direction and Choreography by Yanira Castro
Music by Stephan Moore
Installation by Charles Merritt Houghton
Costume Design by Suzanne Dougan
Lighting by Kathy Couch
Video by Peter Richards
Performed by Heather Olson, Joseph Poulson, Luke Miller, and Darrin Wright For an intimate, sensual, and voyeuristic installation that invited audiences inside an intensely emotional and private love story in a hotel lobby bathroom filled with lights, mirrors, and video screens, presented by Performance Space 122 at The Gershwin Hotel, a 2009 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Yanira Castro’s “Dark Horse / Black Forest”

Be in the Gray With Me
Choreographed by Pam Tanowitz
Score composed by Pavel Karmanov and Dan Siegler
Lights and Scenic design by Philip Treviño
Costumes designed by Renée Kurz
Performed by Christina Amendolia, Dylan Crossman, Ashlie Kittleson, Ellie Kusner, Anne Lentz, Theresa Ling, Rashaun Mitchell, Glen Rumsey, Dan Siegler, Uta Takemura
For using plastic sheets and lighting to transform Dance Theater Workshop into a chambered laboratory and populating it with skilled dancers performing a rich blend of balletic modern with quotes from dance history, a 2009 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Pam Tanowitz’s “Be in the Gray With Me.”

FULL PRODUCTIONS HONORED FOR 2009-10

The Radio Show
Choreographed by Kyle Abraham
Score mixed by Kyle Abraham and including orignal music by Amber Lee Parker
Score by Alva Noto, mixed with music by Ryoji Ikeda
Costume design by Sarah Cubbage
Lighting design by Dan Scully.
Performed by Maureen Damaso, Samantha Farrow, Raja Kelly, Nicole Mannarino, Jeremy Nedd, Amber Lee Parker, Rachelle Rafailedes, and Kyle Abraham
For daring to mix stuff thought not to be mixable in a work that asked questions about communication and community using humor, lush and striking dance moves, and a lingering sense of loss at Danspace Project, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Kyle Abraham’s “The Radio Show”.

Last Meadow
Created and choreographed by Miguel Gutierrez in collaboration with the performers, with assistance from Alex Anfanger and Neal Medlyn
Performed by Michelle Boulé, Miguel Gutierrez, and Tarek Halaby
Sound Design by Neal Medlyn
Lighting Design by Lenore Doxsee
Costume Styling by David Tabbert
For engaging movement, language, and sound to explore American archetypes, featuring performers unafraid to embody characters and then abandon everything at Dance Theater Workshop, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Miguel Gutierrez’s “Last Meadow”.

PURO DESEO
Concept and direction by luciana achugar
Choreography and performance by Michael Mahalchick and luciana achugar
Lighting design by Madeline Best
Costume design by Walter Dundervill
For casting a spell on the audience and taking them into the dark, dark mysteries of the body and all its desires at The Kitchen, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to luciana achugar’s “PURO DESEO”.

Comme Toujours, Here I Stand
By Big Dance Theater
Directed and choreographed by Annie-B Parson
Co-direction by Paul Lazar
Video by Jeff Larson
Original title song by Robyn Hitchcock
Costume design by Claudia Stephen Claudia Stephens
Lighting design by Joe Levasseur.
Set design by Joanne Howard
Sound design by Jane Shaw
Performed by Tymberly Canale, Chris Giarmo, Molly Hickok, Ryutaro Mishima, Kourtney Rutherford, Chris Wendelken, Aaron Rosenblum and Jeff Larson
On Video - Stacy Dawson Stearns
For fearlessly re-inventing a classic New Wave film for live stage using an elaborate fusion of dance, music, and theater, resulting in a totally new work filled with sadness, humor, and warmth, 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Big Dance Theater's “Comme Toujours Here I Stand”.

Grupo de Rua’s H3
Direction and Choreography by Bruno Beltrao
Assistant directed by Ugo Alexandre Neves
Dramaturgy Rodrigo Bernardi
Music by Lucas Marcier, Rodrigo Marçal -­‐ ARPX
Costume design by Marcelo Sommer
Lighting design by Renato Machado and Bruno Beltrão
Set design by Gualter Pupo
Performed by Thiago Almeida, Bruno Neres, Bruno Duarte, Augusto Eduardo Hermanson, Luiz Carlos Gadelha, Kleberson Goncalves, Kristiano Goncalves, Filipi De Morais, Danilo Pereira
For delving deeply into the theatrical possibilities of hip-hop, ranging from subtly poetic to flat-out adrenalizing, and for overturning every stereotype about the genre at Dance Theater Workshop, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Grupo de Rua’s “H3”

parades & changes, replays
(a re-enactment of Parades & Changes, created by Anna Halprin in collaboration with Morton Subotnick - 1965)
Conception & artistic direction Anne Collod in dialogue with Anna Halprin and Morton Subotnick
Music by Morton Subotnick assisted by Sébastien Roux
Costumes designed by Anna Halprin
Set designed by Anne Collod and Mikko Hynninen
Performed by Boaz K. Barkan, Nuno Bizarro, Alain Buffard, Anne Collod, DD Dorvillier, Emmanuelle Huyhn, Vera Mantero, Laurent Pichaud, Fabrice Ramalingom
For reconfiguring the pedestrian into a performance piece that reflects life itself; for reminding us that mystery and magic reside in the mind and can be discovered in the routine as well as the exotic, for bringing this trailblazing performance work back to life, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Anne Collod’s reenactment of Anna Halprin and Morton Subotnick’s “parades and changes, replay”.

PERFORMERS HONORED FOR WORK DURING 2008-2010

Michelle Boulé
For channeling the essence of James Dean’s character Cal in East of Eden through fearlessly dancing, singing, acting, and brooding in Last Meadow, presented at Dance Theater Workshop, , a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Michelle Boulé.

Young dancers from Sarah Michelson’s Dover Beach
Latysha Antonio, Sofia Britos, Non Griffiths, Allegra Herman
For their exacting performance in Sarah Michelson’s Dover Beach, at the Kitchen, lending an innocent but romantically charged fervor to Michelson’s eccentrically elegant vision of mortals in motion, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Latysha Antonio, Sofia Britos, Non Griffiths, Allegra Herman.

David Leventhal
For adding a singular polish and elegance to every step he performed, and for projecting a keen intelligence with a twinkle in his eye while bringing to exhilarating life more than 40 of Mark Morris’s works, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to David Leventhal.

Heather Olson
For being a Raphaelite muse who sculpts the work from inside and out, through consistent, compelling, committed creation and development in performances over many years and many works dancing with Tere O’Connor, a 2009-2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Heather Olson.

Miki Orihara
For her commitment to the true spirit and rigorous interpretation of the work of Martha Graham; for her constancy in keeping Graham’s work alive onstage and in the classroom; and for the remarkable
beauty, grace, and power of her dancing, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Miki Orihara

Ensemble of dancers in Paradigm
Bold, beautiful and boundless, the performers of Paradigm have dared choreographers to "bring it," and they have delivered. In work after work, these grand performers, without fail, bring into vibrant focus the essence of what it means to dance. A 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Carmen deLavallade, Gus Solomons jr, Carmen deLavallade, Dudley Williams, Valda Setterfield, Michael Blake, Hope Clark, and Keith Sabado

Kayvon Pourazar
For the fierce individuality of his sensual, grounded presence; for his ability to move through space with knife-slicing precision combined with a tender, fluid physicality; and for fully-embodying the choreographic sensibilities of the artists he dances with, most notably in the works of John Jasperse and Yasuko Yokoshi, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Kayvon Pourazar.
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Move: Choreographing You
13 October 2010 – 9 January 2011


Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX

southbankcentre.co.uk/move
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This autumn the Hayward Gallery presents seminal works and new commissions by leading artists in Move: Choreographing You. Exploring the historical and current relationship between visual arts, dance and performance, the exhibition focuses on visual artists and choreographers from the last 50 years who create sculptures and installations that turn the audience into active participants, becoming more aware of their body – or even becoming a dancer. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of performances at Southbank Centre by acclaimed choreographers including Trisha Brown and Rosemary Butcher, La Ribot and Xavier Le Roy. The exhibition has been designed by Amanda Levete Architects.

Artists featured include: Nevin Aladağ, Janine Antoni, Pablo Bronstein, Trisha Brown, Tania Bruguera, Boris Charmatz, Lygia Clark, Siobhan Davies, EVERYBODYS/Générique, William Forsythe, Simone Forti, Dan Graham, Christian Jankowski, Isaac Julien, Mike Kelley, Michael Kliën, Anita Pace, La Ribot, Xavier Le Roy & Mårten Spångberg, The OpenEnded Group and Wayne McGregor, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, João Penalva, Yvonne Rainer, Franz Erhard Walther and Franz West.

The exhibition takes as its starting point the Judson Church Theater and Allan Kaprow's Happenings in 1960s New York, which blurred the boundaries between art and life. Curated by Stephanie Rosenthal, Chief Curator, Hayward Gallery, the exhibition explores how everyday movements have been a driving force in the development of both contemporary art and dance since the 1960s. It examines how visual artists in the 1960s and 1970s used choreography as a means to encourage audiences to experience art with their whole body, whilst increasingly over the last two decades artists have used dance and performance to explore how everyday behaviour is choreographed and manipulated.

At points throughout the exhibition visitors can pause to explore a touch-screen digital archive designed by Unit9 and co-curated by André Lepecki, Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, which brings together photographs and films of 120 of some of the most important performance works from the last 50 years.

Stephanie Rosenthal, Curator of Move: Choreographing You, says: "I believe that this will be a totally new approach to experiencing the crucial and inspiring relationship between art and dance. I hope that the exhibition will give people a new awareness of their own bodies in space and how they can interact with the environment around them."

Alongside the exhibition, a there is a programme of high-profile performances, co-curated by the dance programming team at Southbank Centre in collaboration with Stephanie Rosenthal. British choreographer Rosemary Butcher reinterprets Allan Kaprow's 18 Happenings in 6 parts and there are UK premieres of Schrottplatz by Thomas Lehmen (9 Nov), Llamame Mariachi by La Ribot (26 Nov) and Anne Collod's reinterpretation of Anna Halprin's Parades & Changes, Replays (27 Nov) and a new work by Xavier Le Roy (28 Nov). All these performances are programmed to coincide with a three-day symposium at Southbank Centre (26-28 Nov).

The exhibition is supported by German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Henry Moore Foundation and Louis Vuitton. It tours to Haus der Kunst, Munich, from 4 February to 15 May 2011 and will be adapted for presentation at K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf from 16 July to 25 September 2011.

southbankcentre.co.uk/move


*Image above:
Photo by Fredrik Nilsen.
Courtesy Kelley Studio.
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MAX Jitter and life among cables.

So it's been a while since my first post.

Finally I managed to learn and build the patch I needed for my project, all at the same time. The idea was to feed MAX with 5 video cameras and create 5 separate videos from it. The videos created where some kind of edition of the video income, as not everything that came from each camera had to be in each final video.
So what I did was getting Ableton Live (from where I also sent two separate channels of audio) to send MIDI notes telling MAX which camera had to capture and when. I finally had to use two computers because I wanted maximum quality, therefore fireware and not USB. I could only get one fireware camera into each computer at a time (I finally got two cameras in one of the computers where I installed Windows 7 in BootCamp) because of a Quicktime limitation. So Live was telling both MAX in both computers (through a MIDI cable) exactly when to capture what.


The patch is made of one jit.qt.grab object for each camera. According to the MIDI in note, the grab objects (in a subpatcher) create little videos.


The name of the videos is set by a little subpatcher which adds up a number each time it receives
the MIDI note.


So after all the little videos have been captured by each grab object (three on one computer, two on the other one), I use jit.qt.movie to put all these videos together and export a mp4 video file that can be read by five multimedia players that I bought (the simplest way I found to play five independent videos). Again, it's a MIDI note telling the program "ok, now make a big video out of all these little ones". I created a small video in black which I could load already at when opening the patch. This way I could set the export settings before hand.




The big problem I got was when I tried to append all the videos automatically into the qt.movie object. I know there must be a way, but I didn't have the time to find it! So what I did finally was writing the name of all the videos (which is always the same). The resulting patch is rather beautiful.



I had to use sprintf because I couldn't get a message to output file locations with the $1 system. So I spent quite a lot of time finding this out, until my savior Yoann Trellu told me about sprintf.


Conclusion: I love MAX and the way it works. It takes a lot of time to learn its mechanics, but I will continue exploring its possibilities. Next I want to dive into the world of MSP which I didn't have the time to even touch! The sound was captured directly with he write_audio message of the grab object.


If anyone is interested in knowing more about the patch I just tried to explain or about the project it was used for, please don't hesitate asking me. I will answer with pleasure to all questions and suggestions.


See you all!


Pablo


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Canadian Children's Dance Theatre (Toronto, Canadá. 2010)





1er día

12 de octubre de 2010



Denise Fujiwara es una mujer afable, y eso me gusta. No se respira protagonismo en ella, no nos crea un ambiente en el que uno debiera adorarla, ni a ella ni al Butoh.


Somos casi 30 personas y aunque pareciera un exceso no lo es en la práctica, pero debo resaltar que los comentarios finales se hacen cansados por la cantidad de gente.


Mi primer día fue un día difícil en el inicio; no había tenido contacto práctico con el quehacer teatral desde hace 7 años. Estaba nervioso pero no tenía más expectativa que la de reencontrar mi propio ritmo creativo en el contacto con el Butoh. Sé que es inherente a él (la creatividad, el encuentro con tu propio ser creativo) y no temía el no lograrlo.


Mis nervios son humanos, algo nuevo siempre es algo desconocido.


¿Y qué es lo primero que Denise nos ofrece? Ejercicios del Taiji Qigong. ¡Ejercicios que conozco desde hace casi 20 años!


El proceso del "calentamiento" es suave y claro, paso por paso: taijiqigong, posicionamiento de la cadera, control del centro, circulación, desplazamiento, contacto continuo con el compañero, fluidez de movimientos. Parecía que revivía el training de Grotowski, y en una primera sesión. Mi pie entonces avanzaba seguro, mi cadera era su centro, mi desplazamiento se entregaba al juego, el pasado y mi tradición estaban de mi parte.


-"We are not performers"-, decía Denise; -"don't try to show anything"-.

-"Don't do characters", nos repetía.


Mis maestros hablaban también... ¿Quiénes somos si no seres que ligan continuamente sus destinos?


El ejercicio principal fue una verdadera explosión en mi ser: trabajar con propiedades del elemento tierra; no era tratar de ser la tierra, no era qué te provoca la tierra, era ser la tierra.


Mi pasado se hacía presente, las técnicas asumidas se entrecuzaban y buscaban su propia definición. No había tiempo de pensar más allá en ese entrecuzamiento, el ejercicio estaba por empezar y las premisas eran claras: Primero palabras referentes al elemento tierra, después el movimiento, el serlo, ser estados de ese elemento; como si las palabras fueran Haikús que entran a nosotros y se transforman en nosotros (Denise nunca mencionó haikús, lo hago yo).


Mi imaginación se cruzaba, mi cuerpo podía moverse pero estaba demasiado atento a no hacer aquello que no debía de hacer; después de un rato de lucha, dejé correr el impulso (sí, recordé otra vez palabras de mi pasado). Un impulso que se volvía confuso y cambiante, un impulso que creaba imágenes y sensaciones, que movía mis pies y un impulso que provocaba dolores también.


En algún otro momento luché por evitar el llanto; temía que Denise creyera que buscaba la emoción y la proyección (lo que estaba prohibido), pero el llanto salió sin dolor, liberante. Imágenes de dureza y frialdad, primero un metal, frío y duro, entonces vino la delicadeza de la madera, y mi ser entró en el gusto por ser madera, primero en mi piel, después formar parte de ella; en otra, el miedo por la desintegración de la roca, de la arena suelta que se va con el viento; fuí un cuerpo con huesos que se desmoronaban, y lloré y soplé desesperado, y mis pies se disolvían, tiraban la arena y se deformaba mi todo. Hasta que tuve que dejar que el miedo saliera también.


Las indicaciones de Denise estaban en todo momento, durante el proceso de encuentro de los estados, durante el ser del elemento; debíamos no dejarnos ir a la par de la música (la música es muy poderosa y me ataba); debíamos no bailar no danzar; debíamos no crear escenas... ¿Qué era eso? Dejar correr sin hacer...


Cuando detuvo aquella explosión (que era la improvisación) el salón parecía un hervidero creativo. La sorpresa, era inmensa, el gusto era mayor. Denise parecía contenta, nosotros también.


El siguiente paso debía ser la repetición de dos de los estados del elemento que acabábamos de explorar. Habría que escogerlos.


¿Cómo habría de repetir eso?...


Volvimos al espacio y buscamos repetir esos dos estados; con sorpresa descubrí que no fue tan complicado; digamos que guardaba rezagos de lo hecho hace unos momentos, y mi memoria estaba fresca para retomar imágenes utilizadas y posturas que me habían llevado a esos estados; y ahora las repetía.


Después de un mucho más limitado tiempo, Denise detuvo el trabajo y nos propuso algo un tanto más complejo.


7 personas sobre la escena debían repetir 2 de sus estados del elemento experimentados en el ejercicio anterior, crear una separación entre ellos con una pausa, al terminar el primer estado ponerse de pie y mirar al público, y entonces comenzar el siguiente, al final de éste otro retomar esa posición mirando al público y salir. Entonces otro tomaría su lugar y continuaría trabajando con sus propios estados. Debíamos ser concientes del inicio y del final de cada estado que se repetía y aún del espacio escogido para realizarlo. Habría la creación de un espectáculo, ahí, en ese presente.


Aún cuando el conflicto y la contradicción era patente: volver a repetir lo aparantemente irrepetible (si dejamos correr, si era único, ¿cómo podia volver a ser verídico?), y a la vez ser conciente de la escena misma, nadie opuso objeción a las instrucciones.


Yo fui parte del grupo que inició el espectáculo improvisado.


No puedo hablar del exterior, de cómo se vió aquelló (nadie lo hizo, ni Denise), pero puedo hablar que no luché, que no estaba nervioso por ser visto o criticado, y aún más, que estaba dedicado a mi búsqueda. La experiencia teatral me daba pauta para saber cuando acabar y cambiar, eso no era complicado, pero la honestidad de re-encontarr aquél estado del elemento tierra que había escogido era el mayor reto. Dejé correr, busqué las posiciones, las imágenes, y fácil entré a la madera (ese era uno de los estados escogidos,) y después de la pausa volví a ser los huesos que se disolvían. Pero mis estados fluctuaban, no puedo asegurar que me sentía que era yo madera, lo fuí en momentos, pero también era yo en la madera, era la madera, y era la madera sintiéndome a mí. Los huesos que se disolvían eran los míos, pero también eran de otro, y la arena era yo, mis pies que se desintegraban con el viento y el movimiento mismo.


¿Debo decir que esa confusión no me era extraña? Me era como familiar, esa confusión era la que me movía, y yo la dejaba ir.


Dar el 100% nos había dicho Denise, y aunque aún no reconozco mi 100% en el Butoh, mi intención fue darlo, y lo disfruté enormemente.


Cuando terminé y salí del grupo de la escena me volví un espectador, un espectador en un estado especial, claro; pero lo que ví me sorprendió mucho más: Todos, absolutamente todos, y en un gran porcentaje, estaban dentro en su trabajo, todos tenían "un mundo", sus movimientos estaban llenos... ¡Y ese era el primer ejercicio en el curso de Butoh!


Yo estaba viendo un espectáculo hecho, con seres en movimiento haciendo algo incomprensible pero profundo y atrayente; una música hermosa de fondo (la selección de Denise era idónea, claro), y mi mente como espectador se perdía mientras mi cuerpo sentía, percibía, porque buscaba a cada uno de ellos, porque quería urgar en cada uno de sus estados. Quise volver a entrar a la escena, lo acepto, ¡el gusto era tanto¡ Ellos me invitaban a participar otra vez.


En esta sesión Butoh ha sido un reencuentro con mi ritmo creativo, pero posiblemente sea mucho más que eso.


Al final, Denise nos expuso su concepto de Butoh. Repetirlo con mi rala memoria simplemente sería un fiasco; lo debo para otro momento, cuando ese concepto lo pueda repetir con mi cuerpo mismo.


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Go to Motion Bank Website

MOTION BANK is a new four year project (2010-2013) of The Forsythe Company providing a broad context for research into choreographic practice. The main focus is on the creation of on-line digital scores in collaboration with guest choreographers* to be made publicly available via the Motion Bank website. Both these unique score productions and development of related teaching curriculum will be undertaken with and rely on the expertise and experience of key collaborative partners.

Public educational activities and events reflecting the diverse issues related to score creation will be offered at The Frankfurt Lab, and will include performances and presentations of the guest choreographers as well as lectures. Workshops and residencies organized with senior scientists and scholars aim to stimulate interdisciplinary research based on questions coming from dance practice. Exchange of information with and support for related projects is facilitated through working groups and associate networks.

The pilot project for Motion Bank is the award winning Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced: a joint project of William Forsythe and The Ohio State University’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design and the Department of Dance.

*The guest choreographers for 2010-2013 will be Deborah Hay, Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion, and Bruno Beltrão.


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Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance
Research Seminar Series
Brunel Universiity

Coproduction with danceTech TV
ALL 2010 series

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Site venue: School of Arts, Brunel University, West London
Time:
4 pm (GMT) 11:oo am EST


Wednesday October 13th
Fiona Templeton, Brunel University
Speaking for Performance


Wednesday October 27th
Johannes Birringer, Brunel University
‘Dispositif: Performance Repositions’



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Wednesday November 3rd
Misha Myers, University College Falmouth
Is that a pistol in your pocket...?’: Corral Consciousness and the Performance of Enclosure and Concealment

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Wednesday November 10th
Mike Pearson, University of Plymouth
'Fighting in Built-Up Areas': staging The Persians with the British Army

Wednesday November 24th
Guillerme Mendonça, Brunel University
Title: TBA

Wednesday December 8th
Rachel Fensham, University of Surrey

Title: TBA


DESCRIPTIONS


Wednesday October 13th: Fiona Templeton, Brunel University

Speaking for Performance

I will introduce a method I use in the last few years to generate text
without writing, described in my article ‘Speaking for Performance’ in
Sensualities/Technologies, and used particularly in my work The Medead.
I’ll also talk about voice, not only physiologically and musically but
about the notion of voice in the sense of authorial position/ persona in
performance / inhabitation / ventriloquism. This relates to my current
work in progress, and also to another very brief article/note about the
work I directed last June by Leslie Scalapino. That article, entitled
'Acting Brackets' is about directing decisions about the non-lexical
aspects of the text to reflect Scalapino’s and my own interest in the
above notions.

Fiona Templeton is currently director of New York based The
Relationship, an international performance group, and was a founder of
The Theatre of Mistakes in the 70s. Her work ranges across theatre,
poetry and installation, and she has won awards and published 12 books
in several disciplines. Her You-The City (1988) was a pioneering work
in the genre of the site-specific performance journey. Recent
productions include the 6-part performance epic The Medead, and L’Ile, a
recreation of the dreams of the people of Lille in the places dreamt
of.

Wednesday October 27th Johannes Birringer, Brunel University

‘Dispositif: Performance Repositions’

In this speculative lecture, Birringer seeks to develop methodological
frameworks for grappling with the daunting challenges that underlie a
sociological or pragmatist/materialist analysis of contemporary
"interfacial installations." After introducing the notion of the
"performative dispositif" (extending studies of cinematic and
scenographic arrangements), questions will address the material
processes in installations and what it might mean to advance knowledge
or explore sensory perception. How do performer-participants assess or
value attributes or affordances of "technical beings," of programmed
responsive environments or hybrid media spaces which behave with and
towards the visitor-participant – as if becoming living, moving, animate
matter, changing their vitality and displaying a range of symptoms in
their materiality (motion, agency, autonomy, protocol behavior, and
ritual aspect, etc.). With this research, Birringer proposes to place
more attention on how a particular dispositif enables the interface
relations technically while observing how human performers respond to
responsive environments or experience its sensate articulations.


Johannes Birringer is a choreographer and media artist. As artistic director of the Houston-based AlienNation Co.(www.aliennationcompany.com),
he has created numerous dance-theatre works, video installations and
digital projects in collaboration with artists in Europe, the Americas,
China, Japan and Australia. His digital oratorio Corpo, Carne e Espírito
premiered in Brasil at the FIT Theatre Festival in 2008; the
interactive dancework Suna no Onna was featured at Laban Centre and
Watermans, London. The mixed reality installation UKIYO toured Eastern
Europe in June 2010. He is founder of Interaktionslabor Göttelborn in
Germany (http://interaktionslabor.de)
and director of DAP-Lab at Brunel University, West London, where he is a
Professor of Performance Technologies in the School of Arts. His new
book, Performance, Technology and Science, was released by PAJ
Publications in 2009.

Wednesday November 3 Misha Myers, University of Falmouth
Is that a pistol in your pocket...?’:
Corral Consciousness and the Performance of Enclosure and Concealment

This presentation stages a performative ‘fictocritical’ dialogue with
Jimmie Durham on the strategies employed in his work to intervene in the
rituals of concealment and erasure which founded and continue founding
the unique brand of empire made in the political and ideological
narratives of the US.
This dialogue engages with Durham’s performance/installation works,
writings on cowboys, and his curation of the American West (2005) at
Compton Verney, UK, and his work Building a Nation (2006) at Matt’s
Gallery, London, through the persona, performance texts, lyrics, stage
directions and images of my own performance practice, including Yodel
Rodeo and Lonesome Long Gone and the installation/outpost Buffalo Sue’s
Wild West (2004), which were commissioned and performed as part of
Spacex Gallery and Relational’s Homeland exhibition in Exeter, UK. As a
method of researching Durham’s strategies of interruption, I staged a
re-enactment of a moment of Building a Nation for a Performance
Re-enactment Society (PRS) photo shoot. It is a kind of research that I
do through the doing of a thing. This involved a process of finding out
what something was, is or what it can become through a dynamic and
discursive relationship with ‘second hand’ memories, photographs, and
other relics of a performance archive.

Originally, from Mississippi, Dr. Misha Myers is a live artist and
Senior Lecturer in Theatre at University College Falmouth-incorporating
Dartington College of Arts. She creates socially engaged, dialogic and
participatory events that invite participants to reflect on and
articulate their experience of particular places and landscapes through
various spatial practices and performance mechanisms involving walking,
singing, moving and writing. Documentation and digital artworks from her
walk works way from home and Take me to a place, co-created with
refugees and asylum seekers and refugee support organisations in cities
across the UK, are online at www.homingplace.org.
Her recent work has been shown at Spacex Gallery’s public art
exhibition ‘Homelands’, in the Millais Gallery’s ‘Art in the Age of
Terrorism’ exhibition, and as part of Art Surgery and Newlyn Art
Gallery’s ‘Tract’, a programme of site-specific and live art. She has
published articles on her work and that of others in various journals,
including Visual Studies, Performance Research Journal, Leonardo
Electronic Almanac, Performance Paradigm, The International Journal of
Arts and Society, Research in Drama Education and in the book Art in the
Age of Terrorism.

Wednesday November 10th Mike Pearson, University of Plymouth
'Fighting in Built-Up Areas': staging The Persians with the British Army

This seminar will reflect upon matters of archaeology, landscape and
site-specificity theory and practice in relation to the production of
Aeschylus's The Persians that Mike Pearson directed in August for the
newly-founded National Theatre Wales.

Mike Pearson studied archaeology in University College, Cardiff
(1968–71). He was a member of R.A.T. Theatre (1972–3) and an artistic
director of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre (1973–80) and Brith Gof
(1981–97). He continues to make performance as a solo artist and in
collaboration with artist/designer Mike Brookes as Pearson/Brookes
(1997–present). In August 2010 he directed a site-specific production of
Aeschylus’s The Persians for National Theatre Wales on the military
training ranges in mid-Wales. He is co-author with Michael Shanks of
Theatre/Archaeology (2001) and author of In Comes I: Performance, Memory
and Landscape (2006) and Site-Specific Performance (2010). The
monograph: All that remains: an imperfect archaeology of the Mickery
Theatre, Amsterdam is forthcoming in 2010. He is currently Professor of
Performance Studies, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies,
Aberystwyth University.

Wednesday November 24th Guillerme Mendonça, Research Student Brunel University
Title: TBA

Wednesday December 8th Rachel Fensham, University of Surrey
Title: TBA

For more information please contact
Gretchen.schiller@brunel.ac.uk


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Harvestworks slashes class prices in half! See below a new weekend Interactive Art Intensive Course we added to our list of upcoming classes, in November. If you're interested in interactivity, this is the course you want to take - and now it costs just half of what a full-weekend course has cost before.

A few open spots remain in our full-week Max/MSP/Jitter Intensive Course, starting in a little more than two weeks. Now we're offering a $100 discount for students enrolled in any college if they sign up! Just look for "Special Student Pricing" when you choose your payment option. Well, don't forget to bring your student ID to the class...
For more information about classes and events, check out our main website at http://harvestworks.org. You can sign up for our classes thrpough our PayPal store, you'll find all classes listed on our front page. If you have questions call Hans Tammen at 212-431-1130 ext 2. Membership is $75/yr, and you can pay for the membership when you sign up for the class.
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Exciting one-off chance brought to your door step:

Industry workshop INTERACTIVE SCENO LAB 19-21 Oct 2010, Liverpool.

The workshop is aimed at filmmakers, video art and interactive art enthusiasts, musicians, scenographers and creative engineers who are up
for experimenting some days and unleashing creativity...

More details at www.movementonscreen.org.uk.
Contact moves@movementonscreen.org.uk and register now. There are only few places left.

Catch a glimpse of the workshop and watch our online video here: http://www.movementonscreen.org.uk/video.asp?id=80849


All the best,
The moves team.

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Professor Dava Newman, MIT: Inventor, Science and Engineering
Guillermo Trotti, A.I.A., Trotti and Associates, Inc. (Cambridge, MA): Design
Dainese (Vincenca, Italy): Fabrication
Douglas Sonders: Photography
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dava Newman,
"Second Skin Bio-suit"


Monday, October 18
7:00 PM

MIT Bartos Theater
Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Free and open to the public
617-253-5229
act@mit.edu

http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/lecture.html

Second Skin Bio-suit

With support from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts and Trotti & Assoc. Inc., Cambridge, Mass., the BioSuit was developed to provide a 'second skin' capability for astronaut performance. Processes such as electrospinning and melt-blowing have been used to develop fibers for the suit. A current mockup uses nylon, spandex and urethane layers with varied properties and electronics incorporated into the suit and helmet materials that can have "smart textile" functions relating to physiology (thermal comfort), communications and spatial orientation. Space suit research can lead to improvements in the quality of life here on earth, too, through advances in orthotics that can help children with cerebral palsy and 'smart orthoses' for stroke patients.

Dava J. Newman is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT She assisted NASA in developing the Bio-Suit.

Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Free and open to the public.

For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/lecture.html
act@mit.edu
617-253-5229

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The Give Me Shelter lecture series draws together speakers from different disciplines to discuss questions such as: How can bodywear function as body extension or to support the human body under unusual conditions such as hot and cold climates? How can we expand the notion of the boundary between the body and environment? What kind of second skin would be required to survive walking through a volcano, living under water, or visiting outer space? How does clothing contribute to the question of the protection of endangered peoples and environments? The ACT Monday night lecture series is organized this term as part of the ACT course of Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Second Skin / Body Wear. Artistic Research and Transdisciplinary Studies, in collaboration with the Performance Workshop of Professor Joan Jonas and Introduction to Networked Cultures of lecturer Nitin Sawhney.

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9/13/10 - Climate Changes in Science Fashion
Elke Gaugele
Gaugele will reflect upon climate changes in "science fashion" and discuss different points of departure for its contemporary artistic research. Elke Gaugele is a cultural anthropologist and professor of Fashions and Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria.

09/20/10 - Com(ment)ic: Wondersuits, Fast Skin, Poison Ivy
Regina Maria Moeller
Comic superheroes dress in hightech suits that support their hyperactivities with magic powers. Are these "wondersuits" fictional? Or have they become models for current "second skin" developments? Regina Maria Möller is a German artist, author, founder of the magazine regina. She is a professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art / Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at the Norwegian University of Science andTechnology.

09//27/10 - 21st Century Living in the Amazon: In the Order of Chaos
Laura Anderson Barbata
Laura Anderson Barbata worked with the Yanomami people of the Venezuelan Amazon Rainforest, teaching them to make paper and books so they could write their own history. Barbata is a professor at the Escuela Nacional de Escultura, Pintura y Grabado La Esmeralda of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, México.

10/04/10 - Tierra Brillante
Omar Foglio and Jose Luis Figueroa
Tierra Brilliante ("the brightest glaze") spotlights lead poisoning suffered by practitioners of traditional ceramics in Mexico. Jose Luis Figueroa co-directed Tierra Brillante, and Omar Folgio was in charge of production for the same film. Tierra Brillante is a co-production between Galatea and the Mexican Institute of Cinema (IMCINE).

10/18/10 - Second Skin Bio-suit
Dava Newman
See details above.

10/25/10 - SOFT, SMART & STEALTHY: New Paradigms for Design Practice
Sheila Kennedy
Sheila Kennedy will present recent research and work. Sheila Kennedy is a Principal of Kennedy & Violich Architecture Ltd. (KVA), an interdisciplinary design practice that explores the relationships between architecture, digital technology and emerging public needs. She is a Professor of the Practice, Architectural Design at MIT.

11/01/10 - Build your own world
Steve Dietz
Steve Dietz is the Artistic Director of ZER01 which produces the 01SJ Biennial, dedicated to inspiring creativity at the intersection of art, technology and digital culture. Dietz is a serial platform creator.

11/08/10 - Metabolic Studio
Lauren Bon
Lauren Bon will talk about current projects with her Metabolic Studio, including Silver and Water, a film made out of the silver and water historically mined out of the Owens River Valley. Lauren Bon is an artist and MIT alumna. Her Metabolic Studio is based in Los Angeles.

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The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology operates as a critical studies and production based laboratory, connecting the arts with an advanced technological community. ACT faculty, fellows and students engage in advanced visual studies and research by implementing both an experimental and systematic approach to creative production and transdisciplinary collaboration. As an academic and research unit, the ACT Program emphasizes both knowledge production and knowledge dissemination. In the tradition of artist and educator Gyorgy Kepes, the founder of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and an advocate of "art on a civic scale," ACT envisions artistic leadership initiating change, providing a critically transformative view of the world with the civic responsibility to enrich cultural discourse.
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from november 29 to december 4, 2010. L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà. Girona)

Public call for entries

The call for entries to participate at the next LAB that NU2's organizes at L'Animal a l'esquena is now open. If you are preparing a scenic project with an important images presence; if you are thinking in a installation; if you want to create a dance film work or a documentary film... we offer the possibility of share ideas, know the big diversity of recording ways that the market offers actually and to adapt idea and forms to the reason and the way the work will be presented.

A group of artists with a lot of experience's diversity will be with us and we will have in our disposition cameras, projection equipment, technicians, space and time to develop your project.

The places are very limited. We will need to receive a short dossier with your bio and the project which you are working/thinking at the email info@nu2s.org . The lab is free but you have to do an inscription of 90 euros to cover the lunch meals expenses. For the people not living at Girona we have planned accommodation at rural houses.
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Deadline to send material: December 15th, 2010.

All material should be sent to: mangapc@hotmail.com

Results will be publish: December 30th, 2010.


La Granja Art Center promotes the creation, research, experimentation, and exhibition of innovative

art work, and also the development of new social dynamics between artists and community. La

Granja conducts and implements two initiatives to accomplish its goals. One is the Artist in Residence

Program, and the second, Proyecto Chamaco (Children Project).


The Artist in Residence Program (ARP) offers a unique opportunity to step outside of the daily routine

and work in a stimulating and inspiring environment, providing the necessary isolation to concentrate

and focus in a creative process. An important component of the Program is to foster exchanges with

the community, arts organizations, promoters, and national and international artists. With the purpose

of connecting La Granja´s activities with the local community, artists will prepare one working session

with the children of Proyecto Chamaco.


The Selection Committee of La Granja will select a group of emerging and established artists from

different nationalities to develop or finish an artistic project. Upon completion of their residencies, one

of the ARP partner organization presenters will give artists the opportunity to show their results (as

finished pieces or as works in progress). The Selection Committee will evaluate the characteristics

of each project to decide its presentation space and will solve any issue not foreseen in this Call for

Proposals.


La Granja is open to all disciplines - visual, literary, performance, interdisciplinary, music, audio,

video, digital media. Priority will be given to projects focused on the creation of site-specific

pieces for La Granja including its photographic and video documentation (video dance, video

art), as well as interdisciplinary investigations.


Residency duration:

Mínimum 15 and maximum 30 days, between February 1st and May 1st, 2011.


For detailed information please visit:

www.lamangavideoydanza.com

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Deadline to send material: December 15th, 2010.

All material should be sent to: mangapc@hotmail.com

Results will be publish: December 30th, 2010.


La Granja Art Center promotes the creation, research, experimentation, and exhibition of innovative

art work, and also the development of new social dynamics between artists and community. La

Granja conducts and implements two initiatives to accomplish its goals. One is the Artist in Residence

Program, and the second, Proyecto Chamaco (Children Project).


The Artist in Residence Program (ARP) offers a unique opportunity to step outside of the daily routine

and work in a stimulating and inspiring environment, providing the necessary isolation to concentrate

and focus in a creative process. An important component of the Program is to foster exchanges with

the community, arts organizations, promoters, and national and international artists. With the purpose

of connecting La Granja´s activities with the local community, artists will prepare one working session

with the children of Proyecto Chamaco.


The Selection Committee of La Granja will select a group of emerging and established artists from

different nationalities to develop or finish an artistic project. Upon completion of their residencies, one

of the ARP partner organization presenters will give artists the opportunity to show their results (as

finished pieces or as works in progress). The Selection Committee will evaluate the characteristics

of each project to decide its presentation space and will solve any issue not foreseen in this Call for

Proposals.


La Granja is open to all disciplines - visual, literary, performance, interdisciplinary, music, audio,

video, digital media. Priority will be given to projects focused on the creation of site-specific

pieces for La Granja including its photographic and video documentation (video dance, video

art), as well as interdisciplinary investigations.


Residency duration:

Mínimum 15 and maximum 30 days, between February 1st and May 1st, 2011.


For detailed information please visit:

www.lamangavideoydanza.com

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Boston Chapter of "Indie Connect"

Hi Everyone!

Six months ago I struck up a conversation on "Linkedin" with the founder of "Indie Connect," a national music org that is "a worldwide community of independent musicians, singers, bands, songwriters, record labels, music professionals and service providers who share ideas, expertise, contacts, and resources."

This means access to booking/gigs, music distribution, education, film & TV, licensing, marketing, recording, song writing, technology, website development, and social networking.

I am "onboard" to introduce this organization to Massachusetts, and would like to host a meeting in Boston/Cambridge the first week or two of October. Then on the North Shore, South Shore, and wherever the interest lies.

PLEASE email me back and indicate if a Monday or Tuesday evening works for your schedule. The first opportunity would be October or 12th.

I have a couple of sites in mind (that don't cost money at all), but if you know of a cool space to have a meeting for up to 50 people, please let me know this, too.

I am very excited to meet all of you and discuss what the needs of the Massachusetts music community are.

Yours in music, song, and dance -

Lisa Leake

Here are a couple of links:


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The Kitchen presents Ralph Lemon’s Meditation: A One-Day Film Event
Sunday, October 17
The concluding event of Lemon’s How Can You Stay in the House All Day,
Premiering in Brooklyn Academy of Music’s (BAM) Next Wave Festival
New York, NY, September 29, 2010—On Sunday, October 17, The Kitchen presents Meditation, a film
installation conceived and created by Jim Findlay and Ralph Lemon. The one-day event is the closing
chapter of Lemon’s live multi-media project, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go
Anywhere, which has its New York premiere in this year’s Brooklyn Academy of Music’s (BAM) Next
Wave Festival. The installation will be on view from 12:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. at The Kitchen (512 West
19th Street). Admission is free.
The first three portions of How Can You Stay—which includes live performance, dance and visual art— are
presented on the proscenium stag of BAM’s Harvey Theater, while Meditation is a film installation where
audience members can come and go as they please. Only being seen at The Kitchen, the installation
reiterates the themes from How Can You Stay… through projection, light and shadow, creating an
immersive environment. The film invites viewers to absorb the rhythms of an imagined underlying
narrative or simply follow their own free form associations. Throughout the entirety of How Can You
Stay…, Lemon employs these multiple and intertwined media to approach themes of human connection,
loss, and the elusive but ever-compelling possibility of grace.
How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere is co-produced by Cross Performance Inc.
and MAPP International Productions. It was co-commissioned by BAM for the 2010 Next Wave Festival,
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, On The Boards
and Walker Art Center.
Ralph Lemon (Concept and Direction) is Artistic Director of Cross Performance, a company dedicated to
the creation of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary performance and presentation. Lemon builds teams of
collaborating artists - from diverse cultural backgrounds, countries and artistic disciplines - who bring their
own history and aesthetic voices to the work. Projects develop over a period of years, with public sharings
of work-in-progress, culminating in artworks derived from the artistic, cultural, historic and emotional
material uncovered in this rigorous creative research process.
In 2005, Lemon concluded The Geography Trilogy, a decade-long international research and performance
project exploring the "conceptual materials" of race, history, memory and the creative practice. The project
featured three dance/theater performances: Geography (1997); Tree (2000); and Come home Charley
Patton (2004); two Internet art projects; several gallery exhibitions; the publication of two books by
Wesleyan University Press, and a third to be published in 2011. Other recent projects include the three-
DVD set of The Geography Trilogy; a web-installation (www.ralphlemon.net); a 2009 multimedia
performance commission for the Lyon Opera Ballet, Rescuing the Princess; and Lemon’s current
multimedia project How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?
Lemon was one of fifty artists to receive the inaugural United States Artists Fellowship in 2006. He has
received two "Bessie" (NY Dance and Performance) Awards, a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts
Prize for Choreography, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2004 Fellowship with the Bellagio Study and
Conference Center. In 1999, Lemon was honored with the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts. Lemon has
been artist-in-residence at Temple University in Philadelphia (2005-06); George A. Miller Endowment
Visiting Artist at the Krannert Center (2004); and a Fellow of the Humanities Council and Program in
Theater and Dance at Princeton University (2002). From 1996-2000, he was Associate Artist at Yale
Repertory Theatre. Most recently he was an IDA fellow at Stanford University.
Lemon’s solo visual art exhibitions include: How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go
Anywhere?, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2010); (the efflorescence of) Walter,
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans (2008), The Kitchen, New York (2007) and the Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis (2006); The Geography Trilogy, Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
(2001); Temples, Margaret Bodell Gallery, New York (2000); and Geography, Art Awareness, Lexington,
New York (1997). Group exhibitions include: Move: Choreographing You, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
(2010-11) and The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham,
NC. In January 2011, Lemon will perform at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in conjunction
with the exhibition, On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century.
Jim Findlay (Video Designer) is a designer, director, performer and creator with a constellation of theater,
performance and music groups. He was a founding member and primary collaborator in both the
groundbreaking performance group Collapsable Giraffe, and the internationally successful music/media
performance company Accinoso/Cynthia Hopkins, as well as being an associate artist of the Wooster
Group since 1994 and a frequent collaborator with Ridge Theater, Bang on a Can and Ralph Lemon.
Other recent work includes video design for R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the
Universe at Arena Stage; Rescuing the Princess by Ralph Lemon (Lyon Opera Ballet); and projection
design for DJ Spooky’s Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica. Current projects include Persephone by Ridge
Theater; Stew's Brooklyn Omnibus at BAM; and a commission for the creation of a non-text based work
with director Phil Soltanoff for the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles.
Findlay is also developing, writing and directing a new performance project titled Botanica , to premiere in
2011. Awards include the Henry Hewes Design Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Princess Grace Award, Obie
Awards in 2001 and 2008, and Bessie Awards in 1999 and 2008.

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The Film Society of Lincoln Center
and Dance Films Association, Inc.
will present the 39th internationally touring



Dance on Camera Festival
and Symposium "Dance and..."
January 28-February 1, 2011

Deadline for submissions: October 18, 2010
See entry form http://dancefilms.org/DanceOnCamerentry.php

Sponsored by DFA since 1971, co-sponsored by The Film Society of Lincoln Center since 1996, Movement Research since 2008, TenduTv since 2010, Dance On Camera Festival celebrates the immediacy, energy, and mystery of dance as combined with the intimacy of film. Susan Braun began this festival in 1971 to connect dance film producers with users and distributors, to spur dancers to collaborate with filmmakers. DFA's Festival has been a revenue source for the dance filmmakers through their touring program since 2000.

To complete your entry form, you pay $0 if you are a DFA member in good standing or $30 per title if you are not a DFA member.

Please send your entry fee and dvd (Pal or NTSC format) to:
Dance Films Association, 48 West 21st Street, #907, NY, NY 10010 USA

If you are paying by Paypal.com, please direct your fee to DFA's account:
dancefilms@msn.com. Please add a $3 service fee to your payment.

Advertise in the Festival Program! Details on sizes available soon.
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