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The Paris based interdisciplinary artist  and sustainability specialist Jeanne Bloch was awarded the dance-tech AIR Berlin for the month of FEBRUARY 2014.

Congratulations!

This is her page  in dance-tech.net

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

During her residency she will work at the beautiful  Lake Studios Berlin next February she will work on her project Augmented Dance by light: A research on e-textile and dance

During her Dance-Tech/Lake Studio Residency, she will continue her research on e-textile and dance with the help of Pauline Vierne,http://www.dance-tech.net/profile/PAULINEVIERNE.

By using different techniques to light the body space, she creates a material that is neither light neither movement but can exist only by the combination of both.

"Work at the Lake Studios will help me create a vocabulary based on movement and light. As an outcome of this work, I will design a framework for a 4D dance/light class!!".

This research is part of TAFO#2 - The Temple Had Oblique Window. A dance performance that discuss today's role of climate change discourse.

http://jeannebloch.com/work-in-progress

Jeanne Bloch is an interdisciplinary artist using her mixed background as a choreographer-artist and sustainability specialist. Jeanne worked on issues such as fair trade, child labor, sustainable consumption and global warming…Issues that drive her artistic work as well.

In December 2009, she started at the occasion of the Copenhagen Summit an ongoing artistic project: “The Man with a Dove” and was also a member of the Climate Sustainability Platform at COP15. In the same time, she initiated Twice Out of Paradise, a research program integrating ecological experimentation and choreographic creation, which benefited from a residency “d’essai” at the Paris based cultural center,104. In 2012, she organized in collaboration with the artist Prue Lang a workshop on ecological experimentation in dance performance hosted by Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.  In 2013, she was selected to present her approach at FASTE#1 professional day on Arts and Sciences @ La Faïencerie, Théâtre de Creil.

She was an invited artist to Imagine 2020 (Art & Climate Change) Summer Lab #2 in Portugal.  Jeanne isIRCASE (International Research Chair in Art and Sustainable Enterprise) associate artist and a member of the AACORN Art & Business Network. She enjoyed being a student at Stanford Practice Based Research in the Arts MOOC/course from Leslie Hill, Associate Professor, Performance Making and Helen Paris, Associate Professor, Performance Making.

Jeanne lives in Paris and worked in Europe, the United States, South Korea, Republic of the Congo, Israel and El Salvador.

Zoi Dimitriou, greek choreographer based in London will be working on her new piece this April. She will be working on The Chapter House, a new interdisciplinary dance piece with intricate choreography by Zoi Dimitriou and video design by Mark Coniglio.

This new work looks at the act of documentation and of performing. It aims to expose the processes and mechanics of making, and uses digital media to document, re-construct and re-enact a live performance.

In The Chapter House, Zoi Dimitriou looks back at the body of her own work and questions how meaning gets revealed and transformed in an attempt to subject the ‘personal’ to another’s viewpoint.

Zoi Dimitriou' Bio

Choreographer and dancer Zoi Dimitriou was born in Athens. She graduated from

the Greek State School of Dance, received the Onassis Foundation Scholarship to

study at Trisha Brown in New York and in 2005 completed with distinction her MA

in European Dance Theatre Practice at Trinity Laban in London. As a dancer she

has collaborated with artists such as Yvonne Rainer, Kirsty Simpson, Felix Ruckert,

Shiobhan Davies among others. Based both in London and Athens she launched

her choreographic career in 2006. Works of her company have been featured in

internationally renowned venues and festivals and have brought the choreographer

major UK choreography awards like the Robin Howard Foundation Award

2008, the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund Award 2009 and the CfC Award 2010

(Choreography for Children). In Greece she has been commissioned to make works

for the Onassis Cultural Centre, the National Ballet Company of Greece, the Athens

Festival and in the UK for the Laban Theatre, The Place, Sadlers Well’s, Company of

Angels, Shift Company and Focus Company.

Zoi Dimitriou has participated in the European Network Aerowaves and in numerous

other European projects for research and exchange. She teaches at Trinity Laban in

London, Impulstanz Festival in Vienna, Marameo in Berlin, Duncan Research Centre

for Dance in Athens among others. Her work is supported by Arts Council England

and the Hellenic National Centre of Theatre & Dance.

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The Chapter House is commissioned by Trinity Laban and supported using public funding by Arts Council England with further in kind support from dancedigital, Duncan Research Center for Dance (GR) and dance-tech Berlin/ Lake Studios.