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Roberto Oliván estrena "A place to bury strangers" (ver vídeo) en el Mercat de les Flors del 18 al 20 y del 25 al 27 de enero de 2013.

Por este motivo, compartimos con vosotros este artículo de Nerea Aguilar para Danza Ballet sobre el artista:

 

Roberto Oliván, la coherencia de un artista comprometido y multidisciplinar

De Roberto Oliván (Tortosa, 1972) podemos valorar su paso por PARTS (Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, fundadora de la compañía Rosas, para la cual él también bailó), su contacto, también en su residencia en Bélgica durante doce años, conBob Wilson y Trisha Brown, su estudio de las artes circenses; es decir, podemos valorar su poderosa y potente trayectoria artística.
Pero lo que diferencia a los grandes artistas no es su currículum, sino el uso que hagan de él, de sus experiencias, de su entorno, del tiempo que va cambiando a su paso por la vida, de su filosofía sobre el arte, sobre la vida, sobre la sociedad, sobre el ser humano, y cómo esto realmente sepan fusionarlo, como camino obligatorio de entenderse a sí mismos y su arte, para darle forma en un espectáculo. 

Roberto Oliván es por tanto un artista contemporáneo, que se ha dejado seducir sin miedos por las disciplinas, que ha sabido fusionar lo popular y lo elevado de la técnica, porque su mente es dinámica y enérgica y no entiende el arte de otra forma que, por tanto, no sea de varios ámbitos; un arte nunca estático, siempre en movimiento porque el artista se alimenta de todo lo que le rodea. Y consigue que su coherencia traspase la escena y no sea simplemente un propósito de creación, en el que se decide llevar a cabo una fusión de elementos, gentes, temas porque es lo bueno o lo que se lleva, sino que consigue una coherencia consigo mismo a partir de entender el arte como algo orgánico en continuo movimiento, como es el ser humano en sí mismo, que “entra en una cadena de acción-reacción”.

 

 

 

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El arte como expresión de lo que está sucediendo, y lo que sucede a nuestro alrededor no es algo aislado, no podemos extrapolarlo de tantas otras cosas de las que se alimenta. Lo que está sucediendo hoy día se da en las calles, en los barrios, en los pueblos, en las plazas, en los mercados. Algo pasa también en nuestras cabezas, cuando nos hacemos las preguntas de siempre sobre nosotros mismos y nuestro camino a la felicidad, cuando buscamos disfrutar de la vida y aprovecharla al máximo, cuando nos preguntamos qué queremos. Porque como un animal, Roberto, está olisqueando a su alrededor, saboreando las cosas y generándose preguntas.

Roberto Oliván arriesga, crea espontáneo, evita el miedo y se sale del formato típico de la danza contemporánea y del público que se espera de ella y del espacio que le sirve de acicate para sus creaciones.

Su compañía Enclave es de nuevo otra muestra de su contemporaneidad. Es trabajar en grupo pero no olvidar al individuo, porque no podemos olvidarnos de nosotros mismos en estos tiempos, pero estamos en sociedad y rodeados satisfechos de individuos de muy distintas procedencias.

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Y se lo ha querido comer todo desde sus creaciones. Porque ve de absoluta naturalidad y orgánico un arte que junte todas estas cosas y las muestre bajo las formas del arte circense y la danza contemporánea. Los artistas de circo son fuertes, son enérgicos, son hábiles físicamente, y si consiguen salirse del bloqueo muscular pueden ser grandes bailarines. Y el circo no tiene por qué reñir con la danza. De la danza le interesan otras cosas, la técnica, pero sobre todo ese camino a lo personal, esa indagación en el yo del ser humano. Se le abre entonces un gran abanico de posibilidades que coge con la soltura de quien no le teme a la acción, sea física o interior.

La modernidad está también en lo cotidiano, y Roberto se alimenta de lo cotidiano para sus creaciones. Lo cotidiano como muestra de las gentes que le enseñan. De ellas aprende las filosofías que descubre en sí mismo, y sin darse cuenta repite métodos de creación que le llevan a esa cercanía con la gente, se sale de su sala, de la típica cerrazón de los “artistas”, encerrados en su ego, para abrir sus puertas a lo normal, lo popular y lo inmediato por ser cercano y vivo.

El hombre contemporáneo es aquel que también sabe de sus contradicciones y que aprende de ellas, como Roberto, de sus raíces de pueblo y su vida en las grandes ciudades. De todo se puede aprender y todo nos enriquece.

De todo este conglomerado salen piezas como De Farra. La fiesta en la calle es el origen, la música, la mezcla de personas, de influencias de diversos países, la mezcla de colores, sonidos y energías, como el mismísimo Kusturica.

Homeland supone el verdadero reflejo de la fusión bien hecha de gentes de circo, bailarines y músicos en directo. La cercanía entre los mundos se produce poco a poco, mientras los de circo se despojan de su rigidez y se van adentrando en el mundo de las emociones, los bailarines deben trazar su línea en sentido contrario, hacia lo acrobático. Así, Homeland no puede ser ni danza ni circo, puede serlo todo o puede no ser nada, porque no tiene por qué tener una etiqueta, porque al llegar a la coherente naturalidad no distingamos tan claramente los mundos, sino que los disfrutemos como lógica de acción-reacción bajo esa proximidad física e interior en la que indaga.

El kiosko de las almas perdidas nace de nuevo de un hecho cotidiano, del movimiento y la vida que se produce en una lonja de Vigo. Esta pieza es un encargo del Centro Coreográfico Gallego y por tanto el proceso es diferente, las dificultades son otras, pero a pesar de eso ahí está su cabeza, buscando en las preguntas eternas sobre las normas de la sociedad, la búsqueda de la felicidad, el lugar del individuo, etc.

Roberto quiere volver a su trabajo multidisciplinar; quiere retomar el circo para sus creaciones, porque lo echa de menos. No sabemos si lo que echa de menos es la diversión que aporta con energía el circo y lo gustoso de verlo dado de la mano de la belleza de la danza, o si, por el contrario, lo que echa de menos es tener la sensación de que abarcando más y sin miedo está llegando a sentirse más en su yo, porque está abierto al otro, y el otro es tanto y tan grande y el verdadero artista tan abierto y tan generoso que obligatoriamente se tiene que producir un placer vital en su creación.

 

 

El kiosko de las almas perdidas



Y es que no quiero que alguien que despliega y “malmezcla” medios y ámbitos artísticos me diga que es Artista, no quiero que alguien desde lo alto, arriba en las esferas, se proclame comprometido con su sociedad, su tiempo, la vida y toda la filosofía e intelectualidad que cree poseer; no quiero acudir a grandes teatros o pequeñas salas, me da igual, para ver lo mismo mientras que quien lo muestra se cree el más moderno. No quiero, por tanto, que creen para mí, para mis ojos, es decir, artificialmente para impresionarme. El espectáculo llega a mis pelos para ponerlos como escarpias si me lo das con sinceridad. No quiero las incoherencias creativas y personales de artistas con aires de grandeza; quiero la humildad, quiero el sentido lógico y sano y natural de quienes crean desde su yo humilde y abierto, que lo ofrecen a la gente más normal, con la generosidad de saberse igual, con la espontaneidad de la energía de querer vivir-crear sin los límites que ponga ni el ego ni la hipocresía.

Pero este tipo de artista está en extinción. Roberto Oliván es ese animal en extinción, al que hay que buscar en el Delta del Ebro y “en clave” de muchas cosas, y que gracias a él, como a otros, la naturaleza artística contemporánea muestra la cercanía a la realidad de lo que creíamos ideal.

 

Texto: Nerea Aguilar
Publicado en Danza Ballet

Añadimos aquí un par de fotos tomadas durante la improvisación de Roberto Oliván en la Noche de Danza, Costa Contemporánea 2012:
Fotografías de @Pollobarba

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Both WDA members and non-members are invited to submit proposals for presenting dance works in performance, presenting scholarly research, holding a panel discussion, conducting a class, or leading choreographic labs.

With Evolve + Involve: Dance as a Moving Question… as the focal point of the event, WDA-A encourages broad investigations into the following questions: How is dance evolving in the 21st century? How are we as artists, educators, and researchers engaged with these emerging developments? With whom and how will we be involved as new practices emerge? How might these new engagements and involvements open further questions for dance’s future? With these questions in mind, we urge participants to propose new possibilities for the many different modes of presenting, experiencing, producing, and teaching dance. Proposals need not be limited to or by the Conference and Festival’s theme, which should be considered as a catalyst for discussion rather than a restraint.

World Dance Alliance – Americas (WDA-A) is delighted to announce our 2013 Conference and Festival will be held July 29 – August 4, 2013 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre in beautiful Vancouver, BC, Canada. This event is hosted by WDA-A in conjunction with the 2013 Dance Critics Association Conference with support from Texas Woman’s University Department of Dance, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dance Department, and the Dance Centre.

For more information or to submit a proposal, visit: www.wda-americas.net/conference

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Trailblazing Conceptual Walks Organization Announces Third Season
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Two years ago, Elastic City was just an innovative idea. Poet and performance artist Todd Shalom, then 33, returned to New York from living abroad and wanted to continue to have the feeling of travel while back in his hometown. Drawing upon the community of artists and thinkers he inhabits in New York and around the world, he started Elastic City to present conceptual walks that make audiences active participants in a poetic exchange with the places we live in and visit. The organization, now entering its third season, has already surpassed Shalom’s dream. Over 30 artists thus far have led walks, not only in New York, but also in Detroit, Buenos Aires, London, Reykjavik and Sao Paulo. Upcoming walks are planned for San Francisco, Berlin and Paris.

The new season, which runs April to October 2012, features walks from American and international artists, both emerging and established. These include: Adam Weinert; Andrés Andréani (Argentina); Andrew Mount; Ben Weber; Eileen Myles; Felipe Meres (Brazil); J. Morrison; Jon Cotner; Josely Carvalho (Brazil); LoVid (Tali Hinkis & Kyle Lapidus); Lynn Marie Kirby & Alexis Petty; Maria Chavez; Matthew Radune; Meredith Ramirez Talusan; Michelle Boulé; Miguel Gutierrez; Nancy Nowacek; Neil Goldberg; Niegel Smith; Office of Recuperative Strategies (Christian Hawkey & Rachel Levitsky); Pratt Institute students; Robert Mauksch; Sarah Owens; Todd Shalom; Tomaz Hipólito (Portugal); Xavier Acarin (Spain).

Some highlights include internationally acclaimed dance artist Miguel Gutierrez’s unique “Sensewalks,” which plan to awaken, explore and illuminate the senses through movement-based techniques. He will lead participants through such locales as the High Line, the New York Public Library, the Staten Island Ferry and Prospect Park. “Stories the City Tells Itself” is a walk through the lens of video artist Neil Goldberg that will capture everyday passenger behavior in NYC subways. Using their brand new reality-warping GPS-based smartphone app, iParade, LoVid will trace the path of Alexander Hamilton’s oft-moved house in Hamilton Heights (Harlem).

What follows is a listing of walks offered from April through June.

ELASTIC CITY WALKS, SPRING 2012

“Moss Me” by Tomaz Hipólito
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/moss-me

In "Moss Me," Tomaz Hipólito presents participants with a recipe for a green intervention amidst Manhattan's dense urban landscape. Drawing on Tomaz' background in architecture and his current practice in visual art, the group will identify and evaluate abandoned objects to paint, then use a homemade mixture of moss and yogurt to coat the objects. Individually and in groups, participants will paint these objects, re-engaging the street's detritus.

This walk holds eight people and is presented in partnership with Residency Unlimited and Le Petit Versailles (a program of Allied Productions, Inc). “Moss Me” will be held in English, but Tomaz also speaks Portuguese and Spanish.

Dates/Times
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 6:30pm
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 6:30pm    
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 6:30pm

Walk Starting Point
346 East Houston St. in Manhattan. "Moss Me" meets outside Le Petit Versailles public garden.

Duration
90 minutes

Admission
$20

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“Stories the City Tells Itself” by Neil Goldberg
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/stories-city-tells-itself

On this walk, video artist Neil Goldberg invites participants to experience the observational processes behind his work in real time. The group will traverse a section of the subway with attention directed to details of the underground environment and nuances of passenger behavior that might otherwise go unnoticed. Goldberg will share his poetic approaches to seeing, refined over 20 years of creating art in New York. This walk holds 15 people and will end inside the Museum of the City of New York's exhibition of Goldberg's work.

This walk is presented in partnership with The Museum of the City of New York. There will be no walk-ups for this walk; prepayment is required.

Dates/Times
Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 3:00pm
Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 3:00pm

Walk Starting Point
The meeting location will be in the Lower East Side and disclosed upon registration.

Duration
2 hours

Admission
$25 for non-members; $20 for Museum members, seniors and students

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Sensewalks by Miguel Gutierrez

Each walk holds 16 people. All abilities welcome.

Sensewalk #1: “EVERYTHING IS NEW”
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/sensewalk-1-everything-new

For the first of the four Sensewalks, participants will gather in Prospect Park to investigate the five basic senses—hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and touching—teasing their particular properties apart through anatomical and experiential exercises and then watching how they interact, compete, rise and fall to construct a magical and wondrous reality. Miguel will then lead these new bodies on a trip through the Prospect Park Greenmarket. Be ready to roll in the grass.

Date/Time
Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 12:00pm

Walk Starting Point
Please meet at the big arch (Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch) at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn.

Duration
100 minutes

Admission
$20

Sensewalk #2: “MOVE ME BABY”
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/sensewalk-2-move-me-baby

Get ready to speed up, slow down, get on your feet and then fall off balance. In the second Sensewalk, Miguel Gutierrez will lead participants in playing with the different components of the movement senses so that every place becomes a potential context for physical adventure. The group will be moved across the water via the Staten Island Ferry where they’ll take their sea legs for a spin.

Date/Time
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 6:30pm

Walk Starting Point
Broadway and Beaver Street in Manhattan, in front of the HSBC bank. Please wear something comfortable that won’t constrain your high kicks!

Duration
90 minutes

Admission
$20

Sensewalk #3: “SPACE IS THE PLACE”
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/sensewalk-3-space-place

In the third Sensewalk, we'll go in to go out—way out. Participants will enter the hallowed halls of the New York Public Library to travel into the senses of space and time. Using the simplest of actions – walking, standing, sitting, lying down – the group will find out how our bodies register the poetics of the environment and observe how a seemingly stable environment becomes an arena for change and possibility.

Date/Time
Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 1:00pm

Walk Starting Point
Meet at the bottom of the front steps of the New York Public Library (the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building) on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street in Manhattan.

Duration
90 minutes

Admission
$20

Sensewalk #4: “GIVE ME SOMEBODY TO SHOW”
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/sensewalk-4-give-me-somebody-show

In the fourth and final Sensewalk, participants will take flight on to the High Line to explore an exciting and interconnected array of senses that relate to play, composition, and performance. Using the context of one of the most popular destinations in NYC as a playground, studio and stage, participants will find out how to unleash the art and performance makers inside us, as the group traipses along the slippery lines between participant and observer. Have no fear!

Date/Time
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 6:30pm

Walk Starting Point
Northwest corner of Gansevoort St. and Washington St. in Manhattan

Duration
90 minutes

Admission
$20

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“Unchanged When Exhumed” by LoVid
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/unchanged-when-exhumed

Building upon their work that renews appreciation of the physical environment through a digital lens, LoVid, along with guest performers and their newly developed smartphone application, iParade 2, will lead "Unchanged When Exhumed." Participants will travel the route of Hamilton Grange’s historical move around Harlem. Using locative video that transforms one's surroundings into a virtual set, participants may graze with a hungry tree, safari in jungles between residential homes and the street, and climb hills to uncover an emerald treasure. This walk holds 15 people.

Directed, written, filmed, and produced by LoVid

App development by Sean Montgomery

Soundtrack by Maria Chavez

Theme song by Dan Friel

With appearances by: Juan Pazmino, Pauline Decarmo, Yoni Weiss, Silvia Angulo, Gregory Sheppard, Irene Moon, and Vera Beato Smith

"Unchanged When Exhumed" is made possible with support from DiAP NY City College, Experimental TV Center Finishing Funds, NYSCA, rhizome.org, Franklin Furnace Fund, and Elastic City.

Dates/Times
Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 7:00pm
Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 4:00pm
Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 6:00pm

Walk Starting Point
1619 Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan, outside of Cafe One. Participants should arrive to the walk with a fully charged smartphone (iPhone or Android) and be prepared to download a free App. Headphones are optional.

Duration
1 hour

Admission
Free

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“Necessity” by Todd Shalom & Niegel Smith
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/necessity

This walk is what you need it to be. We're all in this together.

"Necessity" holds 6 people.

This walk will be held in English but the artists also speak Spanish.

Date/Time
Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 4:00pm

Walk Starting Point
29 Union Square West in Manhattan, in front of "Coffee Shop"

Duration
Unknown. (Since the duration is unknown, please plan accordingly.)

Admission
$20

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“Superfun/d Speed Date” by Ben Weber
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/superfund-speed-date

Hi. My name is Ben. I'm a Capricorn and my spirit animal is a moose.

They say this is the year when everything changes. The sun will flare, the poles will crumble, and the heart of the galaxy will align with the center of the Earth. As humans, we're the shepherds of this cosmic transition. Personally, I'd like to convene with the Mayan ancients as much as the next guy, but it's tough forging meaningful connections in the sweaty New York City summertime.

Let me take you to a tangle of art & industry in LIC, where we'll prepare for this new cycle using techniques from applied theater. We'll peek into a poisoned creek and sculpt our bodies into the baggage we wish to leave behind as we enter the World of the 5th Sun from world of the 7 train.

This walk holds 8 people.


Dates/Times
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 7:00pm
Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 7:00pm
Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 7:00pm

Walk Starting Point
46th Ave and Vernon Blvd. in Long Island City, Queens in front of LIC Bar.

Duration
2 hours

Admission
$20


About Elastic City

Todd Shalom, a New York native, devised Elastic City while traveling in Peru and founded the organization in 2010. Having worked in a variety of artistic genres (poetry, sound and performance), he decided to expand upon his existing repertoire of sensory-based walks and commission other artists to lead walks in their own disciplines. Elastic City walks explore various planes of human sensory and aesthetic experience, such as dance, architecture, poetry, sound art, the paranormal and ritualistic performance.

Elastic City is now in its third season of presenting conceptual and poetic walks by artists throughout and outside of New York. With this season, over 50 artists will have led walks.

Elastic City has partnered with numerous organizations to co-present its walks, including Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Flea, Le Petit Versailles, Museum of the City of New York, NY Art Book Fair, Open House NY, Pratt Institute, Residency Unlimited, Wave Hill and Urban Design Week.

In 2012, Elastic City will launch its educational program, beginning with a series of “ways.” Whereas a walk offers the opportunity to participate in a narrative series of poetic moments, "ways" are experiential workshops that explicitly engage participants in *how* to generate these moments through exercises, tools and techniques offered by Elastic City artists. In a "way," participants gather in an intimate group to prompt exchange, tone the gut and sharpen poetic decision-making. Elastic City ways typically do not involve walking and are offered outdoors unless otherwise noted.

Each walk & way lasts approximately 75-120 minutes and costs $20 on average.

Payment for walks & ways can be made on-site or via the Elastic City website at: http://www.elastic-city.org

Elastic City is a non-profit organization awaiting 501c3 status and is currently fiscally sponsored by Flux Factory.

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An interactive evening of neuroscience in motion!

Have you ever wondered how a ballerina learns to pirouette? Or how musicians learn their art? Or even what happens to your own brain when you learn a new skill? Join neuroscientists, musicians and dancers as together we explore how fantastically changeable your brain is, giving you the extraordinary ability to adapt and learn throughout your life. Hear amazing stories of performers who excel against all odds; learn a new skill and test your own performance!

A collaborative event hosted by the British Library and UCL Neuroscience, with scientists from UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and UCL Institute of Neurology.

When: Fri 16 Mar 2012, 18.30–20.30 (doors open at 18.00)

Where: Conference Centre, British Library

Price: £7.50 / £5 concessions

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SET – Studio for Electronic Theatre and University of Greenwich

 

1 to 12 August 2011

 

A unique opportunity to study and work on a theatre project led by three extraordinary theatre makers at the World Heritage site of the magnificent Royal Greenwich. In two week Summer School – while working on the adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex – David Gothard (UK), Hazim Kamaledin (Iraq) and Nuno Salihbegovic (YU) will take you on an exciting educational journey from the ancient theatre of ritual to the cybernetic theatre of the future.

 

 The programme of the school is conceptualised to explore a form of ‘total’ theatre which embrace the best from the both worlds – traditional theatre and cutting edge technological innovations of the 21st century. The students will have an opportunity to explore hitherto unimaginable technological and aesthetic potentials for the stage. Designed to offer deep understanding into so far unique fusion of different arts, science, and technology the school investigates an unknown territory and creative potentials emerging from the established bonds between digital and analog, sonic and visual, innovative and ritual.

 

Two-Week Workshop at Royal Greenwich

 

Students will be working on a concept in which the performers/audience – using their body as a ‘digital instrument’ – are able to take control over the visual and sonic elements of the digital media. With their physical actions, voice and gestures they can create and edit video material on the fly, apply special effects, control the sound, and even change the colour of their amplified voice.

 

During the professional hands-on workshops students will learn computer programming (Isadora), sensor (I-cubeX) and infra-red camera motion tracking, real-time light/video/sound processing, and creative projecting (using alternative projection techniques). This will enable students to programme and control responsive, ‘smart’ space making first practical steps into the field of electronic interaction design in performance and media arts.

The workshops will be accompanied with a series of inspiring lectures and discussions related to the history of multimedia theatre. Students will be introduced to Wagner’s concept of ‘total art’ and its ‘reinvention’ within the discourse of the digital era.

The culmination of the Summer School will be a series of performances of the students’ joint work on the premises of the magnificent Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich.

 

The School is aimed at students and professionals in the filed of performing and media arts (directors, designers and performers); visual artists working with video, light and sound installations.

 

Number of participants is limited

Duration: 10 days, 5 hours a day

Fees: £595

Accommodation available upon request

 

Further enquires: info@setlab.eu

 

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WALA! what about Live Art?

 

A project by La Porta (www.laportabcn.com) in collaboration with the Live Art Development Agency from London (www.thisisliveart.co.uk)

 

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WALA! What about Live Art? is a cycle of activities intended to inform and approach to the audience and professionals of Barcelona the work of the Live Art Development Agency. An international benchmark known for its capacity to generate innovative and efficient projects for the professional development of contemporary Live Arts.

 

La Porta has invited the people in charge of this agency, based in London, to expose and share with us their strategies and working methodologies. We will also practice some of the diverse tools they have developed in the last years and approach the creative universes of some artists they usually collaborate with. 

 

LECTURES / SCREENINGS / WORKSHOPS / PERFORMANCES / MEETINGS WITH THE ARTISTS 

 

From 7th to 11th of December 2011 at La Porta__casa and Caixa Forum / Free entrance

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TUESDAY 13th

 

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After closing WALA!’s cycle and in connection with its contents we propose an extra afternoon meeting for the public introduction of a new documentation project that will gather together the last three editions of Nits Salvatges (wild nights) and the new website of La Porta, as well as an open talk for shearing the new lines of work that our new space is opening.

 

The people in charge of Continta me tienes, an interesting publishing project, will also present A veces me pregunto por qué sigo bailando, (Sometimes I wonder why I keep on dancing) a book edited by Oscar Cornago.

 

December Tuesday 13th 8pm at La Porta__casa / Free entrance

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Goethe Institut New York


Goethe-Institut New York presents Objects in Performance

3D Alignment Forms. Animation of dancer’s traceforms in One Flat Thing, reproduced mapped to 3D space. 
Synchronous Objects Project, The Ohio State University and The Forsythe Company . 

Objects in Performance
As the object has become a central issue in both theory and the arts, the Goethe-Institut  New York dedicates a weekend to intensive theoretical exchange and spatial experience to the object in performance. An installation, a symposium and a performance are the starting point of long-term engagement  with the object and related matters in the fields of theory and the arts alike.

www.goethe.de/newyork

Synchronous Objects: Degrees of Unison
Installation by Norah Zuniga Shaw
February 2–26, 2012
Wed–Sun 2–7pm

Opening: 
February 2, from 6–8 pm

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building
5 East 3rd Street (at Bowery)
New York, NY 10003

Synchronous Objects: Degrees of Unison is a multipart sound and video installation focusing on “One Flat Thing, reproduced,” an ensemble dance by William Forsythe.

Focusing on the choreographic visualization online project Synchronous Objects created by Norah Zuniga Shaw, Maria Palazzi and William Forsythe, the installation brings viewers into an encounter with the deep structures of a dance and the generative ideas contained within. A series of visual objects—animations, computer graphics, interactive tools—enact a parallel performance of Forsythe’s choreographic ideas. The work was first launched online in 2009 and is still available in this form. In the installation, Norah Zuniga Shaw stays close to the conceptual foundations of the online original while extending them into the architectural and experiential possibilities of the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building. In addition to interacting with the site and viewing HD animations from the project, visitors can spend time within a circle of synchronized visualizations unfolding from dance to data to objects over the 15-minute time span of the piece. William Forsythe’s voice calls out timing to the dancers and the sounds of the dancers’ actions move in multi-channel choreography around the space. Finally, a paper proliferation of creative processes can be found to read, leave behind, sort, or carry home.

Synchronous Objects: Degrees of Unison (2010)
A video installation by Norah Zuniga Shaw based on original material from
Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced (2009)
By William Forsythe, Norah Zuniga Shaw, Maria Palazzi

Objects in Performance
Symposium curated by André Lepecki, Performance Studies, NYU
February 3–4, 2012
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Performance Studies
721 Broadway, 6th floor
New York, NY 10003

The recent phenomenon of object-invested experimental dance and performance echoes the resurgence of the object in recent philosophy, critical theory, literary and cultural studies; as well as in the renewed interest in the concept of the object in the visual arts. This resurgence of the object also has implications for studies on subjectivity. If, as Deleuze once said, “the status of the object is changed, so is the subject’s,” it is crucial to investigate the contemporary nature of this phenomenon. The Objects in Performance Symposium will gather a group of renowned American, German, and international scholars and artists, from a variety of fields and perspectives, to present their most recent research on the matter. The environment will be such as to stimulate exchange and conversation between disciplines, and between artists and scholars.

With Barbara Browning, Franz Anton Cramer, Eleonora Fabião, George Ferrandi, Jenn Joy, Heather Kravas, Thomas Lehmen, André Lepecki, Eva Meyer-Keller, Sarah Michelson, Ann Pellegrini, Allen S. Weiss, Norah Zuniga Shaw.

Death is Certain
Performance by Eva Meyer-Keller
February 5, 2012, 2 performances at 6:00 pm and 07:30 pm
MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38
38 Ludlow Street (btw. Grand & Hester)                  
New York, NY 10002

Cherries have tender skin, meat and a kind of bone inside them. Their juice is red like blood. When you treat them like humans sometimes treat other humans, then they become human themselves or at least animated objects, which invite you to identify yourself with them. In the performance Death is Certain, Eva Meyer-Keller has installed sweet cherries as her protagonists.

The viewer is reminded of deaths from films, but also the reality of executions, how they really happen: associations from individual and collective experience in face of the sweet death at the kitchen table.

The Goethe-Institut New York is a branch of the Federal Republic of Germany’s global cultural institute, established to promote the study of German language and culture abroad, encourage international cultural exchange, and provide information on Germany’s culture, society, and politics.

Goethe-Institut New York presents Objects in Performance
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STEIM Concept Stage

 

Autonomous art space meets science lab meets open mic night. Tuesday 13 Dec STEIM will be hosting an open evening for local artists working on the fringes of their disciplines to come perform their latest works and works in progress in front of a live audience in Amsterdam. Artists of all disciplines (music, theater, audiovisual, sound art, etc..) are invited to sign up!

Entry is free, though we ask you give a small donation to help pay for the costs of maintaining the space. Drinks and snacks will also be available at the bar.


If you'd like to perform, please send an email to openstage [at] steim [dot] nl with "Concept Stage: YOUR NAME" in the subject line no later than December 12 (the day before the event). In your email include a short description of what you'll be doing, your technical requirements, and a time preference for when you would like to play. By default we will have a projector (VGA) and PA system with multi-channel mixer set up in STEIM Studio 3, our 8m x 11m black-box theater space.

 

We will schedule performers on a first-come-first-serve basis as time allows.
Performances are limited to 15 minutes maximum. 

DETAILS //
Date: Tuesday 13 December, 2011
Time: 20:00 (doors open), 20:30 (open podium and concert)
Cost: By donation
Location: STEIM Studio 3, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam


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dance-techTV @ UStream broadcasting from Utrecht Camillo 2.0 Conference May 25th to 29th 2011!

Performance Studies International Conference # 17th

Camillo 2.0

Technology, Memory and Experience

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http://www.psi17.org/

Watch   the stream the following pages:

http://dance-tech.tv/videos/dance-techtv-live/

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dance-techtv


Streaming Porgram Thursday May 26th CET

Panels:

9:30 Dance and New Media: New technologies
11:00  Performance of Science and technology:UU Drift 21, Room 109
13:00 Technologies of the Self: Body Modification. Memory and Melancholia

(only selected panels with be broadcast and will be announced everyday but we will follow the same blocks)

Download schedule

Stay tuned for later afternoon and evening!

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Test_Lab: Active Listeners


This edition of Test_Lab will showcase new technology-inspired modes of live musical performance that radically transform the performer’s relationship with the audience.

 

March 31, 2011. 20:00 - 23:00

V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam

http://www.v2.nl/events/active-listeners

 

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The lyrics to Daft Punk’s “Technologic” – “Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it” – allude to the omnipresence of technology in our daily lives and the many different ways in which we engage with it. At a Daft Punk live show, however, it’s predominantly the artists themselves that interact with technology, through musical interfaces. The audience, by contrast, passively observes or dances but rarely touches, brings, starts or formats any of the technology involved in the performance. Yet there are artists who explore technology’s potential to radically break with the traditional performer-audience relationship.

According to Chris Salter, the concert hall has shifted “from a passive arena of listening to an interactive zone of improvisation between sound-making technical apparatuses and their players” (Entangled, 2010). The exciting new modes of performance resulting from this shift have recently gained much attention in publications and conferences. Exactly how these new performance modes affect the performer-audience relationship has however hardly been explored. What does it mean to be an active listener in an “interactive zone of improvisation”? And what does the audience gain from it all?

This edition of Test_Lab will showcase new technology-inspired modes of live musical performance that radically transform the performer’s relationship with the audience. While some of these projects and performances, such as CrowdDJ - Tom Laan, and Nomadic Sound System - Ben Newland; turn the audience into co-performers, others, like Microscopic Opera -Matthijs MunnikEvolving Spark Network - Edwin van der Heide and SPASM 2.0 - V2_Lab; give rise to entirely new modes of listening. As always at Test_Lab, you can touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, start, format it…

This event will be streamed live on v2.nl from 20:00  to 23:00 CET.

 

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2010

Les Manouches will be producing Brian Friel’s play Molly Sweeney, directed by Aktina Stathaki. Rehearsals are expected tostart in mid-January and performances will be in mid-March at theLaGuardia Performing Arts Center in Long Island City. [Following theinitial run we hope to be able to extend the run in another theater inthe city]. We are currently looking for 3 actors and a lighting designer– see below for the details. Ideally we’d like to work with people whoenjoy the creative process, are willing to experiment and believe inour vision and approach to theater so that we could become long-termcollaborators for future projects. The production is non equity and nonpaying, but we will share a percentage of the box office earnings.

About the play: Molly Sweeney, based on a true story published by neurologist Oliver Sachs, tells the story of Molly, awoman blind since infancy, whose world is drastically changed after herhusband and her doctor’s intervention to restore her sight. This is acomplex memory play, engaging subtly with issues of identity andfreedom, where the story unfolds through the individual narratives ofthe three characters, each of them occupying their own separate space.Brian Friel is one of Ireland’s greatest playwrights.

We are looking for:
Actors for the roles of:

Molly Sweeney, late 3Os. An independent woman who has created a full life for herself. Conceding to her husband’s passion to “save” her willradically change her world.

Frank Sweeney, late 3Os, Molly’s husband. A man always at the pursuit of the next noble goal, always trying to save the world.

Dr. Rice: mid-late 4Os . Molly’s doctor. He gets involved in the project of restoring Molly’s vision partly in order to compensate forpast personal and professional loss.

Rehearsals: weekday evenings and early afternoons. Please email us with a photo and resume at lesmanouchestheatre@gmail.com to schedule anaudition.

Lighting designer: Lighting is a very essential part for this project and a close collaboration with the director will berequired. The lighting designer and director will have to work aroundthe specific conditions and restrictions of the LAPAC theater space.

For any questions please email lesmanouchestheatre@gmail.com

For info: www.aktinastathaki.com | www.lesmanouches.wordpress.com

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APODIO is a GNU/Linux platform containing audio, text-friendly, 3D, Streaming, graphic, Live Coding and video tools. It can be used as a liveDVD or be installed on a partition of your hard disk (on any PC 32bits to Mac Intel).

APODIO is a GNU/GPL project, a part of the GNU/Linux Ubuntu family:

APODIO uses a well known system operating the GNOME desktop.

APODIO can easily and quickly be installed, as a whole, coherent, pre-set and instantly ready system on your computer, rather than a ramshackle combination of packages, And what you see as you use the LiveDVD is also what you get after the installation.

 

apodio1.jpegsource : http://www.apodio.org/

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Novi Sаd

Nov.ples festival reflects the fact of continuos activity of Per.Art organisation in development of contemporary performing arts scene in Novi Sad and decentralization of culture in Serbia, in the times of unstable cultural and social environment.

Festival has two program axis – the one will present performances by renowned choreographer (Xavier Le Roy), one of the most interesting young choreographer in Europe (Mette Ingvartsen) and emerging promising and critical new choreographers in Serbia (Dragana Bulut in collaboration with Milka Djordjevich from New York); and the other will present research dance projects and self-organized regional and international initiatives in education.

Special focus of the festival will be on local young dancers, performers and students in order to offer them possibility to re-think their current position and future proffession through the program and direct meeting with the artists and participants of the festival.

Progrаm:

Self Unfinished - Xavier Le Roy

50/50 - Mette Ingvartsen

Made in China - Dragana Bulut & Milka Djordjevich

Tiger’s leap into the past - Ana Vujanović & Saša Asentić

Running commentary - Bojana Cvejić

Scenes of Knowladge (Deschooling Classroom, Everybody’s toolbox, PAF, 6M1L)


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More info: www.perart.org

Producer: PerArt

Partners: Serbian National Theatre and Gallery of Matica srpska

General sponsor: City of Novi Sad
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urbanSTEW proudly presents Radio Healer this Saturday at the Pueblo Grande Museum.

Radio Healer is an indigenous media performance facilitated through co-intentional partnerships between artists consisting of Native American, Chicano, Ilocano, European, and Euro-American backgrounds. In this work, artists apply indigenous and western knowledge for the innovation of culturally responsive implements used for the ceremonial performance of electro-acoustic music. These implements have been created through recycling, adaptive reuse, appropriation, and hacking. This is to create a place for community to reflect upon the impact that pervasive technologies have on the everyday lived experiences of all peoples.

Radio Healer is an indigenous media exercise that recognizes the sovereign rights of indigenous peoples.

Performances are scheduled for this Saturday, November 20 at Pueblo Grande Museum. The museum is located at 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix.

The event is free to the public, and there will be two performances scheduled at 1:00 pm and at 2:30 pm. For more information about our work, you can visit our website at www.radiohealer.com

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Last Dance of "Mama" Fatou N'Diaye

12249484299?profile=originalSaturday evening, January 8, 2011, marked the final performance of “Mama” Fatou N’Diaye and the company she founded in 1981, “Silimbo D’Adeane,” at least with her as its full-time artistic director in the City of Cambridge.  As master dancer, choreographer, and cultural arts educator for over 30 years in African and the U.S., she returns to her roots in Senegal this week to continue her work in a warmer climate.

Having begun her professional career at age 17 in her native Adeane, Senegal, Fatou N’Diaye rose quickly to stardom, performing in the Daniel Sorano National Theatre of Dakar, “National Ballet of Senegal,” traveling with the president of Senegal on official visits to countries – including China, later in popular television productions, with special appearance in “L’lle de Diama,” (Michael Douglas), and as a featured role in WGBH-TV Basic Black (documentary on dance’s healing power in cultures around the world). (http://www.silimbo.com).

Moving to the U.S. in 1991, she toured most major cities with “Silimbo,” then organized

La Adiyana Bamtamba Courocoto, West African Dance and Drum Conference, 1996.  She received grants from the NEA and D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, supporting her art in the Washington locale.  Mama Fatou has taught in Boston, Cambridge public schools, at Harvard University, the French Library, and countless community and arts centers throughout Massachusetts and the entire country. 

Her mission, as mentor and dance historian, is to bring all levels of dancers to the stage, helping to spread the culture and craft of her Senegalese dance, drumming, and songs pan-nationally, through workshops, conferences, weekly classes and company rehearsals, so that the folklore and traditions of Senegal, in their original forms, can be shared. 

Passionate to the core, she instills the love of her rich heritage, enabling each of us through understanding of Senegal’s rituals, ceremonies, and daily living events. Learning through her is easy because she tells the story behind the dance, ensuring that we understand the meaning behind the movements, the drumming, and songs sung in her native language.

From a personal perspective, as one of her students and company members of  “Silimbo,” I must point out that Mama Fatou is much larger than any of her accomplishments.  With her wide, inviting smile, penetrating eyes – perceptive, wise, and compassionate, her polished skin – inviting and warm, and deep, honey-toned voice, we are reassured from the moment Mama steps into the dance studio. 

Her appearance is one of respect and awe, always composed, professional, direct, intuitive and able to pull diverse ages and backgrounds together.  Like mother earth, her wholesome, centered-ness, like the Feng Shui “nourishment,” provides solidarity and a foundation for all living elements and beings, of which there can be no harmony or life in its absence (http://www.fengshuicrazy.com). 

Or like the proton – positively charged, subatomic particle – which resides in the nucleus of the atom – the basic unit of all matter, she is stable, indivisible, “uncuttable” – attracting and bounding the other particles through an unseen electromagnetic force (http://www.wikipedia.org).

Fatou N’Diaye-Davis speaks the universal language and art form called “Love.”  She embraces arts for humanity, fellowship, inclusion, and wields an undying resolve to spread the word of dance from the Diaspora to people everywhere.  Her enchantment with life, people, and performing arts is contagious, bounding free from any barriers that the unenlightened should attempt to orchestrate. 

Her leaving is all but unbelievable, and its reality has surely not resounded at the deepest level.  I cannot speak of life and dancing without her without exuding an enormity of gratitude and emotion.  All’s I can really do is wait in joyful contemplation of our next meeting.

 

With MUCH LOVE and GRATITUDE to Mama Fatou N’Diaye-Davis.

Please visit her here: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000745554956

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Techné: body+motion+computation

Starting September 9th 2011!



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Starting September 9th 2011!

An on-line video series on dance-techTV that presents complete seminal works of dance/movement artists engaged on the experimentation of the performance of movement interfaced with digital technologies.

The works are presented with a video interview with the artist and a compilation of on-line references about the work and the artist.

The aim of this series is to create an online LIVING archive of the evolving field of dance and technology.



Stay tuned for more!


Associate Producer
Marlon Barrios Solano

In Partnership with:

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Zagrebi! Festival, September 10-11, 2010

MAIDA WITHERS DANCE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY performs the multimedia work, Fare Well - The End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! with Maida Withers, dancer/choreographer; Steve Hilmy, Electronic Music Composer/Musician; Ayo Okunseinde, New Media Artist at the ZAGREBI! FESTIVAL - ZAGREB, CROATIA September 10, 2010. http://zagrebi.com/hr/program/

Fare Well brings insight and vibrant critique to the contemporary issue of end time. Fare Well is as extreme in its moods and absurdities as we might think of “extreme weather.” We watch hypnotized, immobilized, arrogant, innocent, and powerful as the fires rage, volcanoes and oil erupt, the Arctic melts, the earth becomes parched, and the seas rise.

http://www.maidadance.com

KONTRAFILM/ZAGREBI! EKOFESTIVAL
Kneza Mislava 10/1
10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Phone: +38512455833Fax: +38514855548
Email: info@zagrebi.com

Festival Description

ZAGREBI! Ekofestival is a platform where all interested parties of the social, economic and political life in Croatia have the chance to show their projects and achivements in the enviromental protection and sustainable development sphere. Every year the Festival hosts different media authors who question the social engagement of art and eco matureness of our society with their work. The Festival attempts to promote the dialogue and co-operation between the individual and his society, with one goal – to make a healthier soacial and natural enviroment for the future generations. (http://zagrebi.com/en/)

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CREATE with Movement of the People Dance Company

Here's your chance to take part in the creative process of Movement of the People Dance Company. Please join us in our online global survey!

We are looking to compile information for an upcoming piece of choreography. The two question survey is for women of all ages from all corners of the globe, and takes no more than 5 minutes to complete. Answers will be kept completely confidential. This piece is intended to be both an exploration of womanhood and a therapeutic process for all of those involved.

For more information and to participate in the survey please visit the following link to our website:
http://www.movementofthepeopledance.com/create-with-the-people.php

If you are unable to access the link above please go to our website: www.movementofthepeopledance.com and click on the tab titled "CREATE with the PEOPLE."

Please also feel free to forward this information to other women who might be interested in participating. Thank you in advance for your participation in our creative endeavors.

*Survey available in Portuguese and Spanish
**Survey will be available in French, shortly...

~Movement of the People Dance Company


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CALL FOR ENTRIES RESIDENCIES

CALL FOR ENTRIES RESIDENCIES 1/2011 FROM JANUARY TO JUNE 2011


From January to June 2011 PACT Zollverein is offering a residency programme for the development and realisation of projects and productions, which is open to professional artists from both Germany and abroad working in the fields of dance, performance, media art or music. Residencies are planned individually and include a working space and local accommodation as well as financial support in the form of a weekly grant allowance and travel costs. By arrangement and subject to requirement, PACT Zollverein also offers its residents technical support and advisory assistance with press and public relations and dramaturgy.


A residency CAN incorporate the following:

> Studio space (from 63 to 173 sq.m.)

> Local accommodation (maximum 6 people)

> Weekly grant allowance for all of the residency project participants (maximum group of 6 people)

> Travel costs covering one journey only per participant to and from PACT Zollverein (subject to prior agreement)

> Technical equipment (by arrangement and subject to availability)

> Stage rehearsals with professional technical supervision and support (by arrangement and subject to availability)

> Daily professional open class

> Professional advice in: Project funding, project management, press and public relations


Your applications should include:

> the completed application form (to be found at: www.pact-zollverein.de --> Working fields --> Residencies)

> a short letter of motivation

> a project description

> a 10 line summary of your project description

> curriculum vitae for everyone involved in the project

> only 1 DVD / CD-RoM of your own work



Closing date for applications: June 30th 2010 (post-marked) Please do not send the material by registered post or by email !

All complete applications received by this date will be considered and replied to in writing. Residents are selected by a panel. Please note that we can unfortunately not return your application material to you.



Please send the Application to us by post:

PACT Zollverein Residencies 1 / 2011 Katharina Charpey Bullmannaue 20 a D-45327 Essen


For further information contact:

Katharina Charpey Fon: +49 (0)201.2894712 Fax: +49 (0)201.2894701 katharina.charpey @ pact-zollverein.de www.pact-zollverein.de


PACT Zollverein / Choreographisches Zentrum NRW and its residency programme are supported by the Minister President of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the City of Essen. Tanzlandschaft Ruhr is supported by the Kultur Ruhr GmbH.

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Strings Attached: An Experiment in Connection

Strings Attached: An Experiment in Connection
May 19, 8pm at TSA Collective
$5 donation

“…interaction should consist of bidirectional communication, and can have no predetermined outcome if the interactors are genuinely engaged in the exchange of information/experience.” Sita Popat

Strings Attached is an interactive performance choreographed and performed by Cindi L’Abbe. The piece explores the roles of audience, director and performer through modes of audience participation, choreographed structure and improvisation. Soundscore will be provided by Ian Logan and David Ross. The performance will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Laina Barakat.
The panel includes Cindi L’Abbe, Ian Logan (of Sisters and Brothers) and Cathy Nicoli (dance faculty at Keene State College).


What’s the point?
To allow audience members to “enter” a dance by interacting and directing the performance
To explore the concept of communication through a dance conversation using words and physical strings
To illustrate the connected-ness of human beings through invisible and visible threads
To create interactive art as a demonstration of the creative potential of audiences as well as performance, to democratize the dance

What are we talking about?
Interactive elements in performance art as methods of creating audience “connection”, relevance
Improvisation as conversation, performance as communication
The performing arts as an illustration of humanity
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