Hello,my two screendances A_WAY_AWAY and TRENCH are having a great start into the New Year 2009 with screenings in(both) Vienna/ Austria, Jan 2009http://imflieger.net/english/projects/CROSSBREEDS/platform2009/program/(TRENCH) Japan, Feb 2009http://videodance.dance-media.com/2009/aas-program-en.htm(A_WAY_AWAY) Vancover/ Canada, March 2009http://womeninfilm.bside.com/2009/films/a_way_away_womeninfilm2009Best Wishes,Sabine Klauswww.creationeditor.co.uk
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This week, there are a few nice events happening.I'll be at all three, so let me know if you plan to attend.1. Dance/USA Winter ForumUpcoming Winter ForumHuman Resources and Organizational PerformanceJanuary 30-31, 2009 in New York CityPRICE AND REGISTRATION - Reduced prices! “I fear that our organizations do not give the needs of administrative staff nearly enough attention. Let’s take the lead and raise the bar on human resource development in the arts!” - Rachel Moore, Executive Director of American Ballet Theatre.Who Should Attend: Managing directors, artistic directors, human resource managers, operations managers, administrative staff of all sized companies, presenters, agents, service organization directors, choreographers and dancers are all invited and welcome to attend!Location: 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center2. Dance Across the BoardOn January 31st 2009, graduate students from across the country are gathering at the first Dance Across the Board Conference to present their research on dance and body-based performance. The theme, “Impulses to Begin,” will be explored through papers, performances, and lecture-demonstrations that address the various ways impulses may spur beginnings in practice, theory, and social movements. In this current climate of change, we are interested in examining the stimuli that spark desire for action and transformation.Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice critic, dance historian, and master teacher at the Tisch Dance Department, will give the keynote address. This year’s conference features curated, informal studio choreography showings, papers, and dance technology projects, as well as a special panel on Dance and Education. Adam Natale, director of member services at Fractured Atlas, will also provide information about the non-profit organization’s services and support to artists.Dance Across the Board (DAB) is an interdisciplinary platform for graduate students in New York City and surrounding areas. DAB seeks to provide an East Coast platform where graduate students working in various aspects of dance can come together and dialogue about their research and interests.This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. For more information and to register, please email danceacrosstheboard@gmail.com with your name, affiliation, and contact information.3. Post-conference PerformancePAST/FORWARD: SPECIAL ALUMNI PERFORMANCE AT THE SKIRBALL CENTERPAST / FORWARDA Tisch Dance Alumni CelebrationNYU's Skirball Center for the Performing ArtsSaturday, January 31, 2009 at 8pmThe Department of Dance at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will present a one night only concert of works by alumni choreographers at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, January 31, 2009. Entitled Past/Forward: A Tisch Dance Alumni Celebration, the program will feature works by Kyle Abraham, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Sean Curran, Jacob Kovner, Cherylyn Lavagnino, Brook Notary, Sydney Skybetter, and Johannes Weiland.Skirball Center for the Performing ArtsNew York University566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South)www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu212-352.3101TicketsRegular Admission $25Students $12
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Registration is open for our workshop on Locative Media:
GEOTALES, 23-27 FEB 2009 !
with Esther Polak (NL)
GeoTales proposes a 5 days unique and creative experimentation workshop with mobile and location based technologies (GPS: Global PositioningSystem, Mobile networks and smart phones) under the direction of Esther Polak (NL) and her assistant Tijmen Schep (NL) . While reflecting upon available tools and their influence on our world's perception, we will hit the streets to dig up experiences of real-life locative media use. From these experiments, participants will develop concepts for locative projects and make a start with hands on development of tools: based on existing open source GPS editing/tracking softwares or newly developed from scratch.
The first day of GeoTales will be dedicated to "best practices" in the field of locative media. Simon Pope (UK), Daniel Belasco Rogers from Plan B (UK/DE), Gwenola Wagon (FR) and Esther Polak (NL) are invited to present their projects. Participants will be provided with smart phones with GPS and a variety of simple GPS devices.
About Esther Polak
>http://www.estherpolak.nl
>http://www.beelddiktee.nl/
Esther is a visual artist working with locative media. Using GPS technology to research on contemporary landscape, her projects have been showing internationally. She received a Golden Nica at Ars Electronica, Linz (2005) for her project MILK and was nominated for the Open Doors Grant Prix, Amsterdam (2002). She is also founder of the foundation Beelddiktee supporting art and culture projects that include research on mediation as an integral part of the concept.
Teaching at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, she is especially good at giving conceptual feedback, realistic project design and critical brainstorming with programmers.
Dates: from 23 to 27 February 2009(5 days)
Fee: 100¤ (50¤ for participants from previous NewBraveWorld workshops)
Maximum Participants: 15
Location: iMAL, Brussels
Detailled description and registration on : http://www.imal.org/NewBraveWorld/NBW4/
GeoTales is part of NewBraveWorld, a series of artistic and creative workshops around Internet of Things, Ubicomp and Locative Media
More on NewBraveWorld masterclasses : http://www.imal.org/NewBraveWorld/
SHIFTSPACE workshop / ARTEFACT festival
12 FEB 2009, 10:00 - 18:00, iMAL
A one day workshop at iMAL with the authors of ShiftSpace to understand and use this second layer on top of the web where anyone can collaboratively publish notes and comments on any web page. ShiftSpace attempts to follow the open, distributed and uncontrolled nature of Internet by providing a new public space on the web. In collaboration with STUK during the Artefact Festival in Leuven. Registration will be open quite soon...
Une journée de workshop avec les créateurs de ShiftSpace pour comprendre et utiliser cette deuxième couche du web permettant de créer collaborativement ses notes et commentaires sur n'importe quelle page web. ShiftSpace propose un espace public ouvert au-dessus du web allant au delà des contenus centralisés et fermés. En collaboration avec le STUK dans le cadre du festival Artefact de Louvain. Inscriptions ouvertes bientôt.
Plus d'nfos / More on : http://www.artefact-festival.be/2009/099_lezingen_en.php?id=005
ShiftSpace : http://www.shiftspace.org
http://www.imal.org/
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announcing i was leaving nyc to move to louisville was enough to convince friends and colleagues to abandon general manners and say, wincing, "WHY! are you retiring?"rude, perhaps. presumptuous, yes. ignorant, definitely.what many didn't know (or believe, once told) was that louisville is a medium-sized city with the art community of its big brothers. painters, glass artists, contemporary performers, musicians...they are all represented. and no, they are not simply following the innovations of the coasts.sure, i wondered if there would be a place for me. during a public improvisational performance in a very trendy Louisville neighborhood (a dime a dozen in nyc) i was met with confused, quick glances and passersby rushed to escape the threat of engagement. few modern dancers locally are as interested in experimental work and I am, and my pitches for collaboration are met with enthusiasm only occasionally.BUT, i am finding my niche. i went knocking on doors of contemporary art galleries downtown this weekend, ready to sell myself if necessary. i found gems, exhibiting exciting work and offering ideas for future collaborations. my focus has changed, has moved from theatrical works for controlled settings to public/experimental/improvisational works set in/at/on ______. louisville offers a brilliant canvas.so no, dear new york friends, there are not directories filled with independent rehearsal spaces. and there are, to date, only 4 professional dance companies. but there are some definite advantages, like audiences who are still excited to see dance (and do not arrive to shows armed with prepared, sarcastic criticism), dancers who are adventurous and committed, and colleagues who are supportive and encouraging.believe it or not, my dance career is more fulfilling now that I have left one of the modern-day epicenters. it is a message i communicate to young dancers just beginning: we have options, now. more so than when i was fresh out of the university, there are pockets within the middle of the country where one can create meaningful work within a community of artists, for a public that is hungry for it.
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Posted by Gilles Jobin on January 25, 2009 at 6:15pm
AUDITION : CALL FOR PERFORMERS (male/female)NEW CREATION OF CHOREOGRAPHER RAFAEL ALVAREZFebruary 10. & 11.2009, 11 a.m.:: FRANKFURT, Künstlerhaus MousonturmFebruary 13.2009, 11 a.m.:: BERLIN, Sophiensaele, VirchowsaalThe portuguese choreographer Rafael Alvarez is selecting 1 performer for his new piece – LONG DISTANCE CALL, a performative trio to be premiered in Frankfurt and Lisbon, produced by Festival Plateaux (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt) co-produced and Festival Temps d’Images (Lisbon) and EIRA (Lisbon).The candidates should have experience in developing work between contemporary dance, performance and installation. As the creative process will focus on identity and geography, we are searching specially performers with non-european background as well as interdisciplinary training.The creation and rehearsal process will take place from March 9 – 20 (Lisbon) and from March 30 – April 24 (Frankfurt).Premiere will be on April 23 and 24 (Frankfurt Plateaux Festival), further shows in November 2009 (Lisbon)::Interested persons are requested to visit one of the auditions given above (please bring a CV along).An elaborated application is not necessary – though a short advance notification by e-mail mentioningfull name, contact and audition to visit is welcome: plateaux@mousonturm.de:: For more informations about the work of Rafael Alvarez, please go on www.rafaelalvarez.jimdo.com.:: Please check www.mousonturm.de for more information aboutPlateaux – New Positions in International Performing Arts.About the work:This performance project assumes the form of an interdisciplinary work, focusing on a creation process around Identity, Objects, Cities, Love Relations and Travels.LONG DISTANCE CALL intends to give a special focus to the dichotomies and paradoxes played between the different geographic realities of each performer.One of the main purposes of this research and creation project is to develop performative work about Identity and Geography under a global perspective.Analyzing the ways these dichotomies are played and subverted in everyday life, the raising questions always refer to the constant transformation of biography, communication and language, post-colonialism, local traditions, economy and globalization, mythes and stereotypes, dialogues and conflicts.This interdisciplinary performance project aims to create and generate a diverse range of materials that contents performative bodies, video and sound, purposes to talk about distances, home, neighbours, strangers, families, tourism, money, maps, frontiers, stereotypes, meaningless objects, rarities, lovers, couples, copies, languages, fake and reality, biographies, mirrors and other effects, cities, the old and new.
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HiI am proud to announce the lucky winners of this seasons dance & technology documentary series.Arthur Elsenaar, Jeannette Ginslov and Simon Fildes will get a free documentary produced about their work by Sabine Klaus Creation Editor. The footage of those films will feature here on dance-tech.net and presented in full length on Tendu TV. Production will start in February, thus the first screening can be expected in March 2009.CHECK IT OUT!!!
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Posted by Filipe Viegas on January 16, 2009 at 3:21pm
http://www.rhiz.eu/artefact-26582-en.htmlAll kinds of artists are invited to create also a THIS IS NOT A PERFORMANCE story, similar to the one on the LINK http://www.rhiz.eu/article-26537-en.html and tag it with the keyword "thisisnotaperformance"So.... look in your albums or take a picture the next time you have a "job".This project intends to show in a cool way how artists lots of times have to do other jobs in order to pursuit their careers and dreams.ALL PARTICIPATIONS IN THIS LINKwww.rhiz.eu/listpublish-153-en.html?q_match=26537&q_tag=26539FACEBOOK FAN PAGEsearch for "This Is Not A Performance" in FBTHIS IS NOT A PERFORMANCE is the new collective project by Filipe Viegas.
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Posted by Filipe Viegas on January 16, 2009 at 3:19pm
Move out loud is an internet platform where contemporary choreographers and dancers can upload a video of a solo dance, maximum3 minutes long, starting with the last movement of the solo that the previous artist has uploaded. The result is a chain ofmovement, a world choreography that crosses frontiers, languages, cultures, religions and socio-economic differences.An endless choreographic sentence that in a fraction of a second takes u to another body, another space, another temperature, another world.Join the chain and Move Out Loud.Filipe Viegas & Brahim Sourny
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Hi All,the clock is ticking...by coming week you will know who will be featured on dance-tech and tendu tv!I received an amazing selection of video dance techers' works and next month my documentary series will begin. So watch this space!!!Sabinewww.creationeditor.co.uk
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Posted by Gilles Jobin on January 9, 2009 at 9:30am
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||XingpresentsNetmage 09international live-media festival - 9th edition22>24 January 2009Bologna - Italy|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||The ninth edition of the Netmage festival (Bologna, 22-24 January 2009) will present, in the historical castle of Palazzo Re Enzo, an unpredictable scenario of contemporary audiovisual research featuring live media, live cinema, concerts, performances, sound and visual installations.Netmage festival, focusing on multi-media design, electronic arts and cutting-edge style, works as a meeting point for video-makers, multi-media and visual artists, musicians and performers from Europe, South and North America and Asia. In its ongoing investigation, Netmage presents some of the latest trends in live media. Together with research on essential aspects of perception and the intersection of visual and acoustic phenomena, the festival introduces a very wide range of approaches.Featuring: Pete Swanson/John Wiese/Liz Harris (USA), Pierre Bastien (F), ATAK NIGHT: Keiichiro Shibuya (JP), Evala (JP), Growing (USA), Keiji Haino (JP), Invernomuto (I), Sunburned Hand of the Man (USA), Emeralds (USA), Németh/Lotte Schreiber (A), Andrea Dojmi/Flushing Device (I), Mudboy (USA), Black Dice (USA), The Skaters/Roland Lethem (USA/B), Pascal Battus/Kamel Maad (F), Mattin/" " [sic] Goldie (Basque Country/UK), Thomas Ankersmit/Valerio Tricoli (NL/I), Virgilio Villoresi/Dominique Vaccaro/Angstarbeiter (I), Camilla Candida Donzella (I), Bock & Vincenzi (UK).Introducing Netmage 09: "A bizarre ballad. At times ethereal, dispersive and alarmed, at others self-assured and ready to slow down only in front of the rustling of the unexpected, marching toward the invisible village where the imagination is spiced and smoked. Always think of Netmage as a liquid exhibition. In a delicate equilibrium between post-cinematographic horizons and science-fiction worlds, obsessive explorations of the rhythms of the urban landscape, mesmerism and re-enactments of myths of European avantgarde cinematography, unpredictable contours are drawn by a sonic cloud of weird-impro-psycho-noise. A cloud where artistic imagination and changing vaporous visuals are reflected: collagist and regressive, heraldic and quaint, vernacular and hybrid, or in the end cybernetic e concretist. Netmage 09 triggers artistic collaborations and possible collapses of style of contiguous worlds between the north American, Japanese, European and in particular Italian scenes, as well as a general pushing of limits. This edition also testifies to another mutation in progress: a return to the physicality of gesture and figure moved by real 'operators': human or automatic performers, with visual power and rituals that explore the relationship between the language of movement and the enigma of the image. Lower medieval imageries and crime scenes -extravagant yet crucial- through which it is unavoidable to testify to the renunciation of every central vision."Netmage festival was conceived and created by Xing, a cultural network operating in Italy and abroad, with the purpose of planning, supporting and promoting products and events characterized by an interdisciplinary approach toward the issues of contemporary culture.Artistic direction: Daniele Gasparinetti, Andrea Lissoni. Performing Arts: Silvia Fanti. International Live-Media Floor: Lino Greco, Riccardo Benassi.Netmage 09 is supported by: Regione Emilia-Romagna, POGAS Politiche Giovanili e Attività Sportive, Comune di Bologna, British Council London, Ambasciata del Regno dei Paesi Bassi Roma. In collaboration with: Transmediale Club Berlino, No Fun festival New York. In occasion of: ArteFiera. Media partners: Mousse, Edizioni Zero, Blow Up, Mouvement, Alias, Il Manifesto, Città del Capo-Radio Metropolitana, Mel Bookstore.Netmage 09venue: Palazzo Re Enzo - Piazza Nettuno Bologna - Italyheadquarters: Xing - Via Ca' Selvatica 4/d Bologna - Italyinfo: tel ++39.051.331099 info@xing.it info@netmage.itpress: pressoff@xing.itwww.netmage.it www.xing.it|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||PROGRAMThursday 22 JanMesmerizing Show (Performing Arts)8 pmBock & Vincenzi (UK) The Infinite Pleasures of the Great UnknownMegascope9 pm + 11 pmVirgilio Villoresi/Dominique Vaccaro/Angstarbeiter (I) EclissiMangrovia10.30 pmCamilla Candida Donzella (I)Pete Swanson/John Wiese/Liz Harris (USA)Emeralds (USA)Keiji Haino (JP)Friday 23 JanMesmerizing Show (Performing Arts)8 pmBock & Vincenzi (UK) The Infinite Pleasures of the Great UnknownMegascope9 pm + 11 pmVirgilio Villoresi/Dominique Vaccaro/Angstarbeiter (I) EclissiLive Media Floor10.30 pmPierre Bastien (F) Kinetic SyncopatorsThe Skaters (USA) play Le Vampire de la Cinémathèque by Roland Lethem (B)Growing (USA)ATAK NIGHT: Keiichiro Shibuya (JP), Evala (JP)Mangrovia12 pmVillage ObliviaInvernomuto (I) with Sunburned Hand of the Man (USA)Saturday 24 JanMesmerizing Show (Performing Arts)9 pmBock & Vincenzi (UK) The Infinite Pleasures of the Great UnknownMegascope9 pm + 11 pmVirgilio Villoresi/Dominique Vaccaro/Angstarbeiter (I) EclissiLive Media Floor10 pmNémeth (A) plays I.E., Domino by Lotte Schreiber (A)Andrea Dojmi/Flushing Device (I) The Distance to the SunMudboy (USA)Black Dice (USA)Mangrovia12 pmCamilla Candida Donzella (I)Pascal Battus/Kamel Maad (F) EyearMattin/" " [sic] Goldie (Basque Country/UK) Deflag Haemorrhage/Haien KontraThomas Ankersmit/Valerio Tricoli (NL/I)AAVV jam session (Mangrovia/Live Media Floor all guests plug-in)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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the second IDN festival arrives in Barcelona showing creations from the crossroads of different genres in dance, audiovisuals and performing and visuals artsread more at www.nu2s.org/homeeng.htm
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Yesterday, I finished a categorized directory to more than 50 posts on Great Dance that include videos of many different types of dance and movement animations such as 2D and 3D, stop-motion, visual effects, interactive performances and installations, computer games, machinima, live action and CG, motion graphics, visualizations, pre-cinema and many other types.I'm going to continue expanding this dance animation directory. So please email me suggestions and recommendations.
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I'm looking forward to curating the February 11, 2009 Kinetic Cinema program at Chez Bushwick in Brooklyn. I will be showing different types of dance and movement animations based on my directory of 50 Categorized Dance Animation Videos that I posted yesterday. (You can follow the links in this directory to watch all of the videos).The screening portion will be about an hour and the rest of the program will be devoted to discussing the videos and different aspects of animation, visual effects and related topics.You can read my post on Great Dance to learn more.If you're in New York City area and you'd like to see and discuss dance animations, I hope you can make it to the program.
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We are launching dance-techLIVE
This online channel will allow worldwide 24/7 linear broadcasting of selected programs, LIVE streaming and Video On-demand. All programming will be curated and selected from our community.
This new development will complement dancetechTV, the collaborative open channel for all our members and the new section D/Plex wich aggregates all content related with dance on camera, screen dance or dance on film.
If you would like your content to be included within our test run or have any ideas, feedback or suggestions email marlon@dance-tech.net
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I am collaborating on a project using galvanic skin response sensors in movement performance for the Boston Cyberarts Festival this Spring 2009. I and 2 other dancers I am working with will be wearing the sensors in performance (currently testing out finger versus toe attachments). These will be wired through an analog synthesizer (foregoing digital mediation this round). We will be creating moody low-tones in conjunction with other sounds played by a collaborating musician. Our goal is to create a sound landscape that reflects the inner processes we are exploring through imagery in our movement.I've never worked with GSR's before and am curious if others have experimented with these and in what contexts? Would love to hear about others' experiences.
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Posted by Gilles Jobin on January 3, 2009 at 12:30pm
The information website about contemporary dance in southern hemisphere countries is now on line!
Available in English, French and Spanish, www.south-south.info offers a general view of the main contexts of exchange for contemporary dance in the countries of the southern part of the planet and intends to stimulate and facilitate international exchange, cooperation and circulation of artists and ideas from South to South. www.south-south.info can be used as both an everyday working tool and as a travel guide for all dance professionals. Its realization has been made possible thanks to the dedication and valuable cooperation of several consultants in each country.www.south-south.info starts with South America, Cuba and Mexico and is regularly updated. End of 2008 it will cover the Latin American region with Central America and Caribbean and start the preparation to include Africa and Middle East from 2009 onwards. We thank you in advance for spreading the word about this website.south-south.info is an initiative of Gilles Jobin Company/South-South Project accomplished by Isabel Ferreira (Bonito&Compri - Brasil) in collaboration with the Red Sudamericana de Danza – RSD (South American Dance Network). It counts with the support of the Archivo de Artes Escénicas (Scenic Arts Archive) of the Castilla la Mancha University, Aula de Danza of Alcalá de Henares University, Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council and the Department of Africa and Caribbean in creation of CULTURESFRANCE - Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Read more…
